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    Prey

    Funny that this post came up....I just beat the game today...and from the ending SPOILERS!!! There is gonna be a part 2, looking forward to playing that one....the only thing I don't like its that it gets repetitive fast and the puzzles are a bit annoying sometimes (especially if you forget...
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    The Saga Continues... overclocking an Abit IC7!!

    This is why I'm reading higher temps than you... Yeah the temps are at idle but I was still surprised because the temp went down when I overclocked. I used Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound and applied a very thin layer. My case has great ventilation its a soprano with 2 120MM fans and 80 mm...
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    The Saga Continues... overclocking an Abit IC7!!

    Yeah I definitely can't do a 1:1 considering I'm using 2 different(brand and timings) sticks of RAM and because they are both DDR400- PC3200 and not the PC-4000. So with that being said the highest I could get my FSB was 241 for a core speed of 2900 which I believe is pretty good since I'm a...
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    The Saga Continues... overclocking an Abit IC7!!

    Wow the thread has grown!! I thought I was all by my lonesome...LOL.....I solved the problem on sunday I think, all I did was google 'overclocking problems with IC7' and I got many different results the main thing though like instg8ter said is setting the PCI/AGP to fixed and then I messed...
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    The Saga Continues... overclocking an Abit IC7!!

    No the PCI and AGP frequencies aren't locked you can fiddle around with the ratio of CPU:AGP:PCI to get it where you want.... I know this is a great board to overclock because I have read the reviews I just need to learn how to tweak everything in order to overclock, from the memory...
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    The Saga Continues... overclocking an Abit IC7!!

    Hello all.... I finally got my RMA Mobo from that ebay mobo store and replaced the temp Asus board that I put in...anyhoo...I has pissed to find out that the people had taped over the ethernet connector because it wasn't working!! How in the world am I going to return a defective product...
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    HIS X1600 PRO memory Question??

    OK it makes much more sense now, thanks guys!
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    HIS X1600 PRO memory Question??

    Cool thats what I figured.... Now can someone explain the 128 bit configuration thing? Anyone else with this card please post your overclocking specs, I want to push it as much as possible.
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    HIS X1600 PRO memory Question??

    I just got this new card and I must say that it works wonders, especially with the AA that my Saphire 800GTO couldn't really handle. Anyhoo, when I check the specs with the ATI tool my Core reads 500 MHz and Memory 400 MHz but on the box sais taht the Memory is 780 MHz. Does this have to do...
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    A sad sad attempt for my first build

    LOL, yeah they are!!! Way overpriced! I went to tiger direct and got a temp motherboard(Asus P4S800D-X) while the Abit IC7 RMA comesback....I hope it comes back soon because I can't overclock crap with this board The chipset sucks,lol!
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    A sad sad attempt for my first build

    Great! Now I guess I will look it up... Edit: I definitely got the ram to work together, I just changed the CAS Latency in the BIOS like you said error_force(systool wasn't compatible with my board), I'm going to put some pics up once I get all the cables in.....and once and for all I would...
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    A sad sad attempt for my first build

    The Saga continues... Tiger Direct and Mikelopez you are my new friends :p OK so i got a decent MB from tiger direct, the Asus P4S800D-X.... It couldn't recognize SATA drive so I had to install windows in my ATA drive for the mean time, while I installing windows I had a power...
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    A sad sad attempt for my first build

    OMG! Why didnt this even cross my mind?!?! I'm so going tomorrow dude!! I stay in miami lakes, you?
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    Mastering and slaving drives/devices

    yeah I do have them on the same cable, that why I wanted the DVD drive as a slave, I'm going to try diff cables to see how it works out
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    Mastering and slaving drives/devices

    Well in reference to the the IDE devices....my hardrive and my DVD drive...the SATA didn't even have jumpers so I figured as much....my main issue is that they are bumping heads at boot up...I need them not to.
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