Recent content by MacDude

Ayaaaaa! I really wanted the Acer 4001. The thing is it is so expenssive o get just 64MB more of video memory. I live in Taiwan so we only have a few models, not as much variety as they have in US (for example we have no 4501, or th WLMi models at all). Asus has some models like the L5000 but...

I am buying a laptop this weekend. I can afford either an Ati mobility 9700 with 64 Mb of VRAM (my preffered choice) or an Ati mobility 9600 with 128 Mb. The 9700 with 128Mb are just too expenssive and I cant really justify spending much more just for 64 Mb of VRAM. Which is better at Doom...

I am buying a laptop this weekend. I can afford either an Ati mobility 9700 with 64 Mb of VRAM (my preffered choice) or an Ati mobility 9600 with 128 Mb. The 9700 with 128Mb are just too expenssive and I cant really justify spending much more just for 64 Mb of VRAM. Which is better at Doom 3...

Thanks, it worked. I did not need to boot into dos, I just needed to open a command prompt. Why M$ didn't include this in the computer management tool is beyond me.

Aha, I needed to be logged in. I always reach the forum through the email notification and it does not show an edit button (cause I'm not logged in). I was expecting a feature like this :) I will try installing the turbo Hyperion driver you speak of. Is there a performance increase? I really...

Is there a way to edit the messages once they have been posted? I make stupid mistakes sometimes that I want to correct.

Yeah, that is what I though too. But in the instruction booklet it says that there are problem when using an AGP 2x card and advises against it. My Geforce 4 is AGP 4X so that is not my problem.

I have an 80 hard drive with a 15Gig NTFS partition and WinXP installed on it. The rest (65 Gigs) is unformatted. I want to have a partition for shared data between windows and Linux and another two partitions for Mandrake Linux (boot and swap). I used to windows computer management tool to...

I did not find any options for AGP speed in the BIOS. I saw that the speed is 33/66Mhz (is that AGP 4X and 8X?) for the PCI/AGP bus but it does not allow me to modify it. I loaded the optimized defaults and rebooted. Now the card runs in AGP 4X in Windows and the problem is fixed. I get about...

I have a Geforce 4 Ti 4200 and a Gygabyte 7VAXP motherboard. I have run some FutureMark 2001 tests and I am getting some rediculously low results. I get about 6000 points, which is bellow what people are getting with a Geforce 3 Ti200. I have checked my graphics settings and I realized that the...

I have a Geforce 4 Ti 4200 and a Gygabyte 7VAXP mothereboard. I have run some FutureMark 2001 tests and I am getting some rediculously low results. I get about 6000 points, which is bellow what people are getting with a Geforce 3 Ti200. I have checked my graphics settings and I realized that...

And when will that come out? I really can't wait for the KT400a, I need a computer within a week or two. If I order it today it will come next week. I will do some testing and tell you all how it performs.

There are to problems with the TomsHardware review: 1) They were using pre-release boards and they still had many bugs 2) They were using pre-release DDR 400 I wanted to see the boards used with DDR 333 since that is what I will be using it with. I love the features in these boards, Firewire...

Why didn't you OC your XP? An XP against a P4 of the same ''clock rating" will be faster in everything exept SSE2 optimized apps.

I was thinking of getting a Samsung 955DF for my new rig. It's a good cheap monitor but it is not perfect. Instead I think I will go for a bit more $$$ and buy ViewSonic P95+. It is pretty cheap, it comes in black at no extra cost and it has some really good refresh rates at high resolutions.