Recent content by rocketman4321

It's beyond time to replace my ancient i5-4670k rig that serves as our home office computer. I will likely keep the new one for at least 5 years--upgrades are not important but don't want to over-limit myself now. Reliability is needed; will not overclock (except as normal for spec'd memory...

1) System is used mostly for home office work (tax prep, spreadsheets), some programming (Python IDE, some ML). Will occasionally game on Civ; would like to move to the new Flight Simulator. Games are <5% use and no FPS/high update rate. Replacing very old system. 2) Budget is $1300-1500...

It's otherwise a stock VAIO RZ. Has a 160 GB PATA hard drive--not sure which. There 2 x 512 sticks of memory. The only change I ever made was to yank the dial-up modem card and put in an ADC HDTV card. But it worked with the 9800pro in that configuration. The PSU is stock, 300W with 17A...

This is the one I meant: http://www.techpowerup.com/atitool/ I ran that after the board install to see which chip I got. It doesn't seem to leave anything behind, but that was the only other change to the config. The ATI driver download package also installs the Catalyst Control Center...

I have a pretty-stock Sony VAIO 3.0 GHz/1 GB. The 9800pro died, and I replaced it with a Sapphire x800pro "blue"/R480. It's stock--not OC'd or piped (yet). Works great, except I can't rotate the display with either the ATI tray tool or the Samsung "magic rotation" software, and the PC won't wake...