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yeah I was thinking of upgrading. just dunno if I should go for a full blown brand new system - or just buy a few components like new mobo / cpu and/or ram - and put the other stuff in a new system. I'll check some of the suggestions when I get home tonight and post a reply if I have any...

So I've been having a lot of problems in World of Warcraft that seems to point to graphical lag - my fps will drop from around 30 to 5 at times. I never had these problems with the 6800 I had upgraded from - but all the newer non-MMO games - would not play as well on the 6800. At first I was...

Yeah. Unfortunately for me - it's been happening since I upgraded the card itself - pre-2.1 :( I think I'm going to do a driver clean, reinstall latest drivers and then reinstall WoW from scratch and see if that does the trick. I may also very well reinstall my machine - b/c it's not been done...

Yeah I'll go ahead and grab drivercleaner. $9.99 isn't a huge deal to me for what it does. Uninstalling and reinstalling WoW is my next step... :) How were you able to tell it was a bad card, and where did you purchase it? I got mine from newegg.com like a month or two ago, and don't have...

So I posted a thread on the WoW Tech Support Forums and I just wanted to see if anybody had any insights here. I've been having really bad FPS issues with only World of Warcraft since I upgraded from a 6800 to the 8800. I'm not so sure if it's my CPU or not. I honestly think it shouldn't be. I...

So I've had this mid-tower Thermaltake Matrix VX Case for about 4-5 months now. Up until now, no issues. But today when I booted up, got into windows fine - leaned over to touch the eject button on the DVD-ROM drive, and I guess I bumped the front panel and shocked it, b/c it rebooted. I had...

I also would have rather seen AMD merge with nVidia. Ever since the first Athlon came out, I've been an AMD/nVidia buyer/builder for all my computers. I have never liked ATI. I think their drivers and driver support have always been lackluster and not on par with the level of nVidia's. This is...

So I've had this problem for about 6 months now or so (can't remember how long). It doesn't happen every day. It doesn't happen on the same day or the same time. But I'll be playing a game or doing whatever, and my sound will turn all the way down from 100% to 0%. Randomly. Without me doing so...

guess i'll have to google some, since that voyer one sounds pretty shady. :(

I was speaking with a co-worker this week, and he asked me about the best sites for laser etching...and somehow, I lost all my links to the best 2-3 I have found. So in order to help out both myself and my fellow co-worker, I'd like to see if anybody can recommend the best laser etching sites...

you can disable it looking for a fan in the BIOS. ;)

had the same issue with mine you are having. call this number if you are in US or Canada: (510)739-3777, option 3. You need to have your Mobo S/N ready. or you can email [email protected] if you email, they ask you include your name, mailing address, daytime phone number, mobo model # and...

ok just a bit of an update here. I bought 2 different fan kits, and neither would fit on the board with my GF 6800 GT, so I had to use the passive heatsink that was in one of the kits. I put some arctic silver on the nvidia chipset on the chip, and some thermal adhesive on the passive cooler...

I've never had issues with Newegg.com - though I don't pick UPS. I go with their FedEx Saver.... The ONLY other place I order from is Frozencpu.com for pre-modded parts. A bit pricey, but I've found nowhere else that has decently done pre-modded stuff for me. I tried Xoxide.com once, but they...

Hrm. I wonder if they'll send me more than one? :eek: It's sad, b/c I've only had this mobo and computer up and running for less than 2 months. :(

So the dinky little Chipset Fan on my Asus A8N SLI Deluxe Motherboard is ceasing up, and I was curious if I could just replace it with a large, passive Heatsink like my old Asus A7N8X Deluxe mobo, or will it need another, similar fan? I've tried cleaning it out twice now, and it works for a few...

just trying to figure out how the motherboard is grounded, since it looks mounted on wood, not metal. normally with most metal cases, the mobo mounted on the metal is grounded. any special way you decided to prevent anything bad happening since yours does not seem to be mounted to metal?

I know how to do this, unfortunately, it won't allow anything to be imported. There are 3 options there. Convert to Basic, Help and another option, but none that will allow me to import or reactivate. I also had the Silicon Image driver floppy I created and pressed F6 as usual in the Windows...

