Recent content by MaskedCarrot

I have a Sony Vaio NS190, which I really like. But I wanted to ask if people could chime in and say how long it takes for their battery to charge? Mine takes around 3 hours or so, which to me seems like a long time, but wasn't sure if that was normal. Also the thing slowly discharges on...

Hey guys, I just got a new Sony Vaio VGN-NS190J from Best Buy recently. It is a really nice laptop and I like it, but I have an issue that I was hoping someone might have an answer to. For starters I made the recovery disks, and would love to do just a fresh install of Vista only, but...

I am suprised that people aren't talking more about the Foxconn. This one here http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814186011 is listed as having a 575 mhz Core Clock and 1800 mhz Memory clock and is the same price as the others, and like the eVga card has a $40 MIR bringing...

Between the eVGA, MSI, PNY and Leadtek, they are pretty much all $389 with some form of MIR. All of which are good brands. Outside of the "trade up" offer of eVGA, which means little to me. I am wondering if there really is any difference between those brands. They are probably just...

Excuse my ignorance, but why would you want to disable one of your CPU cores?

Ok I found the advanced firewall settings. But I dunno because it is late or I am being dense, but I am used to using Sygate firewall with XP, and when a new program tried to access the net I had to either grant or deny access. With Vista's firewall, I have to worry about setting all the rules...

I would have sworn I read earlier this year that Vista's firewall was supposed to be incoming AND outgoing as opposed to XP's firewall that was just incoming. After playing with Vista for a week now I don't see any outgoing setup or monitoring like regular firewalls. Did Microsoft not put in...

That is the system I just recently bought. Of course I put a nvidia 7900 GS in it first off. I prefer to build my systems, but it's was nice to just put it on a Best Buy charge. Personally I think it is a really good system. It's the first system I've had with a TV tuner card, and...

I was curious as to what you guys thought of the x2 5200+ ? From the specs, it seems the only difference I could find over the 5000+ was that is had a 1mb x2 cache as opposed to the 512kb x2 that the 5000+ has. There doesn't seem to be a drastic price difference according to...

Maybe changing your video drivers. What version are you using?

No, the 7900 GS uses GDDR3 ram.

Well if you are looking for a pre-built system, check out Best Buy. They have an HP e6300 system for $834 here . Or for a little more at $914 you could get the system I just recently bought, an HP AMD x2 5000+ system here . Of course you would need to put in a better power supply when you...

Thanks for all the info guys. @Savantu The reason I was asking for a comparison of the x2 5000+ to the C2D e6300 was that those two systems where the choice that I had. All the stuff I read about the C2D owning the AMDs, and regardless of the fact that the e6300 is a lower end model, I...

Thanks for the article, I think that reassured me that I made the right choice with the x2 5000+ over the E6300. But the tests in the article were a bit off in my opinion. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't a AMD's FX-62 a single core CPU? If so, why would you even be throwing that into the...

I just recently bought a AMD x2 5000+ system from Best Buy. I am wondering how it would compare speed wise to the C2D e6300? I don't overlock, and have no intention of overclocking. I am just looking for opinions at stock speeds. I am mainly concerned with gaming performance since everything...