Recent content by Salad

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    x800 makes it thru startup, Windows loading screen artifacts...

    I am testing out an Sapphire x800 XT AGP card and I get lines and patterns on the screen. The PC boots up through the loading info fine. When it gets to the XP loading screen the progress bar is messed up. After that the screens have vertical white bands running through them. I have the...
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    DFI LANPARTY nF4 SLi-D Motherboard?

    For what's it's worth a UK website had the lower end Ultra D on a Pre-Order price of 90Lbs that's around $170. The Upper end SLI was about $250. This set of prices sounds reasonable for a new product line. Starting at $250 would be insanity for the low end. I'm all for supporting the Research...
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    Question.. Is this good enough reason to hold off for the msi nforce4 board?

    Just a question... I loooked at your "RiG SiG" and am wondering why you don't just max out your CPU and add an great PCI soundcard for music? That surely would carry you for a while longer. There seem to be great music cards far cheaper that what Creative offers in the retail channel...
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    Athlon 64 3000+ 939 + MSI K8N Neo 2 Plat

    Is your CPU a 90nm? I know a lot of peeps had to update the BIOS to a 1.4 or something in order for the CPU to work properly...
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    Raptor Dilemma

    Hi Guys, First Post...w00t !! I heard that it was better to have the pagefile on a seperate HDD, possibly on it's own partition, than the OS? Next Q: So if I have a RAID 5 array on a 3ware PCI card it is a bad idea to run it on an OC'd system? I was just about to move the array to my...