Recent content by elusive_fish

I live in New Zealand.. that ain't US dollars. Even with exchange places like new egg are considerably cheaper, but don't ship to NZ. Some places do ship to NZ, but they typically charge obscene shipping prices. But anyway, even if I can get a good price on a ATI 3850 would it be badly CPU...

Thanks for the replies. I had a 9800 Pro two video cards ago, it was at the price/peformance sweet point back in the day. I'll look at what I can get a second hand 9800 pro or 6600 gt for, but I must admit im pretty nervous buying a second hand card. From what I see on benchmarks the X1650...

Hi all, I got my neighbour interested in joining in LAN parties, mostly playing Call of Duty 2 (a little older so most peoples systems can run it) He has a p4 2.6 ghz 512mb RAM machine that is using integrated SiS video *shudder* I can get him more RAM, but given the slower CU which one of...

Hi all, I am kicking around the idea of upgrading from my 17" 4:3 monitor to a 22" widescreen. I don't have a whole lot to spend so I was wondering if there are decent 'entry level' monitors that the wise folks here can recommend. It's mostly for gaming and just general interweb browsing...