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EDIT: CD install buggy. Finally got phone help. All good. Purchased mass effect triology on cd from amazon. Have tried 9 or 10 times to install game via cd. it wanted account with origin set up. I sucessfully did so. I try install game - it rejects serial number (yes, chcked caps lock, yada). And wehn I try to go to customer service / help on orign site, it always says no access cause either site is down or too busy. I have tried over 10

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[quote who="alaknebs" reply="40" id="3648987"] put this way. the cards that amd released this summer (polaris) are not aimed at the top performance market occupied by 1080/1070. supposedly vega is aimed at that segment. i think the 480 is cheaper than 1060 but less power efficient and less powerful. the 1060 is around or just shy of 980 performance, but cheaper. [/quote] so, a polaris might be a good way to push my ring to near max graphics its capable of given bo

@Psychoak Voodoo cards - what a blast from the past ! Really appreciate your analysis. Its actually very helpful - cuts through the techno-babble. Don't have cash to throw away, and even if I did, I would not. [I live a frugal life based on limited income. I helped other people instead of amassing a nest egg.] In any case, I would be better off refreshing the silver-collant paste on the CPU to address the high temps, and save my discretionary i

[quote who="admiralWillyWilber" reply="36" id="3648931"] If radeon then why do all the computer people say nvidia is better at gaming in real world scenarios. Unless the guys at the computer place were willing to fix my computer for free because of the bang up job at customizing I would probably take my computer somewhere else to have it fixed. They recommend having it computer cooled, but since you don't sound hardware savvy I would go with fans. Easier to maintain in the long run.

[quote who="psychoak" reply="32" id="3648779"] .... I'd get one of them nifty new radeon's for a couple hundred bucks and run whatever you want without blowing $700 on a 1080. [/quote] radeon instead of a gtx? puzzled look... I am totally unfamiliar with non-GTX cards. I google/binged the Raedon, paaears to be three families, and tons of confusing gobilty gook. Might you suggest a few of the raedon cards, and state why that partictular card.&n

[quote who="benmanns" reply="29" id="3648659"] What Wizard1956 said those temperatures will cause BSOD sooner or later, or the system will just shut down to prevent damage. You should renew Thermal Paste and if you are not compftable doing so yourself, then take it to a local dealer/store and tell them to replace it for you should be around 5 USD. They usually also blow out dust and have all of the stuff needed. That way you dont have to buy a full ampoule of Artic Silver

[quote who="Wizard1956" reply="25" id="3648553"] Quoting ElanaAhova, reply 24 Core was 90 and red Yowweeeeee, Your temps are WAY too high. ... What i recommend doing is: 1. Get some new thermal compound like Arctic Silver 5 (AC5). <a href="http

You asked about cpu temp. I just watched a few episodes of Orphan Black, (video streaming)and then ran speecy. Core was 90 and red. Its been decreasing since I stopped the video streaming. Seems to 'rest' at 66-70 (orange). When I run speecy, it jumps back up to 74, and then slowly decreases. I think this means the cpu is running too hot, doesn't it.

[quote who="admiralWillyWilber" reply="21" id="3648472"] The confusion could be between clock, and bus speed. In this case clock speed is more important. If the ram is ddr3s that is important. The only speed you need to know when buying is clock, not bus speed. Clocks haven't ran at 533 in a long time. I doubt ddr3s ever ran at that. My guess 533 is the bus. If that's true then the clock is a lot faster. You need to know the clock, and be sure they are ddr3s. This is really impor

[quote who="benmanns" reply="17" id="3648363"] ... All i was saying that the best investment to push the time to buy a newer system further out would be a gfx card, but after reading those temperatures i need to make sure that the cpu isnt overheating first. Since that could be the issue. .. When you game a lot and intent to play recent titles in the near future, i would recommend getting a new Mboard a newer

[quote who="psychoak" reply="5" id="3648272"] My brother has class, but I haven't been to school in years. Why would anyone, even someone over-educated, download windows updates off the internet? [/quote] ummm, isn't the connection most users have with the MS servers via the internet?

[quote who="benmanns" reply="15" id="3648316"] Quoting alaknebs, reply 14 did you try lowering the quality or something? think you might just about meet min req on the cpu. 6 vs 4 cores single core speed is higher on the i5 while on multi core processes the i5 gets destroyed by the i7 <a href="http://w

[quote who="Uvah" reply="2" id="3647748"] Be sure, if you want to use those icons in the package, do not change its position/number in the package. Also rename it exactly as the one you replace. Otherwise the iconpack will not work as intended. I think... [/quote] Actually true...

[quote who="Jafo" reply="1" id="3647733"] ... Whenever I'm being screwed I always want it done in 'pretty poor English'...[e digicons];)[/e] ... [/quote] Actually, I perfer proper, standard English when I'm being screwed. I have class...

[quote who="psychoak" reply="9" id="3648249"] Your motherboard is triple channel. It has six slots and supports 24GB. There isn't any 534Mhz ram though, DDR is x2, you're running 1066, you should be able to run up to 1866 on that board, which would be much faster. This only has a minor impact on the performance you'll get though. Things are limited by storage typically, or processing, so you'd gain responsiveness from an upgrade, but nowhere near t

your choice ... door one, door two ... and I will attempt to understand the relative merits of -> 12.0GB Triple-Channel DDR3 @ 534MHz. been reading about it at Tom's hardware, and google-ing. Very confusing. Double, triple, quad channel faster? Depends on MOBO, but info on my MOBO not say. Oye. I will leave it be and hope for the best.

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silly me, I was inprecise. I meant >what type of ram answer = 12.0GB Triple-Channel DDR3 @ 534MHz (8-8-8-20)

EDIT specy report: Operating System Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit SP1 CPU Intel Core i7 960 @ 3.20GHz 75 °C Bloomfield 45nm Technology RAM 12.0GB Triple-Channel DDR3 @ 534MHz (8-8-8-20) Motherboard ASUSTeK Computer INC. SABERTOOTH X58 (LGA1366) 56 °C Graphics VG248 (1920x10

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