Recent content by DOOManiac

I think I'll go with the G.Skill RAM since everyone speaks either as high or higher of them than the others. Plus I hear they have a lifetime warranty, so that's good. I was just a bit anxious about them because I had never heard of them before last week. Since 8800GTX SLI's are a definite...

Man, do I feel dumb. I've never heard of leaking capacitors before. o.O Thanks for the help though. Guess I'll go w/ the PP&C as that's the most consistently recommended, though I'm still a little unsure of how much wattage I need. And again, I'm still not sure about the RAM...

Wait... leaking? I didn't see anything about this being a water-something in the product description... o.O Or did I just say something really dumb?

Hey guys. I don't post here much, because I tend to only really keep up with hardware whenever it's time for me to upgrade. I haven't upgraded since right before DOOM 3 came out, and I'm finally getting around to building a new tiny god. However I'm so out of touch w/ the hardware scene I could...

Thanks guys :)

Here's a really dumb noob question to arouse your scorn: I'm getting a retail boxed AMD X2 4400+ and will be using the CPU fan/heatsink that comes with it (no OC'ing for me). I think w/ my P4 I didn't need any thermal compound, as there was this gel... stuff.. on the bottom of the heatsink...

I linked to the wrong DFI board, the one I'm looking at is this one: DFI LANPARTY UT nF4 SLI-DR Expert Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 SLI As for sound card, I've heard nothing but bad things about the audigy line, and I heard the XFI line was really overrated to boot. I already have a set of...

Thanks to the help I got on these forums, some other places, and on IRC, I think I've finally decided upon what to get for an upgrade. So, if you guys wouldn't mind, would you look over my choices, and if there's anything you think I made a bad choice on (such as "lol that ram doesn't work with...

Sorry to bump an old topic, but I'm still looking for a few solutions... I read about the new 7900GT cards yesterday on Anandtech. Since 6800GT isn't even on the benchmark pages I'm going to assume it'll be quite a lot better, and if it's only $300 then I might consider shelling out the cash...

I'm gonna have to go with the original: 3Dfx Voodoo 1 Nothing has ever been as exciting as seeing Quake 1 at a blazing 30fps at a no-jaggies-huge 640x480 for the first time. Geforce 1 DDR comes a very close second though. It's the card that made me finally switch to NVidia, and I...

Well, basically, discarding budget, what's the best SATA based single cpu non sli right I can get? Something that's not overkill, but is still a hefty system. As for AMD, well... I still really don't have much confidence in them based off my previous experience with them. I'm not really sure...

Hey guys. First let me preface this with an apology for my nubness. I only really keep up with hardware (other than the occasional glance at GPU benchmarks) when it's time to actually buy stuff, and so I'm a bit out of the game regarding knowing what is new, fast, and good. In the past these...

Apparently Windows Vista is going to have a feature to do just that. I dunno how it would be faster than having the pagefile on the hard drive, but they have that as a feature anyway...

whenever I've flashed my BIOS I've always done so w/ the file on my hdd, never had any problems that way...

one bump to get somebody to notice, then I'll let this one die...