Recent content by jondo

the heatsink had paste pre-applied, i may have scratched the layer when installing it what would u suggest to ensure good air flow? at the moment there are cables everywhere...

hey all i have: Asus A8V-E mobo AMD 64 3800+ 1 SATA HDD Radeon x850 xt pe when my pc is idle the CPU temperature (according to Asus PC Probe which came with mobo) is somewhere between 50 and 60 degrees C, and when i play a game like hl2 after a few minutes the probe program starts beeping at...

thanks man, thats probably what i will go for then

Hi, i'm just about to upgrade my graphics card, however to do this I need to upgrade my motherboard and RAM as my current system is a Dell and their RAM has special timings which make it incompatible with other motherboards. My question, so that I can avoid such a situation again in the future...

cool, I think I'm gonna get a P4 x64 when they come out as well as new mobo and RAM, then get a graphics card whenever I can afford it next. thanks for sharing your opinion, later.

I don't "need" to upgrade my graphics, however I want to very much :) was just about to buy a Radeon x850 xt pe when I realised it would need a new mobo + RAM gsbtech, its been years since DX9 was released, and when it was, it allowed graphics cards to do new things. you really don't think...

to be honest, all I wanted was a new graphics card, but this would have needed a new motherboard with a PCI-E x16 slot, and new RAM. I am then left with the choice of buying all that and spending £200 more than I wanted to, and then having to buy a new motherboard and 64 bit processor in a...

First of all, hi! Right, what i'm really here about.... I'm thinking of upgrading both my processor and graphics card at some point in the near-mid future. However, I am aware that in a year or so several new technologies, replacing years-old techology, will be released. For example in your...