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shiny_red_cobra
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Thanks Scawen, it's good to see some news once in a while. Keep up the good work!
shiny_red_cobra
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Oh, and speaking of Red-themed computers, check this one out:

http://www.techpowerup.com/157 ... II-Desktop-PC-Series.html
shiny_red_cobra
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Make sure you have the DirectX runtimes installed.
shiny_red_cobra
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Quote from MadCatX :Unless you've figured it out by now, your CPU is running insanely hot. 85 °C is way too much event for a Prescott P4. I had a Prescott before (although my was LGA775) and I remember it started to thermal throttle itself down when the temperature exceeded ~75 °C. If the readings you posted are correct, I suggest you remove the heatsink, give it a good clean and apply fresh thermal grease (remove the old grease before). Even though Prescotts can take the heat quite well, you're asking for hardware damage by running it at over 80 °C temps for a prolonged time.

I agree with fact that high temperatures will cause hardware damage over long periods of time. My Radeon 4870 used to run at stock fan speed and I had the overdrive on, and the gpu temp was constantly around 78 °C. Now, after 3.5 years, I'm getting graphics corruption quite often, and games even occasionally crashing because the driver crashes. I think that out of the 1 billion transistors in the gpu, probably quite a few have been damaged by the heat and don't operate properly anymore. I've since increased the fan speed manually and it's consistently around 50 °C, but it hasn't solved my problems, the damage has been done. Needless to say, I'm getting a new video card soon.
shiny_red_cobra
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Quote from Sueycide_FD :Whoa, didn't even know that. Thanks for heads-up

You're welcome. The reviews are looking really good right now, it seems that the Radeon 7970 will be a very good video card. Of course it will be priced at around $400-$500 when it finally becomes available in stores.
shiny_red_cobra
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Specs are fine, just keep in mind that AMD is launching their new Radeons in a week or so, so either grab a new one or wait for the prices of these older ones to fall before buying. Also, AMD FX processors suck right now ($120 for an FX processor? Really?), so if you want performance then I would suggest getting an Intel system if money is no object.
shiny_red_cobra
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1. It's an AGP card, so make sure the AGP bus driver is installed correctly. Make sure your chipset drivers are installed and up to date too.
2. Disable Windows power saving, set everything to max.
3. I think the CPU temps are a bit too high, is the heatsink clean?
4. What kind of RAM do you have? Is it running as the correct voltage? I know my ram requires higher voltage than the BIOS default.

Finally, this is an old system, I think some of the components are starting to give in. I know my Radeon 4870 doesn't perform nearly as well as it used to when it was new, I need to get another video card soon.
shiny_red_cobra
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Could it be overheating? Run these little tool and post a screenshot.

http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/hwmonitor.html
http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/2065/mirrors.php
shiny_red_cobra
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Lol wow....

What that guy's thinking of doing is called EGR (exhaust gas recirculation), and it already exists on many cars, of course they take a fraction of the exhaust gas and feed it back into the intake, not all of it. Besides, the engine would stall anyway if you only feed it exhaust gases, there's not enough oxygen to maintain combustion.
shiny_red_cobra
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Charge it to 100%, unplug the power cable, and leave your computer on until the power cuts off (until the battery dies). I bet it will show 0% for a while until it turns off. Then plug it in again and turn it on. Let it charge and see what charge it gets to.
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The specs for your computer (from the link you provided) say that it can take a PCI Express low profile card. That's a smaller card than normal, they are usually advertised as HTPC cards for small home theater PCs. That's what you need to look for, a low profile card. An example is the AMD Radeon HD 6570, but there are many others from both AMD and Nvidia. The price is usually indicative of the card's performance, so if it's more expensive it's usually better. Also note, because it's low profile, make sure it comes with a smaller bracket which will fit in your PC. You may have to manually take off the larger bracket the card comes with and install the smaller one found in the box, but it's easy, just remove the small bolt holding the bracket in place and remove a few bolts which hold the connectors in place and swap the brackets. You may even get them to do it for you at the store.
shiny_red_cobra
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It's normal, some cores are being used more than other cores at any point in time, and the temperatures reflect that.
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Cu placere.
shiny_red_cobra
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Unfortunately that's the way they are in the game. There's nothing you can do about that.
shiny_red_cobra
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Wow these look great, thanks!
shiny_red_cobra
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LGA1366 is pretty much dead, LGA2011 is the next high-end socket which will be released towards the end of this year.
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Press F12, you get a menu where you can change the amount of fuel you put in at the pits. You can't change the total capacity of the fuel tank.
shiny_red_cobra
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Maybe you upgraded the driver but not the control panel? I would uninstall all nvidia software and do a clean install with everything included.
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The 560Ti is a little faster than the 6870 (which makes it a bit more expensive as well), but the difference is not much. Remember that some games are optimized to run on either ATI cards and some are optimized to run on Nvidia cards.
shiny_red_cobra
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DMS cables are hard to find in stores, I bought mine off ebay a few years ago. It's pretty cool but make sure you get the dual DVI one, I've seen some dual VGA ones and some that have one VGA and one DVI connector which are not usually what you want. And yea, it allows you to use two monitors (it's basically 2 DVI ports combined into one). Although I know some of these ATI cards use the DMS connector to do crossfire somehow, so if it's only for crossfire you're SOL.
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Quote from pigmeu :Stiu ca regula e: Litera mare la inceput de titlu si fara litera mare in mijloc

Asta n-am stiut, am crezut ca este ca in engleza unde prima litera in fiecare cuvant important ie litera mare. Good to know lol.
shiny_red_cobra
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To the op: Honestly, 64-bit is better than 32-bit. Not only will you be able to use 4+ GB of ram but you'll also be using the computer to its full potential because a 64-bit OS uses 64-bit instructions (obviously), and your CPU, motherboard, and RAM were designed to handle 64-bit instructions. So at the very least you'll be able to send more data per instruction, and as a result you might notice a slight speed boost.
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