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Idling at 40° C for an A10-5800K at stock is normal and especially good for the kind of weather Durban and the surrounding areas normally has. You can get this down by turning off the onboard GPU in the BIOS. I don't where it is in MSI's EUFI setup, but it is there. You can also undervolt the chip, ...

I'm still surprised at how good the HD7970 looks in comparison. Those who bought it over a year ago have had GTX770-class performance for ages. The GHz Edition just sealed that value in even more. No wonder why they were so comfortable not bringing a product refresh sooner - they didn't need it. Of ...

What is the best browser for South African conditions? Now let me qualify.... I am assuming here that hardware is not the issue, nor network reliability. What I'm on about is the fact that very, very few people can afford a truly high-speed connection. So lets assume everything else is in order and...

When I was working in retail two years ago I sold two of the enclosures linked below to different customers, one for external backups and one for hosting all their media. It was only for two drives and used USB 2.0, but it worked. The newer version uses USB 3.0 and space for four drives. Only costs ...

I'd go for the HD6670 1GB because at those resolutions you can still add some AA and higher quality settings. 512MB isn't enough for many games even at low settings these days.

I take it you weren't paid R40 million to make this website either? Considering what the guvvament now apparently pays web developers, you chaps are all being underpaid.

What network mode are you working on? Home, Work or Public? Also, when you go into the properties page for the Ethernet controller, what's ticked on the "Sharing" tab? Are you running a HomeGroup?

The system reserve is there to hold some boot files and tools to enable you to repair your OS using a disk image should it ever crash. I've found that its not really necessary if you're the type to troubleshoot and take care of the OS and updates yourself, but for some people it's been incredibly us...

I wa also hoping for the view of the box. But we have an ok spec sheet although I didn't see the speed of the cpu. Infact we didnt see any clock speeds. You can probably find it anywhere else on the internet, but they are eight-core AMD "Jaguar" cores at 1.6GHz. "Jaguar" fits in...

For the BIOS, change the SSD to AHCI mode instead of SATA or IDE. Also, when installing Windows, follow this guide: Sean's SSD Windows 7 Install Guide A lot of it doesn't have to be done, but there's quite a bit of good advice there. In the beginning he talks about the System Reserve partition - I'd...

KALSTER wrote:But it can do that...

It can't, actually. By default the right-click context menu that includes the scan option isn't there, you have to add it in manually.

I'm using integrated MSE inside Windows 8 and I had it on Windows 7 and it was smooth sailing. The only thing I wish it included was the option to right-click and scan individual files.

I'm still on Windows 8 and its functioning perfectly well for me. I installed a second license on another PC in the house and it's being used now as a print and media server as well as a regular desktop and its pretty slick. No hiccups so far with mine or the other machine so far. I do get occasiona...

The Intel is a good choice and their Sandforce firmware is pretty stable. They also have the advantage of being compatible with the Intel SSD Toolbox which is a nifty piece of kit. R10/GB is a good price ratio as well, although I've seen that some retailers are inflating their prices on the 330 seri...

Its been mostly the same throughout the last three versions: 1) Office 20xx Home and Student (OEM or PKC) and Home and Business are only allowed activation on one computer per license. 2) Professional is allowed to be installed on two computers, but both must use the same username and you must own b...

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Not sure if trolling... Well look at it this way: Victoria Beckham was Creative Director at Land Rover and all that came out of it was a regular Evoque that turned into... a blinged-up gangsta's Evoque. Not much was really changed, probably because she could have been a terrible influence on the fi...

I watched the launch and commented on it for NAG Online. I must admit, I'm very impressed with the way the whole thing is set out. Reminds me so much of how Meego works and what Nokia had planned for that platform.

Thanks for the link Animal. So I've heard hamin. I am going to try use as many parts from the xbox as I possibly can. So that includes the original fans... If you take the Alienware X51 as a benchmark, they stuff a Core i3 with 4GB RAM and a GT545 inside with a 150W PSU, a bit higher than what's ne...

My vote is the HD7770, its the faster card in that price range. Otherwise, there's also the excellent GTX650 Ti . Both will play BF3 single-player on high, dropping to medium for the multi-player to keep framerates high enough to remain competitive. So long as you have a quad-core chip, he should be...

This shouldn't be a power issue because the HD6670 doesn't use that much power (75W power draw from the PCI-Express slot). Kenny, start installing the AMD graphics drivers again but this time extract it to a different folder, perhaps on your desktop. Use computer management to install the drivers ma...

Okay home users, here's our software... here's a serial key. But please note this is NOT a free give-away. Also please note it IS opposites day There's an official quote by Adobe Systems that was made hours later that made no mention of that fact that downloading the software and using the key was ...

Low-latency DDR2 RAM only ever made a difference in benchmarks - you couldn't really feel any difference in games, unless it hit the memory controllers quite hard.

I'm not sure how apple maps work. I still have not updated to iOS6 because google maps is one of the apps I tend to use. I checked out a friend's 4s the other day with the update and I'm pretty sure that although Apple is using Tom Tom data and maps, they're also mixing in their own crowd sourcing ...

The speaker was probably inserted onto the pins with the wrong polarity. Swapping it around should make it beep again. Nice rig though, definitely makes me green with envy. What temps are you getting?