Fozzy Fozborne Posted August 15, 2008 Share Posted August 15, 2008 @Futurama: Everything I've looked at seems to show that you need a graphics card designed with HDMI in mind to run HDMI on your card. I'm not sure why this is, but many people seem to complain about older cards not being supported. HDMI capable cards are as cheap as $20 now, so if you're interested have a look around for a good cheap one. @gta modder: The 4870's run VERY hot, but ATI designed them to take the heat. What you can do is turn the fan up a bit from the stock ridiculously low setting to something a bit higher and they'll run much quieter. Also ignore crazymodder when he tells you they eat electricity, they aren't that bad at all for power consumption. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronnyboy Posted August 16, 2008 Share Posted August 16, 2008 My friend and I were looking at water cooling for his new PC. What needs to be done for it to work properly and succesfully? Does he need a constent flow of water from a water pipe flowing into the system, does he just need to fill it up every now and then? Also, what size power sytem would he need for it to work along side two 8600GT's and a AMD Anthlon X2 running at 2.7 GHz? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fozzy Fozborne Posted August 17, 2008 Share Posted August 17, 2008 (edited) Dump the 8600's and upgrade to at least 9600GT's (8800's would be better still for around the same price depending on what's on sale). Also, why an AMD? Intel are much faster right now and since this is going to obviously be a gaming PC you'd want the extra power. I've always believed that air cooling is just as effective on mid-overclocked systems (for ridiculous overclocking, water is obviously better) or mildly overclocked systems because you don't have to care for it. However, with liquid cooling, you do not need a pipe connected to the computer as you should NEVER put water in a liquid cooler. Liquid coolant is non-conductive where water obviously is. This means that should your pipe spring a leak, your PC will be ok. If there was water in the pipe, watch out for shrapnel. An excellent AMD air cooler is the Arctic Cooler Freezer 64 Pro and the similar Freezer 7 Pro is great for Intel CPU's. I have the 64 and it is totally silent even under load. There is an excellent Gigabyte liquid cooling system here for $145 which is expensive, but you get what you pay for. It comes with everything by the VGA blocks for the graphics cards. Seriously though, if he's not looking into crazy overclocking and instead is just looking for silence, get a nice quiet CPU fansink with two Arctic Cooling Acellero S2's (which ARE compatible with the 8600, 8800, and 9600 series despite Newegg's outdated description of the coolers.) That would be a whisper-quiet system for about $55-60 instead of about $200. It's also MUCH easier to simply clip on a fan than to run all the tubing. I'm curious as to what case you're going to be putting this system in because it's going to have to be quite large to fit all these components into it. Edited August 17, 2008 by Fozzy Fozborne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronnyboy Posted August 17, 2008 Share Posted August 17, 2008 Yeah, I can't pull him away from the Dual 8600's. But he does want to overclock his system to get better speed, and he has been looking for about 3.7-4.1 GHz. He also is big on the water cooling, as he complains he has never had a "silent fan". Thanks for the info Fozzy, you are a friend saver! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fozzy Fozborne Posted August 17, 2008 Share Posted August 17, 2008 (edited) 3.7 to 4.1 GHz? On an Athlon? Is he on some kind of drug? That is extremely pushing the limits of the architecture itself. Getting 3.3 is considered pretty good 3.7 is a heck of a lot of luck. Is this a Brisbane or a Winsor chip? Show him even one review on the 8600's and you're pretty much guaranteed to change his mind. If that fails, show him the report from Tom's hardware about how ALL the 8500 and 8600's are possibly defective and will require an RMA sooner than later. Here is the report I'm speaking of. Also remind him of the fact that the radiator in the liquid cooling system uses a fan to cool the coolant. Edited August 17, 2008 by Fozzy Fozborne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Picolini Posted August 17, 2008 Share Posted August 17, 2008 Continued from the CCPD's PC build thread: My biggest current problem with Vista is the f*cking COM Surrogate (dllhost.exe). It's only a problem when I access another drive than my main one, it jumps up in the memory usage REALLY high. At the least it hits like 50K, but usually grows after a few seconds to 100K+. It's even hit 300K+ before, really eating up resources. It runs higher when I open a folder on a secondary drive with more, larger files like my videos folder. After I close the folder, play the video I opened from with in it, pause the video, then play it I can end the process (end dllhost.exe) with no adverse effects. Some times I've got to kill it several times because after I end it, another one pops up right away. At first I thought it was just something to do with my previous driver being external, so in