Recent content by Wynder

That helped out a bit. :) I dropped the RAM speed down to 166 and was able to get up to 220mhz FSB... 230 locked things up, so I think I might be limited in some way there by hardware.

Greetings, folks... Recently got a new board and CPU... MSI Neo2 SLI and an X2 3800+ (OCZ 2x1gb memory)... I haven't used AMD and haven't needed to OC since I built my last machine a few years back. Having not kept up, I'm not too familliar with the terminology these days, so I was hoping...

Not right away.. perhaps in the future, though... I was originally looking at the ABIT AN8-ULTRA Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 Ultra ATX AMD Motherboard http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813127212 because it's on sale today at newegg... It's $119 and seems to have everything I need.

So, just to clarify... anything that's Socket 939 should be able to run X2's? Looking on newegg, the DFI boards list compatability with FX/64/Sempron... don't know if that's because they might've been listed before the X2's came out or what.

I've got a PCI SB Live! I've been using for a while, so I figure there's nothing wrong with recycling a little bit of hardware (as I'm doing with my DVD Burner), so... it's not too big of an issue... It's an original SB Live! (not the 'Value' just the original Live!), so if there was something...

Dropping down to a 3800+ only saves me $90... that lets me afford a 480W TPII or 80% of that case you mentioned. :) There are a few things I have to go cheapo on in order to actually have the funds to purchase all of this... Can't be the RAM, Motherboard or Video Card... The hard drive is $56...

This is the motherboard I'm currently considering... http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16813130492 Mainly because, as Phreak pointed out, it has onboard Creative as opposed to integrated sound, to help with performance. I'm doing in-game coding and design -- the...

All of my backups are stored server-side, so I'm not really worried about backups... though, if that's the case, I'll probably look at picking up the 80G Samsung SpinPoint. So it looks like I might be going with... X2 4200+ K8N Neo4/SLI (If it's in stock next week) 2gb OCZ RAM eVGA...

I may do that, depending on how much trouble I'd be in with the wifey... if I need to scrap $95 or so, I may drop down.

According to you: "It will do nothing for you except improve large file transfers slightly." We have a unique technology where all updates are done streaming, on the fly and, as I've mentioned, the files can be huge -- so, if what you say is correct, I think I will benefit Checking out...

Because with our development client we're dealing with some pretty massive textures and files until things get closer to release when we start optimizing. Looking at benchmarks, it looked like the 4000+ was outperforming the 3800+ in a lot of areas -- is there something out there I missed...

How's this motherboard? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813130484 I'm really leaning towards the 4000+ at this point -- with regards to RAID, it's technically a personal machine and I'll be throwing in my old PATA drives for backup storage, but I'm really looking for...

Looking at that board I see it doesn't support SATA II which is something I'd like to take advantage of. As for the case and PSU, I'm actually looking at these instead: SUNBEAM Samurai IC-SA-SI Silver Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case...

Thanks! Fixed. :) Out of curiosity, why the 6800GT over the X850?

Hey there, folks... I'm building a new machine and I'd like to hear any thoughts or opinions on which might be a better selection between these two cards: eVGA 256-P2-N376-AX Geforce 6800GT 256MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814130215...