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Hey there HWF guru's, I've recently bought a WD740 10.000 Raptor SATA HDD which I reinstalled my OS XP Home on. Now I wanted to use my old 2 PATA HDD as extra storage and backup for drivers and so on, and I thought I had it all worked out, that is until my computer started eiter rebooting...

There are probably a lot of users that have seen this video before, but I saw it for the first time today. A colleague at work told me about this movie; The kid wants to play Unreal Tournament, but apparantly can't stand even stand waiting for loading times.... Imagine what happends when he...

Hi guys, I've been seeing the AMD X2 4800+ Toledo CPU dropping in price fast, but I'm wondering if it's a worthy investement? I'm thinking of replacing my AMD Athlon 64 4000+ San Diego with this in the near future. I mainly focus playing the latest games, and since more and more games...

This is for all the HWF users who also play games online, Who of you also play the following games; Half Life 2: Deathmatch (2nd most played) Day of Defeat: Source (3rd most played) Battlefield 2 (most played) Call of Duty 2 (not currently installed) Doom 3 Multiplayer (not currently...

I've been having a lot of break-in attempts reported by Norton Antivirus lately. Norton reports it blocks them and tell me they've been coming in through port 80 Is everybody having these problems lately? I've Port Forwarded some ports for Battlefield 2 and around the same time I first saw a...

I need some advice with overclocking, I used the "How To Overclock - An Ongoing Tutorial" topic from this site as a guide. This is my first time overclocking my CPU manually. I had it at 10% before using the Auto OC feature of this mobo. But that only got me around 2640 Mhz before, I would like...

Hi all, A long time ago in a galaxy far away.............. *euhrr -> edit* A long time ago I've posted here about overclocking my new 6800gt ( It was just in the shops when I bought it, so do the math and you'll figure out around what time that was) I asked everywhere for support...

Wow, aren't videogames these days getting really realistic. After reading about rockstars upcoming Bully title, I've been anxiously awaiting it. But that's what it's all about these days, realism isn't it? Just check out this game, it just pure realism. ;) taken from www.biertijd.com

Hi there and welcome to another "problem" topic created by me :) I've got a creative muvo tx mp3 player and have always used this without too much trouble, after I had to buy a new motherboard and did a clean windows install I haven't been able to synchronize the device with windows media...

I'm translating this from dutch so I'm not exactly sure if I'm using the right words to describe the problem. When I open the Microsoft Management Console and look in the following root "Sytemtools -> Logfiles -> System" I'm seeing a lot of errors with "disk" as its source. I can right...

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Hey guys, I recently bought new ram for my pc, Kingston DIMM 1 GB (Retail, DD400-X64-C3AK2, Dual Channel Kit) Product information page Detailed information about product The main reason I bought this was because I thougt my old Twinmos brand (2 x 512 Dual Channel Also) dimm's weren't...

Hi, there everyone, thanks for reading this and I hope one of you can help me with my problem... A couple of days ago I used a registry cleaning program to clean up my registry. I don't know what program it was but it was pretty easy to use and helped me along the way by giving advice at...

I'm planning to buy a better cooler for my AMD 64 4000+ only I haven't got any idea on which one I should buy. I had my little eye on the Zalman CNPS7700-AlCu, but is that the best there is or is there a better one. I don't want to go into liqiud cooling or other hardcore stuff, just a better...

When I enabled the overclocking option I thought I could just go and oc my card, but everytime I try to it says I have to test the new settings, and they always fail! I have aftermarket cooling from Zalman on my card and the card itself is a 6800GT by XFX and all is powered by a 480W PSU...

Can anyone help me with setting some of the advanced settings in my BIOS, almost all are on "Auto" setting but I should be able to get better performance when adjusting some of them shouldn't I? I want some settings for the following hardware: - ASUS A8V Deluxe - XFX 6800GT 256GT (Has...

Vento 3600 It's got blue light coming from the power supply which nicely fits the case colour (blue) The HDD led is located in the lower right intake, when it's active the white fin will blink with a blueish color. I'm pretty proud of the whole thing, cause it's the 1st time I ever built...

Athlon 64 4000+ (2,4 GHz) OPGA "Clawhammer" Specs of above cpu Athlon 64 4000+ (2.4 GHz) OPGA "San Diego" Specs of above cpu I need a good CPU for my new mainboard (ASUS A8V Deluxe) and I have my eyes on these 2. The difference in cost is only 20,- euro but is there a special...

Hi, I'm thinking of overclocking my 6800GT to Ultra specs, I have a roomy case, 480 Watt power supply and I replaced the stock VGA cooler with an Zalman VF700-cu. Will that be enough precaution by means of not messing up my card, andy suggestions, I'm doing this for the first time...

Hi, guys. I have have a standard HP desktop pc, and I was already thinking about buying a new pc. Because I always thought that factory pc's had a fixed cpu. I heard a computer technician at work say that maybe I CAN upgrade my cpu. The only problem is that I have no idea on where I am...