Recent content by milicz

You can use any Mini ITX board in this case, not just Asrock. It's a GREAT case.

So I junked my motherboard and threw in some components I already had such a Zotac Geforce 9300 ITX motherboard from 2009 (available for $15 today), q9550 Core 2 Duo ($30) , 8gb DDR2 ($75), and an SSD. I bought the new Geforce GTX 1050 TI low profile card from MSI turning it into a SERIOUS...

Anyone still running this board? I have Q9550, 8GB ram, Geforce GT740, system runs great. I was wondering if I can remove the heatsink that sits on the board since I have an external GPU? Does this also cool some chipsets that still get used?

I've had the 5570 with the X2 5000+ running on the 160 watt power supply with no issues since April of 2011. I've got it running Windows 8 with 4gb RAM, I'm still thinking of dropping in a Phenom CPU at some point to see what happens.

Question: Will BIOS version 5.10 on the Acacia M2N61-AR motherboard support the x2 5600+ or the Phenom Quad 9350e? I ask because I cannot upgrade to Bios version 5.18, because I did my Windows 7 upgrade last year before finding out that you can only update to the new bios in Windows Vista.

I hope you meant .5"!:p

13.3 is still portable, but to me it's a laptop. I had a Medion 13 incher like 7 years ago, it was simply a laptop, not a netbook and not an ultrabook. Netbooks started at 7 inches right? 8.9 was the standard, and then it kept creeping bigger, to where now the supposed "Netbook with full...

Ultrabooks are all over the place now, no need to conjecture what will be. You can get Ultrabooks now for $500 if you look, I got mine for far less. Netbooks will stay around as the $100-$150 cheapo computer, "ultrabooks" will occupy the $300+ areas, just like Laptops, and depending on what...

Luck of the draw I guess, I just dropped 4 gigs of Crucial RAM in my slimline yesterday and it's working great. Since I'm running 32 bit Win 7 I also applied the PAE patch to make all 4 gigs visible,so far so good.

Works great, I downloaded some games that were real cheap on Steam for Black Friday, Test Drive Unlimited 2 runs fine at 1080p, Mass Effect looks great as well (haven't tried Mass Effect 2 yet). It was much dodgier when I had the Galaxy Geforce, my computer would lose stability and get super hot.

That's the full system load though, not the video card. I never did the 290w PSU upgrade, I'm running rock solid with the original 160w, x2 5000+ (thinking of popping in a +5600 if I find one cheap) and the 5570 card. I'm still running only 2 gig ram though, I gotta pop in some new 2gb modules.

Thanks for the responses, I am going to take a look at the Samsung.

I am looking for a thin SSD for a Lenovo U260, I have read of people having to take the SSD out of its casing to fit it in, I've found it difficult to figure out what the thinnest/fastest/bang per buck SSD would be in this case, has anyone already searched and have an answer for me? FYI, 9.5mm...

I got the U260 for a song, even if I did an SSD and RAM upgrade I will still have spent less then what these go for even on sale.

It also looks like have a Intel HD GPU, not 3000, whatever that is (underclocked 3000/2000?). Kind of undefined by Intel.