Recent content by csorrows

My Gateway FHD2400 has been working perfectly since I got it a few months ago. Then tonight, I turn everything on and when the vid card starts sending a signal to it, there's nothing but snow across the DVI input. All the card has is DVI out, so can't test anything else. And I don't have...

Oblivion was a bust for me as well with that hotfix. It seemed to run okay on the base 8.3 drivers, but there was some stuttering every few seconds, even indoors with all the video options at default settings. I thought I might need that ATI hotfix, so I applied it, and wow did things really...

Oh, no problem on the commens...I work in customer service, so I've heard it all, and I come from a QA background, so that's why I'm pretty anal about reproduceable tests :) I don't have Crysis, but do have Oblivion (don't have many of the modern games right now cause they wouldn't run anyway...

Well, I was trying to find a dedicated utility or demo, and wanted to stay away from something like just playing a game because the load on the GPUs would vary depending on the scene, what I'm doing ingame, isn't hitting the GPUs at 100% *ALL* the time, etc. There's too many variables to make...

Just a quick reply... The Pioneer SATA DVD works just fine for me. No problems at all.

Just built a new system with a VisionTek 3870 X2, and am trying to find a good GPU benchmark that will stress both GPUs at the same time so I can monitor temperature, and I'm coming up short. I tried ATITool, but seems I can only run the fur cube test against one GPU or the other, not both at...

I just bought an Asus Maximus Formula, and it looks like the only SATA ports on it are the Intel ICH9R RAID SATA ports. Rather than buying an IDE DVD drive, I bought a SATA DVD, and now I'm wondering can I run it off the ICH9R ports, or are those ports for hard drives only? I didn't get an...

Had to run check my invoice... $275 That was the version (OEM?) without a heat sink/fan...just the CPU. I bought a Zalman CNPS9700 LED for a HSF for it. I was tempted to lap both the CPU and HSF, but now I'm not sure I'll spend the time doing that. I may just try it stock, since I...

I just bought a Q9300 at the Fry's in San Jose, CA. I wanted a Q6600, but the guy said, "But we have the new Q9300, it's faster - don't you want one of those!?" I thought oh crap, there goes all my research out the window, cause I don't know anything about this new quad series, but decided...

I see so many people talking about BLB on LCD monitors. I have an older Xerox LCD at home myself with some BLB. But what CAUSES it? What happens to the panel to make the backlight shine through more? Is the light getting brighter over time, or is some coating deteriorating on that panel...

Yeah, I never sell computer equipment. I hate having to deal with auction houses and buyers halfway across the country, etc. I just keep my old equipment for a backup PC I have, and then once it gets so old it's not worth anything, I toss it in the garbage. Hard to imagine tossing an...

Ah - except I'd want the Danger Den waterblock (I like their stuff, plus if BFG picked them as a partner to design their block, they must be doing something right), and I'm sure the cost of a separate 8800GTX plus a DD waterblock would probably be more than just buying BFG's DD watercooled...

Pardon another noobie question, but what does MCP mean? I was thinking about getting one of these boards....

Well, call me crazy then :) My current PC is five years old, so needless to say they tend to last me a while, so when I decide to build a new one, I usually wait until NEW technology is available, and Conroe and DX10 cards definitely qualify. So if I'm going to drop the money into building...

Anybody??? Cmon - there's gotta be SOMEBODY out there running the watercooled version!