Recent content by HippieCat

Not sure if I like this idea. You know it will only be used for more Big Brother motives. Cool technology sure, but I just have so little trust in Microsoft anymore and whom they might sell or lease time to, to use it's capabilities.

Is this what the world is coming to? :rolleyes:

Hey all, just tuned my old Asus Crosshair motherboard into a nice doorstop with a bios update.... Not even a post now, no beeps, no nothing. Anyways I am looking for a good replacement board for a AMD Athlon 64 X2 and sli Nividia 8800 GTX's. I am kind of in a rush as I need to get the new...

But don't forget, Vista 64bit Ultimate is having a very hard time installing with over 2 gigs in. If it tosses a BSOD on installation, pop out 2 gigs and install (So have a total of 2 gigs installed at installation time). Just went through this and it's a pita. I smell a need for a sp1 for...

So I just bit the bullet and ordered a new gaming system. I went with an Asus Crosshair and an Athlon 64 X2 6000+ I have not read a lot about the Crosshair but it seemed to have all the features I want + more. Did I make a boo boo? What can I expect out of this board? A headache or Drools...

rgr that, thanks for the help. -HippieCat

Thanks for the quick reply, I know all about not using Drivers off of any CD, lol. I just wanted to know if the EVGA drivers were specially tweaked for their brand of cards or if generic nVidia drivers would be better. Thanks again, -HippieCat

Hey all, been a long while since my last post and even a longer time since my last computer build. I just ordered a new setup consisting of: Asus Crosshair Athlon 64 X2 6000+ 2x EVGA 8800GTS (going sli (duh)) 4 gigs Corsair TWIN2X2048-6400C4 and the rest is not that important... My question...

I have found that out of the 3 systems I have them in 2 of them don't like linux. -HippieCat

I bet they cut cost on the keyboard by only putting those keys only on the left hand side. As you can see by the diagram, if it is correct, that it's got an extra section on the left just for that purpose, I suspect. ^^ not here ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ here If you think about it, the power...

Well I fixed all my BF2 problems by switching to the Omega drivers. Hmmmmm. Just wanted to give a heads up, in case anyone else was havin problems.

MrMitch, That's a CPU? I never have seen newegg ship a CPU like that! I would be horrified! Newegg for sure is loosing it's grip on what the customer wants. Anyone for a What's up with that? I can't overclock a Rice Cooker! :rolleyes:

I too am done with newegg for awhile. Just untill they return the new items listing. Here is the letter I sent them and the response they gave me. Hello, The new items listing is only going to be missing temporarily as we conduct light site maintenance and streamlining during this...

I second that vote for Opera. Converted from Firefox to Opera and never looked back. Firefox started to worry me after I rebuilt 2 customers boxes that were running Firefox. Both boxes were hijacked. I had never seen Firefox get hijacked before, guess it's something only really computer...