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I did read in a forum that an intel board someone had downclocked his 1600 memory to 1066 completely skipping 1333. Maybe it did this for stablity? What if you tried clocking yours at 1066.

This article covers power saving technics of different boards and all 3 of them shut phases down when not needed to save power. So I guess that would mean less phases use less power but less stable to a degree (when power is needed, also for stable OCs?). Yeah, I saw the DrMOS thing as well...

Phases "Let’s take the CPU voltage regulator circuit. If this circuit has two phases (or channels), each phase will be operating 50% of the time in order to generate the CPU voltage. If this same circuit is constructed with three phases, each phase will be working 33.3% of the time. With four...

A juke box would be pretty nice. ;) I have my A64 as my HTPC atm but thinking about this desktop had me wondering if I should upgrade the HTPC too. Can't do hulu on the A64 and it even has an ATI 4350 for off loading the work to the GPU (flash beta installed for GPU acceleration). Recycling...

Yeah, Atom is too low power (performance) for what I would like as a desktop. The D510 is very low power although moving to an Atom w/Nvidia ION graphics for some extra video power and you pass the idle usage of the i3/i5 32nm CPUs but with way way lower performance of the i3/i5. i3/i5 CPUs can...

Long story short. 1)I want a PC that is lower power than my Q9300 quad and ATI 4850. I have 1 PC on most of the time so I want to improve my power usage and cost. 2)I want 2 PCs at the desk rather than just my Q9300 machine so my wife and I don't have to take turns. hehe (Q9300/4850 would only...

I really like the 1920x1200 resolution too. It's too bad you don't think a 24" screen would fit. D: I feel bad if that is your case.

I don't see any 22" LCDs with 1920x1200 resolution. There are some with 1920x1080 though. And some 21.5" and 23" screens.

I've removed all a keyboard's keys and cleaned it before but it sounds like my keyboard was a little easier to take apart. But I usually like getting new keyboards and so if that happened to my last logitech I would just buy something new. (just bought an ABS M1 last week) I don't think I had a...

Won't know really unless they get flipped. The manual just says for dual channel operation and single sticks use those slots. I guess 2 and 4 are overflow rather than primary slots for using 4 sticks.

I bet it is running @ 1333 in bios which is fine. That is what the CPU supports as well. Also the order of the memory slots goes 2, 1, 4, 3 (left to right in picture). You want them in 1 and 3 rather than 2 and 4. PDF manual

Your RAM is DDR3 1600, right? Your board (GA-P55?) says it supports 2200/1333/1066/800. What speed is your RAM running at? Could use CPU-Z.

Your PSU has a single +12v rail rather than multiple so what cable is plugged where doesn't matter. (do you have 2 power in the GPU?) Are all the drivers updated? Chipset, GPU etc TBH I would uninstall software that you put on (like anti-malware apps etc) for tracing these errors. Both fans...

Yeah, my fans are on low or medium. If they didn't have a control on them they would be going 100% and a little loud. They are just the Antec tri fans. Not quite as quiet as some fans but simple with the low-med-hi switch on each fan (plus they came with my case).

If your case has a 120mm front and rear fan then you are balanced. With the PSU fan pointing down it is not a factor as any air will leave the back of the PSU and not go into the case. If you decide to flip it then it is considered an exhaust fan. IMO a lot of fan spots are bad (empty or with...

I'm not sure if that case has different holes on the back for the PSU but I would recommend flipping the PSU so the fan is on TOP (since it doesn't look like there is much space on the bottom to pull air in). edit:Nvm. looks like you have a fan intake on the bottom below the PSU. Just make sure...

I don't know if it fixes sectors. I'm thinking it just recovers the data and moves it. I know to update the sector map and tell your drive not to use B(ad) sectors you have to do it with utilities often that can also do zero-fill format or low level formats. That tool you linked to probably does...

Well if you are going to keep this system intact I might just keep the 2gb even with Win7. Put the money into the GPU. I mean, you are going to have to buy RAM for your new system if this ram is staying in the PC.

I have Win7 upgrade. I just installed Win7 w/out entering the key. Before doing anything else I put the disc back in and did an upgrade and it thought the non-activated Win7 on there was a previous acceptable OS.. I know there was a post on these forums before about doing a registry edit...

I'd go with the AMD setup that you listed as it will give you similar performance in games, better in situations that need more than dual core at a lower price. If you were aiming for a current high end GPU and CPU then I would say intel. You could drop to a X2 250 if you wanted to save a...