Mekrel

eVGA just do reference design and after MSI's fiasco with sending out GT with wrong pipes.... XFX and Leadtek and BFG were the best providers of the 6800 series of cards although the Aopen ones were pretty good too - they seemed to clock well. Leadtek do a massive copper cooler but its a 2 slot solution so youl be loosing a PCI slot

Ive used loads of stuff, Any pure alcoholic bases soltuion will do the trick. Ive used nail polish remover before however it depends on the stuff you use. Normally I use white spirits

You cannot use cool and Queit whilst overclocking, the voltage changes applied by Q&C will instabalise your overclock.

No body knows, all chips are different.

I would tend to disagree here, although having a sound card on the PCI bus does result in less clock cycles being used, the performance increase in games is not noticable.I had a Audigy 2 in my system before I had to lend it to a mate as is onboard sound didnt work when he got a new motherboard, and in no way has my FPS rates changed or nor did I recieve any noticable lag. This may be different on an old processor though, but I never noitced even with my old XP 2800 system The only difference is quality, but alot of people tend to say they notice a quality improvement when they are not in the place to do so, as most people dont have the a quality speaker setup to even notice. Not all motherboard support boot from USB. Although its just an idea, it would never be adopted by motherboard manufacturers. I might be getting a matrix orbital for this, they do great little LCD things.

All games support SLI, you can force SLI and also make your own profiles. SLI works by each card rendering a seperate half of the screen so should in theory boost rendering time. However, if the rendering intensity isnt going to be putting both cards to thier fullest ability then there wont be any improvement. But as ive never rendered using 3d progs I wouldnt know how intensive this. Ild get an San Diego processor with SSE3 and the extra cache, drive wise ild also get a 16mb cache NCQ compliant HDD if your motherboard supports it. with rendering, cache does help!

For a PSU on a PCI-E motherboard your going to idealy want a ATX 2.0compliant PSU which has 24pin ATX cable. Of course there has been users who are using non-ATX 2.0 PSUs on such systems, but those PSUs have to have strong lines in able to do so. Enermax, OCZ and Antec are fine PSU choices with what they offer 2.0 wise. If your not overclocking, or overclocking a small amount using dividers then get cheaper ram, Geil Value seems to be popular and good ram for its price. Dividers bear hardly any performance hits on A64 systems due to the onboard memory controller.

Im just glad that you people dont design motherboards, You do realise that most controllers can be turned of via the bios, so removing them is just plain stupid. The fact some users out there may buy your board because it has those features. If you take them away thats one less sale. As to apposed them being there and users just disabling them if not needed in the bios nope, my board has firewire, so did my old socket A DFI board. When you need to flash your motherboard/VGA card bios and backup the bios beforehand. Something you cant do with a ROM drive. Windows tools are not always reliable for flashing bios'

It wont break any motherboard which has been fitted to the chassis using all the stand offs provided.

Raptors on thier own dont actually make much difference, just the access times are faster. However in Raid 0 with certain stripe sizes they are very very fast. I can vouch for Samsung Spinpoint SATA hard disks, not sure if they make PATA equivlents but they are very silent and good drives.

As long as you have all the possible motherboard standoffs installed then the motherboard will have good support and the heatsink wont damage anything. Unfortunatly my 201 case uses non-generic standoffs and Ive lost some which came with the case. So my motherboard only has support from about 5 stand offs and I have a arcticfreezer 64 cooler which isnt that heavy and also the GT has a Zalman GPU cooler which weighs quite abit too, and I have had no problems. The coolermaster Hyper6 is heavier than the CU Zalman and Ive seen loads of people use that. Either ram will do fine I suspect, if you mean OCZ Rev2's they also run 2-2-2-5 at stock settings - so what ever is cheaper. WD raptors do make quite abit of noise, It doesnt seem to bother me now but when I first got one I could really hear it. However raptors in array 0 certainly add performance to the system. Now Samsung (I think its the spinpoint models) are very good sata drives if your looking for queit operation. What PSU are you planning to get, it has to be ATX 2.2 format. Well it doesnt have to be but its certainly recomended.

