Recent content by alex2112

That's another thing that's making this tough for me. I DO live near a Microcenter. I can get a 2500K and a Gigabyte GA-Z68-UD3H-B3 together for $297.48 after tax. Throw in another $40-$50 for some RAM from newegg and I've got an upgrade for $337.48. That's before the $10 MIR on the...

Thanks for the feedback. That's really my primary concern, whether this is a good time or not. Since my current system still can do what I want, I can definitely hold off if something very appealing is coming soon. I haven't been able to find anything other than Ivy Bridge really, and the new...

Been a long time since I've posted here. I built my current main rig in Dec 2007 and at the time, I dropped quite a bit of money on it. This proved to be worth it since I'm still using it for general computing and pretty heavy gaming. My question is, it's almost been 4 years now, and I feel...

So what you're saying is, this is an issue because I am running at 1680x1050? My roommate played through AC with his 8800GT at 1440x900 (16:10) and he saw no issues. Also, why does only half the screen appear to have the issue in my screens?

Hopefully someone with a 9800 and AC can chime in. Like I said, I have tried the latest official drivers from Nvidia, and a couple beta releases with the same result. I have not changed any of the default settings in the Nvidia control panel except for the Transparent AA which was suggested in...

Ok I tried enabling transparancy AA in the Nvidia Control Panel but it didn't help at all. I have made an observation though, it seems like only edges on the right side of the screen are affected. Could this be an sli issue? I took another screenshot below that shows the problem much more...

Thanks for the replies guys, but I am not sure this is a matter of enabling anti-aliasing. In that screenshot I had 4x anti-aliasing enabled. I also game at 1680x1050 so the blocky edges shouldn't be that big as in the screenshot. You can see the stairs in the distance that are circled in blue...

Hey all, ever since I got my EVGA 9800 GX2 I have noticed that it displays these weird blocky horizontal lines on the edges of some 3d objects in games. The lines appear to stay stationary as the 3d objects move, almost like an overlay. I have been searching google and forums for a while on this...

When I had my old BFG 6800nu in my main PC, I had a Arctic Cooling Silencer on it and after a few months, the fan header on the card itself actually blew. I remember smelling something burning and when I took a look inside my PC the fan was no longer spinning. I then replaced the silencer with...

Well I found out that my apartment uses Verizon for thier DSL provider and after doing some google searches on DNS issues with verizon I came across a forum thread where a bunch of people were having DNS issues with verizon. One guy said that dowloading a program called Treewalk fixed his...

Yes Xipher is correct, WoW uses DNS initially to login, then it uses IP to the actual server I play on, which is probably why I don't lose my connection when I can't browse websites anymore, but can't login if I want to during one of the said 'outages'.

I not sure its my NIC card. I'm using the intergrated Nvidia network controller built in to my DFI motherboard. I've been using it for a long time when I had my own cable intermet at my last place. It has never shown any problem symptoms before.

Here are the results of the ping command: Ping statistics for 4.2.2.2: Packets: Sent = 1437, Received = 1419, Lost = 18 (1% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 14ms, Maximum = 249ms, Average = 18ms Control-C

I recently moved into a my new apartment which offers included DSL internet access. Every room that has a cable and telephone jack also has ethernet as well, making it very convenient. The only problem is, is that once in a while, as I browse web sites, the internet seems to die on me. I will be...

rofl @ this thread :D