My sister is buying a new laptop for work (her boss is buying it) and she's interested in the Dell Studio 17. I'm not sure what screen resolution to recommend for her 1440x900 WXGA+ WLED or the 1920x1200 WUXGA with webcam. I've got the Dell XPS M1710 and find 1920x1200 great for gaming but...
I've got a copy of windows vista home premium 64-bit on it's way and this is my first try at a 64-bit OS. What I'd like to know is when I install windows and it searches for hardware updates will it find the correct 64-bit driver version or will it find the 32-bit version?
I know I have to...
still can't get windows to detect the card even after fresh install of windows. it does show multimedia audio controller under other devices in the device manager.
we haven't got the front platinum panel hooked up to the x-fi sound card. could this be the problem? does the card need power...
I've just upgraded my sound card to the Auzentech X-fi Prelude 7.1. I had the Creative X-fi Platinum before. I ended up giving my Creative X-fi card to my brother-in-law and he replaced it with his old Creative Audigy 2 ZS. When we put in the X-fi card in his PC after removing the old Audigy...
What's DOS? Lock-ups during 3D game play with Win-XP. Plus the crackling issue with X-Fi and certain games. I'm also going to switch to Vista OS. What PCI slot would you guys pick???
I've just purchased the above mentioned card. Will I notice a slight improvement on my current setup or will will it be bottlenecked by my current CPU (check my signature for system specs)? I've been sick of the problems with my current crossfire setup and waiting on driver fixes to sort my...
I'm getting rid of my ATI crossfire setup (thank god) and fitting a single slot Nvidia 8800GT in my ASUS A8R32-MVP Deluxe motherboard. My question is which would be the best PCI port to put my Creative X-Fi Sound Card into which would create less conflicts. It confuses me when I look at the...
this is the memory I purchased for my GIGABYTE GA-P35-DQ6 with a INTEL CORE2 DUO E6600 CPU Corsair
Should I have purchased either of these 2 for increased performance? OCZ1 or OCZ2 which is the better of the 2?
No I don't have a side vent on my case so it should be fine.
What about the mounting position of the heatsink. I'd like to mount it vertically so the fan will blow the same direction as the rear exhaust fan, will this be possible?
I'm worried it won't fit around the heat pipe on the motherboard. Anyone else running this same setup without any dramas?
Also you happy with the temps?
And can the heatsink be mounted both ways , vertical & horizontal?
I just checked the price on a Gigabyte 7600gs and it was only $10 cheaper than the 8500. I'm not worried about the cost it's really 256Mb & 512Mb of memory, is the memory just for gaming and not so much a factor with vista application usage.
I'm going to buy a 500Gb Seagate IDE HDD and I have the option of getting a 7200.9 or the 7200.10 which one should I get, is there a big difference? It'll be running it on a older system a Intel P4 2.26Ghz CPU and a ASUS P4B533-v MB.
I'd be running Vista Home Premium.
It's not a gaming machine I have another machine for that. Would there be a huge difference in performance between the 2.
I ended up buying the Corsair 620w power supply and fitting it. Still the same 3D problems in games while in crossfire mode :-( so my old power supply was okay. The +3.3v and +12v voltages are higher which is good. I then decided to do a fresh install of WinXP and installed a few of my main...
I've had the Antec NEO HE-550 power supply running in my system for well over a year now. In August I purchased a second x1900 video card and have been running it in Crossfire mode without any dramas at all. Until recently I've had a problem when I'd insert my removable hard drive rack, my...
thanks for that guys. I went back to the 6.5ccc ver. and it's up and running. The reason I got the xtx was that I never new this info about the clock speed when running in crossfire, Ohh well.
I'm having problems when I go to start a game even 3dmark. The monitor goes into stand by mode but I can here the game still launching to the game menu and then I ctrl+alt+del to get to the desktop. cards are in correct order, dogle cable is hooked properly, I've enabled crossfie check box in...
I've been waiting for the price to drop on the ATI x1900 crossfire master card so I could go crossfire. The price now is pretty good but I'm not sure it's worth it. Should I just do it? If so the main thing I'm worried about is the dongle cable, when it loops from card to card what is the...
Well we got his system going. We took out the 2 sticks of 512Mb mem which wouldn't work on his system and put in the 2 sticks of 1Gb (2Gb total) and it's now booting and running fine.
The reason I'm writing is that he's got another problem now. He upgraded his video card to a HIS X800XT...
I'm thinking about adding a X1900 crossfire card to my system but I'm confused with these 2 cards selling at 2 different online stores =VI-HISR1900XTCF&input[category_id]=1413"]LINK / LINK of coarse I want the cheaper one but it says it's a X1900 were as the other site says it's an X1900XT both...
I had the ram seated properly, tried removing and installing a few times and table clicked in properly. I'll try clearing the cmos as the board is overclocked.
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