Recent content by beamerxl

Will applications on the same physical drive as your OS load any faster or slower than if they are on another physical drive? I'm doing a fresh format and reinstall, and I'm wondering if I should install commonly used apps on my C: or D:. Also, I know some people create a separate partition...

So after 4 years, my OS hard drive finally crapped out on me. I decided that it would be a good time to do some system upgrades and as well as uprade to Vista, so I just got finished ordering the goodies. My previous setup included my WinXP drive (that died), two storage drives, and an...

I've also been considering an Acer Widescreen LCD. The one I found on newegg is here: http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16824009094 but it looks like yours is a better monitor for a better price. I'm a little worried about the high native resolution on both monitors though. I...

Progress Update: When I load with Fail-safe defaults (which, from what I can tell, aren't even any different from the regular defaults when I boot after jumper reset), the error messages do not come up. After doing the Fail-safe defaults, I can change everything I need to except for memory...

1) The PSU came with the case... so probably not :-/. 2) Here's the heatsink. Not the greatest, we were working on a budget, but it should be sufficient. It was attached backwards, didn't know it had a specific direction. I had some Arctic Sliver 5 on it, but turning it around and adding...

I just finished putting together a new system for my brother. The motherboard is an ECS N2U400-A, processor is an AMD Athlon XP 2600+ Barton 1.9Ghz, 2 sticks of Kingston 512mb PC3200 RAM, Geforce 6600, 430W power supply. The system booted up the first time and I went straight to CMOS, tweaked...

There aren't any fluorescent lights around. I thought my eyes were starting to adjust, but after spending some time away from the computer and coming back they hurt again. I think I'll give it a couple days and see if that helps. Text isn't significantly blurrier. Also, is there any...

So I just recently started messing around with my monitor's refresh rate after hearing that low rates can cause eye strain. Mine was set at the Windows default, 60 Hz, so I bumped it up to 85 Hz, the highest it would allow me at 1280x960 resolution. However, after increasing the refresh rate...

i am building a new rig, and i decided to buy a 3.5" thermal monitor to go along with it. it includes two thermal probes... where should i place these, or rather, what parts of my system should i be most concerned about monitoring?

I'm looking for black. However, I found a download online that swaps the functions of the "enhanced" and "standard" F-keys, so essentially your keyboard boots up with the regular F-keys and you can press F-lock if you want to switch to the other functions. I think I'll probably get the...

i'm curious, does this keyboard feel like a laptop keyboard? i like the look of it, but i despise laptop keyboards, and i don't know if that's what it means when it describes how the keys sit lower and are flat.

every corded keyboard i find falls into pretty much two categories: 1. basic , ugly, cheapo keyboard with no extra features 2. annoying f-lock button that can't be set to boot up with it turned on does anyone know of any keyboards that have some decent features (for example, i like multimedia...

it's a Thermaltake W0013 Silent PurePower.

I'm ordering a system with the following specs... will a 480W power supply be enough? Asus A8V Deluxe Wi-Fi Mobo Athlon FX-53 1GB Kingston RAM 1 Floppy Drive 1 10k Raptor 1 7200 RPM 160 GB Hitachi HD 1 Plextor DVD+- RW Drive Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Platinum Pro Geforce 6800 Ultra 5 80mm fans...

If anyone here has an ASUS A8V Deluxe, what heat sink / fan do you have for your processor? I was looking at newegg, and for the few items that were listed as compatible with the FX-53, one of them had a comment that it was not compatible with the ASUS K8V SE Deluxe due to a non-removable...