Recent content by NeoHC421

One more thing, does anyone have any experience with the Samsung F1 drives? it seemed to get good reviews from tomshardware, but there were some bad reviews on it from newegg customers.... is this something I should be concerned about?

I guess its the same principle as deciding what size RAM to use. I know I will need to upgrade this thing sooner or later (pictures and movies take up too much space)... But perhaps I should calm down and only upgrade as immediately necessary? I guess unless I plan on using a RAID, I don't...

Actually, my future in laws got it for me as a wedding gift... so for me, cost is a significant, but obviously spending more wouldn't be completely out of the question But that was one consideration because for about $30 more, I can get 2x750 but then I would only be left with one HDD slot...

Hey guys, I just got a mac pro (2x quad core 2.8GHz with 8800GT) and am in serious need to upgrade (since upgrades cost a fortune through apple) I just ordered 4GB of FB-DIMM ram but i am still stuck with only a 320GB HDD My question is twofold: 1. would it be better to get a 750GB...

That's the thing... when everything was working (including sound card), it would stay that way less than a few days. I even tried reformatting and reinstalling windows... The entire system isn't that old. I bought everything on black friday I'm beginning to think there is just an...

So I decided to build a budget, small gaming rig. Everything was working fine, and then one time when I booted up my computer, windows freezes and won't finish loading. I tried everything I could, and then I took out the soundcard (creative X-Fi). No problems. I think its odd that at...

why? because when you scope in BF2, you switch resolutions for the kill then you switch back to run away from the enemy tank :) pretty sweet feature if you ask me... main reason why i'm getting one

why? because when you scope in BF2, you switch resolutions for the kill then you switch back to run away from the enemy tank :) pretty sweet feature if you ask me

Ok, so over the weekend I got: AMD x2 4200 Gigabyte m51gm-s2g (micro ATX board) 2GB 5400 DDR2 OCZ Geforce 7900GS x-Fi xtreme Music 160GB 7200 SATA Master Power 350W PSU Since its been awhile since I've made a gaming rig, how'd I do? (all < 600) Also, what do you think the weak...

boo... price is now $204.90 AR but still a great deal, right? aren't prices supposed to get cheaper as it gets closer to BF? ;)

I thought that some dedicated sound cards free up your CPU in some games and lead to increased FPS... That's what I heard, but maybe it doesn't apply to this particular sound card...

what about if i want to possibly game at full res on my 22" 1680x1056 and high settings? what kind of processor/gpu combo would I be looking at?

ATM i'm thinkin a good fry's CPU/mobo combo fitted with a good GPU would do the trick (and at least another stick of ram) The vibe I'm getting is just to buy the best friggin graphics card I can afford... is this the case? when does the CPU become a bottleneck? for these newer games? Thanks

thanks for the advice so far... lol, i wish i had something close... although I have built several machines for other people, my current rig is a piece of junk (athlon 1.0 which at one point i o'clocked to 1.5 with an ORIGINAL Asus GeForce 256 DDR and tons of worthless SDRAM) The only...

Hey guys, I used to be up to date on all computer hardware (back when I played more PC games) but have been out of the loop for awhile. However, after playing BF2 on my friend's rig, I find myself back with the itch... question is, what's the cheapest rig I can build that will get me good...