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Hi. This is my first post here ^^ I want to buy a new video card, Radeon HD 4850, i want to know if this will increase the speed for games a lot... My pc is: Dual Core 2.8ghz 4gb DDR2 800 MotherBoard: Intel DP35DP Video: GeForce 8600 GT With this new card, i'll play games like Crysis with hi-res? I want to buy more 4gb of ram, but first the video card. What u guys says about? Tkz

The title is pretty much self explanatory. I came from the tomshardware forums looking for more insight on whether or not I should jump on this purchase. It's used and won't come with a heatsink, but if I go for it I could be possibly getting an insane performance increase from my current Pentium D 945. I already have an ASRock P55 Extreme (triple SLI) that I bought refurbished for $75 last week. I just need a processor and RAM (HSF too if I get this). The heatsink I would get is the Hyper 212+, and I already have an 80+ Bronze Xigmatek 400 watt with an HD 5770. Main thing I'll be doing is heavy gaming (like Crysis and Metro 2033 at 1600x1200 heavy), and the m…

In the past 3 years, PSU market competition is on 80Plus. All brands make own design be more green and get better certificate from 80Plus. As per 80Plus level, it has platinum, gold, silver and bronze. It bases on energy efficiency. Of course, this standard is not absolutely. The excellent PSUs also need other features. I think components are also the key factors. CORSAIR is a well-known memory brand from USA. They have very good reputation in DRAM products. CORSAIR PSU product is just around 3 years. Their products are positioning at high quality and stability for mid-high end. Previously, CORSAIR PSU has HX, TX and VX series. The highest one is 80Plius Silv…

P67A-UD5 bios with new microcode enabling 5.5G+ Sandy Bridge OC: http://91.121.148.119/downloads/BIOS/p67aud5.f5x

Hello everybody! I'm new to this forum and sadly i'm asking your help regarding a really annoying problem I have just updated my GTX570 driver to 266.58 and i'm experiencing (totally randomly) mouse lag for a few seconds, then it works right, then again. This problem does not seem to appear while playing. My Keybord + Mouse is an MX5000 kit from logitech. I also tried disabling the motherboard bluetooth adapter so it doesn't interfere. Nada! Same thing! NOTE: i have WIN7 SP1 (maybe there is a known issue with SP1?) Is anybody experiencing the same problem? Any ideas? Thank you in advance and glad to be part of this community!

Please someone who knows what in the cpu score aquamark fail more than 7-8K under windows xp 32bit sp3. I have a i7-870 clocked at 4600Mhz and GTX480. I tried several video drivers have the same problem.

I don't know how well these guys overclock. I'm on the fence of whether to get the q9650 or the qx9650 for the unlocked multi for this board. If these boards have low fsb walls, I'm thinking I would get a higher overclock with the QX9650 vs the q9650. I know the QX is a C0 stepping, which would limit the overall overclock, but the q would be limited to an overclock anyways if the board has a low fsb wall. Thoughts?

friends m current using 9800gt and satisfied with the performance but i want to change my card now which card should i go for 5770 or 5750? is it worthy to spend some extra amount on 5770 as far as performance is concerned?

Fixed Sandy Bridge OC bios F5x http://91.121.148.119/downloads/BIOS/p67aud4.f6x

P67A-UD7 bios with new microcode enabling 5.5G+ Sandy Bridge OC: http://91.121.148.119/downloads/BIOS/p67aud7.rar

It’s been years for users to select different components to make own DIY PC. Advantage of DIY is freedom. Comparing to brand PC, there is only one brand to provide after service. The DIY PC can have the vendors or distributors warranty. For this warranty, you have to go to different service center by different components. However, you can choose your favorite brands and suitable products. This is the main reason for DIY PC users are interested in computer technology or studying before buying. Windwithme also mentioned in previous article that most DIY PC users are concerned about budget. So they set the budget first and search for suitable products. This re…

Is the integratedwgpu trustable

I've tried to download the PC Treiber's mod BIOSes for various AsRock boards but failed. Does anyone have them for at least Conroe865PE and all PT880 boards? Changelogs and detailed info is appreciated That's why I suggest to make a mod and BIOS database on HWBot

Does annyone have a voltmod for my tusl. Pin mod doesn't work

my screen resolution use to go upto 1600X1200 but now if i do that the same setting it say out of rang the max resolution upto which i can go is 1440X900....any solution guys????

I have Phenom II x4 970 (Thuban) .But i can not make a submission because it uncorrect.I have unlocked to 6 cores processor.This is disabled on submission.

I just bought a HDMI cable but later on i found out there is no HDMI slot in my LED screen is there a way by which i can connect the hdmi cable to screen using some kind of a converter plz helpppp

Well, here is another top of the line board, and this time it is the top of the line Asus P67 board, Asus Maximus IV Extreme. Of course, we are talking about a mean, good looking motherboard, with a mean, good looking BIOS. ROG EFI Bios, that is Asus Maximus IV Extreme Preview | lab501 | Translate

hello first off greetings from denmark , and then i post my pc riggo here, Cooler Master Storm Scout Midi Tower Cooler Maser Hyper 212+ Cpu Cool Core2Duo E7400 2.8 GHZ Kingston Hyper X 6 GB DDR2 PC-8500 Asus rampage formula x48 socket 775 Nvidia 9800 GTX Western Digital Raptor 10.000 RPM 150 GB sata 1 system disc ofcurse Western Digital 1 TB Green Caviar sata 2 Western Digital 320 GB sata 2 segate Barracuda 500 gb sata 2 550 Watts Power Supply no name, windows 7 ultimate x64 not real licens lol okay first off if any one knows what my problem is, i am much appriciated as i getting sick and frustrated in my head, about this error on my mother board, …

Hi! I got these brand new SSD disks from Kingston for performance testing. I have been using old 250GB HDD disks in my bench setup for a long time. Now it is time to replace those ancient things with better solution. The best thing is, that nowadays setting up RAID configurations are as easy as single disks have been. I am using HW raid with the mainboard. SW raid could give a littel bit better results, but I was very happy with performance already. Things what are hard to measure are the ones which seems to benefit most. I am talking about general usability of your daily machine or your bench setup. Everything seems to be smoother and faster wi…

Can somebody tell me what the correct TJmax is in Realtemp for the Intel Core i5 661 processor? I've now got a TJmax of 105c, but i don't think this is real because i got really low temps with my Corsair H50 cooler: http://i798.photobucket.com/albums/yy265/dustyrick/14op18.png

Can somebody tell me if the default TJmax of 105c is correctly? I can't find anything concrete on the net. Thanx in advance.

You know matose, allways unlocking something, allways trying to open the doors that were closed by manufacturers.This time the subject is SLI on AMD 890FX boards, and we're talking about SLI, with 60-70% scaling numbers, not Lucid Hydra mixed multi-card. In this case, he used Asus Crosshair IV Extreme, and the PCI-E slots used were nr 1 and nr 3, that are connected directly to the chipset (in order to bypass the Hydra chip controlling the slots nr 2, 4 and 5. Guide for activating SLI on AMD 890FX platforms - LAB501 - Google Translate

Hello , I have a problem with Catalyst with 5870 when rise CPU ( E8400 ) up to 4.9 Ghz , the Drivers not work properly well , it advice and show mesage that advertise the problem that don't run or not install properly. I Setup the Bios with PCIe at 102 Mhz and SB Voltaje at 1.2-1.3 v. When Setup without OC , all works perfectly. hehehehe Any idea for solved problem when rise CPU Mhz ? Thanks !!