Recent content by Dfresh

I don't really have a set budget, but was wondering if I'd see much performance improvements with a GPU upgrade in the $200 range.

I've been toying around with the idea of upgrading my current video card or just building a new system. The performance I get currently is acceptable, but wondering if I'd see much improvement on the gaming side if I were to upgrade. Below is the current hardware. I don't have a preference on...

Currently have a system with a Radeon HD5770. Looking into getting a second card that's compatible to enable crossfire on my Asrock M3A770DE. The current card is discontinued and I can get refurbished ones around $100 when googling. Any suggestions on if I should get the same one refurbished...

Tried plugging it into a different SATA port and still get the same error. It just says "4th Slave Hard Disk Error" at POST when it's trying to recognize all the drives. Very strange that the OS is still able to access it though. This drive was meant for DVR applications, but I still don't...

I have a system running with just 1 SATA WD5000AAKS drive and a DVD burner on the first two SATA channels. I had an old dish network DVR that couldn't be activated, but it had a 500GB WD5000AAJS hard drive in it. So I yanked it out and plugged it into my box with no connection issues on the...

Just wondering if anyone has had any experiences with an external HDD enclosure with ethernet to create a NAS solution they can share. I've been looking around and came across this little enclosure that looks pretty nifty, but there's not a manufacturer name attached to it. Thinking about...

Yea, I saw the router recommendation sticky. Guess I should've phrased my posting differently. I suppose my main question is do you think the router is the likely culprit in causing the slow HTTP over SSH tunnel?

I just recently changed my ISP to Surewest since they're running fiber straight to the house so now my upstream speed is matching my downstream speed. When they installed it I dug up my old Linksys WRT54G v5.0 router to configure my network. I previously had AT&T Uverse and just used the...

Ok, this shows how long I've been out of the game. My brother came over to help me try different hardware today. He took 1 look at the board and told me what the problem was. I didn't plug in the two 4 pin power connectors into the board for the CPU. I didn't know the CPU has its own power...

No sounds when I have no RAM or video card installed. The speaker is one of the removable kinds. I've turned it on with it plugged in both ways and no difference. I guess it's possible the little speaker could be bad, but what are those chances versus the mobo being bad? I can't remember if...

I'm not getting any beep codes at all. No sounds or anything. Just the fans on the board and the video card power up.

I've tried all the steps in the POST troubleshooting and still no luck. So far I'm guessing the problem is the RAM as a compatibility issue. The RAM I have isn't listed on the QVS for this board on Asrock's site and I'm seeing people are having issues with DDR3 1600 memory. I'm not having any...

Ok, I tried swapping around the RAM and running it with the mobo out of the case on the foam pad it came packed with to ensure there are no shorts anywhere. The only thing left I can think of is to start trying new hardware. This is the first time I've used newegg for a new system build...

Thanks, I just came across the correct model number on AMD's site. I'll start troubleshooting it further again.

I think I just found my problem. It looks like my mobo doesn't support my CPU. My CPU is the ADX630WFGIBOX and this is the compatibility list. Guess I never realized how many different variants of CPUs there are nowadays. :mad: