I have my cable modem and wireless router downstairs in the office. Upstairs the signal is week. I also am going to start watching unlimited netflix on my my Wii.
However, the wireless signal is weak up stairs.
These were the top rated powerline adapters on newegg.
NETGEAR...
Sweet, thanks for the heads up. There is actually a micro center 10 minutes from my house. Save me some cash.
ditching the H50 CPU cooler.
Going to get Noctua NH-D14 120mm & 140mm SSO CPU Cooler
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16835608018
Go big or go home.
Will be...
Thanks for the well thought out reply. I appreciate the help.
On the PSU I got a little bit carried away. Am going to go with http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817139013 for 150 bucks.
I am going to drop my ram to 8 or 6 gigs.
I've been really flip flopping on the CPU...
My 3.5 year old gaming rig died a hard miserable death. I had just upgraded the video card and switched to 64 bit Win 7 about 6 months ago. So already have an excellent Video card and Win 7 64 bit.
The video card I have is XFX HD-585A-ZNBC Radeon HD 5850 (Cypress Pro) 1GB Black Edition...
Hum, I can't find my COD MW2 folders to copy my player data before I Install WIN 7.
Under :\Program Files\Activision\Call of Duty 4
COD4 is under activision but not COD MW2
Is the player filer under STEAM ?
I am updating my graphics card and my OS to win 7
Backing up all my data (mp3, pictures) to two different USB hard drives. Plus have the date saved online through MOZY.
I am going to put the new OS on the C drive.
Question is, my D drive , where I dump all my pictures and mp3 can I just...
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817341002
I have OCZ GameXStream OCZ700GXSSLI 700W ATX12V SLI Certified CrossFire Ready Active PFC Power Supply - Retail
SO my new thinking is to update vista to Win 7 64 bit. So the 64 bit will see more of the Ram I have. Currently I have 4...
No current system is good and I am happy with it. But I have a small business and CPA said to buy more equipment so I can get better tax deduction for 2009 using section 179.
So I use my gaming computer to do a little work and if I got audited my gaming computer would be up at the office...
Ok, Don't want to do entire rebuild as I am a newbie. I want to give the gaming rig a little more ummph to last a year or two more before I go for my next ulitmate build and go liquid cool.
I would like to:
1. go up to Win 7 and run the 64 bit
2. replace current RAM to maximum amount...
Not an option to have the CDs that came with the computer. I don't think my sister has any of the orginal cds. Sisters computer was a Dell and had some major software issues. Sister had a pirate copy of XP on there before. I bought XP to put on her computer to be legal.
So I guess I need to...
Did a clean install on my sister's laptop of Win XP pro. Everything went smoothly.
But I can't get on the internet. Seems like XP does not recognize the ethernet card or the wireless card.
Any ideas?
Sister has a dell laptop that is about 1.5 years old. She had been running a pirate version of XP Pro. She is having computer problems. Wife is faculty at a hospital and was able to get XP PRO for 30 bucks.
I am going to my sister's house this weekend. For Christmas I got her a 500 gig...
Just built my gmaing rig, put vista 32 ultimate on it. Now need a firewall. In the past used zonealarm and been super happy with it.
What would you suggest I run now?
Software -> Security
-Schadenfroh
So I can get to this on Vista loading. I formated my raptor 150 gig hard drive as that is the one I want to load the Vista on.
I get an error message on the bottome that says:
THIS COMPUTER'S HARDWARE MAY NOT SUPPORT BOOTING TO THIS DISK. ENSURE THAT THE DISK'S CONTROLLER IS ENABLED IN...
How can I partition the Raptor without having an OS to go into and partition the Raptor. The Disk that came wiht the Raptor was for Win Me, Win 98 and XP. Hummm, I guess I could take out the Vista CD and see if the Western Digital CD is a boot disk. I did not think about that since Vista was not...
Here is a list of the main components of my new build:
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600
EVGA 122-CK-NF68-A1 LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 680i SLI ATX Intel Motherboard
4 Gigs of CORSAIR Dominator 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory
150 Western Digital...
First build tonight. Have a computer guy help me build my first gaming rig. We think the power supply is bad.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/...p?Item=N82E16817341002
The fan on the power unit would not work. MB was getting power as a LED on the MB came on. Plugged one of the case fans into...
So I just got this MotherBoard in the mail.
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On the box it says DDR2 800MHZ. Is 800mhz the fastest Ram it is going to recognize. I was going to put 4 sticks Crucial...
Will be ordering a 24 inch wide screen DELL 2407WFP. My first wide screen monitor. Are the newer games being written to support wide screen? I don't want to get the big wide screen then have my games "stretched" to fit the screen.
Looking to get new MOH, then Crysis and COD4.
I am going with Vista , just the 32 bit version. Not all programs,games, drivers are Vista 64 bit friendly right now, correct?
You would put that seagate as the second HD?
MAJOR EDIT OF FIRST POST:
NEW POST:
MAJOR EDIT (edited out my entire first post because I am about to order my parts)
I am about to order from new egg in the coming week. Can you take a look at the parts and give suggestions. The things I am worried about are HD and Ram compatibility...
So researching for my first ever build.
My question to you guys is: Should I get the
Intel Core 2 Duo Processor E6850 (2x 3.0GHz/4MB L2 Cache/1333FSB)
OR
the Intel Core 2 Quad Processor Q6600 (4x 2.4GHz/8MB L2 Cache/1066FSB)
I know quad is going to be the future, but WHEN in a year or...
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