Recent content by sodamninsane

vista re-installed. It's only got a gig which I thought would be fine... vista runs great without all the dell crap + random other junk that it came with... I was actually suprised... I've messed around with it on the internet and stuff.. just can't believe that vista takes up 700 meg of ram at...

Got a new dell 531s AMD Based desktop for my g/f's parents today in the mail. Fired it up and vista is a royal pain in the butt.. It hogs so many resources and is just plain unfriendly to people who aren't computer savvy that I would really like to drop it off to them with XP installed instead...

well I'm going to try and jump my current system to x64 and see how everything works out before building a new box. Sounds like things are going to change quite a bit before I take the plunge... Thanks guys.

Thanks lightning thats pretty much the info I was looking for. Can anyone explain a little bit about multiple core CPU's and how they are utilized by current OS's? I know for instance that the cell processor in a ps3 is essentially a terrible waste of time because realtime apps cannot utilize...

Preface: I am just starting to research building a new computer, but have been out of the game for about 3 years since I built my last system. IN that time I feel so much has changed that I'd like to be brought up to speed rather than trying to fish through everything on my own. 1. Usage...

whole unit. I've got 3 other fans on the case... it's running 114 right now at almost idle while i'm typing this in a 70 deg room... maybe a little cooler...

yes, and I pulled the heat sink off and cleaned it with alcohol and then applied the artic silver 5... also removed the chip and cleaned it too...

Just as the title says... I've got an AMD XP 64 3500+ Running anywhere from 112-130F depending on the ambient temp. I've had it for almost a year now and when I first got it it would idle around 85-90F, now it's a full 30 deg hotter. I cleaned my case yesterday and reseat'd the chip with...

well I ran it again tonight and got 245 errors after 4 hours of testing. I'd say it's all pretty well F*d. Plus the memory errors span through the whole 1024 megs, not just a 512 mb cluster, so I'm betting it's both sticks. at any rate, i bought em in a dual pack so new egg will replace both :D...

it's called cool n quiet. but i've never used it as of yet. and it doesn't mention the shut down temp as the settings for it are disabled and auto.

finally got around to letting memtest run through it's full test on my box the other day and got a couple of error messages back. they ranged from the 80-81 and 650-652mb ranges on my ram sticks. The ram is Non ECC so I'm wondering if this is just a load error or if I fried it. I'm having...

this is really dumb, but i can't post a new topic. can someone please paste me the link for the new topic button. for some reason it doesn't work on my box... same with the help button.

actually bumped me up like 17 marks on 3dmark03 from sp1 into the 10100 range...

installed and everything works fine... well, almost everything. I've run into some stability problems that I had before SP1. sometimes when i exit games my computer does a complete reboot and windows says that a device driver caused the problem. I'm guessing it's the x800 catalyst drivers but...

Heard bad things about sp2 and I wanted to get it stable, since my gfx drivers required sp1 minimun thats what I went with, so that service pack problems weren't one of my possible glitches in getting everything set up right.