A lot of time you can have luck with smaller sellers. I bought an OEM E6600 from Edge Gaming Systems for $300, which included shipping to Spain and I also bought an XFX 8800GTX from him as well. You can try to email him as he is very responsive to emails if he has any OEMs in stock. His...
The 360 has the better graphics for the same price. If you compare a $400 pc to a $400 xbox 360, the 360 will come out on top.
However once you go above the $1000 mark pc then the PC will have the edge.
I have both an Xbox 360 and a E6600 with a 8800GTX and my PC blows the Xbox 360 out of the...
I have read many forums and heard many opinions but I cannot find a straight answer with actual proof if the 8800GTX is cpu limited with the current Conroes?
We all know that Nvidia needs some serious driver optimization with the 8800 series cards, especially in Vista, however I recently just...
If you have the money and enjoy playing games then by all means go ahead. I bought a new system that I will be assembling this weekend to include an 8800GTX. I decided that for me it would be a better investment to spend $600 now instead of $300 now and $300 or so later to play the games that...
I bought the X-FI Extreme Music for the same reason, I got it on a really good deal and figured with 51 million transistors its gotta be doing something better then my onboard sound. I'm building my new system tomarrow so anxious to see how the games react to it. Also something else to...
You guys can all thank me for the price drop as I just got done buying some expensive DDR2-1000, Ballistix Tracers. As soon as I buy something expensive, the prices always drop.
Have you tried to run Memtest86+ overnight just to rule out the possibility of bad memory? Is your system completely stable at stock speeds, have you tried to run Orthos for 8+ hours? What PSU do you have?
Sure they make them, thats exactly what I've ordered for my new PC to replace the floppy drive. Just make sure you have the required USB ports on your motherboard. For me shouldn't be a problem as the Asus P5B Deluxe comes with 10 USB ports...
What do you guys think of the Acer AL2416W? It seems to be in the same class as the Dell 2407wfp and Benq FP241W. The 26" Acer is only slightly more and offers the same features at the 24" Acer. I haven't seen a head to head review with the Acer against Dell, Samsung and Benq.
It seems that since HDs have gotten cheaper they have moved the assembly plants from Singapore to China and thus the loss of quality. I recently purchased a WD 500 Gig SataII Caviar RE2 (WD5000YS) as it had a 5 year warranty and was rated very highly on storagereviews.com, its only slightly...
Since now you can get past the bios screen try to run memtest on it to see if your memory is good.
http://www.memtest.org/ try to boot it with a floppy, usb memory stick or dvdrom drive and see what happens.
Your right about OCZ having awesome support, these guys will come into the forums and offer you an RMA without you even having to ask. You also get to email a person directly and know who your dealing with instead of your email going into a big bulk queue that gets lost for weeks.
I've never...
If your serious about OC besides the memory you should consider an aftermarket cooler instead of a standard heatsink fan unit and some arctic silver 5 thermal greese when you buy your E6400.
I'm in the same situation however I need a HD for a new system. The WD RE2 is the best choice for long term reliability as they have a 5 year warranty. Also the RE2 is almost as fast as a WD Raptor. I looked at the Samsung and although it is much cheaper then the RE2, 130 euros compared to...
Start pulling things out that aren't needed. Disconnect your DVD Rom drive and just keep your boot HD plugged in. See if that works, if not take out all but 1 stick of ram and try again. PC's can be very tempermental sometimes and even though you don't have a video problem even sometimes...
I just bought a 600watt OCZ GamerXtreme for 100? it seems like it should run my E6600, 8800GTX and 3 Sata drives without a problem. I did the math and for my system a 400watt would barely be enough but 600watts gives me plenty of headroom.
I've read somewhere that power supply's do lose...
I've ordered all of my parts to build my first C2D system using a P5B Deluxe with an E6600 and 2 GB Crucial Ballistix Tracer memory DDR2-1000 (PC8000). I've heard that the P5B Deluxe unofficially supports this type of memory but I'm wondering what I should set my memory settings to when I start...
In the past I've always had buyers remorse when I didn't get the best that I could afford. It all boils down to how much do you want to spend and if it fits in your budget.
Sounds like your using a standard heatsink fan unit although it does sound a bit high on the temps. Try using Intel's Thermal Analysis Tool as it will provide the most accurate temperature for your CPU. You can download it here:
http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/392
Did you use Thermal...
I was in the same situation myself trying to think what I wanted to do and how much I wanted to spend.
The 965 chipset supports the DDR2 800 so if you put anything less in it you won't be getting the full value of the board. If your not getting the full value of the board, then why not get an...
Thanks for sharing the info on your first impression so far and link to the Anandtech article. Please let me know once you get everything installed how well the board works for you. I'm pretty sure that I will get the P5B Deluxe board now because if I didn't I probably would regret it down the...
I'm in Europe so the PB5-E's are called PB5-E Plus with the Rev 1.02G so not really an issue. How is the extra cooling on the PB5 Deluxe? Do you think the extra money is worth it for the Deluxe? Are you happy with your motherboard and its overclocking potential?
I'm looking to build my first C2D system and so far I have purchased the following components.
E6600 CPU
Crucial Ballistix Tracer DDR2 PC2 8000 2GB(2x1GB)
XFX 8800GTX
Soundblaster X-Fi Xtreme Music soundcard
Arctic Cooling Freezer Pro 7 for the CPU
Bringing over from my current system...
You don't see this:
http://www.overclock3d.net/gfx/articles/2006/12/27135250871l.jpg
Possible difference between the P5B-E rev 1.01G and the P5B-E rev 1.02G
Do you know if you have the Chipset 965 C1 or C2? Do you see an option for 2.4vdim?
I live in Spain, but don't speak or read Spanish fluently (its my wifes country). I'm interested in purchasing Vista for the DX10 support as my new PC will have an 8800GTX card in it. I read that Vista is supposed to have multilingual support for each user. If this is true then
If I buy...
Taken directly from the webpage http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/printpage/408/1
It is very important to notice that the single ATA/133 port available on this motherboard is controlled by the JMicron chip, not by the chipset. This means that if you still have a parallel IDE optical drive it...
I am in the process of building myself a new PC and after doing much research, I have read that the Asus P5B Deluxe motherboards install the ATA 133 drivers from CD as they are not present from the bios.
Seeing as I only have a Pioneer 109 DVDR which uses ATA 133 it would seem that I would have...
I've been researching the 24" LCD Monitors as well and was getting ready to pull the trigger on the Dell 2407WFP until I read the Dell Forums on this monitor and how unhappy people are that their problems are not being fixed. I guess my biggest gripe would be the fact that the resolution is...
Its not so much the stock cooler as the Conroes are built on a much smaller die and therefore consume less power which means less heat.
I've purchased an Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 for my Conroe, but I plan on doing a little OCing.
I ran into this problem when I was installing Windows XP on a shuttle pc that did not have a floppy drive, it has a memory card reader instead. When installing XP there is an option to hit a key to install 3rd party SCSI drivers which can also be used for unsupported SATA drivers. After...
Currently running my Xbox 360 on a Dell FP2001 which is really a great monitor, I highly recommend Dell monitors for price/performance. I am looking to upgrade into a Dell 2407WFP which is a 24" monitor that is capable of supporting full HD @1080p. The only drawback is that the aspect ratio on...
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