Recent content by joe1946

For PC games, those additional 120 lines mean more viewing space for menus/overlays.

I purchased a refurbished Samsung T260HD 25.5" HDTV/monitor from a large distributor located in Ohio on ebay and it works much better than my 32" Samsung 1080p HDTV as a monitor because it has the same .28mm dot pitch as my 24" Samsung monitor. It also has 1920x1200 mode that looks better than...

AMD should come out with 32nm/28nm versions of the Phenom II X6 up to 4Ghz for AM3 motherboards in 2011 IMHO.

Provantage shows the 95w 1055T as special order and I have not seen any online vendor with the 95w version in stock.

I called Frys.com were I purchased the Gigabyte 890GX MB and AMD X6 1055T CPU combo and they told me I could return it so I did. I will get the ASUS M4A89TD PRO/USB3 AM3 AMD 890FX SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard and AMD Phenom II X6 1090T Black Edition to replace it.

My gigabyte ga-890gpa-ud3h mb is in a coma after doing the Vista 64bit SP2 upgrade . I just installed both Vista Ultimate 64 and Windows 7 64 on this new build and everything was fine until I fell asleep while it was in stage 3 of the Vista 64 SP2 update around midnight and I woke up three hours...

So far all I have seen is the 5450 being the only 5000 series card that works with the 4290 integraded 890GX 4290 chip in Hybrid CrossFireX mode. I am using the MSI 5450HD (512mb DDR3) card with my Gigabyte GA-890GPA-UD3H (rev. 2.0) motherboard.