Recent content by BrokenVisage

I'm upgrading the processor on my MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum mobo and so far had 2 new processors not work on me (computer will not boot with them plugged in). One is the highest Athlon 64 chip my board is compatible with (4000+) and the other is the highest Opteron chip my board is compatible with...

haha, dude that sux but perhaps a good coincidence for you now. let me know where to contact you and we can work something out if it turns out your proc took a turn for the worse.

Normally I would just do that, but in this case I want to sell the one I don't keep and if I could maintain it in an unused condition by not cracking open the plastic cover then I would prefer to just pick one over the other, make sure it works, then send the other one on its way as still being...

When Newegg had these Opty 180's on sale I snagged 2 figuring I would just sell the other one and make a cool $50 on eBay at worst. Now that they're both here I can compare the steppings on them to figure out which one is better for me to keep, however they both are similar and seem relatively...

Nenu, I would like to keep my current setup as-is and planned on getting something like a Opteron 165 to tide me over for another year or 2. Do you think the 165 would be a rather large upgrade from my 3200+ and worth getting for ~$75 used online somewhere? I'm not a fan of buying used hardware...

One of the first things I did was a HijackThis scan, only my essentials and programs I know are safe are in there. I went ahead and did the whole safe mode/Driver Cleaner Pro/CCleaner again and reinstalled drivers. Now my score isn't going down anymore, but it's still going back and forth...

Correct, it's not just 3dMark, performance in actual games goes down as well. I did another safe mode/Driver Cleaner Pro/CCleaner sweep last night and deleted anything ATi, anything nVidia, anything Omega. I ended up even deleting NV drivers for system board as well lol, but it was no big deal...

I'm sure my CPU is bottlenecking the card but would it actually decrease my score like this after getting to 12k? I'm already shopping for a dual-core X2 CPU so that will be gone in due time, but I'm still concerned with the decreasing score/performance. I realize 3dMark is just synthetic test...

Looking for suggestions on what to do about the performance of my MSI NX8800GT OC going down *every* time I run 3dMark05. First score I got was around 12k, which is low but I didn't mind much because my current CPU sucks (3200+ @ 2.5 Ghz). A couple hours later I decide to run it again and I'm...