Recent content by Sanctuary

I always have ambient light in the room. Initially I wanted to find a small lamp to put underneath the table the computer sits on, but I found a pretty big night-light that works just as well. I've never played without some kind of external light source. Otherwise my vision would probably be...

So, I ended up buying my very first LCD over a year ago. It was an Acer 24 inch, forget the exact model, but it was supposed have a 6ms gtg. Needless to say the screen was just too big, and the motion blur/ghosting drove me nuts, so I shipped it back and just ended up using my 19 inch CRT up...

So I decided to reinstall Windows XP to see if it would solve a problem that many have been having with Bioshock. I have a partition (C: ) dedicated soley to Windows, and I reformatted it when prompted during the new installation. I had set aside 4gb just for this. On my last insalltion, with...

I currently have 512 x 2 PC2 6400 modules running in dual channel, and if able, I'd like to add 1024 x 2 PC2 6400 on top of that. I really don't want to have to replace the ram I have now because it's not that old. Will I be able to add 2gb more ram and run that pair in dual channel while...

Ok, found that. Going to see how it works.

I don't know what is going on, but ever since I did my latest Windows installation (just three nights ago) my floppy drive has been going crazy. It will now sit there and try to access every 5 seconds or so for no apparent reason. It's like it's trying to access each time my hard drive does...

I didn't understand your question then. I wouldn't think that a video card would have any effect at all on a console system, since the system has it's own dedicated graphics processors. For a video card to have any effect on it, wouldn't it have to be trying to render the source itself anyway?

If you couldn't hook up console systems to monitors, or it didn't make them look better, then why do people hook up their Xbox 360's to them? I also don't know how they are doing it, but I just assume that the more current monitors (last couple of years) have all the inputs on them, not on the...

This problem is extremely easy to see in rooms that are not too big, but have objects you still have to walk a bit to reach. The teleportation lab with Alex shows this problem glaringly. As soon as you look at any object in the distance (computer monitor, chairs etc) they are all grey and...

Yep, that's exactly what it's like. Using a G5, and on a Func pad, so it's not that. Games did this previously as well when I had 512 mb and was using an optical. I thought maybe it had something to do with ram, but I also thought that 640 mb video ram + 1 gb regular would be more than...

Using a 620 Watt Corsair, have two hard drives, one DVD drive and an [email protected] (not too worried about OC right now) on an Evga 680i. I am also using the latest drivers from the Nvidia site, and those are the only drivers I've even bothered to install. This was after a new installation of XP...

Nothing is running in the background. 1 GB ram (I shouldn't need 2 GB for every other room...), yes my HD is defragged always, and Vsync is ON. Yeah, of course I get higher framerate with it off, but I don't like tearing. I also didn't realize all the benchmarks were done with it off? I get...

Not sure if that's the correct term, but what causes the stuttering in FPS games when running around? I just built a new computer and am using an EVGA 8800gts, thinking I would be able to play FEAR in all its graphical glory without any issues, especially after seeing all of the tests of it...

Unfortunately this specific heatsink does not come with a plate to attatch to the back...it's like the Zalman but without the backplate... http://www.anandtech.com/casecooling/showdoc.aspx?i=2937&p=2

Yeah, I had just looked at some of the packaging my parts were shipped in from Newegg thinking that a double layer of cardboard should be ok. I just don't want to end up accidentally shearing of bits and pieces and have them sticking to the bottom of the board though. :eek: