yea i gott some coolers in mind, but how far could you go in overcloking an i3 550? from 3.2 up to 4? more less? i definetly want to play safe

yes i recently updated my graphics card. all my other games run fine (oblivion, cod 2, crysis, quake 4 e.c.t) exept i have a very minor issue with dow 1. it will run perfect, and then very very occasionally when i build a building i get a very small amount of vissual tearing, a few black lines strait down from the ege of the building. it only happens rarly so i hant realy bothered to look into it.

however i am planning on re-loading the operationd system soon becasue of some other issues so i will chek it out after a re-install on a clean xp pro

ya 4-5 years is "hopefull" if i get 3 ill be happy.

what sort of cooler would i be looking at?

just wondering if it was safe to overclock my i3 550 cpu?

my specs are

intel core i3 550 (3.2 ghz, 2 cores, 4 threads)

6 GB ddr3 RAM @ 800mhz

ASUS HD5750 graphics card

Gigabyte H55M-SV2

500 watt PSU

500 GB HDD

i want this build to last me a good 4-5 years so i dont want to damage anything or reduce life at all.

my cpu temp reads 22 c in windows and in the bios it reads around 40-45.

Hey everybody i just managed to get dawn of war 2 - chaos rising gold edition running on my computer. complicated but i got i working.

Anyway, i have this problem with the graphics. I have set all the graphics to max, exept "texture detail" and "fidelity" wich are on high but have another box called ultra, which i cant select. what could cause this?

However the main issue is this. When i go into battle, black squares that cover about a quarter of the viewing screen will flicker on and of, mainly in combat. Aswell as this, when i ran the peformence test, the first time all the ground was black, but still with all the grasses, rocks trees ect, just the land. Second time round same problem, but less black squares, some proper coloured ground, but all black when into the main battle in the peformense test.

My fraim rate results were on avrg: low: 10 avrg:46 :high 88

My computer specs are: Intel core i3 550 (3.2 ghz, 2 cores, 4 threads) 6 gb ddd3 ram at 800 mhz Asus HD5750 graphics card (redo of the generics ATI 5750) Does anyone know what might be causing this?

lol i cant believe that you actully took the last comment seriously. omg. man you are way to into your machine.

I have two realistic x-100 speakers that go realy good on aother amplifier, but i want to get my own that is bigger, so i can use it for larger speakers later on. The current amp driving them is 80 rms per channel, i was looking at something around 100-150 rms per chanell. good enough to last quit some time and powerfull enough to power speakers for a rave level of sound.

Any ideas? marantz is out of the question, to expensive unless someone has anything second hand.

whats some good amps?

lol all i have to say is: (me grinning an laughing at how serious everyone is :) ) chill out dudes

a bit of variation is fine, say 10%, thats ok but alot like 1 to 5 volts its so much diff that your comby wouldnt work, chek in the bios like the other guy said.