Recent content by imported_Brown

Oh yeah, almost forgot, if anyone has any specific recommendations for a motherboard with the Nforce 2 chipset, feel free to post them as I am not that familiar with lower-end boards. I'm partial to Asus these days myself, so I was looking at the A7N8X-VM/400.

Thanks for the recommendations guys. I did some checking and found out that the nforce2 IGP chipset is paired with a Geforce4 MX, (a lot better than those crappy Intel Extreme Graphics chipsets I might add) which should be more than enough to smoothly run web pages and even some low-end 3d. My...

I was wondering just how much of a difference a low versus high end graphics chipset is going to make when browsing the web. I have always had a fierce aversion to integrated graphics, and I have noticed on a few systems with built-in graphics that web pages don't render well, especially during...

Alright, got everything working now. The RAID controller was already enabled in BIOS, but I didn't have the drivers installed. I had previously installed that VIA 3-in-1 driver pack and I thought that included RAID, but apparently it didn't. Or maybe I just didn't install the RAID component...

I've had my current system with a P4P800 Deluxe motherboard for a few months now, and I have been using two IDE chains, one for a set of two 120 GB hard drives that were not in RAID (one Western Digital and one Seagate) and the other for a set of optical drives. Due to my uncanny ability to...