Other - Hardware - December 2007

I have been searching OCUK for a new card recently and the one i wanted to go for was a new nvidia 8800 gt 512 with around 650 core clock speed and nice shader speeds for about £200. So then i thought id have a look at ATI section and im seeing the same card with clock speeds of over 775mhz for 40 pounds less?! whats up with that? Are ATI cards just fast sounding but not actually any good or are nvidia ones just really expensive?

Would appreciate what people think and what card to go for... i want one to really sustain crysis.
Thanks

2007-12-20 23:38:04 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

on installing this board with xp i got cmos checksum bad but win 2000 was installed without any trouble how can i now install win xp

2007-12-20 23:36:08 · 1 answers · asked by terianred 3

I'm having a problem with my computer. It's running painfully slow. I tried scanning for viruses,but nothing comes up. It just still runs really slow.

Someone please help me!

2007-12-20 23:19:07 · 6 answers · asked by mgswv_07 1

2007-12-20 22:10:00 · 5 answers · asked by Tom 1

2007-12-20 20:28:11 · 8 answers · asked by welcome_deepak2006 2

the pen drive when connected is seen to recognised " new hardware found ", but neither the l.e.d glows, nor is it shown in the disk drive list , and nor am i able to format it..........can any one suggest what is the matter and what can i do about it ?

2007-12-20 20:18:39 · 2 answers · asked by sharing is caring 1

I bought a video card that requires connection to the power supply but the cable that i have left is not long enough to reach the video card, are there extensions to make this cables longer?
Also what are the names of this cables so i can buy an extension or something.

2007-12-20 16:24:40 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous

I know Windows has got like a million virus threats and Mac has like, none, but I still don't think it's worth it. I mean they're about twice as expensive as Windows, they don't work with many softwares, including games, and if you buy a game for Mac, it's about twice as expensive as the same game for windows, and they don't have them in every store. My mom bought a Mac laptop once for about 3000 dollars, I believe; this was a long time ago.. And basically everything sucked. The screen was so thin, just by moving it or touching it it looked like it was gonna break. And after some time, it seemed that the keyboard itself was destroying the screen, cause it had little scratches all over it, and we had to put a piece of cloth there. The mouse had only one button. And after a while it go really slow.
So all of you Mac lovers out there, convince me to buy a Mac instead of a Vista. I'm open-minded; I think the new Macs look cool except for the price and the software problems I mentioned.

2007-12-20 15:40:52 · 10 answers · asked by Maus 7

my usb drive seems to be dead and any computer wont recognise it. Is there any way that i can recover the stuff that is on it?

2007-12-20 15:35:39 · 5 answers · asked by The Einstein 1

I have recently bought a 1gb sandisk micro sd card with sd adaptor for my LG TU500 phone. However, whenever I try to put the card into my computer (windows 98SE) the whole computer freezes and only unfreezes when I take the card out. I have tried other SD cards in my card reader and they work fine. Can you please help me to figure out whats going on?

2007-12-20 14:52:13 · 4 answers · asked by green_day_luva91 2

2007-12-20 08:46:36 · 6 answers · asked by Arren W 1

I Only have a AGP Slot on a SD Rma motherboard.

I Currently have a 256mb XFX 6200 Geforce Graphic card.

I want to upgrade it to a 512mb XFX 6200 One but that is the latest model in 6 series available for AGP 8X in the market right now.

If I Change my current Card 256 to a New 512mb XFX 6200.

Will there be a boost in system performance and gaming capabilities.?

WILL THERE BE DIFFERENCE IN Graphic card performance between these 2 models listed below?.


1. 256mb Nvidia XFX 6200 DDR2
2. 512mb Nvidia XFX 6200 DDR

The 512 has a higher capacity but ONLY DDR

WILL IT BE A DIFFERENCE

MUST IT BE CONSIDERED?

which is better for gaming and graphics on Win Vista>

Or will there be no difference between the two COMPARINGLY?

2007-12-20 07:38:58 · 5 answers · asked by Peter 3

I have a CD-RW/DVD drive in my puter. Nothing fancy, its just what came with my Compaq last year. Well, my son put one of his games into and and it completly shattered the disk. Not broke it, shattered it into a million tiny pieces. why did this happen? Now the drive wont open. Ive tried pressing that little button (reset?) that supposed to get it open, nothing. Do I need to buy a new drive and install it? I can do that if I need to, its been awhile but Ive done it before. Or, is there another way I can coax this thing open and get all the pieces out?