getting a new internal drive I hoped it would go away, but it didn't. And recently, with the new internal drive after having it a few weeks, if I leave the folder open for about 1 minute I get a "COM Surrogate quit running" error, or something along those lines. And it'll happen multipe times. It stops doing that when I close the folder. Don't get it. All I've heard is that it's Vista's process that "translates" dll's or drivers or something like that, didn't understand it so I didn't read too much into it. Any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronnyboy Posted August 17, 2008 Share Posted August 17, 2008 3.7 to 4.1 GHz? On an Athlon? Is he on some kind of drug? That is extremely pushing the limits of the architecture itself. Getting 3.3 is considered pretty good 3.7 is a heck of a lot of luck. Is this a Brisbane or a Winsor chip? Show him even one review on the 8600's and you're pretty much guaranteed to change his mind. If that fails, show him the report from Tom's hardware about how ALL the 8500 and 8600's are possibly defective and will require an RMA sooner than later. Here is the report I'm speaking of. Also remind him of the fact that the radiator in the liquid cooling system uses a fan to cool the coolant. I am not for sure on the chip, but I think he said at the moment, after reading what you said, he would go to 3.4 GHz. Not for sure on the chip though, I will have to ask him. He has seen the reviews, but he bought one 8600, but then received another for his B-day, and he feels that the dual power is just as good as a 8800 GT . I can't move his stubborn arse, but he went with a Asetek Liquid CPU Cooling System he found online, not sure where, but that is what he emailed me, the name mostly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gtathebest4ever Posted August 17, 2008 Share Posted August 17, 2008 what's the turbo function for on some controllers? it's got an explanation in the manual, but it just said how to activate the function, but not what it's for, and when i try to activate it, nothing happens. or maybe it does and i don't notice it. anyone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saget Posted August 17, 2008 Share Posted August 17, 2008 what's the turbo function for on some controllers? it's got an explanation in the manual, but it just said how to activate the function, but not what it's for, and when i try to activate it, nothing happens. or maybe it does and i don't notice it. anyone? You know how you press and hold a key on the keyboard and it goes eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee? The turbo function does the same to the controller buttons. |DeviantArt|Flickr|YouTube|#amf| Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lt. Dan Posted August 17, 2008 Share Posted August 17, 2008 What the hell is going on with Firefox's flash? Youtube videos stop buffering after the 0:02 mark and the video and audio stop. It's not doing this with internet explorer, either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Democrab Posted August 18, 2008 Share Posted August 18, 2008 What the hell is going on with Firefox's flash? Youtube videos stop buffering after the 0:02 mark and the video and audio stop. It's not doing this with internet explorer, either. Its a bug, restart Firefox and its fixed, I think its something to do with the Flash player... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gouveia Posted August 19, 2008 Share Posted August 19, 2008 I got a pen drive from some guys after a meeting. It has some programs in it, and my dad assumed that it was an U3 drive, but I don't really know if it is one. Is there any way to check if it is an U3? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fozzy Fozborne Posted August 19, 2008 Share Posted August 19, 2008 When you plug it in, does the U3 menu come up at the bottom of the screen? If not, then it either isn't a U3 drive or the U3 has been removed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kewfmwpj Posted August 19, 2008 Share Posted August 19, 2008 (edited) Can anyone tell me if the ALiveNF5-eSATA2+'s onboard sound card will do justice to a pair of Sennheiser PC 350's? Edited August 19, 2008 by Moncai Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronnyboy Posted August 19, 2008 Share Posted August 19, 2008 How old is the sound card? I have a question, and it's a bit weird, but here it goes. I know that, for the only to run dual NVIDIA graphics cards, you need an SLI mobo. Is there any way to run dual 6200's without an SLI mobo, or no? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fozzy Fozborne Posted August 19, 2008 Share Posted August 19, 2008 (edited) I'm guessing that the 6200's in question are PCI or AGP. In this case, nope it won't work. SLI is a PCI-E only solution. Also the 6200's did not support SLI and only the 6600GT and greater supported it. Sorry to say but the answer is no. @Mon: It should sound pretty good. Keep in mind that with integrated solutions all the EMI that your components put out is transmitted into your headphones. This means that you get decent sound quality with quite a lot of static in the background. If you're serious about headphone usage, look at a nice sound card. Edited August 19, 2008 by Fozzy Fozborne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poopskin Posted August 20, 2008 Share Posted August 20, 2008 Is there a program i can use to convert DivX video to something windows supports without any additional help from codecs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gtamodder Posted August 20, 2008 Share Posted August 20, 2008 I am thinking of buying a ATi Radeon 4870X2, but does it take up 2 PCI-E slots, or just 1? