Recent content by donjn

Did all the Rift adjustments already... What do you think for a close to $200 setup: AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition Deneb 3.4GHz $158 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103727 MSI 760GM-P33 AM3 AMD 760G Micro ATX AMD Motherboard...

My heart says GPU because its easier. But my brains say CPU. Rift runs 60fps everywhere. Sometimes higher. In cities with lots of players around that number drops to 25 to 30. MMORPGs are notorious for being CPU intensive in cities. Google "Dalaran FPS" sometime regarding WoW. WoW had...

Such conflicting advice here. I appreciate the effort but please remember to look at my situation or read my posts again. I do not need awesome super end Crysis 2 graphics. I just want to run online CPU INTENSIVE games better. I am frustrated because the open box GTX 460 Superclocked was $150...

Thanks Ghys i agree with you. I am going to hold off for now and concentrate on a new cpu and board. Do you think I should wait for the Bulldozer's? I have an AM3 board and I heard they will work no with them. Or do I go all Intel at this point?

Also, I have kind of had it with ATI lately. I have been using ATi cards and had all of the classic ones going back to the 9800 days. I have never been a fan of the Catalyst Control Center, their cards always run hotter than Nvidia cards, and I always feel their drivers are not up to par. Plus...

Here is my power supply. A Corsair 650 with 52A on the 12+, It has two seperate PCI-E plugs. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139005 If I can get the 460 GTX for $150 wouldn't that be a good deal for me?

I am THIS close to purchasing the GTX 460 Superclock. The performance it gives is very good. Plus I will have DX11. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125345&cm_re=gtx_460_super-_-14-125-345-_-Product Should I do this? It makes sense, then when Bulldozer comes out I...

1. I run 1680 x 1050 because i have a 22' monitor. That is fine for me. 2. I do know Rift is poorly optimised 3. I did some small overlocking already from 2.8. I think 3.2 or 3.3 should be easy. 4. i do not have the right MB to unlock the 4th core thanks for your help guys!

Specs: Phenom x 3 720 4gb Ram Radeon 4870 512mb I mostly play cpu intensive online games like Rift. No need for top end for Crysis 2, etc. I did the low resolution test in Rift and I am CPU bound, however I am still tempted to look at the Geforce 550 Ti. I have no issues going over to...

I brought it home from work. lol

Wow. I left a tube of Arctic Silver in my pants. My wife did a load of my laundry and BAM! That sticky stuff is all over my clothes in big spots. Has anyone spilled this stuff on their clothes before? Any ideas? Should I Spray and Wash and keep running this load over and over again? Help! All...

One last thing, even though I have Windows 7 64 bit on my gaming rig, I was thinking about XP for him. Maybe its a no brainer because he likes some old school "legacy" games and emulators, plus I don't move to Windows 7 without 4gb of memory. Windows 7 vs XP gaming performance isn't THAT big...

+12V@24A is more than fine for a 600W power supply running a video card (4670) that uses minimal power. Plus the customers reviews were good. People were powering higher end systems with it.

Thanks you saved my bacon. I was able to call them and cancel the order for the 4670 1GB DDR2 and instead get the 4670 512mb DD3 for the same price. I totally fell for the “noob” trick of 1g of memory vs 512. That is so embarrassing. I knew better 10 years ago! Anyways, for $70...

I was able to cancel the order. Whew. I will begin to re-examine DDR3 versions of the 3850 and 4670 and not fall for the 1gb of memory marketing ploy.