Well im a big fan of DFI, and I really do not get why people consider DFI as unstable boards. They are completely opposite. When running at stock I have never ever had a problem with any DFI boards I have set up, and thats 3. The Ultra II, my 250BG UT and the Pro875b. Overclocking wise they can be niggly but thats because they offer more tweaking options etc. They are also renound best overclockers but for people not overclocking they are just as good. The lanparty series are aimed at a big target audience, lan goers, overclockers and case modders. I wouldnt touch MSI with a barge pole after seeing some reports of very bad customer service. As for graphis card, Leadtek have really made some quality cards. they probably made the best 6800GT due to the double slot cooler but also XFX has made some good cards and I know the 6800GT agp was clocked to 375 deafault (350 for sandard GT). Not sure if this applies to PCI-E but most GTs do ultra speeds. IMO for motherboards its between the Asus and DFI Ram wise, I would go cheap if your not overclocking or only overclocking a little (i.e usind a divider to run ra at 200mhz (400ddr)). Since buying my OCZ rev'2s at stock I really dont see the benifit a great deal of the tigher memory timings in real life. Yeah I can when I benchmark and see the memory bandwidth it produces. I know OCZ and Geil do some good Value ram, think the ocz is value VX and these are good buys it seems ACu, isnt as an effective conductor as Cu but this allows it to cool down quicker which is why you have the combination, but in reality the heat disipation of the copper isnt going to get maxed out by the CPU so the ACu doesnt really offer much benifit. Thats why the CU performs better. I have a CU version Zalman GPU cooler and its better than the ACu hybrid.

how are you calling the .msi within the 7-zip? Directly using 7-zips config.txt because you cant start MSI's from that. If you want to start an MSI you need to include another program called StartX within the archive and use the switches to call the msi. Search for them on here as I dont remember. Or use a command file to call the msi, which is what I do : install.cmd CMDOW @ /HID @echo off MsnMsgs.msi IAGREE="Yes" ADDEXPLORERTOOLBAR="" SETSEARCHENGINE="" exit config.txt ;!@Install@!UTF-8! RunProgram="install.cmd" ;!@InstallEnd@!

Im affraid to say I dont think the bottlenecks are down to speed alone when it comes to bartons. So I think buying a 3200 wouldnt really help, I think that because the A64's carry more instruction sets capable of offloading some of the work from the graphics card but you never know... a 3200 is much faster than a 2500 and might help so go for it. Nope if anything an 512 Ultra would make 3dmark05 scores go down if I replaced it with my GT. Any standard 6800 ultras wether it be 128/256mb have slacker memory timings so the ram can run at the faster speeds of 1100mhz compared to the 1000mhz of the GT. But alot of GT owners are reaching 1100 on the memory easily and with the tigher timings this means more bandwidth. Now with normal RAM in a system you will notice that 512 modules have tighter timings than a 1GB module because getting a 1gb module to run at those kind of timings isnt possible yet. Same with graphics card memory, 512 means the timings are going to be slacker. Apparently its only doom3 which will use 512mb of onboard graphics memory. Also in your bios you have an arpature(sp?) size which is how much ram of your system ram you allow the graphics card to use if its onboard memory becomes full.

CPU is a bottleneck for sure

Its fine, the A64 heatsink is one of the best stock heatsinks you will come across. You can overclock with it and still obtain good temperatures. I know loads who have overclocked with just the stock cooler. the size of the cards memory means nothing, its the speed that it operates and the actuall speed of the chips themselves. Also how many pipelines a card has and how fast the core operates at is what defines graphics card performance. As for PSU you want good rails, 300watt should be fine if running a fairly bare system without cathodes etc. The main thing is you need good amps especially on the 12v rail. At least 18amps at the very minimum.

I think MBM5.ini in the programs directory, once extracted to the directory should tell mbm5 what sensors to use and settings etc. So.... unless the wizard is controled by a reg key in which extracting the above to the right directory and editing the reg key would result in it being all setup.

Could someone please please make an icon for me, just I use teamspeak2 for my clan gaming experiences but the icon on my desktop sucks in all honesty So can someone make a headset icon like this: http://www.iconexperience.com/download_fil...me=icons_op.pdf open this document and look at Audio section and you will see the headset with mic icon. Something like that if possible Many thanks

its the PSU

Hmm, uninstall it. Delete the remaining program files folder for it etc.. then reinstall but before you answer the questions take a registry snap shot using Regsnap. Then answer them and when finished, restart the program. Take another snapshot. Then see which keys tied to MS antispyware have change. Then add these to a registry file and import it into the registry.

firefox 1.0.2 is now out http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/start/ any differences?

What folder do you 7zip up Durex? because you have Valve/steam do you just do the onces in steamapps?

easy, just run the installer untill you get to the part whenre you need to press next. Then go to your temp directory by typing this: "%userprofile%/Local Settings\Temp" in Start-> Run box. Make sure you have show hiden files and folders selected in folder options. In one of those folders, you will find microsoft antispyware.msi and the other files. Copy and paste these to a new location to work with later. Press cancel on the installer and these files will be removed from the temp directory.

You probably can with 7zip using config.txt but i aint sure how to do that yet.. i will research tonight as I have work in 30 mins untill 9pm tonight. If not I know Winrar can make a sfx that can do that. Also coming is the fixed version of the 7zip MS installer. The difference being that theinstall.cmd Pushd's to the microsoft antispyware folder and regservers the exe that way.