Recent content by 3Aims

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    2900 pro 512mb,256 bit (new egg 149$ and 15$ rebate)

    Is the 512MB 256bit 2900Pro better than a 3850 512MB? If so it's down to $134.
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    XP Setup Says: Setup cannot create the following: \windows

    It ended up being a bad sector on the hard drive. Thanks for the ideas.
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    XP Setup Says: Setup cannot create the following: \windows

    I assumed it was good becuase it loaded the windows installer fine. I will run memtest tonight.
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    XP Setup Says: Setup cannot create the following: \windows

    I am using the xp disk for partition and formatting. I did chkdsk in the recovery option and it did find one or more errors. I ran chkdsk repair and it said it fixed all errors. All of this happened when I installed two more ram modules in my computer. The new ram must have corrupted my...
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    XP Setup Says: Setup cannot create the following: \windows

    I deleted the partition and formatted. What gives? Please help.
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    Anyone Know of the best Turbo Tax deal?

    TaxCut for $9.99. Can be downloaded from site.
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    Some x800 vanilla benchmarks

    It is a solid card, but may be the loudest fan ever made. It's like a 40mm fan spinning at 10,000 rpms. Not really, but very loud.
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    Coolest *Vintage* Game Console

    Mattell Intellivision I/II had the best football game back in the day.
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    Circuit City, 10% off $99 and up Coupon!

    Wow. You just saved my coworker $525 smacks. He just bought a home theater set-up last week.
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    do you think this was a stupid choice?

    I bought at 3500+ Venice and the Sapphire x800 for $186. Great combo for the price.
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    256mb Radeon X800 $188 Shipped at the Egg!

    I picked one up from newegg two weeks ago for $186. However, I bought the only one. The 2.0 ram on this card is so under utilized at 700mhz. SAPPHIRE 100107-BL Radeon X800 256MB GDDR3 PCI-Express x16 Video Card - OEM Item #: N82E16814102493 $186.00
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    thorny169 Using My Heatware Id

    I got a PM on pcper (amdmb.com) from some dude asking if I was thorny169. It looks like this person is using my heatware id in his profile. thorny169 is trying to sell a cpu to another member on this board. I've asked him to remove my id from his profile. Sounds fishy. --- YGPM...
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    barton 2500+ --> AMD 64bit?

    Thorny169, Why are you using my heatware id in your profile?
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    *** Official Soltek SL-K890Pro-939 (VIA K8T890) Thread ***

    I've been happy with this board for the most part. I think the monitoring software is useless, but I'm hoping the RedStorm program is tweaked for this board. Here is my rig: Soltek K890 3500+ Venice @ 10x250 Sapphire X800 @ 415/472 Mushkin Basic PC3200 2x512 WD Raptor 74 gig Antec 430...