Recent content by cgilmore

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    Help me Pick X850XT or 7800GS AGP only

    1 for 7800GS 0 for X850XT
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    Help me Pick X850XT or 7800GS AGP only

    Here are the two options I know I want one of the two cards, just what one I can?t decide so help me pick. It is only for gaming nothing else. Don?t tell me to upgrade my system and go for PCIX I'm not going to. This is only a Vote if you want to give technical input that fine but I know just...
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    what is the best AGP video card out today

    Lets see I have a radeon 9800pro 128Mb but is on its way out, it?s having over heating problems and GPU errors. Most game I play at 1153 by 864 and that?s with all new good games.
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    what is the best AGP video card out today

    Ok Come on if I wanted to up grade my pc I have to get a new motherboard costing any were form what 100-200 depending on what I get and I have to get a new CPU because I have an AMD 3200 sockets 754 I believe and most good motherboards are 939 so what the take up about what 200-300 for a good...
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    what is the best AGP video card out today

    What is the best AGP video card out today? I don?t want to go PCIX just yet, because I don?t want to upgrade my system just yet. So I'm looking for some input.
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    Windows XP - How much Ram can it Recognize

    How much ram can XP Pro Recognize? More than 3Gb or can it take 4 and up?
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    Need a good Power supply

    I'm all about over kill. Pluss I do have 4 SATA HD and SLI along with a hand full of fans to keep every thing nice an cool. Also 500W Power supplys just arnt that $$$ so why not. in a perfict world you should not use more than 80% of you power supply any way. Thanks for all your input.
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    Need a good Power supply

    I need some recommendations for a good power supply 500W is what I?m looking for.
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    Quick Formating tool

    I was wondering if there is any good tool that alows me to format a hard drive fast. faster than the one that DOS can do.
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    PC shuts off while playing games!!

    The power supply came with the case so i dont know the power supply make. it is a kingwin case if that helps. i want to replace it by i dont know a good brand. know any? the fan on the video card is spinning and is just worm not hot to the tuch.
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    PC shuts off while playing games!!

    VPU errors....it would just luck up in a game and then crash out to my desktop and it said that the system had suffered from an VPU error and could not recover from it and it would ask me to restart the system. Yes I have all updates for the card along with just about every thing else for the...
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    PC shuts off while playing games!!

    Just the other day I was playing Battlefield 2 and my PC just shut down no lockup or error?s just dead. Seems like it take about 10 or so min while playing any games then it just shuts off. I looked to see if the CPU or the PC was over heating but its running nice and cool, the power supply is...
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    Random Freezing

    What kind of video card do you have? And how old is it? Sounds like a problem I was dealing with. The VPU was going out on the video card and would lock up my system till it got so bad I just broke down and got a new one. But it did start after I installed Win XP. But after I got a new...
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    Issue with an Xpertvision X800 - restarts and scary stuff!!

    Sounds like it is just a bad card, it happens. Did you look to see if the fan on the card was spinning? If not it might have cooked its self. Take it back if you can. Other than that don?t know if it has two outposts try switching to the other one. Good luck my friend
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    How do you open an Imac?

    I did one once and I had a hell of a time too. There are a lot of little screws hidden all over keep looking.