I have the checkers version, and its all glass. Very fun to play, the gets pretty hard as you get going :) I picked mine up at bed bath and beyond for $20
Lets see why people would want a laptop for gaming...
-Its much more portable than a desktop
-Its almost as powerfull
-and it can be cheaper than a desktop as well, if you go threw dell.
You obviously havent visited notebookforums.com, there are a LOT of people who game on their notebooks...
The board was good, but the refurb x800xl videocard that I got was missing a capacitor. You win some and you lose some but most of the time I order a refurb, it works well and more than half of the time it comes with accessories. Its was a risk that I was willing to take, but after the video...
bump for my results. I went pci-e and got the dfi Ultra D refyrb from newegg. I think the results speak for themselves...
2.7ghz overclock. It failed prime after two minutes though. also this was my first overclock with this board, i dived right in. Once I get my other parts, I will reformat...
I cant wait that long either :(
and Ridefree, I dont want a bottle neck in my system. Im not even sure that board will support my x800xl. I guess I'll use the nforce3 boards
from what ive read the XGP interface is based on the 33MHz PCI bus, not an independent AGP interface. As such, you can't expect much performance out of it. Sure, it'll handle the latest video cards, but at PCI speeds.
edit - though other reviews say otherwise...
I think I spoke to soon. This other bios has seemd to fix the glix that I had. Currently at 2.4ghz, stock voltage.
Motherboard is GA-K8NS Ultra
edit - im fairly sure the motherboard cant go any higher, ill be happy with 2.4ghz
Got mine today. Installing windows right now in my new rig. No problems so far. Temp was being reported as 29c in bios. I should have it oc'ing by the end of the night :D
Mines been in the boxing stage for a little over two days.
For $500 I got
Celeron 1.5
256mb
40GB
8x Dvd player
No network :D
The moment it gets here Im slapping in another 256mb, a cd burner, and the 2200b/g. I may pinmod it too.
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