So I got a new system up. New mobo (asus A8N SLI Deluxe), new CPU (AMD Athlon XP 3500+), new RAM (1 gb pc3200) and new video card (MSI gf 6800 gt 256 mb). But I was going to re-use all my old HDD's. Old system was Asus A7N8X Deluxe with silicon image sata controller on it, amd 2800+ cpu, 1.5...

So I have: -Asus A8N SLI Deluxe mobo. -AMD Athlon 64 3500+ Winchester -MSI Geforce 6800 GT 256 MB -Corsair XMS PC3200 1 GB Stick of RAM -1 Western Digital Raptor 36 GB 10k RPM HDD -1 Western Digital Raptor 74 GB 10k RPM HDD -1 Western Digital 200 GB 7200 RPM ATA133 HDD -TDK 8x/8x DVD-R/W Drive...

So the time has come for me to get my final piece of my new system - the Video Card. But the other problem is money. I can only spend around $300-400 each paycheck on the new hardware, so I've been pretty limited on what I can get. I have splurged a little bit and put myself in an almost broke...

if gainward were still around, I'd recommend them. :( for video cards - I'd say get whichever one you've had the best experience with. as you can see, nobody is going to give you the same answer - some people love Asus ( like me, for motherboards - all my mobo's have been Asus and I've NEVER...

good to see an update :) , I was sad b/c I thought you had shelved this project. :(

Little bit too late, but thanks for the warning. :) Why go Venice over Winchester? That is the first time somebody recommended it to me. Everybody else swore by Winchester core. :confused: I'm not going to OC, so that should maybe factor into recommendations. :)

The last time I built my computer was about 2 years ago. Currently, it's an Asus A7N8X Deluxe Mobo running an Athlon 2800+ Barton and 1.5 GB of PC2700 RAM (the mobo revision at first didn't support 400 MHz FSB, and the CPU itself was only a 333 MHz FSB CPU). Anyways, I'm now upgrading. I have...

I think I started using WASD in Half-Life. :eek:

Shouldn't ExperTool DL the latest for you?

Whew. I hope that is really good news. I still want my next gen nVidia card to be a Gainward (holding out till AMD releases the dual-core 64's to upgrade my XP2800+ Barton/A7N8X Deluxe :) )

Anybody else kinda sad about the article posted about Gainward getting sold off to Palit? I know I am. Ever since I've bought nVidia cards after 3dfx went out of business, mine have always been a Gainward. Although they don't supply you with much of a bundle, the cards themselves for me have...

MMORPG's made me never want to play FPS' online with people I don't know or trust anymore. There are just way too many lamers, cheaters, hackers and idiots in online FPS' these days to have fun with them anymore. Although you'll find that a few have trickled into the MMO realm, most of them...

The login screen isn't going to be very high-res for the background, since it's just an art backdrop... My guy I don't have a pic of, but I'm Vicious. Level 38 Undead Rogue on Hellscream. :)

awesome mod. surprisingly & ironically, I just started watching Eva this week. Weird that being a fan of anime that I had never seen it before now. Only heard of it. But since they released the Platinum version of it, I bought Disc 1 with collectors box. Today even though I've yet to finish...

I got these for $35 at Best Buy: http://alteclansing.com/product_details.asp?pID=AHS502 ...and had this pair for $29 from Best Buy previously before I needed a headset: http://alteclansing.com/product_details.asp?pID=AHP512 I've always been a fan of Altec Lansing, and could get 2-3 sets...

Does the case light up in the dark? :confused: Would love to see a few pics of it in the dark if it lights up. :)

Why anybody would want to return such an awesome game as Half-Life 2 is beyond me... :rolleyes:

whats up with all the pics being in a Red Hue? :confused:

If they didn't wipe, they'd lose more money than if they do. People will stay longer, try out other classes, races or professions. That's how it goes in an MMO. If you have people already at or half-way to End-Game at Release - it's not a financially sound thing to leave them there. Plus 95% of...

The ONLY thing I wish Lian-Li would improve upon, and I've got a PC75b - is the damn mobo mounts. They are the cheapest crap in the world. I'd rather have the brass standoffs like antec and chieftec cases have than that crap the Lian Li cases have. That's my only gripe.

awesome choices. the water cooling will definitly get that radeon cooled. :)

CS isn't horrible. Most of the little kids who cheat, hack, whine and call people gay are what makes it horrible.