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    what to do with this extra parts?

    Today i decided to do a little closet clean-up and what do you know, i found more than enough decent parts to make a whole new low-medium range PC =) . parts: CPU- AMD athlon 64 3500+ s939 MB- ECS K8T890-A RAM- 512mb pc 3200 GFX- ATI radeon x1800xt PE 512mb Sound- Creative...
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    Help choosing Mobo and Ram

    Oh i meant RAm instead of CPU. My mistake.
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    Help choosing Mobo and Ram

    Today i gathered up 400$ to to buy a motherboard and RAM so far i was opting for this GIGABYTE GA-X38-DS4 Motherboard and 2x of This WINTEC AMPX 4GB Ram [8gb mainly for media editing & future proofing]. These are my entry choices so far. * im looking for a mobo with x2 pci 2.0 & crossfire...
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    Help choosing Mobo and Ram

    Today i gathered up 400$ to to buy a motherboard and CPU so far i was opting for this GIGABYTE GA-X38-DS4 Motherboard and 2x of This WINTEC AMPX 4GB Ram [8gb mainly for media editing & future proofing]. These are my entry choices so far. * im looking for a mobo with x2 pci 2.0 & crossfire...
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    Guys who flashed their MSI X1800XLs to X1800XTs

    i flashed my x1800xl 512mb to x1800xt pe BIOS 3 months ago and so far everything looks good, but in your case the problem you are having is normally caused by overheating, so try to run the fan @ 100% and keep ur case ventilated ;)
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    Guys who flashed their MSI X1800XLs to X1800XTs

    sry...for double post
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    Crisis System Req

    i hate that ppl are so rushed to meet these qeuiremenst like crisys is a super game i means its only a shoting game with a littlw more eye candy, dam!
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    stay with ATI's own drivers or use DNA drivers

    man sry for no catching up with this thread anyways, last time i used 3rd party drivers, i noticed that they have a nasty habit, which is that they mess up my VIVO chip ID and then i cant install VIVO's drivers even when i try to install the ones from ATI, so im still devating if to use them...
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    stay with ATI's own drivers or use DNA drivers

    Hello , i been using my x1800xt pe with ATI's own drivers (6.6) but then the DNA dirvers cough my eye and im wondering if i should use them, im still debating because the latest DNA drivers are based on ATI 6.1 drivers, which is kinda outdated, so what you ppl say?
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    ATI's new HSF

    i think ATI's new cooling solutions are gonna be like HIS's but way cooler looking :)
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    games settings on x1800xt PE 512mb

    Hello, i have this x1800xtPE, and i was wondering if would lag if i set some games (BF2, CSS, HL2, CoD2.....etc) at 1200x1600 at all high.
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    p1ssed off at loading crash *common prob*

    today i just freshly intsalled windows XP and updated it, along with latest drivers; now i installed BF2, then SF,armored fury, Euro forces, and full patch 1.3, after that every time im half loading the game, the damn game closes and dumps me back into desktop, i'm really p1ssed off at this...
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    My Accelero X2 for my X1800XL is here!

    i bought the accelero x2 a short while and the reason that is not doing "wonders" is because you gotta let the paste "bed in" (become hard), it takes time for this to happen like a month or so, after the paste has bed in, in ur gpu, the paste will be used at it full performance and you are gonna...
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    Oblivion Pics

    ah i always had Oblivon but never installed it (yes i hate myself) but now that i seen these kind of quality im very impressed i wonder in my x1800xt pe 512mb (700/800) could handle those setting at a little lower resolutions.
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    problems when installing CCC

    Hello i have this x1800xl 512mb flashed to xt pe, everything runs good but when it comes to installing CCC from ati website, i get a pop-up in the middle of the install saying "ZERO DISPLAY SERVICE ERROR", but then i just click OK and everything installs normal, this didnt happened right after i...
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    Want your X1800XT (PE) to run cooler at idle? Use this bios.

    pls someone try this BIOS out, because my x1800xt pe give me temps of idle 49C and load 67C in an accelero x2, so i think they are a little high.
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    what to get with 180$

    well i have the logitech x 530 5.1 speakers pic
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    what to get with 180$

    well this PSU came from a dual Intel Xeon server, and it has never failed on me or fried any of my hardware, oh an lol its an "Coolermaster".
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    what to get with 180$

    Hello i just sold 1 of my 3 video cards and i got 180$ , now im devating to save till vista or dx10, or to get something for my pc now, if its to get something for my pc, what could it be? curent specs: AMD athlon 64 3500+ (2.5ghz) 2 gigs of pc 2700 x1800xt PE (700/800) h/s Accelero x2...
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    x1800xt voltage: whats safe on air, stock cooling

    to be more accurate , the sapphire BIOS runs it at 1.48v for what i seen in rivatuner's graph.
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    DX9 Update

    it may be a small update for direct x, but still, "having latest is always better".
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    help on pricing video cards.

    Hello this is my first post here :). i have an extra ATI radeon x800pro 256mb, x850CF 256mb, and a x1800xl 256mb. the max i used any of them was a month; so what price should i put on all of them? My goal is to have enough money for a x1900xtx or save for a directx10 card.
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    X1800XT fan speeds 100%

    dont worry, the fan was made to run at 100%(like any other pc fans), ATI just lowered the speeds because of the jet noise.