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Democrab Posted August 20, 2008 Share Posted August 20, 2008 I am thinking of buying a ATi Radeon 4870X2, but does it take up 2 PCI-E slots, or just 1? It only uses one PCIe slot, but the slot below the PCIe slot you put it in won't be able to be used, because the cooler will be over it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kewfmwpj Posted August 20, 2008 Share Posted August 20, 2008 How old is the sound card? I have a question, and it's a bit weird, but here it goes. I know that, for the only to run dual NVIDIA graphics cards, you need an SLI mobo. Is there any way to run dual 6200's without an SLI mobo, or no? My soundcard so to speak is this (I think?) http://www.realtek.com.tw/products/product...nn=4&ProdID=135 Not to sure what standard that is, I'll be mainly using the 'phones for gaming and music. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fozzy Fozborne Posted August 20, 2008 Share Posted August 20, 2008 @Poop: Simply load the file in windows movie maker and save it. It will save as a WMV movie that can play on any windows computer. Just be sure you select a file size slightly larger because WMV isn't as well compressed as DivX. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthYENIK Posted August 20, 2008 Share Posted August 20, 2008 I have a problem that's been irking my for a while. All video played on my computer is dark. As a matter of fact, everything on my computer is dark. I have to jack up the brightness and contrast just to use my computer. It's not the monitor because I've used several monitors since I got this computer and all have the same problem. Now I can deal with the images and video games being dark, but I have no idea how to brighten up video, especially streaming video like on youtube. Does anyone have a solution. P.S. I have a radeon 9600. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kewfmwpj Posted August 20, 2008 Share Posted August 20, 2008 Do you have ATi Catalyst Control Centre or something similar? As from how you described it your graphics card is the problem. Try and adjust some settings in there and it should be better! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthYENIK Posted August 20, 2008 Share Posted August 20, 2008 That's odd, I thought I had that installed and had adjusted it in the past. Probably the problem, I'll check it out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kewfmwpj Posted August 20, 2008 Share Posted August 20, 2008 That's odd, I thought I had that installed and had adjusted it in the past. Probably the problem, I'll check it out. On my laptop which has an ATI card it came installed and allowed e to edit a load of sh*te. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gouveia Posted August 20, 2008 Share Posted August 20, 2008 When you plug it in, does the U3 menu come up at the bottom of the screen? If not, then it either isn't a U3 drive or the U3 has been removed. Nah, it doesn't. Is there any menus or apps for download so I can check if it is one of them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronnyboy Posted August 20, 2008 Share Posted August 20, 2008 Is there a program that allows me to record sounds (songs, sound effects) from my PC? Like when I am playing SMB3 on my PC, I want to record the background music, but I don't have a mic to hook up next to my speakers, and I wish for it to be high quality. Any help? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jedimario Posted August 20, 2008 Share Posted August 20, 2008 Did you try Google? I know they're out there, but I don't know any specific names. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronnyboy Posted August 20, 2008 Share Posted August 20, 2008 Did you try Google? I know they're out there, but I don't know any specific names. Yeah, all that I found that was most helpful was a link to Shareware sites, and for internet streaming recording, I am looking for a free program I can use anytime I want. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthYENIK Posted August 20, 2008 Share Posted August 20, 2008 That's odd, I thought I had that installed and had adjusted it in the past. Probably the problem, I'll check it out. On my laptop which has an ATI card it came installed and allowed e to edit a load of sh*te. My computer is custom built, is about four years old, and has gone through a couple windows reinstallations and hard drives, one quite recently. So CCC probably was installed on my old hard drive, and I wasn't able to install it until now. Was kind of a pain in the ass this time. I had to install Microsoft .NET 2.0, which for some reason took forever. I think it worked. I adjusted the gamma a bit, and now my videos are good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
