Recent content by igr111

Thank you all for pitching into the discussion. After chasing the computer market for at least 6 years, I realize one important thing: It's the "now" that matters. "Future proofing" is arguably a useless concept. For example, when Athlon XP/nForce 2 400 Ultra was the hottest combo on the market...

I would say that CRTs are almost dead. The number of companies still producing CRTs can be counted on the fingers of one hand. There are several advantages to LCDs: low power consumption, sharpness (LCDs are capable of displaying 96 dots per inch, versus 72dpi for CRTs), "flatness", completely...

Hello all I just wanted to open a discussion regarding PCI-Express. It is the latest buzzword in the computer world. Undobtedly, it is the future of graphics. However, is it necessary to upgrade to PCIe now? At the moment, PCIe holds no advantage over AGP. I feel that AGP bus still has quite...

nVidia nForce 3 SATA controller does not support NCQ. nForce 4 chipset is the first to support this feature. You can always buy a separate SATA II/NCQ PCI controller, which shouldn't be that expensive. From the reviews and benchmarks I've read, NCQ is of minor help. I doubt you will notice much...

I just upgraded to this board with the 3000+ Venice chip. I'm using Mushkin Level 1 DDR 217 (PC3500) RAM (512MBx2). It's very stable and very overclockable. A question to all MSI Neo 2 owners in this forum: For some reason Windows refuses to "find" the second LAN port and my Audigy 2 ZS sound...