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Epyon

Well, I just ordered this:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6814102864

Seemed to be a solid card, and I also won't have to upgrade my PSU which is a huge plus.

On a side note, do you recommend any specific drivers?

Epyon

The 128-bit memory bus doesn't hinder it? I still have a bad memory from when I 'upgraded' from an x800 to an 8600, thinking the 8600 would have more performance due to more memory.

The downstep from 256-bit bus to 128-bit bus was pretty huge in that case, still wonder what the hell I was thinking.

Epyon

Thank you for the advice, I think I will hold on until at least March. The main reason I was eager to get a core 216 is because they are sold out most other places and are hard to find.

Another reason I'm wanting to get a new card is BF:BC2, been playing the beta and it's freaking AMAZING. My card ...

Epyon

Sava700 wrote:The new cards are going to release very soon... I'd wait.

Do you foresee a card in the 300 series beating the 260 at a $199 price point?

If not, think I will probably just cave and get the 260.

Any thoughts on this for a PSU?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6817139010

Epyon

Newegg should be getting their new batch of the GTX 260 core 216's in today, and was wondering if it's possible, or if I shouldn't risk it.

For the requirements, the following is stated:

525W PCI Express-compliant system power supply with a combined 12V current rating of 38A or more*

*((Minimum ...

Epyon

Curious if win7 still has the limit of 2GB physical memory alloc per application, and if so, how to increase that limit?

Doing some googling I found that vista supported /largeaddressaware in the boot.ini, but I'm a little reluctant to using commands for a different OS.

Using Win7 ultimate x64 ...

Epyon

For some of the larger capacity drives, I've been hearing about them having some built in maintenance routines or something, to keep track of bad sectors and to correct errors.

And that this built in feature has been causing peoples raid controller to time-out and report a false failure in the ...

Epyon

Greetings, as of late, I've had a bit more $ to put into my box, and I've been considering upscaling to a RAID 0 array.

I've been looking around for a day or two at hard drives that would be ideal for an array. I'm not so much worried about capacity, as I am speed.

Capacity wise, I'd be looking ...

Epyon

downhill wrote:Maybe so but if your only one failed and you don't have a backup and you're in a hurry......

This was indeed the case.

Epyon

My Antec NeoPower 550W just died last night, managed to pick up BFG 550W GX, for $57 + tax.

Does anyone else here have the same one? I've never owned a BFG PSU before, I've owned one of their video cards (didn't even know they made PSUs until recently).

Epyon

I called Gigabyte, and it seems that even if you disable their CPU load throttling option "C.I.A.2", you must disable a few more options to fully turn it off.

I fixed the problem now, thank you.

Epyon

Yeah, I saw an option like that, and I'm like 99% sure it is off, but I'll double check. Brb.

Epyon

I have Gigabyte EP45-UD3R board and the Wolfdale C2D E8500, my BIOS seems to be correctly picking up the CPU speed at 3.16 GHz - but CPUz is only reporting the core speed as around 1999.7/.8 MHz, is this a detection error with the new Wolfdales and CPU-Z, or is there truly a problem?

Epyon

That application won't install correctly.

Internal Error 2908.
{121634B3-2F4A-11D3-ADA3-00C04F5DD52}
{121634B5-2F4A-11D3-ADA3-00C04F5DD52}
{BF1C5C32-2FC9-11D3-ADA3-00C04F52DD52}
{121634B6-2F4A-11D3-ADA3-00C04F52DD52}

Error 1406: Could not write value RegOwner to key \Products ...

Epyon

I've been going through google for hours trying to remedy this problem, to no avail. I've been getting the dreaded '0x80070643' error, stating: "Messenger couldn't be installed because we had trouble installing this requirement: - Microsoft Application Error Reporting

The Windows Installer ...

Epyon

I did end up sticking with the GSkill - I saw some people having trouble with the heat pipes in the one recommended.

Epyon

Sticking with the C2D.

With this new CPU and ram, do you think I'll see a big improvement in games versus the Pentium D w/ DDR2 @ 667MHz?

Epyon

This is my first build. I'm planning on using some parts from my customized Dell XPS400, those include:

Antec NeoPower 550W PSU
GeForce 8800GT 512MB Factory OC
160GB SATA HDD
1x DVD Reader/burner
1x CD drive

https://secure.newegg.com/WishList/MySavedWishDetail.aspx?ID=14201987

XION Solaris XON ...

Epyon

I seem to have found a sweet spot for my system considering my CPU is my bottleneck. As you probably know, AoC is a very resource demanding game; but for good reason! AoC is absolutely beautiful, if you haven't seen any content of this title yet, I highly advice you go to gametrailers.com.

