Recent content by Karesh

The last FPS chart header on each page says: Apples-to-Apples AMD Radeon HD 6970 Should be Apples-to-Apples AMD Radeon HD 6950. Thanks for the review.

Well it did help. Monitoring CPU usage while burning a full disc now shows 90-95% CPU usage only about two-thirds of the time with the other third spent around 25-33% usage. I'm really not sure, given the speed of my system, what constitutes "acceptable" CPU usage. Also while copying from the...

Maybe :). Since it was already set to use DMA if available and was currently using PIO I thought that was how it should have been (for a long time), but someone earlier in the thread mentioned uninstalling the device drivers so I did this: Selected "uninstall" on the secondary IDE channel...

Really? I always thought that the 100% CPU usage was just the price of using such an old CPU. I mean it is a socket 754 single-core sempron. I'd imagine that even an Atom processor could beat it fairly easily now.. So even if I did upgrade my drive (assuming my chipset's SATA connectors were...

My desktop is about 6 years old now but still does fine for general applications and web browsing. Current specifications: Windows XP SP3 32-Bit Socket 754 ECS Goal3+(1.1C) Motherboard AMD Sempron 3000+ 512MB DDR Memory Integrated Audio/Video WD WD400JB 40GB IDE Hard Drive HP 300i IDE...