yes i heard Plasma TVs have picture retentions, along with taking more power AND getting hotter, and having a shorter lifespan than LCD-based panels. this is why i never recommend those! As for the dead pixel test, i know about that already, but those dead/stuck pixels tend to appear during the firs...

my LCD TV, native resolution is 1360x768, but for some reasons, it can go up to 1920x1080 when i use a PC on it (using a DVI-HDMI dual-link cable). The stress will continue will Oct.31, i hate waiting for a monitor...because there's the wait for the physical thing, and then there's the actual "test"...

discount? well i'm not sure about that...but i tend to buy at the lowest price for something, normally i don't encourage physical stores around here as they are normally more expensive than big places like NCIX...i wish they could open a store in Montreal, those specialized stores would crap in thei...

we have nearly 15% taxes here (we have 2) but when i order from NCIX, they only charge me the federal tax, which is 5% (plus shipping of course)

you really have to be careful of prices between USA and Canada here. i will never encourage to buy at much higher price than in USA because they think we will just "conform" with the stores' own rules. There should be a law that forbid scamming us by more than 5% of USA's price when the exchange rat...

Well i bought the Asus VE228H on Amazon.ca (157$+taxes, free shipping), since they don't seem to have "deal pixel policy" on returns, so if i have a problem with it, i can just return it, and they also seem to pay for return to them. Hopefully nothing bad will happen, so less troubles for everybody....

what the...it's 277$US and on Amazon.ca it's 375$?!? The BenQ monitor isn't available here, strange. Can you check on Amazon.ca, NCIX, and other Canadian shops please? i know it suck, but i need help from those who have more knowledge than me in monitors (i have a lot of experience in computers, jus...

though Samsung LED 23+Inches monitors are 250$+ and LG monitors of the same size tend to be less expensive.

Ok i'm currently checking around Canadian shops for a good 22-23inch monitor. I want it to be LED backlit, hopefully IPS panel, and also i would like a stand that would make be able to rotate the screen vertically (i like to play Shoot'em Ups on emulators, the way they should be played: vertically) ...

when i created this topic, the "Sandy Bridge" didn't exist.

So now i have a Core i5 750 slightly overclocked with the XMP so my RAM run at the advertized speed (DDR3-1600, 1.6V, 7-8-7-24 timings).

i changed the RAM since then, as you can see in my signature, it SUCKED badly, never trust OCZ memory, and never go cheap with this, or you might have to reinstall everything because the RAM is corrupted and screw-up all your files. At the time, the dumb tech at NCIX did a 3DMark test as a final che...

i'll try it soon, but i have Windows 7 64-bit.

they never did? So why my GTS 250 is able to get audio from my DVI cable and put it on my TV speakers with the HDMI connector? (i use a SPDIF 2-pins cable from my sound card to the GTS 250's SPDIF on the side) Also, i use a DVI-HDMI cable, dual-link also (so i have all 24 pins with a "-" connector o...

i have a DVI-HDMI cable here that i used on my GTS 250 before (i had to use a 2-pins SPDIF cable on the sound card to the video card) for the 2nd display which is my 32inch LCD TV. The audio worked fine with that SPDIF cable. Now it seem like the GTX 560 Ti have a built-in HD-audio chip for the HDMI...

the value for Power On Hours Count, in Speedfan, is down to 95 now, and "3994" (as of now) in the RAW. Fitness and Performance are still 95 both, and still saying that "your hard disk Power On Hours Count attribute current value (95) is below the normal range (98 - 100) reported for your specific ha...

Someone told me that it's safe to increase the Core Multiplier only, is that true? 16x is the stock speed, and the maximum on my board is 22x.

Ok a lot of peoples told me i could easily overclock my Core i5 750 up to 3.5Ghz+, but i don't have a clue how to fine-tune the overclocking. The only thing i did is use the XMP profile on my RAM, and change CPU Multiplier from 16x (stock) to 17x, which only add a few hundreds Mhz... Anyone could he...

Ok i have this WD10EALS here, using it as my main hard disk, bought it about 6-8 months ago, and i noticed in the SMART status that the Power On Hours Count is less (97) than the normal range (98-100), so it give me a warning below the SMART in-depth status (using Speedfan's SMART in-depth status). ...

sometimes i just think it might be less expensive to order from USA even with the currency exchange and shipping...

ok i'm trying to save and sell stuff to have money to buy a new GTX 460. I'm pissed about the GTS 450 having only 128-bits bus width...when my 9600GT and GTS 250 have 256-bits... So which one should i pick? i like eVGA, but can be expensive sometimes. Asus can be lower-priced at times, but the built...

Question. What's "Tj. Max"? and why it's at 99 degrees Celcius?

i'll test with CoreTemp next time i open my computer again. I've set it to load when Windows starts.

Thanks for pointing me to this tool, i think i'll use this for temperatures, it seem to be more accurate than Speedfan!

ok right before i closed my computer, i went to read some infos in Speedfan, and when i was VERY surprised that the CPU temp reading had a maximum temperature of 76 degrees Celcius. It just MUST be some kind of temp reading error or something, because normally my CPU never go up nearly that high, it...

VTT? IMC? where is that? to which voltage? which voltage would be safe? these RAM sticks are rated to 1.6V, and i use the XMP profile on them (the profile built-in all the RAM sticks installed in my PC), which also overclock my CPU a little (from 2.67Ghz to 2.73Ghz). The 2 BSODs were in Windows only...

hmm now i got 2 BSODs, i had a problem with my video card, and now my sound card had set itself to SPDIF, and now it's back with Speakers and SPDIF, and SPDIF being the default selected. Maybe i'm starting to think the new RAM sticks might be faulty? i might do a Memtest86+ later (i have v4.10 on a ...

the XMP profile increases the RAM voltage up to 1.6V This is really strange...i did opened my PC and did what you suggested, swapping my new RAM sticks, and now it does seem to work, without 4gb of reserved memory, but 2mb of reserved memory instead. in System informations in Windows, it does show a...

yes i'm talking about this issue (4098 MB reserved). But no, my Megahalems clears all memory slots, it's just that to have access to the first slot (the one the nearest from my CPU heatsink), i have to remove my CPU fan temporarily. So my heatsink doesn't make any RAM sticks bend on the side. I did ...

it seem like any game i run, doesn't seem to take more than the free RAM i have. So tell me, if a game would need more RAM than the free and available RAM, would Windows "release" the unused reserved RAM to become available? If not, tell me what Windows would do in this case, as i'm pretty new with ...

so quickly said, the OS reserves memory to load itself, required/important files and its drivers faster?

and if some reserved memory is unused and, for example, a software need it, then Windows will release it for the software?

ok this might be a piece of cake for some of you, but i still want to post this here i recently bought 4gb more for my PC, same brand, same kind, everything seem to work fine. I now have 4 x 2gb installed. But Windows (7 Home Premium 64bit) says i have 8gb installed, but 4gb usable. I checked the re...