Recent content by pirateface

take a look at the Enermax Noisetaker 600Watt PSU, their advertising it as a SLi ready PSU with the special connectors and all.

Jamie don't get the 36GB raptor, it's not worth it's price tag. Get the 74GB one, it has improvements, and believe me the 36GB IS NOT ENOUGH FOR OS, APPS, GAMES and other stuff such as temp. downloads. For you; you don't do enough to appreciate the speed of the raptor, as your not a power...

I've been having the same problems with the A8V at work on a few customer's new rigs. With the thing NOT posting at all and problems mainly with memory and strangley with the newer 3500's. I've solved the issues using one of the following methods: 1. Inserting RAM in other slots (it...

lol same, but $270 CAD ouch!! I know it's retail box, but.... I paid $171 CAD for mine at work, and that was my cost price on an OEM. I believe the price has gone down to $169 CAD cost on the unit right now, in which I'll pick up another for my 1/2 a tera of storage :D

I believe the Audigy 2 Value OEM are completely different than the Audigy 2 OEMs, not just the firewire port itself but it's missing quite lot. I own an Audigy 2 OEM ie. the one with the firewire port that I got last year and the card itself is much bigger, and it has the upgradable ports for...

the Audigy 2 OEM no longer has the firewire port. Older versions of the OEM audigy 2 card will have it, but the newer ones that are dubbed the Audigy 2 Value OEM which are replacing the Audigy 2 OEMs will not sport the firewire port. Some stores are selling the Audigy 2 Value OEM as the...

The best case IS a matter of opinion. It's also based on what you want in a case, such as how you want HDs to be mounted, how the case looks, the size of the case, the material used in the case, the size of the case fans, the amount of devices you can put into a case, price, etc... It's...

Depends on whats inside the computer. Obviously the more HDDs and Optical devices and other cards such as Sound Card, TV Tuner, etc... the more power it's gonna drain and the likely hood of it not supplying enough power for the 6800GT, and the likely hood of overloading a PSU which is never a...

If you dunno what a Standard ATX powersupply looks like or the standard demensions of one are, then take it to a computer store and have them replace it with a bigger PSU. I'm pretty sure your DELL uses a standard ATX PSU which all computer stores will carry PSUs for. I would take it to a shop...

I find it funny how people can afford a pretty high end video card (ie. $350+ on a card), but won't pay for a $40+ PSU. The box says minimum requirements 300Watt PSU so if you don't follow it's minimum requirements, well that's just retarded if you ask me. I'm sure if you can afford a 6800GT...

heh I steal my screws from work. Working at a computer store we have tons of computer screws and other types of screws. Just go to any computer store, and ask for some screws, they'll usually give them to you free. Hell we do that all the time at our store.

My Sister's Rig (built by me): Well my sister's old computer which was my 2nd computer that I've owned of all time (the P2 300mhz computer died about 2 months ago). Well I just didn't want to reinstall windows 2k on it, which I couldn't get anyupdates for or do anything with it cause it's slow...

At our store (ICCT in Markham, ON (Toronto)) we got 3 of the ASUS A8N-SLi (nForce4 dual PCI-Express) boards last night, I believe the cost price on the unit is about $225 CAD so I guess were selling them for around $239 or $255 CAD before taxes. But I think we shipped them out to our other...

People who post here and do not read the forum for opinons, reviews or doing homework on buying components should shot themselves in the foot. This is why we have a forum, for discussion such as this and other topics. The whole reason why I said "I'd would expect anyone who posts here to know...

How is it not the same? When you buy a car, you should know exactly what you want, and so should you when buying a video card. I'd would expect anyone who posts here to know enough about video cards to pick out a video card based on it's specs and preformance as well as price/budget to get what...