No problem. What i would do is try 2001-2002 games and then move up to 2005-2006 games. Compare the FPS results. Try games like Max Payne (2001)...
note: make sure the PC is completely turned off lol
No that's not necessary. Try changing the jumpers from master to slave on both IDE drives.
If you have a floppy or usb flash drive, download a copy of Memtest86. This will check to see if you have any RAM issues. It needs to be run...
This is a very common issue when it comes to booting SATA in the presence of IDE drives. Look to see if there is an option anywhere else in your...
What games are you trying to play? Core 2 Duo's are a bit old but even if you turn play at average quality, you shouldn't experience low FPS...
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Hm... what applications do you have running in the background? And have you tried restoring system defaults via nVidia Control Panel?
Great! Glad to hear i was of some help. Thermal Paste can make a big difference. I'm using Arctic Silver my self. ;)
I think you'll find these two articles interesting: http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-GT-540M.41715.0.html...
Definitely sounds like heating issues. You'll have to do some trial and error. Purchase some thermal paste, like this one. Remove the heatsink...
Simply put, USB hubs are good for expanding a single USB port into multiple ones. That's really what they'er used for. Companies might advise you...
Nice! Can't wait til the cost of those things drop...
Well, like i said, the relationships are highly unrelated. The i5 is a strong CPU and has newer architectures and was release a few year after the...
Not really. They're both great peices of hardware and none will bottleneck each other. Besides, the relationship between CPU speeds and GPU speeds...
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Where does "Random Person" have a bottleneck?
lol, well according to this: http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/309013-33-power-color-radeon-5850-xw6660-workstation, he's already got his answer....
Was this a quick format?
I'd say leave the stock fan alone. What might help reduce the noise is to take apart the fan and remove any dust.
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