Recent content by Organground

Hi, I need a second PC for home office work. Mainly crunching huge Excel and database files hence the i7. I might do a bit of photo editing and stick the occasional video onto Youtube (need Firewire for legacy camcorder connection) but will be doing no gaming. So would I be OK with an i7, a...

Unusual problem I first noticed today. Running Win 7 64 bit, ASUS P6X58DE motherboard. Needed to get into BIOS on startup for something so repeatedly hit Del as per normal procedure when the Asus splashscreen came up. PC went straight to "Starting Windows". Tried other keys just in case, like F8...

Hi, my PCS machine has two identical Nvidia 210 video cards as I require four monitors when using a particular piece of software. Each card (let's call them A and B) has two digital outputs, DVI and HDMI. Card A feeds monitors 1 and 2, card B feeds monitors 3 and 4. My default monitor is 1. I...

Hi, when I got my PC I specified two 1TB hard drives in RAID0 configuration. I'm running a special software application that on startup requires reading from the harddisk to RAM of vast amounts of data so I needed to optimise read times and couldn't afford two), let alone one, SSDs. Read times...

Hi, for the past year I've been using my twin 1TB disks in RAID0 configuration as I need ultrafast loading into RAM for a certain application I run. Anyway, I decided to give RAID1 a try because of the alleged additional data resilience and see how much slower my software loaded (about...

Hi, my PCS computer has an NVIDIA Geforce 210 PCI express graphics card. For reasons I won't go into I need to run a different digital signal to two monitors. Both monitors have a DVI input. One is connected to the graphics card via via DVI cable already. To connect the other, I got a DVI to...

Hi, my onboard HD REaltek sound thingy is playing up...motherboard is P6X58D-E and running Win7 64 bit. Fine until the other day. Then for apparently no reason (I haven't done any upgrades, faffed around inside etc etc) the sound levels on the rear output just went really low. Even if I pump up...

Hiya, I need three separate displays for my work so specified a PC with two Nvidia Geforce 210 graphics cards. I have one monitor that is 1920x1200 and two monitors that are 1920x1080. Each has a different image but they are quite static images, I don't need a high refresh rate like for gaming...

Please help! I've had my PC around 6 months (order number 359534). Tonight I connected it to a couple of extra monitors (I have twin graphics cards) as I wanted to configure to main (central) monitor and one monitor either side, rotated to portrait. Main monitor was connected via DVI, the other...

I'm speccing a fast audio software PC but need the (24GB) RAM to be able to read off large (thousands) numbers of audio files from the hard drive as quickly as possible. Does anyone know whether two WD Black Caviar 640GB disks in RAID0 would perform significantly better than two WB Green Caviar...

Hi, I'm new to the forums and not very techy with hi-end machines so go easy I'm sure you will!!! OK the brief is for a machine that will run some specialist music software that requires at least 4 core i7, 24GB RAM and fast loading from hard drive (hence RAID0). As I'm also an Excel and Access...