Yeah you can probably save enough switching to a P55 mobo to get a better video card (probably 5850 if possible, tough to find them currently), and have better performance for gaming. Mid range video cards are never overkill in my experience, just how long they last. The 5750/5770s are expected...
If this were me, I'd pick up the drive setup (though I think you'd get much better performance out of RAID 10 than you would RAID 5 but I'm only going off of intuition here), and the controller card, and wait on the next gen stuff coming out early next year. If you need the speed now, I'd go...
Agreed. Late '09 / Early '10 has Gulftown CPUs (which will supposedly work with current X58 boards), and maybe GT300 on the horizon. Also the 5870 dual GPU card is supposed to launch before then as well I believe.
Prices will probably be much different as well, like he said.
If you wanted...
It is the process of making a a disc image file readable as a virtual CD/DVD-ROM so you don't have to use writable media to use it.
Many programs offer this feature:
Daemon Tools: http://www.daemon-tools.cc/
Virtual Clone Drive: http://www.slysoft.com/en/virtual-clonedrive.html
Alcohol...
See if there are driver updates for whatever IDE controller your motherboard uses. Try a different brand of discs, and/or a different burning program, (I'd suggest the wonderful and free Imgburn (http://www.imgburn.com/).
Mills
BIOS settings default or tweaked? Did you change memory timings without changing the voltage? If you can toggle hdd mode from IDE to AHCI, try that. Are you using any kind of bridge chips for a device? Like a sata to ide converter or something?
All I have for now. Are you saying it...
Kill processes and disable devices down to the bare essentials, check for freeze, slowly restart things one by one, ensuring proper operation after each till you nail it down.
Good luck,
Mills
I think EnCase is popular among law enforcement agencies, and I'm pretty sure it will not recover a drive overwritten with a proper wiping tool. http://www.guidancesoftware.co...e-digital-evidence.htm
1. What was the BSOD error? Was it triggered by something specific or random?
2. Are you checking RAM speed/timings with CPU-Z?
3. Why did you up your ram voltage if you are running at SPD, was that to attempt to address the problem?
4. I'd reinstall Windows with your known good ram and see...
Sounds like it's toast bud. You may be eligible for some kind of replacement if you have one of the NVidia mobile chips affected by the bad bumps. I know I've read about an OEM extending warranties (may have been HP or Dell) on affected laptops. I don't know for sure, but that's all the hope I...
Sluggish as in poor UI response time or slow to execute tasks? Was it always like that or is this just lately? Has her 'workload' changed much? In other words, is she working with much higher res pictures/video?
I'd simply keep an eye on taskmanager as she works (sort by CPU usage), and if...
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