So I've been wanting to overclock my CPU for some time now but on the monitoring software I've downloaded the CPU temps are all 0. Now I'd love to think that my CPU is frosty, but I don't think that's the case. I'm not sure why they won't show up, but I'm afraid to try overclocking until I can read the temperatures. Any suggestions on things to try?

Motherboard:MSI 870A-G54 AM3 AMD 870 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard

CPU: Athlon Phenom II x4 956 Black Edition

Software used: AMD Overdrive, Core Temp and a few others.

Thanks for any help.

Thanks for the input. That being the case any recomendations on which manufacturer to go with? I was just reading a review for the Sapphire Toxic 7970 which sounded pretty awesome, but I'm not sure it's out yet.

Howdy folks. I currently have a computer with the following setup.

Phenom II x4 965 3.4Ghz

Sapphire Toxic Radeon HD 5850 1GB

4 GB DDR3 RAM

I am looking to upgrade but am wondering where I would get the biggest performance boost. I would like to upgrade my video card, but am wondering 1) what the best thing to upgrade to would be and 2) if that would cause a bottleneck at the CPU. The video cards that I am considering are mostly Radeon cards because that's what I've used in the past, but I'm not entirely opposed to a Nvidia. I'm wondering if I should buy another 5850 and just Crossfire (which is about 200+ dollars) or just sell my card and go for the new 7970 which I've heard really good things about. Also I am curious if anyone knows if I could crossfire a Sapphire Toxic 5850 with 2GB with my current card or if the cards have to absolutely identical. Any thoughts or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

The F-word has actually been around for hundreds of years, so I doubt that it will become sanitized any time in the near future. Plus it just sounds nasty. Like all effective swear words.

I love Lands of Lore 2: Guardians of Destiny... Don't know how unknown it is. But it had a terrific story and was able to create an incredible atmosphere that I remember to this day 10+ years later.

I remember reading an article about hookahs a while ago. I seem to recall an hour or so as being the equivalent in terms of particulates of dozens of cigarettes due to the way the water concentrates them.

Wheel of time series several times. Before I got the rest of the books I read the Eye of the World like 8 times. R.A. Salvatore's books although now I think that he's a pretty prosaic writer at best. Magician by Raymond Feist who knows how many times.

The current Chinese political nature/model isn't anything to be desired. In fact it should be avoided at all costs. HoolaHoopMan

Well that's kind of the author's point, that the current system has become tainted by Western thought and needs to be leavened by a more thorough application of traditional Chinese government theory, if not practice. The author isn't advocating a return to an Emperor or anything - at least not as far as I've read - but rather that China shouldn't reject their entire historical legacy because they lagged behind the West technologically at the end of the 19th and 20th centuries and as a result had their hats handed to them by occupying forces.

In fairness historically speaking the Chinese political system has typically been a fairly peaceful one at least with regards to wars of conquest. There were a lot of civil wars and rebellions make no mistake, but as far as I know they never invaded Japan, Korea, Mongolia, Vietnam etc. They were content with a projection of soft power, i.e. cultural and language influence, a point that the author also raises in her book.

It's not who supports a protest, but who the protest supports that matters.

Frame_Dragger

Second this. The fact that Nazis support OWS doesn't invalidate it's goals or even its methods. If I was in the States right now I would probably join them. (OWS not the Nazis)

it proposes that the Chinese traditional political philosophy of non-confrontation and harmony are dreadfully needed in international politics right now. The author - Xiang Lanxin - also makes the claim that modern Chinese politics and scholarly arena in general have been infected by Western religious and political ideology, for example dualism where something is either one thing or another, such as good and evil, whereas traditionally speaking Chinese philosophy - at least according to this author - has never been interested in defining things by listing what they are not, but rather in finding some accomodation with what is.

I'm wondering what OT thinks on the subject? Are the largely Western-centric politics of the past century inherently flawed in thinking in terms of black and white? Should accomodations be reached with dictatorships and other regimes that Western nations might consider irredeemable? The book is titled "Tradition and Foreign Relations" for those who are interested. I don't know if there is an English translation available.