Recent content by Thorax_the_Impaler

Hello everyone. A while ago, my girlfriend and I watched as her R9 270 died mid-game; and after thoroughly cleaning/testing it, I'm a little confused as to whether or not it is actually dead. As far as output goes; the card works. It outputs as a "basic video adapter" just fine, but immediately...

If you didn't have a password, anyone could get into your system as opposed to that one in however many that is actually savvy enough to know how. There will always be that one person who can pick a lock; that doesn't mean you shouldn't have one on your front door.

Doesn't matter if it turns on and the fan is spinning; if it's defective and not putting out enough power because of that, your PC isn't going to turn on properly. Hell, no PC it's hooked up to will turn on properly. Bad components are bad components no matter how insignificant of a defect they...

The best way to test components is to have others on-hand that you know work. That's why I always have extra hardware even if I'm not immediately using it. I bought a motherboard back in June and found out it was the problem by trying the power supply I thought was the issue on a different...

1. Are you absolutely positive you've connected everything properly? (i.e. GPU power cables?) 2. Is there any output on the screen when the PC is on? Or is the screen blank? 3. Have you tried each memory stick individually; and have you tried turning it on without the memory?

Can't be louder than my reference 290. Uninstall/reinstall the drivers and see if anything changes. And do a proper reboot after reinstallation to make sure the settings are being detected properly by any tweaking utilities that can change settings like that at boot. I had a similar issue when I...

Leaving things unlocked is unheard of where I live. I'd say one is probably more likely to be a victim of petty theft out here more than anything else; but everyone I know locks everything that has a lock. People put things like steering wheel locks on cars that can't be worth more than $600 on...

Sounds like a fun project. I almost tried something like this years ago, but I ended up scrapping everything pretty quickly because I realized there really isn't much practical use for cluster computing above resource demanding scientific applications; things like weather prediction or massive...

Interesting; I'll remember that when I start messing with my X6. Thanks.

Oh, well. For a general PC/personal server I suppose I could do much worse. I don't suppose tweaking the NB can improve OC stability?

3.5GHz, but it wasn't completely stable. Above that; I could not even get into the OS.

Hello everyone. I am looking to push an X3 720 I bought some time ago a little further than the 3.4GHz I have it running at. Studying information on this chip and overclocking in general; I have concluded I am missing something. I was able to unlock a fourth core and keep it stable after...

This......kind of feels more like a discussion to have with your buddies; rather than a public post for a tech-related website. Just one man's opinion though.

A good point. I'll look into RMAing it, but if I'm stuck with it......it's not the end of the world. I'll just get a different card and throw that one in an expendable rig. Something old but still working.

Well I would RMA it, but I bought it last October. Still gonna pull it out of my PC to be safe, though. Sent from my iPhone using Tech-Forums