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Mar 7, 2009 | 03:00 PM

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35l911

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From: oxon hill, MD U.S.A

i found a program a minute ago that compleatly free and works great its called easybcd it did the job now i can boot from the windows boot manager screen the only down side is it changed the boot screen for windows 7 to the boot screen to vista thats not a problem

and court1100f that a b......itchin good rig i wouldn't mind having something like that w/o the overclocking of course because i don't know how to overclock my first attempt was kaos and i killed my processor so i've stopped

Mar 9, 2009 | 04:49 AM

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Thanks man I like it

and I am a gamer so I want to upgrade to the specific components I mentioned to you case and point the Core 2 Duo E8500/3.16Ghz 1333Mhz Front side bus/6MB cache that I clock to 4.25Ghz

...........the only other thing I'd change about my Current setup is the Video card I'd like an XFX 8800 series card preferably one of their Factory Overclocked units that comes with a double lifetime transferably Warranty. that aside this thing plays all my games flawlessly with all settings maxed out so I'm in no hurry to upgrade. NOW you said you cooked a processor at an attempt at over clocking Listen bro IF you get the motherboard I suggested I can talk you through it with these core 2 duo processors you'd be hard pressed to cook it because the processors have alot of room for over clocking with no ill effects even with the stock Heat Sink solution and on top of that the motherboard in question it'self has safety protection built in that protects both the memory and Processor if you go too far it simply won't post and when you hit the reset button it'll come back up with the default settings.Irregardless of that I could walk you through it. + I didn't suggest this particular board because I have one or because of it's ease of over clocking with perfect stability. but more for the fact like you when I upgraded I was going from an antiquated system to a modern performance system so I had 4 IDE Devices and most Core 2 Duo motherboards only had support for up to two which meant 2 of my Hard Disks would have to be left out of the system completely, it took me quite some time to find this little guy because they hadn't brought it to market when I first started looking for a mother board. Well it has 2 IDE Headers which would work out great for you cause you could still run all of your 3 IDE Devices AND have future upgradeability to add up to 3 more SATA2 Hard Drives and 1 more IDE Drive be it DVD or Hard Drive. so ultimately you could run up to 7 hard drives on this board Or 6 hard drives and a DVD Rom and DVD RW what ever floats your boat.

Mar 9, 2009 | 09:22 PM

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Originally Posted by court1100f

I want to upgrade to the specific components I mentioned to you case and point the Core 2 Duo E8500/3.16Ghz 1333Mhz Front side bus/6MB cache that I clock to 4.25Ghz

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Why wouldn't you want to go the newer intel cpu ($$ maybe). There is nothing wrong with the E8500 though. However, the best bang for your buck as a gamer is the gpu.

Mar 10, 2009 | 08:39 AM

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Eh I prefer the wholistic approach gaming isn't the only thing I do and a bigger badder video cards not gonna bring up the games COD 4 & 5,FEAR 2 and others/windows explorer/Creative Playcenter/or Windows media player or for that matter any other software any faster the Improved CPU will and the Core 2 duos are relatively inexpensive provide outstanding performance have great over clocking scaleability and all that aside the only thing that right now really benefits from quad core chips is games and then only certain games and I'm sure other odds and ends too but the main stream software hasn't really embraced it yet to take full advantage of 4 cores on 1 chip. and I think for my needs a 8500 Clocked up to 4Ghz-4.2Ghz would be quite adequate truth be told this system still does quite fine.Video card wise I don't have to have the latest and greatest although I'm familiar with them I just can't justify 300-500 or more on a video card the bulk of my PC use isn't Gaming BUT when I do game it's graphics intense games that benefit from a good card. but I agree with you on the merits that the biggest baddest newest Video Card would have the largest impact on gaming though

I just want to improve the overall experience. sorta like getting yourself a set of Edelbrock Performer RPM heads and Headers and leaving it with the stock ignition/cam profile/intake/carburetor/and compression ratio. Sure it's setup to breath like mad But everything else in the equation will prevent it from seeing it's true potential

Mar 10, 2009 | 01:17 PM

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HDD Jumper Settings?

Just a question. What have you set the HDD's jumper settings too on the drive jumpers and in the BIOS? If you have them set to master/slave, I don't think the older Bios will let you select with Win7. Be sure the jumpers are set to Cable Select on Priamary and Secondary drives. Since Linux has gained so much popularity in the past five years are so, a lot of users have dual boot systems. That said though, most were installed on a partitioned drive and not seperate drives. It took a while for the BIOS manufacturers (Award, Phoenix, Intel, etc) to catch up for the second HDD OS boot option. Your BIOS should support this dual boot mode if it's not over 5 years old and the HDD jumpers are set to Cable Select. As you know though, all computers have their own little quirks and trying to resolve these across borders is pretty much impossible.

Anyhow just a possibility. Let us know if you figure it out?

Tim

Mar 11, 2009 | 08:42 AM

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A very good point, it is hard to justify a $1,000 cpu when you can get the best gpu out there and maxing out the graphics subsystems for under $300.

I am pleasantly surprised how much of my software does use my quad core so I would mildly disagree with you on that point.

Bottom line is, you have a great cpu that OC's like mad. It should last a long time performance wise - it would for me anyhow.

Mar 11, 2009 | 11:45 AM

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Now this is funny you can get a XFX GeForce GTX 285 1GB for $342.02 but they still want $459.99 for a Geforce 8800 GTX or $399.99 for a Geforce 8800 Ultra................as for the full use of quad cores it all depends on what you run with it I suppose but theres still tons of software out there that doesn't really have the ability to exploit them to their fullest potential. but they're working on that new versions of software coming out daily so no biggie. but to me a quad just seems like over kill at this point cause hell my current E6400 with only 2Mb of L2 Cache and factory speed of 2.13Ghz over clocked to 2.75Ghz runs everything fine and rarely has it's resource use go up over 10% under Vista Ultimate 64-bit or for that matter XP Pro 64-Bit or Windows 7 Beta. and I can easily over clock it to a 3.45Ghz so really the Video Cards the only thing that'd make a profound impact but there again only in games the better processor would impact the performance of everything across the board just not as dramaticly as the Video Card would Impact games.

Mar 11, 2009 | 11:59 AM

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tried the website just now and i'm getting a certificate error there certificate expired 1/17/2009 and won't let me go any further

heres the other error message i get when i click order now:

Error Diagnostic Information
ODBC Error Code = 08001 (Unable to connect to data source)

[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][TCP/IP Sockets]General network error. Check your network documentation.

The error occurred while processing an element with a general identifier of (CFQUERY), occupying document position (1:1) to (1:63).

Date/Time: 03/05/09 10:02:50
Browser: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; Tablet PC 2.0; InfoPath.2)
Remote Address: 71.163.204.166
HTTP Referer: https://sc.esupport.com/brc/index.cfm?brcid=onlineorder
Query String: brcid=onlineorder

I just contacted the company on another matter and asked about the bios upgrades.. They don't sell them anymore..

He said it was because they do Bios updates through Driveragent now..