Recent content by illmatik94

Went from a 2007 Civic Si to a 2013 STi hatch late last year. The car is a little rough around the edges but overall I really enjoy it. Pros - Very satisfying power, nice mid-range torque (Stage 1/2 gives you a lot more for relatively cheap) - Practical for hauling people/stuff - Sound (mine...

I am going to have to agree with toyota's recommendations on this one. A high-end video card using that processor will be a complete waste. Unfortunately, since both your GPU and CPU are outdated, you need to make a tough choice. Upgrading the CPU may be a hard pill to swallow since you...

There's too many other games out there to even bother with this one. While the art design is actually quite good, it is put to poor use. There are only a handful of enemies in the game and the levels are essentially repetitive corridors which expose the bad AI whose are livelihoods are in a...

Just got done reinstalling Vista 64 and now my performance issues seem to have disappeared. Getting 11 seconds in Super Pi 1M now compared to the 20 seconds before. I suppose what went wrong was I used the driver disc that came with the motherboard on my first try and it messed something up...

I tried disabling Speedstep and it did not make a significant difference. Just played some Team Fortress with the CPU at 4GHz and the HWMonitor was giving me load temps of 51C and 61C for the GPU (the 8800GT is stock). I also lowered the resolution to 1280 x 700 or something low like that...

I just setup a new system with the following: e8500 / Xigmatek S1283 P5Q Pro 4GB GSkill DDR2 800 EVGA 8800GT Antec Trupower 2 550w I am having a strange issue regarding the performance of this machine. I am getting fairly low framerates in Team Fortress 2 (about 20-30 fps in firefights...