Recent content by apsd

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    New Gaming Laptop

    Hello, My gaming desktop just went apeshit and it's basically gone. I'm looking for some recommendations for a gaming laptop that will match or exceed my previous important specs (A64 3800+ and X1850). My budget is 1.7k to 2.1k... It seems that the nVidia go 7900 series cards seem to...
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    New Gaming Laptop

    Hello, My gaming desktop just went apeshit and it's basically gone. I'm looking for some recommendations for a gaming laptop that will match or exceed my previous important specs (A64 3800+ and X1850). My budget is 1.7k to 2.1k... It seems that the nVidia go 7900 series cards seem to be...
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    $700 Budge Gaming Rig? - April 2007

    Thanks a lot for the help guys, I'll look into the possible options.
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    $700 Budge Gaming Rig? - April 2007

    A month wait is ok. Should I ask again around then?
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    $700 Budge Gaming Rig? - April 2007

    OS: Windows XP Games: Older gen stuff: HL2, CSS, maybe Doom3 etc. Then there's Oblivion, GRAW, Rainbow Six Vegas, STALKER (don't think it's as intensive though)... Resolution: For the games, probably at like 1152x864 and 1280x1024 at high/decent (maybe not extreme) graphics. For the desktop...
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    $700 Budge Gaming Rig? - April 2007

    Hello, Unfortunately I am not up to date in the latest trends of video cards, CPUs, mobos, etc. I was wondering if anybody knows of a decent gaming rig of $700. This includes all parts for the system (mobo, cpu, memory, vid card, case, psu). It does not include the external peripherals...
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    simple starter microcontroller

    Hi, If you want to get into real embedded programming, skip Basic/Javelin/* Stamp, skip OOPIC, etc. PIC's are ok. AVR's rule, and you have avr-gcc which double-owns. Microchip's C-compiler and example code sucks ass. And Atmel does make small 8-pin AVRs but they are very limited and...
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    Unstabel system because of memory

    hahahahaha nevermind i put in the new stick of mushkin ram i got (3-3-3-8) and put it to memtest86, test #8 specifically. after like two seconds my screen is flooded with errors. so one of the sticks is fubared. great here is my 4th time RMAing mushkin ****** memory. either...
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    Unstabel system because of memory

    Ok, my current setup is: MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum AMD Athlon64 3000+ Radeon 9600XT 2 sticks of mushkin sp3200 (but different timings on the sticks). after trying various configurations of dual channel i decided to drop that and just try single channel. the current setup that memtest86...
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    Need to get some more ram: Dual-channel or single?

    I've decided to simply get another identical 512mb stick to complement I have the one now, and put it into dual channel to have 1gb. Thanks for all the help guys
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    Need to get some more ram: Dual-channel or single?

    So a setup of dual channel 1gb + single channel 512mb on the same mobo is ok?
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    Need to get some more ram: Dual-channel or single?

    Right now I've got one stick of mushkin 512mb in my MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum (socket 939)... I'm looking to get 1gb more of ram in addition - should I got with dual-channel (512x2) or a single stick? Is there any performance loss if I have a dual-channel ram mixed with another single stick?
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    1gb dual-channel RAM under $100

    I just saw this OCZ ram, how is it?: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820146900#DetailSpecs
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    1gb dual-channel RAM under $100

    I'm looking for some good but inexpensive dual-channel 1gb (2x512mb) pc3200/ddr400 speed ram for under $100. Recommendations? My specs right now are: -MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum -AMD64 300+ (socket 939) -512mb mushkin value -radeon 9600xt