Wanted to move desktop to HDTV for Hulu; and 8 year old box wasn't a candidate. Bought an MSI NF980-65 because it had an intgrated video with HDMI output. Built the box, dragged browser from monitor to tv, great picture; no sound. Have been googling and finding this issue resolved when using...

No match to e.g. CPUidle ( on dos apps ) / Rain ( on K6 ) / CPUcool ( on K7 ), but none of these can cool a K8. Does any1 here know of a utility to cool a K8 ?

AMD Athlon II X3 MSI 980 mobo DDR3 memory can't imagine other peripherals would matter, but will have a sata hd, dvd burner, pci modem and old pci soundblaster if I can make it work. Have both XP and Win 7 disks. Most of my programs are 5+ years old, and made for XP. Still partial to XP after...

Hi all, I have this Laptop which has given up the ghost immediately two days after its warranty expiring. To cut the long story short, I have ordered another mobo. The original heat sink method for GPU on this mobo is thermal pad which I think is very inefficient, causing lots of laptop failure...

OK, let me begin by saying that I am *not* overclocking this CPU. I was told that this was clearly an error on core #3 of my processor. I was running OCCT v3.1.0 and had allowed this CPU to begin testing. It lasted all of 5m 53s. I cannot figure out what is wrong here. Is my processor defective...

@ just 1x playback speed, using AMD 690g chipset & 2 gb ddr2 ram .. CPU usage during playback of dvd D9 movie @1x speed already can reach 77%, @2x speed - 100%. If not, what's the minimum cpu ( single core ) speed needed for 1x speed ?

i'm running the following... Asus Mobo AMD 9850 Quad 8 gig corsair PC5600 DDR3 two Nividia 980 GT w/ duel DVI's and S-Video output 2 seagate 1TB HD's (2 TB total) 2 HANNS-G 21" Wide screen LCD's 1 internal lightscribe DL / DVD / CD burners 1 external LG lightscribe DL /DVD CD burner

I know this is an overclocking group but note that plugging-in added RAM (simple two-minute activity) is ALWAYS preferable to overclocking. You'll avoid mistakes which can damage your board and present annoying chores for you. The big exception to this rule is if you are a serious hobbiest who...

Hi - I've done a lot of digging and can't find the answer to this... I have an AMD X2 65nm 4800 which runs at 2500MHz. I also have DDR2-6400 800MHz RAM. Would the system be faster if I used the stock 12.5 multiplier while the RAM runs at 714MHz, or is it better to drop the multiplier to 12 and...

Hello all, I have a Sony Vaio pcg-fx501 laptop (about year 2000/2001 I think) which sports a Mobile Duron, 1Ghz, Morgan core. It runs very hot so I'm looking to underclock and or, at least, undervolt it slightly. There is, as far as I can see, no facility in the bios for this so I have to go...

hi, i know how to OC the graphics card with ATI Tray Tools / RBE (max. up to 1.15 V) or Riva Tuner, but can someone tell me how to OC the Vcore more than 1.15 V cause with 1.15 i only reach 760 (gpu core) and 940 mhz (ram core). maybe someone knows how to use the "pencil trick" on this pcb. or...

Where does the AMD Phenom II X4 Quad-Core 810 2.60GHz rank in CPU power in the AMD product line? -- Al Dykes News is something someone wants to suppress, everything else is advertising. - Lord Northcliffe, publisher of the Daily Mail

Any recommendations for an MBM replacement for an Athlon II X4 on the AMD 770 chipset? Or maybe MBM would still work? -- Ed Light Better World News TV Channel: http://realnews.com Iraq Veterans Against the War and Related: http://ivaw.org

Hello all, I'm trying to underclock (Duron 1.4, Syntax V266a motherboard). Now the issue is, this extremely featureless budget, but otherwise well performing, board won't let me drop the CPU multiplier below 133 (range being between 133-165). If I go ahead with the pencil trick on the cpu...

Hi all I am totally newbie of overclocking. I have purchased the following items: Asrock A780GXH/128M AMD Phenom II X2 550 3.1Ghz Am3 black edition kingston 4 Gb ddr2 800mhz pc2-6400 case MS-TECH LC-402 Black power supply TECHSOLO 600W TP-600 Is it real that I can use the function ACC of this...

I'm straightening out a friend's new system with a Kuma cpu. I was astonished to find that prime95's torture test doesn't load up a core 100% -- not even close. Any ideas? -- Ed Light Better World News TV Channel: http://realnews.com

Hi all, I'm looking for some help/advice/information on upgrading my PC. First, let me state that I have not kept up on the computer hardware scene since I installed and overclocked my AMD XP2500+ @ XP3000+ (Barton). So I don't fully understand the hardware that has come along since then. Feel...

Pete and I took the new AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition processor and walked it through a proper overclocking methodology using AMD OverDriveTM software*

I am a PC user since commodore 64 and recently purchased a Laptop with AMD Turion 64 x2 2.0. It was interesting to see how much they evolved since then. From a machine that you can play games to a portable and a very expensive lap heather. It is a Toshiba Satellite A210 running Vista 32...