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Thanks for the help and offers, it is definitely my CPU fan and it isn't a stock fan, it's actually some big elaborate Zalman silent thingy. The problem is that although it is quite quiet it changes...

Used to be 5-10 hours every day when I was mainlining WoW, but now hardly anything - a few hours a week max.

Glad to hear I am not the only one with this problem. I have a huge amount of games to play, and I am sure I will enjoy most of them, but still I generally just look at my Steam list and sigh before...

I can't remember clearly, but I don't the male characters in Silent Hill 3 talk to each other at all so it would fail the reverse test. It has a female protagonist and villain.

I should really do this, instead I just listen to Avril Lavigne on the Burnout Paradise soundtrack over and over until I both want to die and am singing along.

Now I am going to be self conscious about my fingers, thanks. Oh well I can always wear mittens. I don't really see what this has to do with what I said though which is that clicking a mouse button...

To be honest I don't know if it's conventional or not, but I didn't want to say games that I thought had weak stories in case it annoyed people who liked them. Most RPGs that I have played though.

I agree. I didn't like the character models which just looked strangely cartoony, and I hated the puzzle mini-game to the extent that I refused to do it.

FPS games are more fun with a game pad
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I use a MS Sidewinder X6 keyboard - it's really small and the numpad detaches to make it even smaller. I like being able to put the numpad on the left side and out of the way as well. It has...

Yeah sorry, to clarify - I loved the original pads that were with the original Xbox when it was first released - the giant ones. I didn't like the redesigned pad which I think was called the 's'. It...

I'm trying MSI Afterburner, but I think it is just the GPU fan controls. I mainly have a problem with the CPU fan changing RPM too much.

If you do go for a soundcard, I'd advise against an X-Fi. They are really good when they work, but seem to be the cause all manner of problems.

I don't know about game performance specifically but...

Ah, it turns out that Easy Tune 6 has broken my Creative X-Fi Titanium so now it crackles, it even keeps crackling a bit with Easy Tune removed. Now I have annoying fan noise again and added bonus...

I had some random BSODs that I think were caused by the Hardware Virtulization option in BIOS, you could try turning that off.

I have big hands and I find the new Xbox360 pads perfect - I couldn't stand the small pads on the original Xbox though, or any Playstation controller, too small for me. I'd go for one of these:...

After many hours, I think I have a solution. Gave up on speedfan, bios settings etc and tried something called EasyTune6 which is easier to tune. Thanks for the help.

Thanks for replying, I've spent a while trying these things out. I have a Gigabyte GA-MA790FXT and it does have some bios fan control, but it's that that is driving me nuts I think. It's not loud, it...

This is driving me crazy, I just can't figure it out: I hate the changing noise my PC fans make when they speed up and slow down. I would prefer it to have 3 settings: silent (for overnight); quiet...

I'm Jake, I read about games much more than I actually play them. I write about films on my blog. I love Silent Hill 2 and Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 though there is no real connection between the two.