I am really torn between 2 boards. This one and the new one from Abit the IP35. It has the same chipset obviously. But does anyone have any advice between the 2? I heard Abit and their bios updates leave something to be desired. How is the Gigabyte people when it comes to bios updates? Also over...
Do you see a difference with these athlon x2's by going over 2 gig memory? If you remember the old athlon single cores with their memory controller on the cpu actually sometimes slowed down with over 1 gig memory. Has this been corrected with the dual cores? where it would be beneficial with...
I gave thought to the AM2 socket when i was phrasing this question. But here is the thing. When the quad cores hit they are going to be unaffordable for the time being. It will take 6-8 months before prices come down and they are available to us. Than AMD is gonna see bugs in their first...
I am going to go the LCD route for computer monitors in the next few days. My choices are down to 2 of them right now. I am either going with 2 LG L226WTQBF 22" monitors or 1 Sharp Aquos LC-32D42U. Monitors will be used by wife and mostly with Adobe Photo Shop and Illustrator. Some gaming will...
Thats exactly what I was trying to avoid when i created this thread by saying i used all AMD the past 6 years for all my builds. Did not want to seem partial to Intel when this thread was created. By by alll intensive purposes it looks like intel bested AMD this trip. I am just after the best...
Yeah Dell is outrageous when it comes to that extra 2 gig of ram. They want $270 for 2 extra gig to make it 4 gig total. That is just outrageous pricing. Because if i am not mistaken they still use regular crucial ram. And 2 gig can be obtained for well under $100 from newegg. Guess they figure...
Not a problem about the dimm slots from the looks of it. The Dimension I am looking at is upgradeable to 4Gb ram off their shopping website 4 dimms total at 1 gb each. I think the only time you run into trouble with that is when you buy their or other companies sub $400 computers.
Thanks for posting those benchmarks. I never saw those when looking up some others. It looks like the Core 2 Duo outperforms the Athlon by a good margin.
Both end up totaling $859 after the coupon. Kind of odd they ended up the same price. 2 gig ram/2 dimms in both. Onboard graphics til the new card goes in. the 859 also includes a dell 22" monitor. dual dvd drives. Will probably add another 2 gb ram to it when it arrives within 6 months.
What is anyones preference between these 2 builds? The box will be used by my wife. Will mainly be used for Adobe Photo shop and Adobe Illustrator. Some gaming and some video work. I used to build all my own computers. But when seriously looking at pricing it is sometimes especially with coupons...
Just wanted to let everyone know I upgraded my bios tonight to 1004-001 Beta. I am restarting fine and am not hanging. It goes right back into Windows without any issues so far. I was not able to use the 1003 release at all as the computer would not even restart. Did not even need a cmos clear...
Dam this is small. Anyone try it and does it resolve some of the issues regarding Maxtor hard drives/NCQ?
http://usa.asus.com/support/do...-SLI%20Deluxe&Type=All
Under wireless security I am running pre-shared key. WPA Algorithms TKIP Group Key Renewal: 3600 seconds. Is this an ok security setting in a residential neighborhood? I just do not want unwanted access to the wireless router. With the radius settings I did not get what tp enter for the key...
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