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So among the many drivers out there available for Nvidia cards whats the best all around as far as quality and performance?

I'm running 2000 pro and am wondering if switching to XP would be a better choice. If so then how is it better?

Just a quick question. I know the earlier AMD chips were intel compatible. Are the slot A athlons compatible with slot 1?

I'm currently running a 7200rpm ATA133 Maxtor drive with a 2mb buffer. My board supports raid for SATA. I've been looking at the WD raptor 10,000rpm drives. I want to run 2 with raid 0+1. Will this be a significant difference seeing as how my memory transfer rate is higher than my friends dual...

When using parts spec'd to a certain speed and resistance how can you tell whats their breaking point and when does it start to damage your parts. I understand any modification other than specified can have bad results causing system failure and maybe even a domino effect wiping out your whole...

My athlon 2600 is running at 49c idle and 52c active. Now my v.core is way low at 1.60 and I'm running a thermaltake volcano 7 heatsink. The reason why I'm questioning this is I ran the same heatsink on my overclocked 1700+ and it ran at 38c max! Is it just the chip or is my heatsink not enough?

So is it really worth saving a few extra bucks when you buy OEM generic parts?

From what I've seen people are comparing overclocked processors to higher clocked factory spec processors. Now from what I understand higher clocked newer processors have better technology and are more efficient. So can you really compare a 2500+ overclocked to 3200+ speed? Like for example the...

Ok yet anither issue. With the weather being as cold as it is I've been pushing my clock speed on my cpu and memory. My computer will boot up at 2.6 ghz (12.5x215) but after the first windows screen a blue screen pops up and says my BIOS isn't ASPI (I think thats what it was) compliant and a...

Ok no doubt about it the 9800xt is probably the best card on the market right? But average retail price is around $500 bucks. Thats kinda hard to swallow. So do you think ATI has the best card for every price range? Remember we're talking about retail. Not oem off the internet. Because some will...

I'm sure any of you who have read my posts are wondering who sold me the crack because of my recent escapades. I went gung-ho with this computer thing and spend many sleepless nights putting things together and running all sorts of benchmarks. Now all of my results have not agreed with what like...

My friend recently purchased a 2500+ barton chip with an abit nf7 board. Now on paper this system should run faster than my 2600+ t-bred on a MSI KT6 delta. We just got done with rigorous tests and benchmarks (using the same components of course) and the barton+nforce couldn't match the...

Ok lets see if i'm clear on this. ATI uses 24 bit code on all image rendering meanwhile Nvidia uses 16 and 32. So if for example a game is optimized for ATI it would be in 24 bit mode meanwhile a Nvidia card such as a FX5900 would render it in 16 bit mode making it seem less graphic due to...

Ok I usually don't overclock but some nights I get a wild hair up my butt and try to run it as fast as possible. The highest I've kept my 2600+ t-bred 333fsb was at 2.5 ghz (12.5x200). But in order keep it stable I had to run my v.core at 1.85! I managed to keep the cpu temp at 53c but seeing as...

I recently got a dual slot one board with both ide and scsi. I have never put together a server. I want to run dual P3 600mhz processors and scsi hard drives. But finding the processors for a decent price is hard. And also is it even worth putting a server together thats that old? Also I was...

The answer may seem obvious to some of you but I was wondering if the two are even comparible. I run a BFG asylum 5900 non-ultra and my friend has a 9700 pro. He has said nothing but garbage about my 5900 but has yet to out benchmark it. I know benchmarks aren't everything but I'm curious as if...

I've caught alot of flak for this but I like to keep my tower outside. In a closet on a covered patio of course. I just bought extensions and a wireless keyboard system and ran the tower outside. I live in utah so there isn't any humidity to worry about. On an average night its about below zero...

Someone pointed out to me that if you overclock your cpu and video card you lose quality of picture. Overclocking got me higher benchmarks but I did'nt see a difference in quality. Now I normally run at default for cooling reasons and overclock for testing. Now I was also told the KT600 couldn't...

Ok so the problem I had before was that n-force2 was completly superior to the KT600. But a very reliable source told me that the KT600 had a higher memory transfer rate or something. If that were true why would the n-force2 seemingly be a better chipset from what everybody is telling me. Whats...

Lately I've been browsing forums and ran into nothing but malicious users who only insulted me and were of no help. All I want is some info. Now my problem is that I built my own computer from the ground up and I need help understanding it and if what I got was a good choice. I started this...