Recent content by Frostyrootbeer

Thanks for all the replies! It's really helpful. Right now I'm working (or rather my dad will be) with two of these http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en...0-3955381.html They do have a display port on them, so could i just buy a mini-DP to DP adapter? Could I run two displays off...

Just the ones that came with it. All the active adapters i've seen cost ~100 bucks. So this is going to set me back another 300-400 to get all the displays working? Do I need active if I'm going mini-display port to display port? All I need to do is extend to 5 desktops, I don't...

Arghh! So I've set everything up, installed the graphics drivers, and CCC will only let me enable two monitors. I have three monitors connected via MiniDP to DVI. Do I have to use the Mini DP-to DP connectors to do more than two screens? I can't find instructions on Eyefinity anywhere...

Great, I'll go to MC today or tomorrow to pick up the board and CPU. I have a corsair builder series PSU lying around (430 Watt) do you think that's gonna be enough to power the card, an SSD and HD and the CPU? The 5770 recommends a 450 minimum, but I've heard efficiency is more important than...

Hmm, the ability to do 6 in the future would be a really nice, but I'm tempted to go with the 5770 just because it includes adapters (cheapskate, I know) and he only has 5 monitors right now. I work 20~ minutes away from a microcenter. Should I go for one of those AMD bundles they offer? Any...

This looks great. Do I need an AMD board to take advantage of Eyefinity? I'm really tempted to get him an I3, just because they'll be zippy on most apps (esp. with hyperthreading) but I could get him a low priced quad core from AMD for around the same price. What's the advantage of the...

Thanks for the advice! Chapbass, you bring up a really good point. Although my dad is fine with dropping ~350 to keep things simple. How does using 2 cards work? I just grab a board with two PCI-E slots, plug the the monitors in to both and configure through Eyefinity control panel...

Hi All, I'm doing a build for my father (who trades commodity spreads) and I'm running into a wall of market jargon and conflicting advice. He wants to be able to spread his commodity graphs across 5 or 6 24" monitors. I was figuring I could just get a 6970 (5 inputs) but I wanted to make...

Hey guys, I've been looking to upgrade my 19' to something larger, and i've been having a tough time finding something in the $300 range. Then, tiger direct comes along with a 24' gateway for $299 (it is refurbished, is that significant?). Anandtech gave it decent ratings, but is this actually...

You should be fine, it's just residue. I've switched out mulitple heatsinks without problems from 'gunk'. Just make sure their are no visible globs from the grease. If you are really worried though, go for some artic silver articlean (10 bucks shipped from The egg) which is more effective than...

Yes, well, you could put to 4 pins together to form an 8 pin.

Well things have gone from bad to worse. I took everything out, installed the stock heatsink, put everything back in, and now i'm not getting a greenlight on the mobo. This entire build has been a nightmare, i've never had any problems on my other 5 builds, but this one has been hell. Is there...

When I can get some time off from work i'll try installing the stock cooler, i'm getting pretty disassembling now : ). What is the proper way to apply AS5 (with the stock cooler)? Can anyone get me a pic of how they did\do it? Thanks so much guys

V @ 1.25 which is stock I think. From what i've read elsewhere, anything over 55-60C is bad bad bad, is there anyway (besides buying a new case/heatsink/processor) that I can get my temps down more?

Grain of Rice is for the x2's although i have heard that C2D's do fine with it, AS says that you should do a vertical line over the C2D heatsink link to PDF. Those temps are really unacceptable, seeing as I bought the chip to overclock (my temps are without any clocking at all, I want to...