how important is the voltage regulator? is it safer when there's lightning strike?

computer, hp charger, light & all other electrical items in the room sharing one plugpoint, is it safer to have AVR?

how to choose an AVR?

will the price of LCD monitors reduce after sometime (like other pc hardware)?

Want to know something about RAM. However, i m pretty sure this question had been asked many times, i do hope i can get some expert to spare a moment to give brief guide for me.

What are the differences between value ram, performance ram and gaming ram?

For my current understanding, I just know the latency between this 3 ram are:

value ram > gaming ram > performance ram.

Would it be considered as waste if a user buy a performance/gaming ram without overclocking it?

what casing inlcude a good psu for gaming?
because ninja casing + st56f quite expensive...

next month i get my whole rig...
because next month i get RM4000,and pc fair launch and now 9600GT launch....lucky got time to see the 9600GT user comment....and learn more.

wat's pc fair got to with when u are buying pc?
not likely to get any discount at pc fair for full system specs, heck i'm sceptical of pc fair hardware anyway, some shops use it to throw old stocks

samsung monitor and zotac 8800GT graphic card....
anyway now i don have money to buy my whole rig...
just got 1.5k....so i just can wait only next month...4k++

erm,what does SLI means and what is the use of SLI?

pro pls tell me..
gaming, E8400 more den enuf. cuz high speed and won probably running alot applications at the same time.
quadcore is for wat use? like E9450
wat kind of programe will fully utilize quadcore potential ? slower but more cache and more core of course.

Hi, i wanna ask something, is there any such thing to convert agp 8x port to pcie so that i can upgrade my gc to pcie??

izzit pciex16 = pice 1.0
and pciex32 = pcie2.0?
wat about 2x16 = 2 pcie1.0 or pcie2.0?
anyway , only x38 board offer pcie2.0 right? p35 only 1.0?

noob question here .... i just bought a western digital 160Gb SataII hdd .. i'm planing to make 2 partition on that hdd (80Gb + 80Gb) ... then i wanna copy my old windows from ide hdd and place it to the first partition WD hdd using acronis (still learning how to use it though  ) .. my question is ... rite now the WD hdd act as secondary hdd ... can i make partition fot that WD hdd?? or i have to make the partition through dos while install new windows like normal practice? help needed 

Hi..

I wanna get a new hard disk for my ancient P4x-266 board. Can I get a new IDE Seagate / WD 8M ... 80 Gig or 160 Gig? I am not sure if my mobo can support them..

Tolong!!! Replies will be appreciated..

can i SLI with one 8800GT and one 9600GT??

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wat does wen9x88 question has to do with crossfire pulak????
even crossfire also kenot support cards from different series la....
most of the time u post reasonably, but sometimes crap does spew from ya...ur answer this time is totally unrelated...although his question was crap also....

The system required a CrossFire-compliant motherboard with a pair of ATI Radeon PCI Express (PCIe) graphics cards, which can be enabled via either hardware or software. Radeon x800s, x850s, x1800s and x1900s came in a regular edition, and a 'CrossFire Edition' which has 'master' capability built into the hardware, provided by 5 extra compositing chips[clarify. please kindly share what those chips are, and what are they for One must have bought a Master card, and paired it with a regular card from the same series. The Master card would have shipped with a proprietary DVI Y-dongle, which would plug into the primary DVI ports from both cards, and into the monitor cable. This dongle serves as the main link between both cards, and the output to the monitor. Radeon x1300s and x1600s have no 'CrossFire Edition' but are enabled via software, with communication forwarded via PCI Express. ATI currently has not created the infrastructure to allow FireGL cards to be set up in a CrossFire configuration. The 'slave' graphics card needed to be from the same family as the 'master', regardless of whether the 'master' is designated by the hardware or by software.

An example of a limitation in regard to a Master-card configuration would be the first-generation CrossFire implementation in the Radeon X850 XT Master Card. Because it used a compositing chip from Silicon Image (SiI 163B TMDS), the maximum resolution on an X850 CrossFire setup was limited to 1600×1200 at 60 Hz, or 1920×1440 at 52 Hz. This was considered a problem for CRT owners wishing to use CrossFire to play games at high resolutions, or owners of Widescreen LCD monitors. As many people found a 60 Hz refresh rate with a CRT to strain ones eyes, the practical resolution limit became 1280×1024, which did not push CrossFire enough to justify the cost.[2] The next generation of CrossFire, as employed by the X1800 Master cards, used two sets of compositing chips and a custom dual-link DVI Y-dongle to double the bandwidth, raising the maximum resolution and refresh rate to far higher levels.

When used with ATI's "CrossFire Xpress 3200" motherboard chipset, the 'master' card is no longer required for every "CrossFire Ready" card (with the exception of the Radeon X1900 series). With the CrossFire Xpress 3200, two normal cards can be run in a Crossfire setup, using the PCI-E bus for communications. While performance was impacted, this move was viewed as an overall improvement in market strategy, due to the fact that Crossfire Master cards were expensive, in very high demand, and largely unavailable at the retail level.


Although the CrossFire Xpress 3200 chipset is indeed capable of CrossFire through the PCI-e bus for every Radeon series below the X1900s, the driver accommodations for this CrossFire method has not yet materialized for the X1800 series. ATI has said that future revisions of the Catalyst driver suite will contain what is required for X1800 dongleless CrossFire, but has not yet mentioned a specific date.

