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i gotta say i still really dont like Vista and dont run it on any of my 3 PCs or laptop. But this new Windows 7 im impressed with so far. It makes the whole concept of having to install drivers mute which is great. Id be willing to give Microsoft some of my money for this new OS when it comes...

jinho, my recommendation to you is to get a better brand PSU. Ultra and Aspire are not exactly top notch quality by any means and saving $30-40 now isnt going to help you a year later. i say this from experience because the Ultra X-Connect 500W PSU i bought a few years ago for $60 stopped...

my 8400 temps are reading out at 43-44 C idle up to around 60 C while running maximum heat stress test with prime95. using RealTemp 2.60 to get these readings. The Nvidia ESA Tool software that came out a few months ago is neat but its temperture readings are all 10 C above from what RealTemp...

i almost bought the GTX from newegg last week when it was $300 for one day. Im glad i didnt because a few days later they had a 8800 GTS 512 for $225 which i did get. obviously everyone else in this topic agrees that the new GTS card can stack up to the GTX easily considering its almost $100...

ive had a video card kill my psu before but i cant say vice versa. 8800 GTS 320mb card killed a 500W Ultra X-Connect PSU. Tells you how good Ultra PSUs are. Having a good PSU makes all the difference in the world. running a 700W OCZ GameXstream PSU now. in all the years ive been building my own...

i bought a refurbished sapphire x850xt pe card for $50 from newegg about 8 months ago. i would love to know what the idiot that eventually (if) buys that card is thinking. lol.

even if you upgrade to the x1950xt, you dont need a 700 watt PSU. your cpu isnt a high wattage cpu. a 600 watt would be be overkill for you. if you plan to do a major upgrade and want to play it safe, THEN 700 watts is fine. As far as choosing between the 2 cpus you have choosen, i would...

pt has hit it right on the money. the only way to solve your problem is to overclock your cpu by lowering the multiplier. read up on other forums and youll see that this is a common problem with AM2 processors. intel socket 775 cpus dont have this problem fortunately.

Foxconn, it basically comes down to how much money you are willing to spend. Im pretty sure 1 8800 GTX card will outperform 2 8800 GTS cards in SLI. But take into consideration which games you actually play and how much of a performance boost you would really get from either scenario. Some games...

xp 64-bit everything was working fine last time i bothered to check. this was after a clean windows install.

I just noticed the other night my rear speaker output was not working correctly on the Xi-Fi card. I run the speaker channel test and it has center and rear right coming out of the front right speaker and rear left coming out of the front left. i checked the speaker connections, messed with the...

ive already updated the bios for the board. im pretty sure it was doing the same thing even before I flashed the board. Maybe its a slight defect with the board? From what ive read online about the EVGA NF-63 board is they basically are NF-68 boards but they were "declassified" because they...

does anyone else have a problem with the ddr2-6400 ballistix being identified by CPU-Z on a EVGA 680i NF-63 board? cpu-z shows me no information about the ram at all. nor does everest or nvidia control panel. and it doesnt matter whether if i take out the 2 ballistix sticks without the leds or...