2007-12-20 07:18:45 · 6 answers · asked by pepper_0713 2

Been a while since I've done that.....

2007-12-20 06:53:33 · 5 answers · asked by Digital Age 6

Alright, I really need a good gaming keyboard / mouse. I've got a logitech wireless set and they're just not doing it for me... Wireless is a lot less responsive, and the keyboard's not sensitive enough. The only thing I like is that the logitech mouse has two side buttons that are easy to roll your thumb down to hit rapidly and in order (Something very helpful in a few of the games I play.)

Can anyone reccomend a good wired set?

2007-12-20 03:46:13 · 3 answers · asked by Aqua The Fox 3

2007-12-20 01:36:21 · 5 answers · asked by Problem 1

2007-12-20 01:11:24 · 10 answers · asked by south sid eprincess 1

10 or 15 years ago it seemed like photorealistic, immersive VR was right around the corner. They had VR games at the mall, movies and TV shows incorporated VR elements into the plot, VR gloves were being demonstrated. The industry was full of promise, What happened?

2007-12-19 22:09:47 · 2 answers · asked by AmigaJoe 3

I have burnt a DVD with nero maybe version 7 or higher. It worked on my other friends' pcs but didn't on the pc of my that friend. What should be the problem?

2007-12-19 19:16:01 · 9 answers · asked by tanmyboy 2

I have an e-machine model T3112, it came with a 80GB ATA hard drive, I'm trying to install a sata 300 on my computer cause I wanna update my hard drive but still have the ATA drive. I have everything hook up right and my sata drive is not been detected. I try using disk management and the sata drive still not there. My computer spec. are 1.80GHz with 1.25GB ram. Running window xp

2007-12-19 18:21:03 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

Mine just died. It was a 300gb one. I was thinking about replacing it because I needed more space anyway. Because this happened, I'm now thinking instead of getting one of those 1tb ones, I should buy two 500gb ones.

What do you think? And also: Where should I be looking to find a good deal on these?(used or otherwise)

2007-12-19 15:41:17 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

i add my time zone and such, but when it gets to name my pc, it sort of freezes ( no matter if i hit "forward" or "skip") it will act like its processing, then bring back my cursor, while not allowing me to hit forward, back, or skip. Any suggestions? (Besides throwing it out the window) Serious suggestions Only.

2007-12-19 11:59:40 · 1 answers · asked by real d 2

2007-12-19 11:22:28 · 2 answers · asked by david 2

how do you fix bad sectors with out scandisk it slow

2007-12-19 09:24:33 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous

I have 2 disk drives, the top one works and opens, but does not read any kind of disk. My bottom one does not work at all it does'nt even open. I have'nt used them for awhile, but they did used to work. What should I try?

2007-12-19 08:20:10 · 1 answers · asked by ayu_sa2 1

The 7 pin header is simply labeled "power". Testing with a multimeter reveals that pin 5 is ground (going left to right). There is 735 ohm to pin 1, 732 ohm at pin 3, 708 ohms at pin 4 (respective to ground). All other pins read open. The board contains an advantech "system on module" with 64mb of ram.

2007-12-19 07:09:39 · 2 answers · asked by James M 1

i want to buy 500Gb Seagate Hard Drive but one is $119 and other one is $149. When i check out the specs, only difference is that $119 is "SATA 3Gb/s interface" and the $149 is "Ultra ATA/100 interface". what are the advantages? i have no idea what ATA or SATA is.

2007-12-19 06:58:27 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

i just got a new pc and the hard drive every once in a while is loud compared to my old one. it happens because i am running a program r anything. all i know is that its from the hard drive. is this normal for new pcs. i know its searching the memmory, but cn it get softer

2007-12-18 22:21:54 · 5 answers · asked by subs r de best 4

2007-12-18 21:15:57 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

My GPU core (3D) is 576MHz and the GPU memory is 900MHz. What is a safe MHz to overclock to? it is a 8800GTX 768MB

2007-12-18 17:45:59 · 5 answers · asked by Bend it like Bender 5