Recent content by HorizonXP

Unfortunately, space, heat, and cost considerations mitigate the usage of a discrete graphics card. If I could, I would. :-) I think I'm leaning to the AMD Fusion, but I'm hoping to get more feedback before I jump and grab a board to evaluate.

Trying to build a PC for a digital signage box. Needs to display HD video, and support the same via Flash, so hardware acceleration is required. I'm trying to read up on both platforms. It seems that for AMD, you need to use closed-source drivers. Moreover, I'm not sure how well Flash...

So I bought the UX31 for the girlfriend as a Christmas/birthday gift. She was ecstatic to receive it, and really loves the laptop. However, the trackpad is atrocious. I read the reviews and figured, how bad could it be? It's bad. I want to throw the laptop at the wall after 5 minutes, it's that...

Hey guys, I'm missing the thumb screws for the side panels on my case. I realize they are the same dimensions as normal 6-32 screws, but I'd prefer to have the thumb screws. I'm looking on McMaster-Carr to figure out what to pick up, but I'm at a bit of a loss. The closest I can find is a...

Hey guys, So I just picked up a Scythe Mine 2 for my Socket 775 Xeon X3350. Going to mount it tonight, hopefully it all fits with my Gigabyte EP45-UD3L inside the Antec 300 case without clearance issues with the RAM. Just wondering, what would be the best configuration for mounting extra...

Awesome, thanks! I had the fans mounted as exhausts, so I turned them around and my overall system temps have dropped by about 3 C. Any ideas on the LGA 775 cooler? The fan is pointed upwards, towards the 140 mm exhaust fan. I think that the CPU fan is trying to pull air down, across the...

So I ended up going with the Asus GTX550 Ti for $145 CAD, with another $20 mail-in rebate. I went above my $100 budget because a) I wanted better performance than my 9600GT b) apparently the Corsair SSD I bought dropped in price, so I saved $20 up front, with another $30 in mail-in. So far...

Apologies for not listing my specs Intel Xeon X3350 @ 2.66 GHz (I think similar to the Core 2 Quad Q9300?) Gigabyte EP45-UD3L board 8 GB of DDR2 RAM 120 GB Corsair Force GT SSD 1 TB & 640 GB WD Blue Drives Antec 300 Case PC Power & Cooling 500W PSU My previous card use a PCI-E connector, so...

Hey guys, So I've been running this PC for over 2 years now, and I thought it would be a good time to do some cleaning up and upgrading. I recently upgraded the RAM, video card, and added an SSD. Today, I spent a few hours cleaning out all of the dust, and rebuilding the machine from the...

Just checked the other drives, and there are no hidden files that would indicate that Windows 7 decided to put boot files on there. It just seems like a silly issue to have. I've been using Ubuntu for nearly 8 years now, and only switched back to Windows for work-related reasons. Never...

Hey guys, I recently upgraded from my EVGA 9600GT 512MB to a Zotac 440GT 1GB. I picked it up for $85+HST. It seems to work better than my previous card, as Team Fortress 2 runs smoother. I haven't benchmarked it. My reason for sticking with Nvidia is that I do GPU programming, and CUDA is...

I don't know if W7 put files on other drives, but I did exactly as you suggested last night and that's what fixed it. Thanks guys! I was hesitant, because I wanted to have some assurances that it would actually fix the issue.

SSD was on port 0. Installation completed just fine when I put it into IDE mode. It started just fine in AHCI mode, but somehow, once Windows 7 had created partitions and copied files over, it didn't work anymore. Leads me to believe it has something to do with that. I'm not sure what I was...

So I just picked up a Corsair Force GT 120 GB drive. After futzing around trying to clone my existing partition, I ended up installing Windows 7 x64 Ultimate fresh. When I installed the drive, I had my system using AHCI mode. It detected the drive with no issues. When I ran Windows 7...

It worked right away. Board came with the F2 bios. I haven't installed an HDD or OS yet to test it further, but it showed the correct processor ID during POST. And it POSTed, which is a great sign! I'm unsure about how well I mounted the HSF though. First off, I have this old Zalman thermal...