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DRAM owners can claim a minimum refund of $10 in epic $310 million settlement

Something to think about is that one you have to make sure there are no hurt feelings in case they decide they don't like you. Two the ram in this case was from late ninty's to early two thousands, it is twenty sixteen, that is twenty years of work... How much money did you make in the last...
- vasdrakken
- Post #35
- Jul 15, 2016
- Forum: Memory and Storage
[Nvidia.com] Nvidia GameWorks unleashed at GDC.

Open Compute has a lot of bloated libs. Cuda does not. Cuda has access to bare metal Open Compute is an api that has some optimizations. As long as those stay true Cuda will always be faster and produce less errors. I can't see the scientific community giving up Cuda. Mantle is the same thing...
- vasdrakken
- Post #28
- Mar 19, 2014
- Forum: Graphics Cards
Best cheap card for playing D3?

Both of those options are really below the target range for 1080p. This was the cheapest card in the range. 80 free shipping. does require a 20 dollar rebate so 100 out of pocket. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814127703 But if you spend the 75 on a open box and it is too slow and...
- vasdrakken
- Post #26
- Mar 18, 2014
- Forum: Graphics Cards
i7 2600 vs. Q6600 @ 3GHz?

There should be a setting in the BIOS if you have the fan connected to the right fan header. That said you may want to just run the fan at what ever speed it wants until you get a decent cooler. I'd suggest when you get some money look at a H55 they are really easy to setup and if you have a...
- vasdrakken
- Post #17
- Mar 13, 2014
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
Best cheap card for playing D3?

I can get up to 200 fps on my system, and the recommended is only a 260 GTX for play at 1024x768, so if you play at 1920x1080 you need something roughly 3 times as powerful. I would put that at 560 range. Considering that my 570 had no issues with the game I would go with the the 560 Ti GTX and...
- vasdrakken
- Post #19
- Mar 11, 2014
- Forum: Graphics Cards
i7 2600 vs. Q6600 @ 3GHz?

Well I upgraded from a QX6700 I was running like a bat out of hell to i7-920, so that is similar to going from the 6600 to 2600. My upgrade was about 10 times as fast, but your mileage my vary. I would still do the upgrade if the processor has not be run way out of spec the entire time it was...
- vasdrakken
- Post #5
- Mar 11, 2014
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
Still need a GPU, with an Intel i7 4770 for VIDEO EDITING?

Since you are still asking questions, I'll chip in. First you never want to use a power supply at greater than 80% of it's rated load if you can help it. The harder a PSU works the more it over heats the less power it provides. Next you always want to work with higher quality footage than you...
- vasdrakken
- Post #33
- Mar 10, 2014
- Forum: Graphics Cards
Can I use a GTX 780 with only the 6-pin power connected?

Just a note on the pin requirements. First if the card requires a six pin and eight pin it will not boot without both. I have forgotten to plug them in and wondered why my system was not booting. Basically unless you start modding the card here what the power draws are based on and internal...
- vasdrakken
- Post #27
- Mar 10, 2014
- Forum: Graphics Cards
Installing new mobo

Make sure that if the hard was setup IDE SATA that the BIOS setting is still IDE SATA. Everytime I flash my BIOS I have to change that setting from AHCI. If the is setup IDE it will have major issue under AHCI, if it is setup AHCI it will have issues under IDE. I have yet to figure out how to...
- vasdrakken
- Post #6
- Mar 10, 2014
- Forum: Motherboards
Intel RMA policy

Just note they will deny any RMA cpu that show burn marks. That does not really happen anymore with with the heat spreaders but just note if you forget thermal paste or do something that causes marks on the CPU, it is a paper weight.
- vasdrakken
- Post #11
- Mar 9, 2014
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
Wisdom (or lack thereof) of choosing weakest CPU for socket; upgrading later?

Really the best thing to do is look at what you use a computer for then plan for double the power of what you currently use. This plans for bloat and for advances that might impact you down the road. Next don't buy a system on creidt start a savings account the day you buy your system, and...
- vasdrakken
- Post #56
- Mar 9, 2014
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
Wow can't believe how snappy My Old POS pc is with a New CPU!

The best way to buy computer equipment is build up enough money until you can buy the second from the top, ie not the ridiculous part but the next step down which will be fast enough but not have the bragging rights. Then the next money you start putting money in your savings account set aside...
- vasdrakken
- Post #22
- Mar 9, 2014
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
Should I upgrade my RAM?

I set up my current with 32 GB, when I started running into memory problems I switched to one stick of the 8GB. Other than having to run it a lot slower than it was rated for most of the normal stuff I do was fine. When even that single stick started having even more issues, I RMA the lot of...
- vasdrakken
- Post #11
- Mar 9, 2014
- Forum: Memory and Storage
DRAM owners can claim a minimum refund of $10 in epic $310 million settlement

The small claims either refers to individuals or the traditional matters handled in small claims courts, ie anything less than 100 dollars. The price fixing is at worst only going to be half the cost of the items would be my guess. So if you bought a $20 memory module during the time period...
- vasdrakken
- Post #20
- Mar 8, 2014
- Forum: Memory and Storage
Full rebuild, no upgrade. Feedback requested

well if you still have not pulled the trigger, aren't Intel's new cpu's coming out in september? WHich would drop the price on the 6600 or get you a Q6700?
- vasdrakken
- Post #17
- Aug 31, 2007
- Forum: Computer Building
Photoshop Computer Questions...

