Recent content by Targ24

I'm glad someone else mentioned Evil Genius, or else I was going to. Sims meets Take over the world? Sign me up. Sadly Vivendi dropped the ball big time on advertising, and the game didn't take off. I remember it won a few awards at the E3 (2004? maybe?) and the demo got me hooked. I...

I'm curious to see if the Sims 2 runs on whatever VM laptop you do a full review on. The fact that it woulnd't run on either of the preview machines you recieved could point to a build issue . As always, great (p)review

this freezing and fan spinning up I haven't witnessed yet, but then again, the motherboards or fan controllers might be different between the two lines (optiplex and XPS) Also of note: the HPs tended to be (in our case anyway) more prone to the behavior than the Dells, but the cross-vendor...

Hey guys, long time reader, rare poster unfortunately. I have read pretty much every system evaluation you have done, and continue to love every article I read. Anyway, I want to make mention to the USB reboot issues you talked about being unresolved. I work for a University, in Classroom...

I just kept watching Ebay until one showed up. It took some time to find one that wasn't overpriced and/or overpriced shipping. When I was still looking there would usually be 3 or 4 up for sale. I shoehorned my pc into a G5 case recently. sorry, no pictures handy at the moment. :( When I...

What kind of budget are you going for? I specced out an Alienware Area 51 15.4 inch with a 6600 18 mb video card that runs WoW for me without a problem. whole system cost me 1600. One thing I would recommend is go for at least a gig of system ram, as WoW is a major memory hog. It runs at...

You have the same monitor that I use as my second monitor. :)

Yeah, I have had bad luck with the logisys inverters. their bulbs are fine. I have my logisys bulbs plugged into a Vantec inverter that I have had for probably 2 years now. Haven't had any problems with that inverter. I don't know where vantecs are sold anymore. xpcgear.com last time I...

Man, looking at that first pic of the illusion box, I had to stare at it for like 5 minutes to figure out where the seam was, and that was AFTER I had seen the work-in-progress pics. Very well done. I'll be watching this one for sure.

Ok, got the laptop, and ran WoW on it to test out the specs. running at 1680 x 1050 widescreen format, I can't max out the settings on it. :rolleyes: If I drop down to 24 bit with 1x multisampling, and 2x antialiasing, I get 30-40 fps, with all detail levels set to high. This is in high...

Cool, thanks for the reply. I mainly specced this to play WoW, but would use it for some other games like quake4 and Black & White 2. I don't mind reducing rez if I have to on those, so WoW was the biggest concern. As soon as it shows up (supposedly tomorrow) I'll give my opinions on it.

Hehe, I actually used your method of frosting with spray. I found some stuff actually designed to be a glass frosting coat. I'm working on a G5 project as well at the moment. You've got some great ideas in this one. I've been following for a while. Keep it up!

that's how I did it when I swapped coolers. After I removed the screws, it came away from the card without any damage.

alienware area 51 5500 Amazingly enough, speccing out similar hardware from dell made the dell more expensive, even avoiding the XPS line. :eek: the 17 inch ones were a tad overpriced for my taste, and I didn't want a slab of a computer.

Hey guys, I was just curious where the 6600 Go 128 Mb in a laptop stacks up against other laptop vid cards and possibly some desktop versions. I know that the 6800 and 7800 would be better, but the laptop is already ordered, and I don't need to do heavy gaming on it. More of a "take it with...