Recent content by swillfly

Doh! You're absolutely right! I was fooling around with my new monitor and noticed that there are various color settings and I vaguely recall setting it to "Gaming" instead of "Standard" Preset mode. After I set it back to Standard everything appears normal (bright) without the annoying...

I can duplicate this problem in Internet Explorer. I browse to any webpage -mostly white background pages with a scrollbar. As I scroll down at various points the screen dims then readjusts and becomes noticably brighter. Also dims sporadically on the desktop with nothing running occasionally. I...

I just built a new rig and the cpu seems ok but the motherboard seems a bit hot and I can feel heat coming up off mostly from the gpu and southbridge area. Nothing is overclocked and the memory is running at 1333. Here are my specs: Phenom II X4 Gigabyte GA-790XT-USB3 4GB G. Skill DDR3 MSI...

Over the years I have noticed many fancy and cheap cases with something they all seem to share in common: Neglect for the front panel ports/miniboards which have USB, 1394, audio, etc. Nobody really pays much attention to these little boards which typically are about the size of the last...

I picked up this cheap case ($30) from Fry's recently for my new rig. You definitely get what you pay for. Somehow I'll get this to work as I'm on a budget -but I foresee labor involved. Raidmax's website has zero information on this case that apparently they made at some point in time. I...

I read somewhere that I can make my SATA HDD use AHCI in BIOS instead of IDE upon a clean install of (in my case) Win7 64bit. I'm not sure that I want to do a clean install with AHCI because of the cons versus pros that I've read online while googling. AMD PhenomII x4 955 Gigabyte...

Unnhh... I try not to think of the past. Nowadays if you were to talk to some younger guy about Loderunner, Infocom text adventures, Atari 2600, etc. they look at you like you're an alien. If you're a relic gamer like me you'd even remember those handheld Mattel LED sports games of the 70's...

M&B is a Blast!! I'm currently playing it on my POS with the lowest graphics settings, and no music (only way I could play it on my POS). It still is Awesome despite all my necessary low settings. I picked up the single player Mount & Blade for $7.98 brand new in the box from Half Price...

HAD?!? lol My POS pyooter I'm currently -and have been using for many, many years- is socket A. Years ago when I first built it -it was the bomb. Now it's a dessicated turd that wouldn't run Oblivion, Half Life 2, or a bazillion other games I own but cannot play. The ancient POS...

I did my research and you guys are correct. :thumbsup: An AMD Phenom II X4 will be at the best consumer price point per processing power for me instead of a core i3, i5, or i7 based system. I would opt for a Phenom II X2 or X3 except that my lousy luck is so astronomically poor that I do not...

Thanks guys! This sheds more light on assembling my next rig. I'm not biased either way for/against either Intel/AMD. You're absolutely right Chapbass: I wouldn't know or care what the guts were inside my pc. Only time it comes into play is whether or not I paid too much. GPU and RAM seem...

I don't plan on gaming at 1024x768 -it's just the a resolution that my current POS can handle comfortably. I have no idea what a decent resoultion is nowadays for gaming. Reason why I was thinking LGA 1156 is because of shiny upgrade option for the Core i7 860 that Anand wrote about here...

I am looking to order pieces-parts and assemble a halfways decent gaming pc with a chunk of my income tax refund which I'll get in the next week. I'll probably drop $500 to $700 US on a pyooter. I'd love some recommendations/useful input. Here's what I was thunking: cpu Intel Core...