Recent content by Zimdesign

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    HTIB for gaming, movies

    I am looking for a good "bang for the buck" HTIB for my medium-sized living room in a duplex. I have a Wii and Xbox 360 (with HD DVD). I have been wanting better sound ever since I moved in 6 months ago and ever since I got Rock Band last week the want has become a need ;) Doing a bit of...
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    RAM upgrade

    I am currently playing Civilization IV: Warlords, Neverwinter Nights 2 and Battlefield 2142. Looking forward to Hellgate: London and Crysis.
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    RAM upgrade

    Can anyone voice their opinion on this for me? I am leaning towards picking up the cheapest name brand 1GB stick I can find locally.
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    RAM upgrade

    I want to add another gig of DDR2 to my E6300 rig. My motherboard has 4 slots and 2 are currently occupied by a kit of 2X512MB sticks. I am wondering if I should purchase another kit and fill out my remaining slots (to stay in dual channel) or save a few bucks and get a single stick of 1GB.
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    Core 2 Duo shows up as single CPU

    I reinstalled Vista again and it does seem to be working, so my guess is that I should install Windows XP from a much more recent CD (such as one that already has SP2) because I have had this CD ever since XP came out lol. My brother-in-law told me he can get educational software licenses for...
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    Core 2 Duo shows up as single CPU

    I checked that... my PC at the office is a Pentium D and has both options (one graph for all CPUs or one each), but on my new rig only one of the two is listed and its greyed out.
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    Core 2 Duo shows up as single CPU

    Hmm, well I made sure ACPI is enabled in the BIOS and I did a repair install of Windows and still no luck. I even installed Windows Vista RC1 and that only shows one CPU also... weird.
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    Core 2 Duo shows up as single CPU

    Thanks Prince13, I will try that when I get home :) Makes sense that it's a BIOS thing, because I have been trying quite a few different settings and tweaks to see what works best with my new system. I might have disabled something by mistake.
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    Core 2 Duo shows up as single CPU

    PG: XP Pro with SP2 installed. tanis: Windows Task Manager, I guess I should download CPU-Z and see what that tells me.
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    Core 2 Duo shows up as single CPU

    Yeah, I have an MSI 965 Neo-F. I installed all the programs that are in the menu that autoruns (they grey out once you've installed them).
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    Core 2 Duo shows up as single CPU

    Hey guys I have a weird problem... when I first installed Windows XP, my new E6300 appeared as 2 CPUs in Windows XP. Since then, I have formatted and reinstalled for an unrelated reason, but now my C2D appears as a single CPU. I am concerned that I am not taking advantage of the second core...
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    MicroATX systems + core 2 duo

    What he said ;)
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    ASRock 775Dual-VSTA

    Awesome, thanks for the reply Gary! I have an old S754 Athlon 64 2800+ with 1GB of DDR400 and a recently-acquired 6600GT OC. I am looking to reuse the video card for sure but I have been leaning towards getting a value 2GB kit of DDR2667 to replace my old RAM if there is a worthwhile difference...
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    ASRock 775Dual-VSTA

    I know this board supports both DDR and DDR2, but is it possible to run a Conroe with regular DDR400 that I already have?
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    Installed new nvidia beta video drivers

    Hey, when I started up HL2: Ep1 for the first time Steam warned me that my graphics drivers were out of date. So before my next session I decided to update to the latest (beta) drivers from nvidia. Now when I boot up in Windows, my screen goes dark (like in sleep mode or something) I hear...