Let me get this out of the way first: morton20 you are going to just retouch photos, or do simple low resolution doodles, my only advice is make sure the videocard can drive the resolution you are using, that screen's native resolution is pretty sick at 2560 x 1600 (apples optimum resolution)...
- vasdrakken
- Post #8
- Aug 31, 2007
- Forum: Computer Building
R600 PCB & Cooling Re-design in Progress

the current pci-e standard calls for 2 rows of three, which is why the sevnteam powersupply had to 2x4 pci-e connectors on them. I may have misspelled the company but it's one of the big psu makers, the silverstone Olympia is a repackaged version and still has the two pci-e 2x4 connectors though...
- vasdrakken
- Post #39
- Nov 12, 2006
- Forum: Graphics Cards
Live Chat with ASUS, Anand and Intel!

Asus: I want to know why all the videocards are green? I seen blue ones that often go to the hardware review site but the endusers reading the reviews see the cool cards on the review site go to get one find a boring green card or red if ati. Why can we not see more of the cool looking cards...
- vasdrakken
- Post #65
- Nov 13, 2005
- Forum: Computer Building
amd choices

You just need to decide where you want the bottle neck i went with a 3200+ because I didn't want to wait for a 3500+ and my CPU is my biggest bottleneck but I'm not sure till I decide to overcloak this system how much 200 MHz will effect it but it is faster than the barton I was running at...
- vasdrakken
- Post #12
- Jan 25, 2005
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
Cell: Future of Gaming?

hummmm so the interconnect between the chips has HOW MUCH BANDWIDTH? Lets assume that it is the same tech AMD and IBM are using so 8 high-speed interconnects right next to each other, so that PCB is going to require twice as many layers as the current AMD/IBM ones something short of 20 layers...
- vasdrakken
- Post #78
- Jan 25, 2005
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
Switching frm Intel to AMD?

wait for Nforce4 SLI mobo, by then the 4000 chips will be cheaper and maybe we will see some more 90nm 939 cpus. That does require you to upgrade your videocard to a PCI-E card, which would seriouly hurt considering the cost of a ATI X800XT PE 256MB... not sure how you can grip about 600 for a...
- vasdrakken
- Post #11
- Nov 4, 2004
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
music skipping when working with large selections in photoshop..

ok first thing do NOT use Nvidia's IDE drivers, second Photoshop CS has things running in the background you will never find, you shouldn't have upgraded from 7. If you don't belive me try scanning a dallor bill and find out what your proc is wasting cycles on. Second what do you define as a...
- vasdrakken
- Post #12
- Jun 19, 2004
- Forum: Motherboards
Wow this one has me stumped

or look deuterium up on google: Deuterium (symbol 2H) is a stable isotope of hydrogen with a natural abundance of one part in 7000 of hydrogen. The nucleus of deuterium (called a deuteron) has one proton and one neutron, whereas a normal hydrogen nucleus just has one proton. Deuterium is also...
- vasdrakken
- Post #9
- Jun 6, 2004
- Forum: Ask a Technical Professional
Sister-in-law lost login pasword - Win2KPro

there's a windows file you can put on a boot disk that replaces the NTLDR and and few other files that overwrites the administrator account which sets the admin account to administrator and it's not case sensitve just the password which will be set to null, basiclly you press the enter key. I...
- vasdrakken
- Post #9
- Jun 6, 2004
- Forum: Operating Systems
2000Pro and XP-Pro

You forgot the major reason to get X(trme) P(roblems) you get wizard for any thing you want to fix weither or not it for hard been far easier and faster (in some cases possible) them... other reason you live giving up an extra 64MB of ramm to the OS to run services in the background you neither...
- vasdrakken
- Post #16
- Jun 6, 2004
- Forum: Operating Systems
Restart problem

PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA this can also have to do with the swap file or PAGEFILE.SYS trying to swap and not having any room to swap to on the hardrive... think twice as much room on the hardrive as you have system memory, and if you have 512MB plus consider locking the min and the max to...
- vasdrakken
- Post #23
- Jun 6, 2004
- Forum: Computer Building
NVIDIA SoundStorm

hummm ok this was funny... "For the record, the A7N266-VM/AA has no integrated PCI devices. Its audio, IDE, LAN and so forth are native to the southbridge, leaving the PCI bus free." the PCI bus is totally dependant on the southbridge for it's bandwidth, which is why they moved the AGP bus to...
- vasdrakken
- Post #51
- Jun 6, 2004
- Forum: Computer Building
Cat5e Patch and Cat5e Crossover

ummm patch cable was called that as you bought it because you had to get two more feet and it was easier to put a patch in than recable what ever lenght the orignal cable was (or you didn't have the time to do it), patch panels used to be punch connectors all the way up to cat3 cable, once the...
- vasdrakken
- Post #7
- Jun 6, 2004
- Forum: Computer Building
amd 939 asus now avalibale

Here's another thing, you may want to wait for the refresh, like the nforce's version 2.xx boards as VIA is having problems with their chipsets...
- vasdrakken
- Post #7
- Jun 6, 2004
- Forum: Computer Building
guys please help what u chose i will get

you going to kick your self come sept, when the refreshes of the MB come out with the fixes, that are planned for the Nvidia and VIA chips, as both have issues with their controller chips (ie north bridge / south bridge) I'd also consider waiting to see what DFI puts out for the AMD FX-xx proc...
- vasdrakken
- Post #11
- Jun 6, 2004
- Forum: Computer Building
Need Video Card Recommendations

If you can wait till july, the current prices are going to drop so that $400 card may be a $200 dollar card shortly, once the 6800 and ATI new ones start filling the channels so that you can get a hold of one all the other cards will start dropping in price.
- vasdrakken
- Post #7
- Jun 6, 2004
- Forum: Computer Building

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