General hardware discussion

It is interesting to know that how much it can overclock on Nokia N1 !

Winter is coming, so I started folding with some 7970's I got for cheap. I want to force 3D mode, and thought assigning the same profile to both modes in Afterburner. But, for some reason I cannot explain, there are no buttons that will let me - they're simply not there. The five global profile hotkey settings are present, but nothing below, where the missing options should've been. Any thoughts?

I would really appreciate 5-10 recommendation's from personal experience on which brand, and model of a pretty good 2.1, or 2.0 wireless speaker system I can pick up for around 200-$350. I definitely want it wireless, great sounding for gaming, and the left & right speaker's to be on the smaller end of the spectrum. Any recommendation's would be appreciated! Well maybe not every recommendation since this is a forum I am posting a question to! HAHA thx Faust

I own a Sager NP8250-S that had a Nvidia 780M GT. I was hoping that I can upgrade it to a newer, and faster GPU! Does anyone know of a better graphic's card that will work with my system?

Hi, I've got a broken ASRock 990FX Extreme9 here, it simply does anything! After some inspection I've found that the LM1117A near Nuvoton NCT6776F are burning hot just after plug the 24-pin ATX. Changed this LM1117A and the problem persists. Changed the NCT6776F and it still doesn't work. . After all that work I found that the LM1117A stops to being hot if I remove the EQ1 transistor from board, the board still doesn't work without this chip but maybe will work if I change it, but I don't know what is this bunnyextraction... Here is a board pic that I found on google, the EQ1 is the one circled by red box and got "g2p1g" written on it. I didn't found d…

Xeon E5 2667 V2 has 8 cores, not 10. http://ark.intel.com/products/75273/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E5-2667-v2-25M-Cache-3_30-GHz

I need some advices regarding this mobo.I am trying to push the uncore/bclk/ram but i don't have so much success in oc-ing this thing. My test system: * CPU – Intel i7 920/ Watercooling * MB – Rampage 3 Black edition /Bios 0602 * VGA – 8800 gt 512 * RAM – 12gb G.Skill TridentX @ 2600 cl 10-12-12 * HDD – Western Digital WD1500HFLS VelociRaptor * PSU – Antec Hcp 1000 * TIM – Arctic Mx4 * AMBIENT - 25* I cannot find a template bios for the damn thing,only for vanilla edition. What works so far is: uncore 4200 @ 1.5v qpi- but not in combination with high blck and high memory bclk -220 boot in windows-but not in combination with the other ram-nothing wo…

Core i7 5930K on air 4590

Hi guys. I've gotten kind of tired of 2d benching and are trying to make use of around 20 graphics cards I've collected in recent years. I started with 3 way SLI on GTX 260 - man these cards are dirt cheap now, even got one for free Trouble is, even with 2-way, my fps is barely increasing! At the start of the test I get good fps, then it drops like crazy in a fews seconds to almost-single-card level. Wth?? Platform is X79 Sabertooth, 4960x,4x4 dom platinum... 1000W psu in good condition. Tried driver 296.10 and the newest possible, same stuff. Tried 2 different bridges, nuthin. Load is good, both cards are loaded 80-100% during bench. Mostly tried 3dm06 but als…

Xeon E5 2630 V2 6/12 not 8/16 http://ark.intel.com/ru/products/75790/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E5-2630-v2-15M-Cache-2_60-GHz

I would like to share a build I am planning to get very soon and you might wanna make it as a reference on your upcoming purchase. Got these prices from newegg so if you'll ask how much it would be on your country, it would costs somewhere near these prices. Cooler Master Elite 110 = $39 * One of the most cheapest ITX casing out there. Unlike Lian-Li's and Silverstone's, you could fit a standard sized PSU in it. Corsair CX 430 430W = $39 *430w of power is more than enough for this entire build Biostar Hi-Fi B85N 3D = $69 *Cheap and has most of the features those famous brands currently has. For this small platform, it has a good built-in aud…

Just a random thought. I rarely see submissions using Biostar. Any thoughts on this new board from them?

Hi all! Is a protector / mounting bracket for a delided CPU (like the ones that are packaged with the Asus M6E or MSI Z97 Xpower motherboards) available separately?

I am wondering if these two together would be the best for my budget of no more than $450 USD... i5-4690K and ASRock Z97 OC Formula I am new(b) to the community and want to make the best choice I can for a good start. Ive attached a picture of my current setup: ASRock H81M-HDS - G3258 - cooler master evo 212 I plan to watercool the new cpu but want to decide first on cpu and mother.

