Recent content by ATCSMike

Hi, Quick question. I may have ordered the wrong RAM for this MB/CPU combo. I'm building another system and ordered a i7-950 CPU, P6X58D-E and Patriot PV7362000ELK (3x2GB) 9-11-9-27 1.65v RAM. Am I going to have problems using this RAM? It's not on the ASUS official RAM list but using...

Well I bit the bullet and purchased my ASUS 6870 from Tiger Direct. Decided not to wait 2-4 weeks for Amazon and the free shipping. Only TD had any in stock with almost reasonable shipping to Alaska. Now I just have to wait for the other parts to arrive. Amazon raised the price on the i7/930 I...

I hope to have my rig built by then. Unless they are close in price to the 6850's and 6870's, which I doubt, I'll pass on them. Mike

He he. With fuel oil at $3.33 a gal and it cost me over $900 to fill up my tank last month, maybe I should. Mike

I got so fed up with my X-Fi card with drivers and all I pulled it out and I'm using my onboard sound. I'm in the process of building a new X58 based system and the one thing I left out is any sound card. I'm going to go with the onboard. Mike

I'm kind of leaning toward the ASUS 6870. I found a website that did a review and even had thermal images of the card next to a reference card that showed the ASUS running cooler. The only problem I'm having is finding someone that has them. Amazon is out, Newegg is out. I found a couple of...

Thanks all. I'll probably keep my monitor until it dies as I haven't found another monitor that I like. I've been looking at the different 6870's, does anyone know if one is better than the other? I know they all follow the reference design, but each company tweaks theirs in some way. I'm...

Hi all, I'm in the process of buying parts for my new system build. I originally planned on getting an ASUS EAH5850 DIRECTCU/2DIS/1GD5 but since the 6850 and 6870 have come out I'm rethinking my decision. I normally do not overclock either CPU or GPU, but I could in the future. This is what...

My first 204B did the black/blinking screen thing. It did it with both DVI and analog. I sent it back to AMAZON and tried another one. The defective one had a manufacture date of Jan 2007 made in china. My replacement monitor which has been working fine for almost a month also has a made in...

I have one and so far I really enjoy it. Looks good.

Well I switched to the VGA cable for my ATI 9800 PRO, and guess what, I got the blinking screen on waking up the monitor after a couple of hours. Now I'm really PO'ed. I thought it was just a DVI problem! Anyway I dropped my res to 1280x1024 and I'm going to see what happens in the morning...

I just bought one thru Amazon , I've had it only 3 days and it is doing the flicker thing. Manufacture date is Jan 2007. Made in China. Everything seemed to work fine in 1280x1024 (I think that's what it is) and worked for a while at 1600x1200. That was until I logged off my account and tried...