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SB roll call...

My pc in sig died last week. While it's a major annoyance, thank goodness for my 9 year old Dell Inspiron 8100 laptop!, I'm waiting until "SandyBridge Day" aka Jan. 9th. p.s. Yeah, I kind of take my time upgrading. As a married guy with a 4-year old daughter the min pc requirement for Plants...
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- Post #58
- Dec 21, 2010
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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When are the new 45nm AMD CPUs due?

Here's the processors I was talking about. http://www.anandtech.com/cpuch...howdoc.aspx?i=3572&p=1 Looks like Anand says they should be here in a week or two on NewEgg, which is still too long to wait for my friend. Ended up ordering the following last week. $98 - 64 X2 7750 & OCZ 4GB RAM...
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- Post #23
- Jun 2, 2009
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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When are the new 45nm AMD CPUs due?

I'm starting a budget build for a friend, $250 for Processor/Board/RAM, and just realized that the new 45nm AMD CPUs are due shortly. Does anyone know HOW soon? If it's only a week, maybe 2, I could hold off. Otherwise I'll just start building now.
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- Thread
- May 28, 2009
- Replies: 22
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Replace 939 Board or build new?

While it took a SECOND PCI-Express to two Molex power adapter to get the video card up I am quite happy with the results. Bioshock now flies at 1600 x 1200, which is the max my monitor supports, where before it stuttered a little with the 3850. That's not to say that I don't still have...
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- Post #37
- Mar 25, 2009
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Replace 939 Board or build new?

The Foxconn motherboard, and a 4870 PCI-Express video card, did the trick and everything is up and running. Thanks for the input and help.
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- Post #35
- Mar 24, 2009
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Replace 939 Board or build new?

A lot of this just came down to economics. I was having trouble finding an AGP based S939 board so when I was pointed to the Foxconn by Geezerman I thought 'what the heck'. I am confident my 3850 AGP will sell for $100, and I still needed to sell my old x800xt. So between the two I could...
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- Post #34
- Mar 16, 2009
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Replace 939 Board or build new?

I wonder if a couple people here might have purchased the Foxconn board as well? I went back to make the purchase and of the 3 or 4 boards, from $36 guy last night, only 1 was left! I'm going to go out and get a 4850 to pair with this board, sell the old x800xt and 3850 (AGP), and then when...
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- Post #28
- Mar 14, 2009
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Replace 939 Board or build new?

For the sake of posterity for the curious I decided to go the Foxconn Motherboard route. A guy is actually selling it for $36 shipped! What finally pushed me over the edge was finding out when I got home that my Wii won't power on as well (It was downstairs on a surge protector so I don't know...
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- Post #24
- Mar 13, 2009
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Replace 939 Board or build new?

@Bonesdad - My '21 monitor has a max resolution of 1600 x 1200 and I'm able to play Bioshock without much of a glitch at that setting. Beyond that I play, or played, WoW, Left 4 Dead, Warhammer, and some others. While I can't play Crysis or any other big names it's good enough for me a married...
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- Post #21
- Mar 13, 2009
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Replace 939 Board or build new?

Thanks for the research on the motherboards. This morning I was leaning towards a complete upgrade but now I'm wondering about getting the Foxconn board. For $60 it's worth a flyer. Granted I'd still have to replace the video card, but moving off AGP wouldn't be such a bad thing. Then I'd...
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- Post #17
- Mar 13, 2009
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Replace 939 Board or build new?

Good morning, While I was away on vacation I think my motherboard was fried by lightning through the Ethernet Cable. While I can't be 100% positive, I'm pretty sure if I replace the board my system will start up and run fine. Should I just try to find a Socket 939 motherboard, which I'm...
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- Thread
- Mar 12, 2009
- Replies: 37
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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HELP: Hear PC power up, without familiar beep, and no video!

Would you recommend I do that by Clearing the CMOS, since I can't see any video output?
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- Post #3
- Mar 11, 2009
- Forum: Computer Building
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HELP: Hear PC power up, without familiar beep, and no video!

I went away on vacation and, before I left, unplugged the surge protector to my computer from the wall. When I got home I plugged the surge protector back in but the computer won't power up properly. Happy signs: The fans to the PSU, CPU, and Video card all spin I can hear the hard drive...
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- Thread
- Mar 11, 2009
- Replies: 3
- Forum: Computer Building
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AGP 3850 - Does brand matter?

Good morning, Should I care what AGP 3850 brand I get? The Hightech is $25 more than the Sapphire and I wasn't sure it was worth the price difference. With an OC'd Opty 170, 2.4GHz, 2GB of RAM, I'm confident my system can fill the 3850 needs. Gameplay includes Left 4 Dead, Team...
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- Thread
- Dec 31, 2008
- Replies: 9
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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2 sticks or 4 sticks

I am currently running the system in my sig, and have recently purchased 2 x 1GB sticks of DDR Ram. I seem to recall that speeds of a sytem are slower when using 4 sticks of RAM versus 2 sticks of RAM. So, as the Topic Summary mentioned, should I stay with 2 x 1GB. Or would adding the...
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- Thread
- Sep 26, 2008
- Replies: 3
- Forum: Memory and Storage

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