Recent content by wickley

I bought a xfx 7900gt factory OC'd 520. I am getting very respectable performance in Oblivion with my modest Athlon 64 3700+ sandy and 1gb of mismatched single channel ram. The noise isn't excessive, although it is the loudest component in my case now. I have had zero artifacting after...

I bought one at Radio Shack that is a momentary switch, so you do not have to flip it on and off. I too use it when I'm working on a system outside of a case. Of course if you have an old case around you might be able to rip the switch out of it. Joe well if you do that, you need to...

I don't know about performance, but I have a PCI IDE controller I've used for a few years, and the great thing about it is that it's damn easy to move the raid array to a new computer if you upgrade down the road. That alone was worth the price of admission. Moving to another mobo based...

I've just ordered the Enermax Liberty 500W. Great reviews overall. Just have to wait another month for the video card.

According to a few of the power supply calculators online I'll be pushing about 350 for the time being. I was more concerned with the amps on the 12v. There's only one 12v rail and it's rated at 18amps. While the 1K would be an impressive bit of overkill, I'm not going to need that much power...

I've been rebuilding my system lately, and I currently have the following parts for my work in progress: Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe ADM 3700+ (San Diego) w/ stock cooling Lite-On DVD/CD-RW combo drive Hitachi T7K250 250GB 2x256 Mushkin CL2 Thermaltake Armor case Antec True380S (from the Sonata...