3D marks mean much more than didly squat as long as you keep comparing 3Dmarks to 3Dmarks, and nothing else.

I still feel the best "benchmarks" are just running fraps and have it log your FPS while you play some games.

My friend has a slightly old WinXP machine that they wanted to get a performance boost out of, and having only 256Mb RAM that seemed the obvious choice.

Unfortunately the mobo only accepts PC2100 or PC2700 (DDR266/DDR333), in paired modules. There's current 2x128Mb PC2700, and I planned to add 2x256Mb PC2700. Here's where my problems began, nobody in UK seems to sell paired PC2700 modules anymore...

I see two ways out of this, either just buying 2x256Mb PC2700 of normal RAM and hope it works when paired, or 2x256Mb PC3200 paired. Will it just underclock the DDR400 RAM to 333Mhz? Or will it not understand it at all? =\

It will automatically set the SPD settings to the slowest stick of ram in the system, don't worry. Usually you can get completely un related sticks to pair up in dual channel. I actually had two of Tweakers 256mb sticks running in one channel together, and a stick of my old giel budget DDR400 512mb in another channel, worked fine. It's more flexable than some would think.

Ren: A very late thanks, went for 2x256Mb 2700 Unpaired.

This message was edited by Ren of Heavens(moderator) on Dec 04 2006.

my power supply fan is makeing a ticking sound and then stoping like its hitting something the fan it self has a crack in it and i fixed that but its still sounds like its hitting something like the fan guard and stopping? any ideas b4 i have to go buy a new 500W power supply

quote Otaku27

my power supply fan is makeing a ticking sound and then stoping like its hitting something the fan it self has a crack in it and i fixed that but its still sounds like its hitting something like the fan guard and stopping? any ideas b4 i have to go buy a new 500W power supply

cool thxs for the info and yeah i did glue it but i didnt think it would do that much....but theres the kicker i didnt think ....well i will try to get a new fan...but alas if that does not work i will have to get a new one T_T

Oh, yes, Glue will make a fan so off balance. I tried it on an old fan, it it made it so loud, it even vibrated the case.

I just bought a new motherboard, and it has 2 pcix16 slots, and a 3rd pcix16 slot which supports an add on card at 8x speed, also have 1 pci express slot, and 2x pci 2.2 slots. i bought a new sound card to go with this all but noticed to late that it requires a pci 2.1 slot. will i be able to use it on my mother boards 2.2 slots? thanks

If it is PCI it should work in any PCI slot.

ok uber 1337 question

what does purple smell like

ok really stupid question but funny in a way

my real question is if theres is a way to overclock
my old ass comp?

Manufacturer: Me
Processor: AMD Athlon XP 2600+, MMX, 3DNow, ~1.9GHz
Motherboard: Gigabyte something
Memory: 1.5GB 3sticks of 512 corsair i dont know what
Hard Drive: MAC 13GB Maxtor 250GB 150GB External
Video Card: Diamond X1650-PRO 512 DDR2 AGP
Monitor: 16" Flat Screen + 18" LCD
Sound Card: SB Audigy 2 ZS Gamer Edition
Speakers/Headphones: Stereo/Headphones
Keyboard: PS2 USB
Mouse: 7 Button Optical Mouse
Mouse Surface: White Towel
Operating System: XP Pro Retro 98 Hack


im not going to upgrade this box b/c its about 4yrs old
and it will run anything i want to put on it smoothly
(ie it runs bf2142 on low setting just fine)

if this thread is in the wrong place tell me and ill delete
it

Enter your BIOS and see what type of settings you have to play around with. You should be able to overclock to some degree if you can at least change the CPU, chipset, and RAM voltages, and be able to alter the FSB and possibly RAM timings/dividers.

If you are asking for a tutorial, there are many available. Make sure you go slow and check for stability before you get antsy and jump to large of a frequency gap.

I'm not sure whether this is the correct place to post this. But when you are sharing a file through a network. I can never find it. Help? Please.

quote latinoheat31

I'm not sure whether this is the correct place to post this. But when you are sharing a file through a network. I can never find it. Help? Please.

I think the battery on my laptop is knackered, but the cheapest I can find a replacement one is £110 +VAt, so I want to make sure it is the battery before buying it.

It's been like this for quite a while now, one morning I was switching on my laptop as usual and smoke started pouring out of the back of it. Unplugged it etc. and left it for a little while. Since then the laptop has only switched on if it is plugged in, which is rather annoying as I can no longer use it on the train or if I want to move room I have to shutdown, unplug, then reboot when I've moved.

When I go to Control Panel > Power Supply is says the battery is "charging" (and the charging light constantly shows on the laptop itself) but also says "100%". Would the problem by any chance be something connecting the battery to the laptop, as I have removed the battery and I can see no physical damage to it.

The screens going and the power supply itself is playing up now... time for a new laptop me thinks

quote OOTER

It's been like this for quite a while now, one morning I was switching on my laptop as usual and smoke started pouring out of the back of it. Unplugged it etc. and left it for a little while. Since then the laptop has only switched on if it is plugged in, which is rather annoying as I can no longer use it on the train or if I want to move room I have to shutdown, unplug, then reboot when I've moved.