Recent content by Patmage

That crystal LCD that Sony showed off at CES would make the most sense as far as technical aspects go. If they ever make it to market they would likely be crazy expensive. It works fairly similar to OLED and should really be what we call an LED tv (curse marketing for calling led backlight...

Nintendo's philosophy lately has been to sell cheap hardware with a gimmick. With the Wii and DS though they at least passed some of the savings onto the consumer. So far I'm not impressed with the power of the 3DS for that price range and especially not for the tiny battery life that it has...

I know my EVGA cards all carry a lifetime warranty. They even replaced an old 7950x2 with a 9800gt for me awhile back. Is this still the case with the step up plan? If so that probably has to be factored into the dying issue.

I don't know how people can say CoD is the same game over and over again. At least for the PC it has been all downhill since CoD4. WaW was decent, but didn't capture all of the CoD4 glory. The mp40 spam from the hip was excessive. The added zombie mode was a great addition though. MW2 was...

I could be wrong, but I don't think the Sony BRAVIA listed at 120Hz is a true 120Hz. I believe it is just a 60Hz with their "motionflow." So the computer is only going to recognize it as a 60Hz. This is of course unless you got the KDL-60NX810. As for the 1080p part. You should definitely be...

It is important not to forget the m in the model number. As far as the 460m and the 540m are concerned, the 460m is the faster of the two. The 500m series seemed to focus more on lowering the power draw. The 460m probably compares to like a 8800 ultra.

Have you seen any of TiN's zombie cards? He will often hack up old/dead cards for their VRMs. http://kingpincooling.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1095 is an example of what he did with a dead radeon 2900xt.

I used one for a nas/router for awhile. Then I figured for how cheap I could build a better NAS that used less power and took up a quarter of the space it just wasn't worth it. Eventually I ended up putting a lightweight linux install like puppy on it and made it feel fast for awhile. I put...

I'm using easypeasy on my Eee right now. While i hate the name it seems to be working pretty well for me. Currently all i really use it for is some web browsing and as a mythtv frontend(which takes forever to load but plays SD shows rather well). I use to use eeebuntu, which I really liked...

In the bios, under Ai Tweaker did you set the AI Overclock Tuner to X.M.P? If not it defaults to safe speeds for the memory. They cover it in section 3.4 of the manual if you want further info.

Oh you are right. I was confusing bandwidth with base clock speed.

Actually wouldn't PCI-E 1.0 x16 be closer to PCI-E 2.0 x5? 2.5GT/s compared to 8GT/s. Even then you are right with the performance lose though, it is very minimal for anything other then very high resolutions(over 1920x1200) or multi monitor setups.

By doing the exact same thing as the ASUS P7F7-E. It also only has a dual channel memory controller.

I realize that. It is a 1156 socket board designed for Lynnfield Xeons. I only mentioned it to show that it wouldn't be impossible to see a 1155 socket board with 6 ram sockets. It just isn't very likely. Though with Sandy Bridge having a max listed memory support of 32gb and the highest...

I really don't like the locking mechanism it has. It seemed like there was too much lateral friction that it was having a hard time getting under the nub. Mine made a crunching noise as well. I agree with bigi though, anytime i have ever had a BSOD during a windows install was either from a...