Thanks for the heads up. Where did everyone go? This forum used to be hopping in the age before social media. Once again, thanks to all for the feedback and help.
Thanks for the feedback and help from both of you - I need to get my butt back to working and not being distracted by this so I clicked through and ordered. Now I can hopefully find a good deal for a (4k?) monitor at the Microsoft Store (online or retail) since I have about $400 in gift cards...
Thanks, Valantar. It's in my cart (with the larger drives and 6700k) and my *only* concern is that the mobo seems to be some sort of no-name (Pegatron Thimpu from what I can tell). Should I worry about that...
Thanks, Whm. It's there something about the HP system that you see as an issue, are you trying to be more cozy effective, or is it something else? I've been so far removed from PC gaming for almost a decade that I'm really out of date on info.
Don't know how to answer that. Think I used to play at 1680x1050 back in the day. Now I guess I want a roughly 30" monitor and want to play at high resolutions /settings (Battlefield 1 is my go-to console game right now). I also have a Oculus that had been pre-ordered sitting in a box since May...
Used to come to Anandtech back in the day for my PC build recommendations, but this time I'm really leaning toward buying and getting it over with for a host of reasons that I won't bore anyone with. The deal that has me interested is the HP Omen 870 Desktop basically as configured...
Instant Gratification FTW!
I ended up hitting Microcenter and got the following rig - essentially the same as the Costco one without the monitor, but a slightly larger HD, for $300 less (I didn't really need the new monitor).
XPS @ Microcenter
Took the money I saved and bought a...
Between the new kids, the housework, and the job I don't have the kind of time I used to. I don't disagree at all that it would be helpful and beneficial, but if you ask me if I want to spend time with our 11 week olds or diagnosing a computer system I can quickly answer. Similarly, if I'll...
Merry Christmas everybody...
As can be seen in my signature, my current system is:
Athlon 64 X2 3800+
eVGA 133-K8-NF41 -AX
eVGA Geforce 7800GT
CORSAIR PC3200 XMS 2GB
Crucial PC3200 2GB
SoundBlaster Audigy 2ZS Platinum
Antec TruePower 2.0 TP2-550
300 GB Seagate
500 GB Seagate...
Actually I did try the freezer trick - but just for about 30 minutes. Old Hippie is right - not smart. Condensation (even in a zip lock bag) happened pretty quick. When I plugged it in again it didn't turn on...for a few minutes. Finally did power up, but still had the ticking noise (like a...
My 500GB WD Netcenter HD seems to be busted. It's flashing an amber colored light (not good), and I can here a slight clicking noise (very minor) coming from the unit. It's under warranty, however I recently backed up a number of pictures. I think most of them are redundant to what is on my...
Based on quite a few things I've read on various reviews/posts/comments on the net, WD doesn't appear to be coming out with a Vista driver for its Netcenter any time soon (at least there is no way to tell). Assuming they don't, have they effectively told their existing customers that are...
Two that I'm familar with are BeyondTV and SageTV. Not a heavy user of either, so I"ll defer to others for value-added comments.
http://www.sagetv.com/index.html
http://www.snapstream.com/products/beyondtv/
I also have a guest pass that expires on 2/20 - so I need to dole it out before then. I have no ideal how long the trial lasts - probably on a few days per earlier posts on this thread. If anybody wants it PM me w/ the email address I should send it to.
I've searched the forums, searched google, searched everywhere, but I can't seem to find a program that I'm almost positive I've used in the past.
Here's the deal - when I boot up and XP loads (after choosing the user) it is taking an extremely long time for the system resources to get freed...
Kman,
Do you mean the M1210 is coming preloaded with XP and an upgrade coupon for the Vista CD? If that's your question, I was wondering a similar thing. Sorry to threadjack, but...
I recently purchased a laptop that came with XP Professional and it also came with the Vista Business...
So it's about that time of year when I blow up my computer, reinstall everything, and start from scratch with a clean drive. I've historically offloaded important pictures, docs, files, etc to an external HD and then just reinstalled my OS. In the past I've had 4 partitions, including OS...
Whoa - sorry I don't buy new cars every 2 years, and consequently don't have a great appreciation for what is the norm. We're planning on buying the car, I've been fair with the dealer (gave him some nice aftermarket sales @ serious markup since I feel I got a good deal) but wanted to get...
I dunno - 100 miles seems pretty low for demo. But I'm not sure how it stacks up for test drive land. Reality is I'm doubting many people test driving Saab shaggin-wagons are putting them through the paces...so I'm hoping it's OK.
Expectation is the 100 miles is comprised of test drives and perhaps a dealer trade/swap drive. So...is 100 miles too much? FYI, price of car is about $1,800 less than Edmunds TMV, and based on searching various mesage boards the prices is competitive...
Thanks, OrooOroo. The only problem is these are infrequent - doesn't happen every time I play. I can sometimes play for a few hours w/ no problems - it's really pretty random (so I could be waiting with the side off for a long time (which I guess isn't that bad).
Ever since building the system in my sig I've been having a bit of trouble with crashes in HL2 (primarily CS:S and DOD:S) and BF2. Random crashes sometimes, and no clue why it's happening. I thought it might be a bad MoBo (I read some people w/ these EVGA mobo's were having problems, but now...
Antec TruePower 2.0 TP2-550.
The MOBO/Video Card are EVGA
2GB Corsair XMS
All drivers are current.
Did full fresh reinstall a week ago. Very few programs loaded.
I've searched to no avail.
Recently built a new system. My old P4 w/ a Radeon 9700 pro would NEVER crash. I just built a new system, including Dual Core AMD 3800X2, GeForce 7800GT, and Sound Blaster Audigy 2ZS Platinum, and DOD:Source (most often) and BF2 (seldomly) are crashing on me...
Thanks - actually I never got to that last sentence. I've always been under the impression that loading up the OS w/ the program files slows everything down - not so? Urban legend?
Recently upgraded my rig and now working with two internal HD's - one 300GB and one 120GB. Have considered getting a Raptor, but frankly I'm happy w/ how BF2 and my other games seem to be running so I've decided to do a final blow out of all my files & (attempt to) dial this in.
So...
Attached are the specs for my new rig:
3800+ A64X2
EVGA NF4 SLI EDI Mobo
EVGA GF 7800GT Video Card
2GB Corsair XMS DDR Ram
Audigy 2ZS Platinum Soundcard
DVD / DVD Burner Drives
300GB Seagate HD.
The HD is a UATA drive (Fry's special for about $80 A/R if I ever send in the...
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