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the fan all of a sudden working might indicate a connection that was not pushed together fully when the system was put together. Recheck all you connections. The worst case you power supply could be operating improperly

the clicking noise you are hearing might be a wire or connector touching a fan while it is spinning. Open the side of the case and make sure no wires are over to of the fans where they could come in contact with the blade of the fans.

another fun thing with this game is to put the intelligent of the bots to max. then up the ratio of axis to allies to 1-50 so you have a few players battling 100 bots. This game can be run off most computers that are out there to day as a sever that your friends join in to play on aswell...

Have you though about running the desert combat and desert combat final mods of the game that bring the equipment, planes, tanks and guns up to the gulf war time of the late 1980s - early 1990s

steam has a defrag utility to do just your steam files

http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=19464 this is one of the cards mentioned above

there was an post of external graphic card units that could be plugged into a laptop special port and only decrease the performance of the graphic card by 10%-15%. The down side was the price of the external graphic card unit. Look back through the posts or someone might read this and post a...

http://www.yougamers.com/gameometer/10171/ the above link will run a 3d benchmark score for your computer and then you can select a game and it will chart where your computer scores on running that game. It will also let you know where your computer falls short in running the game aswell

here is a link you might want to look at http://www.notebookcheck.net/Mobile-Graphics-Cards-Benchmark-List.844.0.html http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/g45-geforce-9400,2263.html http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/g45-geforce-9400,2263.html any non onboard video card will improve your...

pew pew left out the 5770 card that less than his two choises but out performs both of them and at neweggs.com only costs $169 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102858

http://www.amazon.com/Zalman-ZM-RS6FM-5-1-channel-headphones-microphone/dp/B000BR0DTK/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=pc&qid=1257167400&sr=1-2 These Zalman ZM RS6FM headphones are great they have 5.1 sound there are lots of reviews on them aswell. You can also get them with 1/8 inch plugs or usb which...

Creative xfi controll panel (audio control panel) found in progames under creative sound has an option in it that you check that auto detects headphones. The second thing is changing the speakers setting in the control panel from 5.1 to 2.1 when you use your headphones. It only takes a second...

just so you know if your motherboard has 2 pcie slots you will be able to use your old card and new card both. Nivdia allows you to use older cards (8800 series and newer) as dedicated physx cards along with any new card you buy to get improved gaming here is an article on that...

I was wondering how many of the ATI fans out there were using a nvidia card along with their ati card to run physx on their games? Secondly since Nividias' patch that prevents their cards from running physx when a ATI card is present have you just kept the older drivers in place to run it or...

believe it or not but the I5 scores higher benchmarks for gaming than the I7 does. The I7 beats the I5 out in winrar, video transcoding ect. So you will be better off with the I5 and save money if your a gamer and that your main purpose for your computer.