Recent content by teng029

haven't actually tried this myself, but.. compusa has the turtle beach on sale for 39.99 (no rebate required). circuit city has the same sound card for 79.99 minus a 30.00 rebate = 49.99. now since circuit city does price matching, you can take the compusa ad and get the santa cruz for 39.99 via...

The K7S5A has a very limited BIOS. I had one of these boards and from what I remember, it would not let you adjust the FSB, I don't remember there being a whole lot of options for RAM timing either. As for the problems with the K7S5A itself, I remember a PC i built using this board that had...

While it has never been Intel's practice to manufacture an enthusiast's board, times maybe changing. I found this as part of Anand's reviews of the new 845PE based motherboards. It's Intel's first attempt at an enthusiast's board. http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.html?i=1723&p=4

You are correct, dual channel RDRAM is 16bit (the very reason they have to be installed in pairs). I got em confused. In any case, I guess what that press release was saying is that Intel finally officially supports the PC1066 RDRAM with its new "enhanced" 850E chipset. I mistakenly thought...

From what I 've been reading, only the 3.06 and higher CPUs will have HT enabled. As far as motherboards go, provided that they can support the higher P4s, enabling HT is only a matter of a BIOS update. What I'm not sure off is if HT is limited to the Intel P4 chipsets only, or if chipsets...

Dual channel RDRAM I believe is 32bit RDRAM, or RIMM 4200 (1066) and RIMM 3200 (800). Dual channel RDRAM offers the same(?) or greater bandwith than the current 16bit RDRAM. It also means that they do not have to be installed in pairs. Since Intel took so long to validate dual channel RDRAM...

After hours of trying to get my board to work properly, I decided that its just too much of a hassle and returned the board. Not one to give up so easily, I decided to exchange it for another one, hoping that I would get a stable board. Just in case the set up was power starved, I decided to...

Does anyone have this particular board running stable? I was going to upgrade my system to this board and RIMM4200, but so far i've had nothing but problems with this setup. I tried flashing the BIOS, disabling as many of the onboard peripherals as i can, but to no avail. I can't even load...

got mine yesterday..... electronics boutique has UT2003 for 39.99 plus a 10.00 mail in rebate. i got it at the local mall so i'm not sure if the same deal is available online.

deciding when to upgrade is very tricky to say the least. considering the speed computer technology moves these days, it's almost a guarantee that by the time you decide to upgrade, the newest technology is just around the corner. it does sound like you are convincing yourself that you need an...

After going through three different boards for my P4 setup, I finally decided on this and I haven't been disappointed. My only knock on it at this point is that its relatively expensive compared to other P4 boards. As far as performance goes, this board is fast and stable. The DDR400 option...

Has anyone experienced random lock ups with the Abit KG7 RAID and Athlon XPs? I have this combination (1800+ version) and sure enough as soon as I get to Windows, the PC locks up. I've already done all the necessary upgrades to no avail. Abit for its part is no help whatsoever. All AMD would...