General hardware discussion

Checking the best scores today, I noticed the focus of the league changed. Much more for 2D.... and looks for the most important benchmark is XTU.... the most rewarded and benched. That's different from my focus... regardless I like 2D benchmarks, I still consider 3D hardest and much more difficult, more technical, and according to my point of view, should be more valued. Anyway, it does not matter to me ..... because the importance I gave before to Worldwinde Overclocking League, was much higher than now. At the moment I bench only for me and for fun... , not caring about rankings and competitions. The overclocking for me now, is to try to beat records or get great…

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Hi! Yesterday my RIVE gave error b7 with two bios and my 3960x. Today i tried it with another RIVE, but the same error b7. The processor is broken?

Hello all I want to know if Windows 8/8.1 still are banned on hwbot? Thank alot!

i have a very strange problem I had bios 0018 on bios chip1 and bios 3602 on bios chip2. tried to flash bios chip2(3602) with 0020.CAP to test my 4960X bios flashed ok as also irog 1, but i rog2 is updating forever and never completes and is looping again and again. I flashbacked many bios.cap (R4E.CAP) with bios 1 or 2 but i get the same error everytime tries to update irog2 firmware, updating forever very slow also flashbacked to bios.rom with use of ERALL.ROM ...nothing again, i don't know what else to do! Any ideas guys?

Been kicking around an idea in my head Are there any old (CHEAP is important) mobos that have 8+ SATA ports? Doesn't matter if they're spread across multiple controllers or only SATA 1.5Gb/S, being able to hook up a load of drives is the most important thing Thanks! K

Hello, I have a big problem and That battery starts my laptop: http://www.akkus-laptop.com/dell-vostro-1510-akku.html , And the laptop (only 7 months old by the way) you can not start! Now my question is, HAS something to do with the charging cable (there still burns the green light, Which means clustering something like that comes from the power repays Seckdose) or something on the laptop, or is it broken?

Some five years ago my friend Peter give my this MSI 6340 micro ATX mobo with the Duron 750 CPU. It allegedly worked, but very, very unstable. However I got intersed, because I see mainboard back from 2001 for Socket 462 processors - Duron, Athlon - that got interestingly designed Vcore regulator and mainly a polymer Fujistcu caps. The yellow ones are polymers - regardless that they have the top perforations like elektrolyte caps: Also as they say - everything small is nice. And this board is really small, almost like just fit tomy hand: The fact that the mainboard is unstable is understandable. It is only enough to look, what caps are on it - many bad c…

On the back side of the motherboard, behind the area of the socket, could be applied 3 tantalum capacitors to stabilize the voltage of the CPU during high load situations, what capacity do you recommend ?

Hello guys !! Where is the switch to conmute Bios LN2 mode ? I am looking for it but dont match. I buy it yesterday ... and is all new ... Thanks at advance .....

I working with computes since 1991 and there is not much that I cannot understand, but this MSI mobo is challenging me. So, the mobo in question is a MSI PM8M3-V with PCB rev. 1.0 and latest bios v1.4 used. Board: MSI PM8M3-V (VIA P4M800) PCV rev. 1.0 Bios: Version 1.4 VGA: PNY 6800GT 256MB DDR3 350MHz/1GHz PSU: Enermax Liberty 620W PSU (replaced caps to quality ones!) CPU: 2800MHz Celeron D 336 (133x21) 1.350Vcore MEM: 2048MB OCZP4001G 2.5-3-2-7 200MHz 2.60V HDD: 500G Western Digital 16MB cache (WD5000AAKB) COOLER: Intel box cooler, checked, AS paste applied, cooling good (slowing all the way down to 1000 rpm in reality) OC: NONE! (tried FSB 133 -> 138 and…

Having fixed it once already I have now managed to kill it once again, this time i was slotting it into the case and caught two of the SMD's on the back and knocked them off. Anyone know what they are as I can't seem to find them anywhere in my case, they seem to have vanished, so I will just order some from rs or farnell. http://www.the-grand-line.com/hwbot/20130924_233900.jpg Thank in advance all