With the release of the Radeon X1950 Pro (RV570 GPU), ATI has completely revised CrossFire's connection infrastructure to further eliminate the need for past Y-dongle/Master card and slave card configurations for CrossFire to operate. ATI's CrossFire connector is now a ribbon-like connector attached to the top of each graphics adapter, similar to nVidia's SLi bridges, but different in physical and logical natures. As such, Master Cards no longer exist, and are not required for maximum performance. Two dongles can be used per card; these were put to full use with the release of CrossFire X. Radeon HD 2900 and HD 3000 series cards use the same ribbon connectors, but the HD 3800 series of cards only require one ribbon connector, to facilitate CrossFire X.[4] Unlike older series of Radeon cards, different HD 3800 series cards can be combined in CrossFire, each with separate clock control.

Since the release of the codenamed Spider desktop platform from AMD on November 19, 2007, the CrossFire setup has been updated with support for a maximum of four video cards with the 790FX chipset; the CrossFire branding was then changed to "ATI CrossFire X". The setup, according to internal testing by AMD, will bring at least 3.2x performance increase in several games and applications which required massive graphics capabilities of the computer system, the setup is targeted to the enthusiast market. Later developments include a dual GPU solution to be released early 2008, the "ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2", featuring only one CrossFire connector for dual card, four GPU scalability.

when the nvidia launch 9800GT ??

Question here, if a mother can support DDR3 RAM, can it also support DDR2 RAM?

I see, thanks. Can show me a mobo with both DDR2 and DDR3 RAM support?

hey guys, is there any way i can check when my pc restart before and whats the cause?

because i on my pc overnite then when i woke up, i saw the dl closed and the pc shows sign of restart before.

thanks for the reply.
i got another question,
is biostar R690A-M2T=biostar TA690G??

   

Edit: Also, whats the difference between directx9 and directx10? when i play lost planet on directx10 default settings i get an fps of around 20 only but when i play on directx9 i get around 50.

i also not sure la, but i think its the same board. bcoz i just checked my mobo box and found out it got another name which is R690AM2T at the barcode there.

But the top of the box main model name is TA690G, i think the R690A-M2T is bcoz of its made in china

ok other question..what is means when said the psu is 550W...can peak to 600W??

got some doubt here...if i replace my mobo with a new but same with my old mobo, did i need to reinstall windows when connect the harddisk to the new mobo?

Processor:AMD AthlonX2 6000+ 3.0Ghz =Rm535
Mobo:Biostar Tforce 690G
Ram:Kingston 1G 667Mhz ddr2 x4 =Rm260 (Each65)
HDD:WD 320G sata 16mb =Rm260
GC:Sapphire 3870 512mb ddr4 =RM800
SoundCard:Creative X-fi Extreme audio =RM245
Speaker:Atlec Lansing V4121 =RM235
Rom:Pioneer 18X DVD-RW sata =RM120
LCD:Samsung 22'' =RM1000
Psu : Silverstone ST50F 500w
Casing Fans:Add on some casing fans:RM50
Keyboard&Mouse:A4Tech set=Rm80
yesterday i go to lowyat plaza.
and the viewnet staff say take a good motherboard and psu.
because i open 24/7 so he ask me to take a good motherboard and 600Watt psu,and add more HDD also no problem.
but i think i just use 1-2 HDD only.

this three item not confirm....

Silverstone ST50F 500w or 600W psu ?
Biostar Tforce 690G or better motherboard ?
and he say XFX 8800GT 512MB extreme is the best or zotac 8800GT 512MB AMP version ?

wow i don know the silverstone sf50f is true power anot?
anyone know this psu is truepower anot ?

i don get what u mean...
that guy say the Biostar Tforce 780 is 261% faster than current 690 chipset.
this is true anot ?

use it ?
u mean the motherboard Biostar Tforce 780 and 690?
now i take Biostar Tforce 690.
if the Biostar Tforce 780 really better than 690 261%。
then i take Biostar Tforce 780.

oic...because that ppl say it faster than 690.
this is make me confuse,now i take Biostar Tforce 690.
i don have oc,i just open 24/7.
           

this guy say:
From what I know this chipset is 261% faster than current 690 chipset. And it support hybrid crossfire with 3400 range GC..
Here current benchmark on these chipset.
AMD ATHLONX2 5000+, 2GB DDR2-800 Corsair, Vista.
3DMARK05 @690G=1105, @RS780=2495
Vista Experience Index @690G=3.1, @RS780=3.5
FEAR DEMO @690=15FPS, @RS780=29FPS
3DMARK 06 @690G : score=321, SM2:147, HDR/SM3=0, CPU score = 1860
3DMARK 06 @RS780: Score=1162, SM2:380, HDR/SM3=441, CPU score 1869

stop repeating d 261% thingy...
if u intend to use onboard gc, then buy d 261% performance boost mobo..
for me better go intel rather than amd...dis is just my humble opinion..

Higher memory size of GC better than lower memory size in what terms?

Edit: Also, if my msi gc is originally installed with msi driver, can i install the ati driver downloaded from the ati website? No difference right?

Anyone can explain to me whats the difference between higher memory size and lower memory size in a graphic card?

in HDD case..higher cache is better? in wut term?

coz i hv 2 hdd..320Gb 16mb and 160Gb 8mb..

which one is good for NLE and video compositing activities??
video editing access HDD a lot..

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Added on March 12, 2008, 5:33 pm

isnt it GC memory size is more to resolution issue??

may i Know that:
my laptop using Kingmax DDR400 PC3200 512MB.

can i mix it with another DDR333 1GB?? what will be the possible outcome?

thanks.

my laptop was pentium M, i read from intel website, the maximum supported was 333 only, right?