Search results matching tag 'Computer'

RE: BFG Aims For Mars; Launches 18.4" Ultra-Gaming Laptop

mhenriday — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:05:44 GMT

Lots of techie hype here, but we learn neither how much the machine weighs nor how much it costs (10 % of an indeterminate retail price is an indeterminate price). Nothing either concerning battery usage. Is this supposed to be an independent review or simply a redirected press release from the manufacturer ?...

Henri

Re: RE: Many Computer Users Skip Routine Maintenance

Dave_HH — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 01:39:11 GMT

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bees nest in ur comp. thats a lil too hard for me to believe.

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I have seen some pretty nasty stuff under folks' desks. I think anything is possible. Remember the old tech support line stories with the lady calling in saying her computers "slide out coffee coaster" broke?

Re: Question on a dual loop water cooling setup using XSPC dual pump Res. W/2X MCP355 pumps

Crazy V — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 17:50:12 GMT

Thanks for the advice, as for fitting it I've prefitted the triple rad in the top of the case and the quad rad mounts on the back piggy back with a koolance rad mount. the video cards will loop from the top to bottom and then back to top so as not to bother the bottom mounted psu, also allowing for less hose to the quad rad. The MCP355 pumps mount to the XSPC res in two bays. With everything in the case it fits real well with room to spare. Much better than the same basic setup in my Cosmo S type case, Minus the res and these pumps. 1/2 inch is what i was thinking but the pumps are at question. 1/2 hose fits well with plenty of room for the bends. I try to minimize the hose to as little as possible. Once again thanks. And if you could suggest some pumps as i was thinking of ordering two MCP655 pumps instead.

Question on a dual loop water cooling setup using XSPC dual pump Res. W/2X MCP355 pumps

Crazy V — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 10:13:28 GMT

FrozenCPU.com steered me toward a XSPC dual pump res. using 2X MCP355 pumps.

System Spec's:
AMD 955BE Phenom II
MSI 790FX-GD70 M/B
8GB 1600MHz Corsair
4X4890 XFX
Coolmaster ATCS 840

They also suggested:

1X ex-blc-569 EK Supreme Universal CPU Liquid Cooling Block - Acetal

4X ex-blc-599 EK Radeon HD4890 VGA Liquid Cooling Block - Acetal

As listed above the XSPC res. w/dual MCP355 pumps.

1X quad 120mm dual pass koolance rad. (for the 4x4890 XFX)

1X triple 120mm dual pass koolance rad (for the AMD 955BE)

Questions:

1. Will one of these pumps be able to keep up on the 4X EK 4890 blocks with a quad rad?

2. Same as question 1 but with a Ek cpu block on a triple rad?

3. And what size tubing should be used 3/8 or 1/2?

4. As i have already purchased the listed items, is this a safe setup? If not, i would like to try and save as many items as possible or just improve the current setup by adding to or revising this setup.

Any and all opinions or suggestions are welcome.

So far have had very bad luck with this build just in getting the parts. 3 cases later from FrozenCPU.com 2 have been damaged in preparation or shipping, awaiting 3rd. Missing items in newegg.com shipment due to over stuffed boxes and again rough shipping. So please help to save this build.

Thanks, Crazy V

RE: Thermaltake Launches Element S Chassis

3vi1 — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 00:55:45 GMT

Looking at that case, I would expect it to say something like:

"Help, Michael, the villains put me in a car compactor. Take me back to Devon and Bonnie so that I can be repaired."

Then, it would use patented "Microlock" technology to stop the bad-guys car in its tracks. I always thought that Microlock was a deus ex machina cop-out, but now that I'm older I realize it was just way ahead of it's time: He was actually telling OnStar that the car was stolen and they were locking up its brakes.

