Recent content by Frodo_Lives

I punked out guys . . . but in a good way I guess. Had enough angst about spending $1200 including tax for a system with a 460w power supply (and, btw, sata 3gb HD instead of 6gb...and no USB 3.0... hmmph!) that after 24 hours' brooding, I ran (not walked) back to Best Buy and returned the Dell...

Thanks a ton!!! I really appreciate your help. That looks like my best solution unless I find myself trucking this thing back over there and starting over. Three weeks from now they'll sell it of course with a 550w PSU :whiste: The only thing that really "scares" me now is prospect of...

Thanks!!!! I really appreciate your help. That looks like my best solution unless I'm really willing to truck this whole thing back there and start over. Three weeks from now they'll of course sell the same PC but with a 550w PSU :whiste:

Good evening gentlemen... I just got myself a Sandy Bridge Dell XPS 8300 (i7-2600 at 3.40 GHz). 8 GB RAM. Seemed a nice system (too lazy and time constrained to build this time...you can see where this is going...). Anyway, the video card is a Radeon HD 5770. Whaaa? Isn't that from late 2009...