Ive saved my money up for a new system to replace my current which is on its last leg i cant decide on one thing right now
780g+3450 in hybrid xfire or 8800gs with a budget of 50-75$ on a cpu including cooling so either an a64x2 4200+ w/ geminiII cooler i have 2 120mm fans if passive doesnt...
i could be wrong but it appears as though you're not running your ram in dual channel isnt it supposed to be in slots a and c thats how it is with my board yea im still saving money i was planning to buy that mobo and the efficient opteron on newegg still deciding on which case was leaning...
my case sucks and wont fit the wc radiator i bought and its in a bin on my desk only cooling my x850xt originally i planned to put the 2x120mm fan rad in the top 5.25 drive bay but it doesnt fit with practical room for psu cables its not one of the swiftech or w/e its a bonneville heatercore and...
damn i would have went with 3 pcb's just to be safe
have you had the opportunity to crack open the outer shell and look at the hsf design it looks like the top 2/5ths of the card has an opening on both sides and alot of the heat is vented back into the case idk but i just dont trust trust it...
okay to begin this is what my computer is like right now asus a8s-x (sischipset) first mobo has taken alot of abuse locked into bios defaults and you have to press f2 everytime you boot with 939 3000+ 1.8ghz winchester core and 2x512mb ddr400 corsair valueselect and a x850xt pci express 256mb 16...
i have run both diablo 2 LOD and Warcraft 3 frozen throne on Wine warcraft 3 runs just fine diablo 2 has ups and downs the black screens when switching games were shorter but whenever prompted to run a cinematic it would crash the game but it could be started back up fast
to get it to work...
yup still debating these is what im leaning towards though capacities are approximations dont really matter to me 70GB 8-16mb cache raptor for 60$ off ebay or a 80gb random 8mb cache bare minimum sata 25$ off ebay or somewhere in between maybe a 160 gb 16 mb cache normal drive
would the...
i have decided there is no way im going to buy a motherboard from ebay or the fs/ft section just because motherboards are so difficult some times i wouldnt like haveing to tell some guy your board came in doa id like my 50 bux back kthanx
but what about hard drives it just seems the price...
i upgraded my monitor from a 1024x768 crt to a 1680x1050 22" lcd not only that but i got a deal it costed me 45$ less then it does now i ordered it on the 14th and it was 200$ with free shipping i now use my other monitor as a footrest...
i got it to work i just deleted all of my partitions with my hard drive disk utility and reinstalled windows xp it was such a pita to get it to work
now can someone direct me to the appropriate part of the forum im gonna make a thread asking for help with converting video files from .flv i...
so my computer can boot windows xp but i have to share my computer and its become filled with a bunch of garbage and has slowed down significantly
ive been trying to reinstall the operating system but my windows disc either hangs at examining my xxxxxxx megabytes of hard disk or gets messed...
so i got my internet working correctly so i install ubuntu 7.04 from my live cd and i spend all day fussing around with wine and other various stuff and i eventually get world of warcraft to work only all the incons are seriously messed up none of them are right they are either partially black...
my ubuntu live discs came in the mail and now im having trouble see i use wireless for my internet and i have the network usb 2.0 54mbs adapter and i looked through everything by all means could not get online i tried device activation i tried putting the cd that came with the thing the one with...
i think its like adaptec cd creator or something like that but the first cd i burned at x8 and i wouldnt even run on the desktop the second cd i burned with the same download at x2 and i got the k-melon browser error
i really dont know what to do i dont like borrowing my moms computer tho and for some reason her cd burning program doesnt have the capability of erasing burned content on the disks i clicked right and the option that said erase cd was faded and i couldnt click on it i tried everything have the...
this time its different when i put in the disk in windows it starts to run i see an ubuntu logo thing then i get a k-melon browser error but when loading it from bios im still getting the crc error
sometime today il try to redownload ubuntu and try it again finally some good news i passed memtest so i guess thats a plus il be able to get on the internet with everything that comes with this download
i have a question tho so im at this page http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download
do i...
all right so do i seriously have to redownload this thing and or reburn it onto a cd if so is there an option to delete whats currently on the cd should i get the 7.04 or the 6.06 lts version what does it mean by supported till 08 or 09 and just for your amusement 5 more reasons
1.this copy of...
boomslang ftw i was able to choose my cd drive started installing ubuntu and got an error some crc error system halted or something along those lines am i gonna have to redownload this thing i hope not it took me 2 hours to download and i had to do this on my moms computer which is a friggin...
yeah well my bios are kind messed up basically everytime i boot up i get overclocking failed something something press F1 to change settings press F2 to load default settings if i press F1 and change anything regardless of what i do i when i try and boot after changing i get the same message and...
i tried restarting my computer with the disk in it and nothing happened it just booted windows like it wasnt even in there and i even watched this 9 minute video on ubuntu.com that showed this guy going through the steps to install ubuntu and he opened it in windows
ok basically i downloaded ubuntu on another computer with a cd burner and then burned it to a cd now when i go to open the cd i get an error report that says start.exe has encountered a problem and it has this icon to the right of it that says opencd which is just a bunch of the free programs on...
it wouldnt let me delete it for some reason it said my system uses it or something i cant remember exactly
oh and can someone link where i should download the newest version of ubuntu i think im gonna start with that
im getting into linux and my computer doesnt have a cd burner so im gonna use someone elses but before i do i want to make sure my computer is ready for linux so i have some questions
this is what i want to do
1.reformat my drive into 2 partitions
2.fresh install windows
ive tried my...
sorry for not replying back in a while my internet went out
after playing world of warcraft while my task manager was running and saw that while in world of warcraft my cpu is running 100% so i dont know what this means but if theres a possibility that my desktop effects frame rates i say to...
what do you use all of that power for venturi
maybe he runs an illegal blizzlike wow server it would probably lag less than blizzard's servers and he needs all that space to store character information i hear some countries dont have piracy laws or have limited copyright laws
nice nice...
will the price of lcd's change at all within the next few months?
also i would like to discuss resolutions and other various things that relate to lcd's
the ones ive been looking at are 1680x1050 is this recommended because ive looked and i dont see it paying off buying a screen that has a...
have you ever played wc3 frozen throne well ive played some maps where people modeled units for their map some of them were really good i looked into it then i realized it was too much work/skilled work for me