Recent content by Fieryphoenix

But it's 128 bits! That's like, $16. 64 bits would only be $8.

The potential benefits of higher end soundcards are sound quality and game performance. You are not guaranteed either just from having an expensive card. As mentioned above, when it comes to X-Fi, except for the lowest end models which are actually Audigy cards in disguise, the only thing you...

Light follows the contour of the space it travels through, taking the shortest path. Where you have mass, the space is "bent", or distorted, by gravity. The actual shortest path through the distorted space is curved due to the spacial distortion, so that's the path the light follows.

I have one with M-PVA... it is excellent for gaming.

You should be able to have one card drive its own monitor for desktop display, but I suspect the 2nd card could not do 3D acceleration for its monitor, so, no. I think it's something that is possible in the sense that code could be written to make it work, but it's not possible as something you...

I also got a good Soyo. Couldn't be more pleased, really.

My blacks are fine as long as I don't set the contrast too high. Check and see if your monitor has the "high light" set to full. Push the button 2nd from the bottom. Then push either one of the 2nd or 3rd buttons from the top to manipulate which setting is enabled and select "off". Note that the...

Cuular: Not all dual Opteron boards, in fact, only the Tyan out of the three I've mentioned (H8DCE, K8WE, K8N-DL) has PCI-X. They may however, route NIC and SATA(PATA as well?) through PCIe, which should have much the same effect. But then again, isn't your DFI an Nforce 4 board, which should...

Fortunately, the 7800GTX is not a slot blocking card. So that wouldn't be a problem for him until he decided to get some as-yet-undreamed-of monster card.

Hard Ball: Sure, I'll turn on notification then. Not in here much. :) Feel free to PM me. I do remember people having problems fitting the thing into their ATX cases with the hard drive cages butting into or hanging right over the tops of the CPUs. coomar: I am running 4 sticks at 1T right...

I went this route, too. For pure gaming power (ie max frame rates) this is not the cost effective solution. BUT... I chose it as my platform for the next 5 or so years for me. It offers good dual CPU power NOW, graphics performance that won't suck even two years from now, and terrific...

Hello everyone! I have a new system, all ready to go... except for one thing. I got my powersupply before I got my motherboard, and it lacks an 8-pin EPS connector that I need. I'm out of money, and time is running short to test and return certain components, so I made my own 8-pin adapter in...

The upper port, the one with the clearer image, is the "primary" port. But which one is "Monitor 1" is changeable in your windows setup. Likewise, while you're in mirrored mode now, you can go into the Windows Display Properties and change it to "Extend my Desktop across both monitors". The...