Recent content by schwank

Got mine last week. It's a fine little box... built it with 10GB of RAM and a 128GB Intel SSD. No wifi. I have Windows Server 2008R2 running on it and I am going to put it in as a Terminal Service box at our small remote office. Just finishing up installing SQL2012 Express on it right now. For...

Looking forward to seeing your build!

For anything made by EA... hell no.

FWIW, my Dirt3 code was honored no problem by XFX and AMD. Installing now via Steam!

Eurin the bootable tools do not work for me. Don't know what it is really but they don't detect the drive in my machine. Maybe they are better now but I am not planning another rebuild for a while if I can help it. Will try again later. It does seem like the drives work without issue for...

I hope XFX still honors the free Dirt3 game based on the purchase date. UPS says 4 days to get from Cali to Portland, OR... I could almost ride my bike in that time! It won't arrive til 9/1, after the promotion ends. Actually only care about Dirt, the others are just filler to me.

If you don't trust average Egg reviews, here's one from a long time H'er. I have this very drive and it BSOD's. To flash the firmware you need to put the drive in a different computer running as a secondary drive. Then you wipe the whole freaking thing and start over. While I do this for a...

Thanks for the post on this one, put one on order last night. Recently rebuilt the core of my system but had not yet upgraded my video card. Eventually I'll pick up a second for CFX. Even better my business bought it for me so take an extra ~40% writeoff. Not a bad deal! New system should...

Awesome, you guys rock... that is exactly what I needed to configure. Had to set BIOS to initialize onboard first, then install catalyst and reboot. Results... triplehead goodness. 26" 1920x1200 in the middle with 20" 16x12 monitors on either side. 5120x1200 net resolution. Thanks again!

Well, that is something to try. I hadn't gone so far as to install the Catalyst stuff, just set it to Initialize the onboard video first. When it came up I only had the one screen, and despite the fact that the 8800GT still showed in the Device Manager, the attached monitors were not visible...

Well, that looks like it is not happening on this mobo. Thinking I will put in an EyeFinity card for now. Trying to avoid a full machine upgrade until after the new AMD stuff comes out. Still rolling on DDR2 and trying to stretch the life of this platform just a little more.

Just picked up a third monitor... is there a way to do this? My discrete card is an 8800GT and the 785G mobo has a Radeon 4200 built in. Since these can't X-fire, is there any way to set them up as two different video cards and at least use them to have one large desktop? I understand I...

That's cool, at least they tell you up front that if you care at all about your devices you are better to buy an Android. MS still doesn't get it... the perfect partner for Nokia. I have made a good living supporting and developing software for MS platforms and they continually make moves to...

I have a few... will get you a list by tomorrow.

I think I have these at my office. I assume faster DDR2 would be ok as long as it is 5300 minimum? If so will check tomorrow and you can have them for next to nothing.