So ...

Epyon

Wow, thank you all for the replies. I ended up going with this..
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6814127329

Should be arriving tomorrow. Age of Conan should be arriving today, I'll be busy!

Epyon

Thank you, Joel. I'll review these options.

Epyon

:rtfm: Before anything else: Just want to state that I know my CPU is a bottleneck, I plan on getting new mobo and C2D within a few months. :D

Not looking to spend more than $200. Was leaning towards:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127329
Or
http://www.newegg.com ...

Epyon

Think I've found it:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\MSConfig\startupreg
(Un-used entries stored here?)

Epyon

I've never managed to figure out how to remove them. If you're unsure what I'm speaking of, here is a picture.
http://img526.imageshack.us/my.php?image=startupix0.png

Epyon

So maybe 20-25MHz would be safe? And, do you know of anything better than ATITool 0.25 Beta 15 for overclocking an ATI card?

Epyon

I'm new to overclocking, I'm using stock cooling and have been messing around a bit on my card. It seems that if I run the memory past 363/364MHz, I get a lockup. And if I run memory at 360 for over 5 minutes at full load, I get errors(I think it was memory errors and not the core, I was ...

Epyon

Had a question, I just ordered the ram I was talking about earlier. Would I be able to use the DDR2@533 along with the DDR2@667? So I'd have a pair of 1GB DDR2@667 and a pair of 512MB DDR2@533.

I know you can normally mix ram, and it usually just downgrades the speed to the slowest RAM module ...

Epyon

Well, the first thing I've upgraded(or am upgrading) is that x300 SE-HM. I just ordered a x800 from newegg for around $120. Next thing I'm thinking is to upgrade the RAM; the ram I have in right now is 2x512, and I think Nanya is value RAM. I'm looking for some HQ ram...DDR2@667 I think is what my ...

Epyon

Okay folks, I have the BEFSX41v2 which has a VPN endpoint(server?) built in. Just recently I have been taking some networking classes, and this has sparked my interest to try to establish a secure VPN tunnel.(from a PC on the campus, to my home pc)

Now, I have run into a brick wall. Which VPN ...

Epyon

Yeah, I'm thinking a full format and reinstall. But I was hoping it wouldn't come to that.

One think I want to make clear is: This is not the Sony DRM Rootkit, I've already did the test by naming a file with opening and closing strings($test$), and the file did not disappear.

Thanks for the ...

Epyon

Well it's that time of the year again, the holidays... I had my sister come visit me from college and as always I tune her PC up every time. I usually clean the same old stuff off, cannon fodder spyware and adware, occasionally a virus or trojan; Nothing the scanners can't pick up.

This time I've ...

Epyon

NaV 2002 - Latest Definition

Epyon

I'm no guru here by any means, but I recall when you first install a SP it asks you if you want to make an archive of your old files in case you wish to roll them back.

If you didn't select that option at the time of installation I think you're screwed.

Epyon

I'm a bit curious myself if it's worth upgrading to SP2.

I recently just bought an OEM Win XP Full version which included SP1a. Got it off of ebay for 75$.. (First e-bay purchase I've made.)

Anyways, everything is working fine and I'm wondering if it's even worth it..

Epyon

Where the Hell did you find that? I'm gonna load up virtual pc and give it a shot. You just renamed the "C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator" to "C:\Documents and Settings\Admin" ? Then rebooted and it created a new administrator account?!?!? I've never seen anything like that documented. So ...

Epyon

It wasn't documented, but I found an article that said something like "If your user settings/account is missing or deleted, it will make a new temporary temporary account". From there I got a brain storm, but rather then delete my old account, just renamed it so it regenerated a new account, was ...

Epyon

Burke: Haha, I thought you knew Win2k. My mistake..

I seem to have found a work-a-round..

Wasn't what I exactly expected, but it works..

I renamed my account name "Administrator" folder to "Admin",

Found out, it will make a new user profile named "Administrator" in it's place, but it's ...

Epyon

Safemode and VGA mode both load, but it haults at the stage I listed before.

I'll check that link though

Epyon

No dice, just did a repair. It replaced all the OS files, but didn't touch my user settings for Admin..wtf?

This must be a user profile/regional profile setting for my Administrator default account. Which has in turn corrupted it..

Is there any way to set my user profile for Administrator ...

Epyon

Tried last known good settings, no dice.

Thanks norm, but it seems that your information mirrors mine.

I'm sort of stumped here, but there must be a way...

I mean, it boots fine up until it tries to load the user settings right after logon(then it haults there, but not a full freeze, the ...

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