Recent content by poorboy168

  1. P

    best cheap card (under $40) for WOW

    IMO More RAM might be a better bang for the buck. The biggest jump in performance for me playing WOW (pre-TBC) was upgrading from 1GB Ram to 2GB on my laptop (running an ATI 9600) Also why does it only run in windowed mode? I thought that would be even more resource intensive. I've been...
  2. P

    New CPU on Old Bios?

    Thanks for the help guys, tried to see what would happen and it booted and allowed me into the BIOS (0701). It detected the 2160 i put in it but it would give me a CPU test error. It allowed me to flash the BIOS to 1604 using a USB Flash drive and I was all set. Again thanks for the suggestions.
  3. P

    New CPU on Old Bios?

    Hi Everyone, A friend of mine just gave me his ASUS P5B MB after he upgraded. On the ASUS site it says that it can support the current crop of Core 2 Duo CPUs but with a Bios Update. I was hoping to buy a E2180 to put in it and I don't currently have a CPU that fits into it. Now here's the...