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peter89
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Last Activity: 03-25-2010, 11:41 AM
Joined: 07-11-2009
Location: River Rouge, MI
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  • Re: need advice replacing capacitor on motherboard

    I decided to check out the local computer repair shops and see what they had to say. The first place told me I needed to buy a new motherboard so I didn't waste too much time there. the second guy offered to fix it for $20, but he wanted...
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  • Re: need advice replacing capacitor on motherboard

    Thanks LSD your a good man and you've helped me before. I'm going to take your advice and call Gigabyte first, but right now I'm going to go take the dog for a walk. It's too nice of a day to waste stressing over this damn capacitor.
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  • Re: need advice replacing capacitor on motherboard

    Ouch is exactly what I said when it happend. Are these capacitors hard to find? I was hoping to get one from radioshack or similar electronics shop
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  • peter89
    started a topic need advice replacing capacitor on motherboard

    need advice replacing capacitor on motherboard

    Broke a cap on my motherboard installing a Bluray drive (was longer than the DVD drive it replaced).

    I haven't solderd anything in years but the capacitor legs are still attached to the board so this shouldn't be too hard to fix. What about the capacitor above the one that broke off. It...
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  • peter89
    started a topic ATI 5570 overclocking

    ATI 5570 overclocking

    I recently purchased an ATI 5570 for my HTPC. I won't be using it much for gaming, the rig in my sig handles gaming duty, but for the hell of it I decided to see how well it OC's.
    I was really surprised with the little 5570, ATI seems to of left alot on the table. I was able to take the core...
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  • Re: what programs can overclock ATI 5570 past CCC limit

    I just realised I posted this in the wrong forum, anyways I figured it out, it was really easy.
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  • what programs can overclock ATI 5570 past CCC limit

    I'm trying to overclock a Saphire 5570 past the maximum CCC allows. I've tried Riva, AMD GPU Tool and MSI Afterburner without any luck. One of the reviews I read mentiond making changes to the configuration file of MSI Afterburner to get around this. How is this done?
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    replied to Lock up issue with ga x58a ud5
    Re: Lock up issue with ga x58a ud5

    Am I reading the CPU Vcore correctly at 1.15v? That seems awfully low even with LLC enabled. You should be able to do 3.36GHz at stock voltage without LLC enabled. You could try loading optimized defaults and just raise the BCLK frequency to 170 and...
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    replied to extremely high vdrop/vdroop
    Re: extremely high vdrop/vdroop

    What motherboard do you have? Have you tried LLC? Can you be a little more specific and someone will help you I'm sure.
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  • peter89
    replied to Core i7 860
    Re: Core i7 860

    Is that with the stock Intel heatsink? Have you tried remounting your heatsink?
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