So, I just took a job where I'll be spending about 50% of my work week in a city four hours north of where I live. Given that I'll be living in a hotel for 2-3 nights a week for about 18-24 months, I figure it's time to look at some kind of mobile gaming rig (SFF or laptop). I'll be driving to...
Found out what the issue is -- the CPU fan wasn't spinning. Nothing was blocking it, but it wasn't turning. Gave it a slight poke and now it's going just fine. Thank god it didn't burn up ...
I just built a computer for myself and everything has been working fine for about two weeks, and as of yesterday I can no longer play anything. The graphics are incredibly choppy, regardless of what resolution I choose or graphics settings I choose.
This is a fresh computer, and all I've...
I completed a new build last night, but something seems to be wrong. It seemed to be fairly slow while installing Windows 7, and eventually bluescreened once immediately after I selected which update settings to use for the computer. I was able to complete the Windows installation after that...
I'm putting together a computer for my brother, as his current computer has recently died. Currently I'm going with:
Seagate 320GB HD
eVGA 8800GT 512MB
Antec EA500
Patriot 2GB DDR2 800
C2D E6750 (Is the jump to the E6850 enough performance wise to justify the $80 price difference?)...
I made the post before downloading the service packs, and I just went and looked in the Disk Management and it now shows another 104GB that is unformatted. That gives me around 231GB out of the 320. I know that part of the hard drive gets used for referencing (sorry, the word escapes me right...
So I bought a DS3 as well as one of the Seagate 320GB 7200.10 drives, and for some reason it only shows it as having 131GB. This is a 3.3rev board. Anyone know why this might be?
I'm not sure whether to be excited about my new computer (DS3, E6400, 1GB Patriot DDR2 800) or not after reading this thread. I think mostly I just hope everything works...
Anyone want to reassure me that it'll be okay?
So if Nehalem will have an integrated graphics card, would it be possible to have the discrete cards power off and on depending on if they're needed? Seems like it would be a great way to save power, considering how much discrete cards use even when idle
After checking the specs on the DS3, it says DDR2 800 is required, so I'd like to confirm that this is true before purchasing the board. I've also seen people report problems with Windows installing on SATA drives, anyone have comments on this?
Thanks for the suggestions. I have one more question, I've seen efficiency percentages listed for PSUs on some sites and I would like to make sure I'm reading them correctly. If you have a 70% efficient PSU currently using 300W, does that mean 90W is being lost and only 210 is actually being...
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