I am really torn between 2 boards. This one and the new one from Abit the IP35. It has the same chipset obviously. But does anyone have any advice between the 2? I heard Abit and their bios updates leave something to be desired. How is the Gigabyte people when it comes to bios updates? Also over...
Do you see a difference with these athlon x2's by going over 2 gig memory? If you remember the old athlon single cores with their memory controller on the cpu actually sometimes slowed down with over 1 gig memory. Has this been corrected with the dual cores? where it would be beneficial with...
I gave thought to the AM2 socket when i was phrasing this question. But here is the thing. When the quad cores hit they are going to be unaffordable for the time being. It will take 6-8 months before prices come down and they are available to us. Than AMD is gonna see bugs in their first...
I am going to go the LCD route for computer monitors in the next few days. My choices are down to 2 of them right now. I am either going with 2 LG L226WTQBF 22" monitors or 1 Sharp Aquos LC-32D42U. Monitors will be used by wife and mostly with Adobe Photo Shop and Illustrator. Some gaming will...
Thats exactly what I was trying to avoid when i created this thread by saying i used all AMD the past 6 years for all my builds. Did not want to seem partial to Intel when this thread was created. By by alll intensive purposes it looks like intel bested AMD this trip. I am just after the best...
Yeah Dell is outrageous when it comes to that extra 2 gig of ram. They want $270 for 2 extra gig to make it 4 gig total. That is just outrageous pricing. Because if i am not mistaken they still use regular crucial ram. And 2 gig can be obtained for well under $100 from newegg. Guess they figure...
Not a problem about the dimm slots from the looks of it. The Dimension I am looking at is upgradeable to 4Gb ram off their shopping website 4 dimms total at 1 gb each. I think the only time you run into trouble with that is when you buy their or other companies sub $400 computers.
Thanks for posting those benchmarks. I never saw those when looking up some others. It looks like the Core 2 Duo outperforms the Athlon by a good margin.
Both end up totaling $859 after the coupon. Kind of odd they ended up the same price. 2 gig ram/2 dimms in both. Onboard graphics til the new card goes in. the 859 also includes a dell 22" monitor. dual dvd drives. Will probably add another 2 gb ram to it when it arrives within 6 months.
What is anyones preference between these 2 builds? The box will be used by my wife. Will mainly be used for Adobe Photo shop and Adobe Illustrator. Some gaming and some video work. I used to build all my own computers. But when seriously looking at pricing it is sometimes especially with coupons...
Just wanted to let everyone know I upgraded my bios tonight to 1004-001 Beta. I am restarting fine and am not hanging. It goes right back into Windows without any issues so far. I was not able to use the 1003 release at all as the computer would not even restart. Did not even need a cmos clear...
Dam this is small. Anyone try it and does it resolve some of the issues regarding Maxtor hard drives/NCQ?
http://usa.asus.com/support/do...-SLI%20Deluxe&Type=All
Under wireless security I am running pre-shared key. WPA Algorithms TKIP Group Key Renewal: 3600 seconds. Is this an ok security setting in a residential neighborhood? I just do not want unwanted access to the wireless router. With the radius settings I did not get what tp enter for the key...
Unfortunately no. All I have is another dual rail that came from the pack with the 6800 GT from Chumbo. The one thing about the OCZ is adjustable rails though. Everything is green and ok. Does not seem underpowered at all. That would really suck though. As much as this PSU cost and have it be an...
Well i have it back up and running. I went back to bios 1002. Cleared the CMOS and working fine. This is really pissing me off with Asus. Is there an issue with this drive or what? They have to know there is an issue with their bios and certain hardware. I was running the final version of 1003...
I have a problem with my A8N-SLI. It has to be either the mobo or the Maxtor 250 GB SATA hard drive. The problem originally started shortly after the computer was put together, But I thought I had it resolved. I turn the computer on. Computer goes through it's boot sequence. Will go to insert...
Just this side of heaven is a place called Rainbow Bridge.
When an animal dies that has been especially close to someone here, that pet goes to Rainbow Bridge.
There are meadows and hills for all of our special friends so they can run and play together.
There is plenty of food, water and...
I was going to go Raptors and because of the price I said the hell with it. I went with the Maxtor 250 GB SATA drive with the 16 MB Buffer It has NCQ/SATA II and from what I have heard is dam near as fast as the Raptor due to the 16MB buffer.
I just bought the power bundle from Chumbo. thank you so much for the link. I was getting real close to buying one from the scum bag gougers at Monarch. Major hats off to the guys at Chumbo for playing pretty dam nice regarding price compared to all the other companies out there. Now I have to...
The drive bay that comes with the platinum version raises some questions for me. I may order it tonight. The headphone, Microphone and firewire port connections and any other connection it has. Do these have to be plugged into the mobo connections? Does the drive bay options just plug into the...
I just went thru something similar. PSU was ok. 24 pin and 4 pin power connectors were connected ok. Chipset fan was ok. Have a xp90 cpu cooler with a thermaltake fan on it. would only start at low rpm, Not increase when the hard drive signal come on. What it turned out to be was my sata cable...
I am very happy with this baord. 3200+ cpu all running at stock settings right now because I have not had time to play enough. CPU one time easily went to 2.4 ghz on air just with the fsb setting.
The onboard sound on this board is absolute crap. Why Asus allows this crap on their board is beyond me. I am also thinking about putting in a Audigy 2ZS sound card. Any sound card would be an improvement over this.
Yeah stev it is. Just can not for the life of me figure out why on 3D mark I do not get categorized with the 6800 GT's. Plus the fact I am kind of pissed off about Computer HQ seling me an overseas card and not stating this card was made to be used overseas.
I bought a XFX 6800 GT PCI-E video card from Computer HQ on 12/28/04. The model # is PVT45GUDF7.
When I looked online for information about this card I could only pull up UK sites. I take it this card was made overseas or for overseas use. It benchmarked at over 11,000 so good there. When...
Is this the best overall sound card out there right now. I have the Asus A8N-SLI board and am not happy with realteks setup. The Audigy 2ZS LE gamer is also available for $30 more. Looks like the same card except you get 5 games with it. The games are not that important anyway. I have Logitech...
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