Hey guys. My question is simple. Is there any way to increase laptop clocks on the GPU side of things when it is just a HD 3000 that's concerned? I've tried all of the usual software and none of it can detect the driver or hardware. I don't really want to mod the BIOS but if that's my only option, how would I go about doing it? Thanks in advanced.

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Let's just say I have a client that has exhausted all other troubleshooting methods and wants to inspect under the lid on his overheating GPU. GTX 460 Sonic 2GB I figured if there was anyone who attempted this, they would most likely be found on HWBOT

Hello guys I just want to show you that the memory frequency is not only depended from memory sticks but from motherboard also. Cookie and me showed 2282 MHz on a Kingston stick but all the memory vendors can do high frequency on this board. G.Skill Corsair Kingston These are very quick tests not maxed out, only Kingston’s stick is maxed out.

First of all im not a 3d bencher haha but im fairly methodical in my testing so here maybe can be a place to share some tweaks. Special thanks to MikeCDM, ViVi, and PepinorangOC for their input help and counter points. Step 1 get the XTX.t05 BIOS its the best imho, the .t02 seem to have some trouble for me. Step 2 get a hot air / lower power heatgun You need to aim it at that lower mem IC, it gets the coldest being not only closest to the core but all by itself and away from the vrm heat. Around -90c this is the only IC that I see getting frost on it I use this digital heater for eyeglasses but im sure there are plenty of other options …

Well finally got round to testing the first Sempron 145 I bought around 2 years ago and it was a half decent chip. 7th Global for wPrime 32M and 1024M (will upload results later) and ran Cinebench at a decent clock too but I was on the wrong OS for that run so the result is shockingly bad Anyway long story short after the board got a little too frost to continue I stripped everything apart and packed it away for another time. When putting the CPU back in it's box I noticed something wasn't quite right As you can hopefully see from the pic the CPU has 2 horribly bent pins and yet it still managed to run Cinebench @ 6GHz + So how many pins can the CPU…

I tried running 3 and 4 cards but always only 2-way CrossFire gets enabled I used Rampage IV Black, Rampage III Black and P5E3 Premium (on this only 3-way), so it is rather not MB related. OS Win7 X64. I tried newest and oldest drivers that support 2900 XT. Are there any special drivers required for 3-way and 4-way? It is quite hard to find anything about 3-way and 4-way (even no validations at HWB!) but I have seen that during presentations such configurations were used - example.

We tested on weekend some of this boards and we dont get happy with it Sometimes it posts till 71, then shut down, ending in looping it Other Bug, Sometimes post Display shows nothing... Next Bug, Sometimes it Starts with only 1 digit on post 8, no second digit and also looping it Had to unplug Power supply and wait, then it shortley went away I was more resetting bios or unplugging then testing Bios is X04. Also when try to Run 3d on high cpu clocks, or clock card they loose there screen Is this Feature by Giga or Bug lol Im short before kill it then rma

So I remember reading a lot about there being TCCD issues on the Expert boards back in the day but was a little too young to take it all in (only 12-13 at the time ) Anyway my question is, was this ever fixed, i.e. was there a solution to get the TCCD sticks performing like they should? Many thanks, Lewis.

Computex is starting tomorrow, but that does not mean that the goodies didn’t start to show up yet. As the dragon boat festival takes place today in Taiwan, and GIGABYTE’s press conference is ready to take off at the Brown Sugar club, we took a sneak peak at GIGABYTE’s lates motherboard. And guess what – it is built for overclockers, and not just any overclockers but extreme overclockers. Yaaay! BTW, maybe you have noticed that now we have lab501 in English too Computex 2014 - GIGABYTE launches GA-Z97X-SOC Force LN2

Why can not I get points? http://hwbot.org/submission/2410063_johni5_3dmark_vantage___performance_radeon_hd_6850_21167_marks'>http://hwbot.org/submission/2410063_johni5_3dmark_vantage___performance_radeon_hd_6850_21167_marks or http://hwbot.org/submission/2410063_johni5_3dmark_vantage___performance_radeon_hd_6850_21167_marks or http://hwbot.org/submission/2296625_johni5_3dmark05_geforce_8600_gt_256mb_gddr3_16100_marks Why not HTPP ?