Casual Gaming Rig

Firehawk — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 07:36:38 GMT

I want too be able to play the newish games on low-mid settings without spending a lot of money, I came up with this for $660 (I live in Australia that's why its an Australian site) Here is the link: Techbuy AMD Casual Gamer Computer System - *Customisable* (79018 | TBOS79018) | Techbuy Australia Here is what I Customized it to be:
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Case: Centurion 5 Midi-Tower Case - 460W PSU

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-M68SM-S2L Motherboard
AM2, GeForce 7025 + nForce 630a, HT 2000, 2x DDR2-800, PCI-Ex16, 4x SATA-II, RAID, GigLAN, 6Chl, DVI+VGA, mATX

CPU: Athlon64 X2 6000+ (3.0Ghz), AM2, 2x1MB, 2000HT, Dual Core - Retail 89W Version

HDD: 320GB 7200rpm Serial ATA-II 300 HDD

CD/DVD Drive: 22x DVD+-RW Dual Layer DVD Burner

Video Card: XpertVision GeForce 9500GT - 512GB GDDR2, 128-bit, PCI-Ex16 v2.0
(500MHz, 1.4GHz) - Super Edition

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OK, my main uncertainty is the CPU because I have never used AMD before. Also if anyone thinks I might have troubles with the video card i can always upgrade to:
Innovision GeForce 9600GT - 512MB DDR3
256-bit, 2x DVI, HDTV, HDCP - PCI-Ex16 v2.0 - (650MHz, 1.8GHz) - Armour Edition
For $55

Replies would be very appreciated!

Thanks
0Firehawk0

CPU/Motherboard Compatibility Issues...

johnysums — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 18:02:23 GMT

Board: Intel Corporation D945GCNL AAD97184-103
CPU: e7200
I really want to have this cpu/motherboard combination, is there any way to make them compatible, even though the intel compatibility tool says they're not? There must be something I can do, updating bios or something like that. You don't need to know about this exact combination, I'm just asking to see if anyone was able to put together a combination that the intel tool said wouldn't be compatible...

Re: 5 year old computer

Endersothergame — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 02:54:29 GMT

Well lemme go two routes with you and you can decide.

1st route:

You could upgrade your current rig to a higher standing, this would of course be limited by various factors and you'll never really be able to reach into high end computing land. Which because you never really intimated what you do with your system might not even be a problem. Your computer isn't totally out of date, I regularly work on clients computers that are much slower then yours, and they are totally satisfied with them. Heck I can name several users that see your system as a full step up.

So witht hat in mind I am gonna draw some conclusions based on what you gave me.
-Upgrade the CPU to the performance class instead of budget class CPU of your socket type.
-Look into a faster AGP graphics card, there are several available using recent chipsets.
-I am one to always advocate more hard drive space. Keep the 22GB as a boot drive and add a slave drive for storage, thus freeing your system drive.
-Another GB of ram will make any system happy. (a generalization but meh)

2nd route:
Scrap it all, and build a new rig altogether. Basically relegate that rig to sale for capital, or second line duties. While its doing that, build another rig and be happy with the new found power and opportunities it gives you.

In answer to your second to last question; yes you can move your data to another rig using alot of different software suites, or manually if your willing to search it out and find the data. I regualrily keep a backup of important data, that backup is typicly restored into fresh installs so as to save me time. Such as profiles for firefox, and thunderbird, ect. I have found one caveat being alot of software demands installation on new computers, and thus cannot be moved by employing a 'copy and paste' aproach. Sometimes this can be circumvented, others it is simply easier to reinstall it, and likely more advantagious, as it could allow for software optimizations that take place during install.

Finally: No a PCI add in card will not fit ina PCIe slot. at least thats what I think you mean by your question. Here I will show you what I mean (look at these pictures and it will be come clear). As you can see they do not pinout the same way.

(direct link: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/PCI_und_PCIe_Slots.jpg/800px-PCI_und_PCIe_Slots.jpg)

5 year old computer

zuhbuhbuh — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 01:10:30 GMT

I am the proud owner of a five year old computer and I have two simple questions:

1: the stats of my computer are as follows;

1GB RAM

NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500

Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.93GHz

22GB memory (might be 20)

How hilariously out of date is my computer?

2: If I were to update this thing, is it possible to move applications I currently have to my new computer, without doing something stupid?

And don't worry, you can laugh at me. I won't be offended.

And by the way... Is a PCI express chip compatable with a regular PCI port?

EXTREMELY Small System

ProxyCG — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 10:04:39 GMT

Greetings,

I was looking for a system with an extremely small footprint that can either run windows or linux. It does not have to be a power-house system, just as small as possible. I know I have seen systems like this a while back but do not remember exactly where.

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.