I sprang for an Athlon 64 3000+ (because i am a college student and going any higher cuts into food supply) with the K8T Neo from MSI with 1gb of ram. This is an upgrade from a 1.4ghz Tbird... yes, i know that is sad... but so far i have been pleasantly pleased with all the new features, such as Coo...
The only thing about Tom's that is somewhat "fishy" is the fact that in the same benchmarks used at other sites, Tom's results always produce a faster Intel result. It just seems that Tom's is the only one that favor's Intel and in some ways uses words that poke at AMD at times. Also, Tom's has writ...
Its for games, i already have the Geforce 4 Ti 4600 and i am upgrading a few parts at a time, i am on a limited budget, but i like to stay reasonably on top of things. I also do some video editing and restoration but for the most part, its for games. I know that the Athlon 3000+ is a bit more power ...
They are not trying to rob us yet! They still make a good product minus the 5800. Anymore repeats of that and i may start to question nVidia's focus on customers.
That is the power of the Internet. 12 year olds across the world can voice their opinions of racism, malice, and just about anything they can say to get a rise out of people for attention. The best thing to do, and i say this from actually getting into to it with someone only to find out that i was ...
its tricky, but you can set up VPN connections to your friends so you can even map network drives. Then making a LAN game will be seen by everyone connected to you.
The thing that people fail to realize is that the low scores are necessary. When 3dmark updates their product, scores go down, its that simple. The scores will go up when there are faster cards available. The reason is that they are using more complex visual effects that will bring down most of toda...
My buddy just got the MSI K7N2G-ILSR, the fully loaded nForce2 board. It is pretty sweet, its got EVERYTHING. Only had it for a day, but it hasnt crashed once That is in my opinion the sweetest nForce2 board.
i guess i could add the 7 computers at my house and the other 5 where i work, i was doing seti before, but i think i could help out the ol' techie-report for a while
I bought an OEM 1.4ghz thunderbird over a year ago from newegg, and i haven't had a problem with it. The point is, processors for the most part don't just "go bad" they may get fried from overclocking, or arrive dead because of poor shipping, but if you plug it in and it works, then you will be fine.
Notebooks are usually about 10 - 20% slower than that of a desktop with the same specs. Poor subsystems usually create bottlenecks that can hamper a laptops performance. The only usable condition a laptop can be used in is when its plugged in. I have a 1 ghz p3 laptop and when its plugged in, its fi...
Does it say that they are disconnected or do the drives themselves just disappear? If they just get disconnected, it probably means that you rebooted one the machines when the other one wasnt on. I have the same setup and i never "lost" a drive unless the machine i was connecting to was off. And yea...
Hey, RadioShack isnt that bad... They carry the great brand of HP now... Actually, i do get pretty pissed sometimes because i get 25% off all the stuff and they mark their products up 40%. So... i guess i save money in the end? Or do i? Because i could buy ANYTHING they sell online for cheaper AFTER...
Ok, i am gonna admit the sad truth, i work at Radioshack. I am in school working part time and i do know what i am talking about. Yeah the prices are high and everything, but this is business, and its high priced everywhere. About your Artic Silver, why would Radioshack be motivated to carry it? It ...
Linux on the desktop is a lost cause. It is just not a feasible alternative at this point. I am not saying that linux as an OS is bad, just not good for the desktop. As far as lockups go, EVERY windows OS has lockups, including 2k. Just have to deal with it till Microsoft switches cores.
Yes, i have been pissed about paper launches from all sorts of manufacturers. Unfortunately, nVidia is no exception. However, when the product comes out, they have ALWAYS delivered. NV30 shouldnt be an exception unless TSMC has really had problems with the .13 micron process and just cant get good y...
There are no issues with AMD processors and ANY operating system. There are hardware issues that are rare, but i would say if there would be any issue, it would be with ATI drivers.
As far as ATI goes, I'm sorry but they have a long way to go to convince me that they have cleared up some of their bugs. My buddy just bought a 9700 and he is gettin all kinds of memory address errors and such, directly related to the driver. He told me that if he had it to do over again, he would ...
ATI is "on top" as far as performance goes right now, but i wouldnt be caught dead with an ATI card. I have purchased 3 ATI products and every single one had some stupid quirky driver issue that made a good product go down the tubes. One of my buddies just bought a brand-spankin new 9700 and he cant...
What you all are forgetting is that Intel is also at its 6 year low. So is EVERYONE in the tech sector of the stock market. AMD is simply riding the wave of the market, when everyone else recovers, so will AMD. That is why i am buying a bunch of it as soon as it starts back up.
I personally dont have any problems with Windows XP, been using it for almost a year. My beef with Windows is the big push to control content such as if you rip a cd on one computer, you CANNOT transfer to another one and listen to the music. This is not a problem yet, but in the next releases, it w...
Yes, the rumors are correct about Barton using both 166mhz bus. The only chipsets that "officialy" support it right now would be the Via KT400 and the nForce 2. All the comparable chipsets might support it with a Bios flash. If u want integrated, i would get the nForce 2, its got everything you woul...
I am 35% Geek<BR><a href="http://www.fuali.com/test.aspx?id=103" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.fuali.com/pix/103/2.gif" border="0"></a><BR>You probably work in computers, or a history deptartment at a college. You never really fit in with the "normal" crowd. But you have friends, and this is ...
Anymore repeats of that and i may start to question nVidia's focus on customers.
That is in my opinion the sweetest nForce2 board.