Nice post When I built my gaming rig I took a long hard look at cooling and have the following CPU Cooler This is a very big cooler make sure it fits in your case http://www.tuniq.com.tw/images/product/T120-LFB/banner-LED.jpg http://www.tuniq.com.tw/images/product/big_images/the-best-cpu-cooler-Towe...

ok I have built the media centre pc with the following bits Mothboard Asus M3N78-VM AMD 4850e Kingston HyperX 4GB (2x2GB) DDR2 Be Quiet! Dark Power Pro 550W Antec Fusion Media CAse Sony BDU-X10S Blu-Ray Reader Serial Wireless Keyboard Now I did turn off the onbaord graphics and bought a ATI 4670 gra...

I downloaded it last night while the football was on, installed and it seems ok thought cant tell any difference yet

I have just built a media centre pc, I was using onboard grahics as the motherboard I purchased had on board graphics and also a on board HDMi port. Though it did cope ok it did seem to struggle I have just bought ATI 4650 for under £50.00, the main thing I was looking for was a HDMI port on the gra...

Lego link fixed sorry about that

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Hi Guys interesting read for those with Home Theatre PC High-definition video content (at resolutions of 1280x720 and higher) is becoming more and more widespread, and the GPU developers follow this trend by introducing innovations pertaining to the playback of such content. This trend is related to...

Its not an easy question to answer as you will get different points of view in regards to CPU cooler, I use Tuniq Tower and the reviews on the net are very good for this ccoler http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-002-SB http://www.tuniq.com.tw/Cooler%20Info/images/tuniq_cooler_to...

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Im a hardware marketing mans nightmare!

This thread is called BENCHMARK

Good job I love you NUTTER

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Have to agree Danny your temps are high What is the CPU cooler you are using at the moment ??? is it a stock cooler ?? As I stated in a few post above I tunred on my pc and have CPU 0 = 29c and CPU 1 = 31c at idle I have been playing Grid and COD 5 for the past 3 or 4 hours and the temps are back to...

OK have just finished the benchmark

My PC Spec is the first post on this topic

I am using Vista Ultimate 64 bit on this machine

3D Mark Vantage
3DMark Score P8107 3DMarks
CPU Score 26313
Graphics Score 6588

The Benchmark for 3D Mark 06 and 05 are above
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Ok I am running Vista Ultimate 64 Bit I will download and update you when I have run the benchmark

Yea Gav is right real Temp is also very good

To give you a guide I have just turned on my machine and I am getting Core 0 = 29c Core 1 = 31c these are idle temps

Install either Real temp or CPU Z and put your idle temps on the forum at idle and we will go from there

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try this one m8 its free and very good at cpu temps http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php

Are you sure it the Gpu causing the crash, could be the Cpu cooler ??? If not maybe you have to much hot air in the case, improve the cooling in the case add a couple of these case fans not cheap though they are very good at removing hot air and also are silent - I am running 2 of these http://www.o...