Hello all, This morning I wanted to start testing my new 4930K on R4F The trouble is that I did not know at all what she had bios, so I try to flash by .ROM and .CAP but it does not work. I do not know what to do if you have an idea ... thank you

Mouse and keyboard lag is quite a issue for fast first person shooter games. They tend to get so fast, that my poor PC cannot compete with most, yet still I wonder, if there are tools how to measure the input lag of devices like mouse and keyboard. For a old-school machine, I use PS/2 ports for both, yet the MX510 Logitech mouse is by original a USB device, connected only by the adapter to PS/2. That make one wonder, if the adapter could not contribute some lag on it's own... (and I think the answer is a definitive yes, it have to) So that is why I trying to push the PS/2 ports speed up: ...but w/o being able to measure how things get faster, I have no id…

Hy boys, I have an ASUS 4870 512MBDDR5 GLACIATOR COOLER VERSION that has chip ADP3290. Can you tell me if there is a vmod ? This is an image of the pcb...

Hi Guys! Since it has a bit of a link with overclocking and overclocking hardware i post this here ... Mods, feel free to move it to Off-topic if you judge that it is more appropriate. Some of you might have seen in on FB, but why not re-sharing it here: This is still quite experimental and we will be soon back in Taiwan for some more overclocking timelapse fun. If you like it, feel free to share and give feedback. Music can be downloaded here (Big thanks to DJ FireBlack for the custom track) : http://www.overclocking-tv.com/content/video/18838/venomlapse-video-the-overclocking-time-lapse-experiment/ Enjoy!

I bought an Amstron replacement battery for my Asus Eee PC 4G and it takes three days to charge. Is this typical of new laptop batteries, such as http://www.caccu.nl/asus-eee-pc-4g-batterij.html ? Do off-brand batteries not work well with Dells? What should I do?

Hi, i have a question about Ram speeds. I downloaded Intel Extreme Tuning Utility today and i saw that my ram speed was at 1333MHz by default. I have Kingston DDR3 HyperX Beast 16GB 2400MHz. Should it not be at 2400MHz by default?

Hey guys, I recently got me some HD 7970's from XFX. Last night I tried to overclock with them and noticed that everytime I raise the clocks, the system hangs as soon as it starts a benchmark, so I decided today to pick one card out and see what it's capable of. Here's what I figured out: Stock clocks are 925/1375, I just flashed a custom bios with 1050/1500 clocks(not GHz bios). At these clocks it still runs fine, but when I up the core to 1060MHz for example I already got enormous artifacts, even though it's only 10MHz more. I modded the bios again with 1075/1500 clocks and it ran fine... What is going on here? Why can't I set a normal overclock without …

Say I want to submit a CPU-z max mhz valid, then submit a cpu-z max mem mhz valid at the same time........It will only keep uploading the cpu-z max mhz valid. Tried 3 browsers and cookie delete etc no luck.

I wonder if it is allowed to run with a processor ES in Enthusiast League?

Is there any way to use the newest Nvidia drivers without connecting to the internet?

Hey, all. I started building PCs about 20 years ago, but haven't done one in quite a while (last build was a Pentium 4). I've put together a great rig for the purposes of OCing and I want to start running some benchmarks. Forgive me if I'm asking stupid questions (or if they're answered elsewhere - my searches produced no results). The first test I attempted was the 3DMark Fire Strike Extreme. After reading the validation regulations (http://hwbot.org/news/9664_application_58_rules/), I realized I don't even know where to begin. Are each one of those tests that I run individually and then submit each result? Or, is there a way to have 3DMark do all o…

http://thechive.com/2013/06/18/i-need-this-product-so-badly-video/ so ... does anyone use this stuff for motherboards? Wondering if this is what ASROCK uses?

I flashed the card with a Coldslow BIOS and benched the card without problems. I flashed the original back (already back to stock volts, stock cooler) and got a flickering red screen. After a bit, I got what you see in the picture. I have no idea what went wrong and i've never seen a problem like this, despite all the times i've flashed a GPU BIOS. Any and all advice & fixes welcome. It's from a Gigabyte non-ref GTX470.