Comments on: Ask the expert: your questions answered http://www.pcgamer.com/2010/06/10/ask-the-expert-your-questions-answered/ The number one source of PC gaming reviews, previews and news online Mon, 06 Sep 2010 23:24:18 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Roast_Pork http://www.pcgamer.com/2010/06/10/ask-the-expert-your-questions-answered/#comment-3194 Roast_Pork Fri, 16 Jul 2010 17:15:36 +0000 http://www.pcgamer.com/?p=246#comment-3194 Hey there, I just want to know if you could give advice on how to install a SSD drive in my Alienware computer. It has an NVIDIA NForce 7901 ultra SLI motherboard and a QX9770 CPU, and a two Segate 1TB 7200 RPM HDD system drive Raid 0 striping. I am running Win 7, 64 bit OS; and I wish to use the SSD for my boot and OS drive. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Roast. Hey there, I just want to know if you could give advice on how to install a SSD drive in my Alienware computer. It has an NVIDIA NForce 7901 ultra SLI motherboard and a QX9770 CPU, and a two Segate 1TB 7200 RPM HDD system drive Raid 0 striping. I am running Win 7, 64 bit OS; and I wish to use the SSD for my boot and OS drive.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks, Roast.

]]> By: drunken_chav http://www.pcgamer.com/2010/06/10/ask-the-expert-your-questions-answered/#comment-1692 drunken_chav Wed, 30 Jun 2010 13:03:27 +0000 http://www.pcgamer.com/?p=246#comment-1692 My question is very similar to the dead mobo situation. I have a gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R. Its intel i7's over clocked to 4ghz with h50 corsair cooling and 3X2gb corsair ram, corsair 1000w psu and 2 ati 5770's link with crossfire. The first psu i ordered from overclockers.co.uk, which never worked, so i got a refund and a new one from scan.co.uk with the graphics cards. It worked well for about 3 weeks, really nice high speed good gaming. Then the cooling leaked. I got a new mobo, it never posted, everything powered up, so sent it back, they sent me a new one with new cooling, had everything else tested and everything else is fine,overclockers even upgrade too a new revision of mobo for free. This new mobo never posted, so i sent it back and they have sent a new one. Each time the only feed back they give is failed to post, have a new one. I have done some looking online, and there seems to be some stuff about this board not being compatiable with corsair components. Have you ever heard of this problem being caused by something like this. The ram is corsair and they put the mobo under load to test that everything works. I have just recived the new mobo, but i am waiting to burrow a different make of psu from a friend to see if that works. There also a question of me being accused of doing something wrong when putting it together, which is almost insulting as i have experience, computer's is how i earn my money, 7 years at uni doing courses, including masters, friends who have helped me have built many a computer, most have cisco training. But none of use can understand what is wrong with it. My question is very similar to the dead mobo situation.

I have a gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R. Its intel i7’s over clocked to 4ghz with h50 corsair cooling and 3X2gb corsair ram, corsair 1000w psu and 2 ati 5770’s link with crossfire.

The first psu i ordered from overclockers.co.uk, which never worked, so i got a refund and a new one from scan.co.uk with the graphics cards. It worked well for about 3 weeks, really nice high speed good gaming.

Then the cooling leaked. I got a new mobo, it never posted, everything powered up, so sent it back, they sent me a new one with new cooling, had everything else tested and everything else is fine,overclockers even upgrade too a new revision of mobo for free. This new mobo never posted, so i sent it back and they have sent a new one.

Each time the only feed back they give is failed to post, have a new one.

I have done some looking online, and there seems to be some stuff about this board not being compatiable with corsair components. Have you ever heard of this problem being caused by something like this.

The ram is corsair and they put the mobo under load to test that everything works. I have just recived the new mobo, but i am waiting to burrow a different make of psu from a friend to see if that works.

There also a question of me being accused of doing something wrong when putting it together, which is almost insulting as i have experience, computer’s is how i earn my money, 7 years at uni doing courses, including masters, friends who have helped me have built many a computer, most have cisco training. But none of use can understand what is wrong with it.

]]> By: leviethan http://www.pcgamer.com/2010/06/10/ask-the-expert-your-questions-answered/#comment-1019 leviethan Tue, 22 Jun 2010 18:19:24 +0000 http://www.pcgamer.com/?p=246#comment-1019 I have a question, and i need help with it, well my computers Disk Drive won't read any new disks. It will still read disks that had been in before, but new ones are like blank sheets, just nothing, still spins them inside it, just won't read them, any thoughts?? I have a question, and i need help with it, well my computers Disk Drive won’t read any new disks. It will still read disks that had been in before, but new ones are like blank sheets, just nothing, still spins them inside it, just won’t read them, any thoughts??

]]> By: Makius http://www.pcgamer.com/2010/06/10/ask-the-expert-your-questions-answered/#comment-247 Makius Mon, 14 Jun 2010 09:32:10 +0000 http://www.pcgamer.com/?p=246#comment-247 My question isn't really anything serious, more of a curiosity. I was wondering why a GPU's thermal rating is always so much higher than a CPU? For instance, Nvidia's new Fermi cards will safely run at temps above 90C without breaking a sweat! Nvidia even lists the maximum temp at 105C on their website.While at the same time, even the most adventurous overclocker won't push a CPU's temps much above 70C under load. Why is that? It just seems like there shouldn't be that large of a discrepancy. My question isn’t really anything serious, more of a curiosity.
I was wondering why a GPU’s thermal rating is always so much higher than a CPU? For instance, Nvidia’s new Fermi cards will safely run at temps above 90C without breaking a sweat! Nvidia even lists the maximum temp at 105C on their website.While at the same time, even the most adventurous overclocker won’t push a CPU’s temps much above 70C under load. Why is that? It just seems like there shouldn’t be that large of a discrepancy.

]]> By: yxxxx http://www.pcgamer.com/2010/06/10/ask-the-expert-your-questions-answered/#comment-224 yxxxx Sun, 13 Jun 2010 22:45:54 +0000 http://www.pcgamer.com/?p=246#comment-224 well i for one would agree with you. It annoys me that some software actually tells you to turn it of so that you can use it. well i for one would agree with you.
It annoys me that some software actually tells you to turn it of so that you can use it.

]]> By: jon_hill987 http://www.pcgamer.com/2010/06/10/ask-the-expert-your-questions-answered/#comment-159 jon_hill987 Sat, 12 Jun 2010 16:38:14 +0000 http://www.pcgamer.com/?p=246#comment-159 I was having an argument about the benefits of UAC in Windows Vista/7, I am of the opinion that it does a good job and anyone turning it off (or not setting it to the above default setting on Windows 7) is asking for trouble, I compared not using it to logging in as root on Linux for everyday use. Could you clear this up please. I was having an argument about the benefits of UAC in Windows Vista/7, I am of the opinion that it does a good job and anyone turning it off (or not setting it to the above default setting on Windows 7) is asking for trouble, I compared not using it to logging in as root on Linux for everyday use. Could you clear this up please.

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