I have an Athlon 64 3000+ Winchester (1.8Ghz) CPU on an MSI RS480M2-IL motherboard and a Radeon X800XL PCI-E video card.
I have been working on a couple of PCs, and I swiped a stick of PC3200 DDR out of my main PC to test another system. I was hesitant to button up my main gaming machine...
ASUS is reported to be shipping their new P5RD1-V Radeon Xpress 200 motherboard for socket 939 Athlon 64 processors. This new board is radically different from MSI's (excellent) RS480M2-IL motherboard in a number of ways:
-Lots of overclocking features implemented in system bios
-Full ATX...
Being a bit slow and not terribly alert, I just recently heard that Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory was available as a free download. I downloaded the client and found it to be quite a bit of fun to play. The graphics and sound are solid and the gameplay is fun and fast.
For some reason...
The Inquirer's Article
The Inquirer posted this news story today discussing "issues" between Nforce 3/4 boards and the latest Athlon processors:
"EPOX AND ABIT confirmed our previous news where we reported that Nforce 3 and 4 have some problems with Athlon revision E CPUs. These companies...
I was chatting with an acquaintence about our new system upgrades. He had purchased an Athlon 64 3500+, Gigabyte SLI motherboard, 2Gb DDR400 RAM, and a Radeon X850XT PCI-E video card. He was quite proud of his 3DMark05 score.
I suggested he perform the following calculation:
3DMark05...
Just wondering if anybody out there can make specific recommendations about Xbox Steering Wheels. What should I look at? What should I avoid?
Your input is appreciated!
I bought an MSI RS480M2-IL and an Athlon 64 3000+ a few weeks ago, and as anybody who has read my posts about it already knows, I absolutely love it so far!
The Xpress 200 chipset has been very stable, the boards are loaded with features, and the IGP is actually useful!
I have friends who...
Some friends running Windows 98 on an old PII system asked me about a pop-up blocker to use with their cable modem service. They were running the google pop-up blocker but uninstalled it because "it was too slow."
Anybody have other recommendations they might look at?
I decided to check the status of my online order at the ATI Store for my PCI-E X800XL card this morning. I jumped on the $269 pre-order offer on 2/17/05, hoping that ATI would get these out sooner rather than later following the X850XT PE fiasco. Turns out I was right.
My card shipped on...
McLeodUSA Turbo ADSL business/residential promo
One of the telco's in my area is offering a pretty awesome deal for high-speed DSL service right now. $19.95 per month for 1.5Mb/384K ADSL. ISP services and up to 10 e-mail accounts are part of the basic service.
If you sign a 12-month...
MSI started shipping their RS480M2-IL motherboard recently. It's a Socket 939 Athlon 64 motherboard with a 16x PCI-E graphics slot:
http://www.msicomputer.com/product/p_spec.asp?model=RS480M2-IL&class=mb
ZipZoomFly and a couple of other places have it in stock for about $99. It's...
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