Recent content by natopotato2

reformat should do it(bootwipe the drive too, just to be certain). trashman, while it does go against the conventional wisdom, i have experienced a few probs caused by drivers that theoretically should not have been. i've only seen it happen with gainward cards with the gainward drivers. it's...

test that gainward card in another rig before you RMA it. my friend had an odd problem with his gainward GF2 Ti and it's drivers. ran fine in my rig but put it back in his and it was screwed. it was fixed by a low level format of the hard drive(bootwiped it too). might want to try that and see...

a bios flash is worth a shot. another thing you could try is a different vid card and/or monitor, i doubt the problem lies with either component, but if you have a few extras collecting dust you could give it a try.

but the rating IS justified. it does run at 1.6ghz. that is all AMD said it would run at. the 1600+ is no different, AMD specs it to run at 1.4ghz nothing more. if the 1600+ OC's better than the 1900+ AMD is not deciving anyone to the scale of a lawsuit. AMD makes no promises about any stepping...

not hot yet, but i think that ATI will be able to/will cut the price futher than they would have been able to with the 8500. that said, wait and see if the 9000 hits ~$50-60 or better yet when/if the pro hits ~$60-70 edit: hopefully card-makers will do what they did with the GF3 Ti200 and put...

2 things steve: 1st off, your comment "I do not see any reason to believe that slower labeled AMD CPU of Palomino core would be faster or equal to a faster clock labeled AMD Palomino CPU." i think shows that you are pretty inexperienced in the "overclocking arts" if you will. in general, as a...

steve, i'm not sure if you're seeing my arguement. i'm saying that as long as a chip runs at the specified speed, at the specified voltage then i'd say there is nothing deceptive about that. also, it is to my knowledge that demand is higher for the lower end chips, so a 1600+ getting "rebadged"...

how is AMD deceiving customers by selling them a chip that runs at the speed it is specified to? the 1900+ buyers, they knew what they were getting and they got it, they recieved a 1.6 GHz athlon XP. AMD does NOT condone OCing(at least not publicly) and therefore, makes no garuntees or statments...

i think garyboz hit the nail right on the head(in the post a few up from this one). excellent post gary. as for you steve, i'm not quite sure what your problem is or why you want to make weak, malinformed arguements, only to anger more knowledgable people. you seem very ignorant of just how...

if this thing doesn't have to perform fast, the SiS 730s is still the cheapest solution around and it's rock solid. here is what i priced out at newegg.. FOXCONN SUPER CASE MID TOWER CASE ATX3400-P4 $35 AOPEN CD-952E 52x CDROM - RETAIL...