Recent content by mattbooty

Thanks for all the suggestions. My mobo does support 0 and 1 so it will not be a software based solution. I use RAID 5 in my servers, but even if my mobo supported it, I understand that to truly get decent performance on RAID 5 you need a dedicated RAID controller, although I could be mistaken...

Ah, thats fine then. I was under the impression that RAID 1 could perform slower than a single drive do to the mirroring operations.

Hello, I have a PC I built about 4 years ago, the motherboard supports RAID 0 and 1. When I built I put 2 80GB in a RAID 0 Stripe. Now I've got it full with lots of data that I'm afraid of losing. I need more storage one way or another so I'm picking up a pair of 500GB drives but I'm...

I loved STALKER. Make sure you upgrade to the newest patch before starting the game though, saved games from the boxed version won't work with patched versions of the game... luckily I wasn't very far into the game when i discovered this. It can be buggy in some parts, but it was worth it, I...

I got mine on Friday and love it. I downgraded to XP and it runs like a dream. Some users didn't like the screen resolution but I think its perfect, it makes running games on it a lot easier to hit the native res. I haven't tried out the tuner (I have directv) but I do look forward to running...

Apparently this worked, my laptop is now marked as SHIPPED!!!! Thanks for this great deal!

I just called AGAIN and this time they actually escalated my problem. She said they show them as being in stock so she doesn't know why it hasn't shipped yet. Hopefully this will move the process along. Unfortunately I don't have a compusa anywhere near me so I can't go pick it up.

I'm having the same problem. Ordered mine on 5/5 when it listed Usually ships in 1-2 Business Days and still hasn't shipped. Every time I call they give me a new excuse as to why it hasn't shipped yet. Now I see they've taken down the product page.

Has anyone had any luck tracking down all the drivers for this laptop for windows XP? I want to downgrade this (I ordered it this weekend, it hasn't come yet) and if you go to HP's website they don't list all the XP drivers under this model. I tried picking through similar models and found...

I have a question. About 6 months ago i purchased a Logitech wireless desktop 3000 laser which is a wireless keyboard and mouse. I hate it. I play enough games that even though I was hoping I wouldn't notice enough of a difference with the wireless, I do. I'm looking at maybe picking up a...

After doing some quick looking, am I offbase by thinking 199 still may not be a bad price for someone with a 939 mobo who just wants to get a bit more life out of their existing system?

How much of an upgrade is this from an Athlon 64 3500+ (single core)? I'm only looking to get another year or so out of this PC and I just upgraded my graphics card to a 6800XT for pretty cheap for the same reason. Is this worth doing for me?

There was a skid of about 30 sitting at my local best buy... no one was buying them and that was Monday evening, they had been there since Sunday morning.

Can anyone point me in the direction of snagging this coupon? I'm hesitant to pay for it at auction when my CC may not except it. I'd appreciate any help.