Recent content by xenxes

Complete scam for referrals. This is the second time I inquired about an "almost too good to be true" rental (Miami Craigslist) and I received the same boilerplate email in response: Wish I could bring a lawsuit for deceptive business practice or something.

I tried tweaking clock speed and all the available options :( no luck, guess I'll have to get a new stick

I have an ASUS 754 K8N-Deluxe motherboard which only houses 3 slots for ram. Been running on: 2x 512mb DDR400 PC3200 Kingston HyperX Just added: 1x 1GB DDR400 PC3200 Corsair Value Select My problem is that my system won't recognize the Corsair stick when I have any of the Kingston ones...

I had the same dillema, for me the only factor was which had the best price/performance ratio at the moment, so obviously I went with the 754. As for 939, the performance increase is marginal. Whatever you do don't buy for future upgradeability, sure there'll be dual-gpus and dual-cpus but...

Well I still can't decide on a motherboard: K8T Neo-FIS2R -> I know this is the fastest VIA chipset what about nF3? I was thinking about the MSI one.. I don't know, I guess they all differ like within 1% in terms of speed

Back at zipzoomfly again for $349. Not only is it up $24 but people are reporting regular 6800's being shipped, specs say: 256-bit GeForce 6800 (325MHz clock) 256MB 256-bit 1.6ns (8x32) DDR3 Memory (550MHz clock - 1100MHz effective) Not sure I want to risk paying $349 for a regular...

Oh no! Not another one of these! I know I know, I spent 5 hours reading the forums but I'm a whore and I want specific suggestions tailored to me. :o Background: poor, lived in a cave for past 2 years, survived on a p4 1.7ghz compaq 64mb radeon 7000 laptop which is falling apart piece by...