Recent content by intercollector

Hi All, I'm currently running a new PC (see sig) and am impressed with Direct X 11 and how you can use your second monitor for other apps. Unfortunately, I got a little optimistic today and wanted to try and watch a game on NHL Gamecenter and play a game of Civ 5 at the same time. Sadly...

Thanks...done and done. Went with a 64GB C300. I don't need more space as I already have 2TB in network storage + essentially unlimited in the cloud. When I started this morning, there's no way I thought I'd be going SSD. Not only that, but also excited about the X4 processor. All for...

Ugh, sorry but 1 more question: What's the state on SSD drives? 5 years ago, they were way over priced. But I'm interested in them for this build since I'll be doing a lot of compiling, and compile times are mostly dependant on disk I/O. Any advice?

Much appreciated my man. These forums certainly bring back a lot of memories for me. Was quite a hobby of mine for a while there.....enjoyed building and tweaking the hardware more than even using it to play games. Now with a kid and a wife, I don't even have time to research my own rigs, let...

Ya....only $40 more for the Phenom II, and still going to be well under the budget

Ok...thanks. I think I'll probably end up downgrading to the X4. I honestly don't see myself using 6 cores for much and don't mind saving the cash. Definitely want to stick with the Phenom over the Athlon though, correct?

Getting a new PSU isn't out of the question, but I'm quite fond of the case as it's nice and quite and has a design that goes well with my desk. Just for record sake the PSU is an SL350S and the case is a Antec 2650.

Ya...sorry the video card is a PCI-E 1.0 card. 8400GS. Nothing spectacular, but I'm not much of a gamer any more. I bought it years ago, and it's still in the box fully shrink wrapped. Maybe I can get SC2 going? Maybe not...not much of a big deal. Powersupply and Case are both Antec...

Had a quick look around, and the Ath II X3 445 is popular. How is this deal then, and how good is the Motherboard? Edit: Link to site didn't work (i'm guessing an advertiser block). Anyways here is the deal: Gigabyte 880GM-D2H 880G HDMI Motherboard & Athlon II X3 445 Processor - $159

Laptop of 6 years just blew up on me (it's a sad day). Anyways, was hoping to replace it ASAP with a desktop. It's mostly just an office computer that I use for work. 1) What will you be doing with this PC? Gaming? Photoshop? Web browsing? etc Software dev (Java, Apex, PHP) using eclipse...

In reply to the post on the front page, I'd like to post my own comparison. Here it is for reference: I like the comparison, although I think a closer one would be an automobile maker who makes cars with beer kegs installed being sued because of the actions of a drunk driver. P2P will...

I agree, I think that this debate has been going on for ages. I know my parents remember when kids playing "cowboys and indians" was very debatable. I just think that there are way more things that today's kids are subject to that cannot be good at all

After reading this thread, I've come up with a few conclusions: First of all, just about everyone who posted blamed basically everything in society to be at fault except for video games. Why is this? Well, probably because everyone who posts here plays games enjoys them, and thefore is...

Thanks for the link. Leadtek seems to be the problem if multiple retailers are getting the shaft by getting only GT lite cards. See, the retailer really isn't at 100% fault since all the advertised to me was a A400GT, and they didn't mention the clock speeds. Leadtek should definately...

Apparantly it's a lite version that Leadtek says a few were released. The retailer never mentioned there being a "lite" version, but they said that none of the 6800GT's ran at the higher (500) rated speeds. Can you confirm that your card is running at 350/450? If so, what can you overclock to?