Recent content by imported_GeekWannabe

Alright......I'm with ya now, simply a matter of stock-on-hand driving the prices. I have to admit I'm reconsidering the E4300 even at the higher price.......it's got a little bit of "sexy" where as the E5400 looks almost generic and older-gen. Thanks for the help, I might give one of their...

I must have my n00b hanging out.......I have no idea what you mean, prices across the board (for the respective models) run very close to each other. Am I overlooking a better source (with a 3 year warranty) for these? and yes, I'm looking at Dell's small business refurbs Edit: On a...

OK.....short and sweet: I'm replacing my wifes aging-but-solid D600, and failing some huge revelation it'll be between the above-mentioned dell's (both would be refurbs btw). Specs look strikingly similar, yet the SMALLER E4300 commands nearly 40% more greenbacks........tell me this isn't...

Hey folks, I purchased a Lexmark Z1420 wifi printer some time ago, and after looking long and hard through the documentation and various web sources I can't find a way to print from this unit with any of our laptops (or wired desktops) without leaving the desktop computer (that I used for the...

Firstly, thank you all for your input! My choices weren't so much that I'm an ATI Fanboy, actually the 2- x1950xtx's I'm using are the first radeons I've owned (since I had a smokin' RagePro in my K6-2 system anyway...=).....), its just that I know ATI's stuff gets along with my system right...

Nice idea! I'll be checking back to see how it pans out......only nitpick I might mention is a lack of info about multi-display setups, which in the mmo's I play are very common (almost a neccessity).

I just wanted to get some fast A or B opinions on 2 cards over at the Egg........both Powercolor, both within $10 of each other, except the 4870 is an open-box unit. With a budget of $200 total these appear to be the best bang/buck ratio and will be replacing the x1950xtx in the system in my...

After further inspection, I couldn't rotate the HSF 90 degrees or the fan itself would be in contact with the NB heatsink on the d975xbx2......not a good thing. Instead, I re-cleaned both surfaces and carefully reinstalled it the same way I initially had it, this time tightening the...

I removed the tuniq unit and it's obvious from the TIM pattern that the HSF was "drooping" and causing contact at the upper portion to be lost. Some of this is almost certainly caused by the orientation I chose which makes the mounting H-bar that crosses the HSF run horizontally, not conducive...

I saw no reason to assemble it "as-is" since an inspection of the CPU showed a large depression in the center (I was able to slide 3 thicknesses of paper under a new razor blade placed across the heatspreader), and the HSF had visible tooling marks on it. I can posts pics of the lap job if...

Hey folks, I replaced the stock HSF on my E6400 today after OC'ing to ~2.6ghz had pushed temps to 61c last weekend(prime95 for 2 hours+). Removed the mobo, lapped the cpu and new tuniq 120 to 2000 grit, and carefully reinstalled everything to discover that temps now during a stress test...

Hey folks, OP here with a strange development after the successful oc and stress testing was completed: After several uneventful sessions, when I turned on the system today I got an error regarding the system configuration files in windows32 that prevented the startup. Since I haven't...

I can't believe I couldn't see that, after 20+ trips through the bios screens.....took the fresh set of eyes and lowered the memory frequency to 667 as per the Peakin chart that was so kindly referred to me in this forums mobo-specific oc post. Booted immediately into windows this time and...

Well, after an overnight stress-test that peaked at 61c without errors of any kind, I decided to re-try the 333 setting in reference frequency that had failed on several occasions before. I'm currently running prime95 with the following settings: Vcore-1.3125(bios),1.277(cpuz) FSBvolt-1.250...