Recent content by eztarget

Humble, I'm looking to replace my wife's old Think-pad T60 (on my 4th fan) with something cheaper but still decent. I read the reviews of the link you posted to office depot and the only complaint people seemed to have with the Llano you bought were poor speaker/audio/quality and a complaint...

I mentioned this in another thread. You can go to cyberpower's website and "build" your rig. On the left they have a PS meter. Try putting what you want in the rig (or may eventually want) and the PS meter will either stay green (good), turn yellow (suspect), or red (underpowered).

Minesweeper?

Unless you plan on running crazy applications 16GB of memory should be plenty. Go the cheaper route and get 4 x 4GB and spend the money you save on something else like a bigger SSD drive! I'm running huge Oracle databases on Solaris/Linux machines with 16GB of RAM.

If you plan on putting two video cards in there I'd go with 700-800W otherwise it's a waste. He's a neat trick. Go to a site like cyberpowerpc.com and "build" your system in one of their customize deals. If you look on the left side there's a little picture of the power supply. Add and...

LOL. Yonkers is 4.5 hours away (on a good traffic day).

Thanks guys for all the advice. I think I'm rethinking it now. I'll look at the 2600K route. I live in Ithaca, NY so I doubt anything is near me. LOL.

Well I have about $1000 to spend so I'm going to rebuild with the future in mind. This rig should last me another 5 years.

Well it ran like crap as expected. I'm leaning towards a barebones rebuild. I have an old case from 2005 (Xplorer Mid-Tower Case 420W). I'm wondering if a new X79 motherboard will fit in it? I figure if I'm rebuilding I might as well put a 6 core i7 3930K in it! :D I have the GTX 280 and...

LOL. I was afraid of this. When I installed Windows 7 on it the machine ran like crap.

It's from 2005 the system. It's running a Pentium D 3.20 GHz with Windows XP (32 bit) and Max RAM for a 32 bit OS (3.25 GB). I also have Windows 7 (unfortunately also 32 bit) running on the same machine in another partition but the machine is optimized to run on Windows XP so that's where I'm...

Okay this is a standard question concerning a new build I'm about to do. I plan on buying Skyrim this weekend and I think my 5 year old computer with an Nvidia 280GTX will struggle with it. Would it be better to build a new computer with two cards of lesser power in an SLI format (say two GTX...