Recent content by Chrisped

Thanks everyone and especially for the tip on Frys. I am about 1hr away from one and just looked at their ad and $229 for a i7 920 processor and $177 for a Gigabyte UD3R. Thats the way to go! Forum ppl here rock!!!!

Thanks SunnyD, I see your point. Didn't have my coffee this morning and couldn't visualize the layout of costs in my head. Looking like i7 is more the way to go as a little more $$ spent now will outperform both cpus and also possibly get more life out my system in the long run. Funny this...

Yes, I have looked into i7 and it seems all the motherboards are above $200 and the DDR3 is ridiculously expensive. I just seems that the pricing for i7, since it is so new, is of course, overinflated. When I also think of the whole, "good to have AMD in the marketplace so there is competition...

Hey all, I have priced out a system and was wondering if I would notice a difference between a Phenom II with a DFI LP DK 790FXB OR a Core 2 Quad 9650 with an ASUS Striker II LGA775 nForce 780i ?? I game, surf, edit photos, and make movies. The price difference between the 2 systems is...

Hey everyone I have a question. Should I get a second EVGA 512-P3-N801-AR GeForce 8800 GT 512MB or should I wait for the GTX 280? This primarily involves future support for SLI drivers for the 8800 series cards. Do people think Nvidia will continue to support the 8800 with SLI drivers or will...

Well I ordered the Accelero S1 Rev 2 and also the Turbo module. I got it in the mail and proceeded to install the cooler and fan onto my new 8800GT. The cooler went fine and the ram heatsink modules would not stick right. I read somewhere that they were heat activated so I figured no biggie...

Hey everyone! I have been reading for a while now and I have a question regarding a server mobo. I am a part owner in a company and our server is getting a little old. It is a simple file server that only stores Quickbooks database, Act contact database, and a mountain of word and excel...

Yessir, I had the same problem when I flashed my Neo2 platinum and what happened was that I had to power down, remove the power cord, clear cmos using the jumper then replace the jumper and now it will boot. The deal was mine kept beeping on boot. The new Bios has different values in it and your...

Either a Belkin Pre-N or one other WAP I have seen is ParkerVision. I know they claim 1 mile signal propagation but I know thats bunk as your PCMCIA wireless card can't transmit back that far. I have installed about 20 Belkin Pre-N's and they really have the best range. The Linksys WAP's have...

I know this has been asked before in one way or another but I guess I need to hear it from the horses' mouths. Not that you all are a bunch of horses, hehe, I just respect what is said on these forums and I like to get feedback on a particular thing. I am thinking of upgrading to a dual...

This is what happens... I run the computer and after a period of time I get a black screen. No screen saver or power conserving (already checked that) so I decided to run 3dmark trying to stress out the video card to see if the video card could be the problem. Well during the tests it goes...

Yep I thought the same thing. Checked for virus, spyware etc. Scanned out fine. Also a note I forgot to mention (sorry) I did a previous install on this exact system and right after I did the install, I put on SP2. The exact same thing happened. I thought it was a fluke thing at the time, so I...

Hello! I finally decided to upgrade to SP2 and I have a weird problem. The system boots up and it gets to where I can see the icons load onto the desktop and in the right hand notification area where you should see icons, it starts to load then it restarts. Always at that point it restarts. I...

Well all I can say is man I am a tard. I moved my desk and when I moved it I plugged in my Zip250 drive into the parallel port. Well it wasn't plugged in before I set up my system and when i unplugged it and rebooted, my cpu usage dropped to 0% at idle.........I guess it was ok since Trend Micro...

Hi! Well I started up a game last night and noticed a cycle that repeated every 1.5 seconds. The screen would freeze for about 1/2 a sec then continue on with the game. Also, if you open up a minimized window and drag it around the desktop, it pauses for about 1/2 a second every1.5 seconds...