I bought this combo last week. Great motherboard but I got a C0 E8400. Not a huge deal though since it still overclocks to 3.6GHz on stock voltage. I haven't tried higher yet.
The 8800GT is a great replacement for a 7900GT. I'm considering following the same upgrade path.
PNY video cards are usually just straight up reference design cards. Their warranty and support is supposed to be decent but no quite as good as EVGA.
Those are some good points, Bryan. Maybe I just should have taken the 8800 GTS but the way that they approached me really struck me wrong. "You can choose between something slower or pay us more money for something faster." I think a stand up company would have just sent the faster replacement...
LOL, yeah the performance of both the 7900 and 8600 look pretty bad on newer games. Right now, I mainly play Source engine games so the 7900 is definitely better for me.
I'm going to push them some more for a 7900 series card but it's looking like I might have to give in and pay the $150 for...
Please link any of these current benchmarks. I cannot find any. Please also keep in mind that I run games at 1600x1050 with AA/AF enabled so I don't care if the 8600 GTS can keep pace at very low resolutions and/or without AA/AF. I've looked everywhere and found the 8600 GTS performing at 50-70%...
I just sent my defective XFX 7900 GT video card in for RMA. XFX said that they don't have any more of those cards in stock so my two options are to replace it with an 8600 GTS 256MB or pay $150 to upgrade to a 8800 GTS 320MB.
The issue is that the 8600 GTS is hardly equivalent to my old 7900...
My w2207 appears to have a Samsung panel in it. The service menu says "MT220WW01-V1" which according to this thread means I have either a LTM220M1 or LM220M1 Samsung panel.
PS - another thread discussing the hp w2207 panel "lottery"
You're hitting 60C non-overclocked and at stock voltage (1.35v)? That's way too hot. At 2.95Ghz and 1.45Vcore (100% CPU utilization on both cores) using a Freezer 64 Pro, my core temp was 60-65C. I felt /that/ was far too warm so I backed it down to 2.7GHz @ stock Vcore and it runs at 50-55C...
I received an Opteron 165 with the Toledo core. After a lot of struggling with the motherboard in my main system which would only hit a 275MHz bus speed, I moved over to my secondary system which has the same motherboard but was able to hit 320MHz bus speed.
With ~1.450Vcore, I was able to...
That's true if you're building a whole new system. However, if you have an existing 939 system with a slow single core CPU, it makes a lot of sense to upgrade to dual core for $100 :)
Very, very tempting. I'm tempted to replace my FX-55 with one of these . . .
Of course my work computer only has a 3200+ (or is it a 3000+?) so maybe that would be a better place to put it.
Northbridge fan failure seems to be a common problem. Mine started making loud noises a couple weeks ago. It got so loud that my girlfriend was having difficulty sleeping so I just yanked the power to it. No problems so far but I'm ordering the Vantec as a replacement.
Good price but Tiger Direct's "warranty" scares the hell out of me:
"VERY IMPORTANT NOTICE REGARDING OUR RETURN POLICY ON CPU'S: Please note that all processors may be returned only for defective exchange. You must purchase a compatible heatsink and fan on the same order as the processor in...
A double-double also has special sauce on it which is almost 100% fat. McD QP only has ketchup/mustard which add no fat.
I personally hate McD's because I worked there for a month when I was a teenager. I can't stomach the smell of the place much less the food anymore. The smell is 100 times...
Those Venice core A64s can overclock decently. Most have an upper limit of 2.4-2.7GHz. Overclocking is worth a try before springing for a new processor.
The A64 3200+ and X800 XL in my "work" computer get along just fine at 1600x1080 at just about every game I've tried (medium to high...
Even if you decide not to use them, 146GB 15k SCSI drives seem to fetch $300-600 each on eBay depending on the specific model of drive. Does he owe you more than $500? If not, I'd take them.
If you reuse your current 512MB of RAM in a S939 system, your RAM will become your bottleneck. You really want at least 1GB these days. If you had 1+GB, I'd say go for the S939 system but since you really need more RAM, you might as well wait until the E4300/4400 price drops and put together a...
Second board is up and running flawlessly. I've used the windows-based flash program for both boards to get rid of the old crippled BIOS and it's worked fine each and every time.
I just bought a second one. The first one has been running fine for months (although the chipset fan might need to be replacing soon) and this is still a heck of a deal for a S939 Nforce MB.
Good choice on the 939 platform. Hell, I've been upgrading my computers to 939 :)
Is your CPU overclocked? What core does it have (use CPUZ to find out if you don't know)? If it's overclockable core, then you might just want to get a Freezer 64 Pro and crank it up a bit. Cost: $20-25. Other...
Does he really want speakers? USB headsets are quite affordable (I picked up a Logitech USB headset for $30) and work standalone. If he really wants to use speakers, then he should just get this http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16829118107 and the cheapest 2.0/2.1 speakers with...
It looks like you're just picking the most expensive components you can find instead of putting a lot of thought into what you actually need for how you will be using the system and what components are worth spending a premium on. (Prime example: the BluRay burner. Just get an 18x DL DVD burner...
Does his motherboard have onboard sound? 95% of them do these days and modern onboard sound is usually as good or better than USB sound devices just due to the limited bandwidth of USB.
Thanks for posting this. The 120mm fan in the front of my Sonata died last week and I hadn't replaced it yet. My HD temps with 3 7200RPM drives stacked on top of each other had risen to 45-47C! Removing the case side cover got the temps to drop to around 40C. Replacing the 120mm fan and putting...
The LCD is very expensive for a 20" and the 8800GTX is a complete waste with only a 20" display. I would either 1) get a less expensive 20" LCD display and an 8800GTS video card (or something even cheaper) or 2) a significantly larger LCD display.
LOL the Onkyo will win. No contest.
I suspect more than just a small risk that those specs are inflated. Those are definitely MAX not RMS ratings.
PS: I'm not crapping on this deal though. That's a fine price for a progressive scan DVD player and the other features are bonuses.
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