I'm a bit more skeptical about this, personally. I'd be very interested to see what kind of proof the plaintiff provides. Release dates and MSRP are not exactly trade secrets and can be emulated legally by other companies in the market. Similar price ranges and release dates do not make a conspiracy.
Some PC manufacturers use proprietary hardware that is not supported by overclocking programs like Clockgen. Also, not all motherboards are overclock-able.
Try using SetFSB or, if you have an nVidia chipset, try nTune.
64 bit windows also seems to have a minor positive effect on benchmark runs, even on 32bit games/benchmarks... indicating that it may have a slight performance edge over 32bit windows.
9800GTX is better than the 9600GT even with less video RAM. The 9600GT is too slow to take advantage of the extra memory.
9800gtx is a much faster card but cost more $$$. 9600gt is also a great card but lacks stream processors. i would for sure go with the 9800gtx. you could also go with a ati 4870. fastest card out. $300. nagol726
The GTX 280 is, for the most part, still better than the HD 4870 (depends on the game, of course). Costs a hell of a lot more, though... so the HD 4870 ends up a better buy.
If the drive is unpartitioned, it actually won't show up in the "my computer" list. You'll have to open up Computer Management (Control panel->administrative tools) and go to the "Disk Management" section and create a partition.
Proccesor/ram divider isn't THAT important. You're not going to lose performance, for example, if you have your FSB running at 333 and your RAM running at 1400 vs running at 1333.
...and ditto the comment about DDR3 not really being worth it. It performs better, but it's not really worth the extra cost. Just get 4gb of DDR2 now and invest the extra money on retirement or something
If you swapped out the CPU and it worked with the new CPU, I'd assume the CPU was the broken part... If it's still under warranty you should be able to RMA it for a replacement part.
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