Recent content by RedRocket

The reason I bought maingear was not to get a perfect computer. It was to get a computer on the cusp of performance, with someone to stand behind me in trouble and to research those issues that arise from time to time. I have built computers in the past and will not doubt build computers in the...

4x1gig sticks of corsair XMS2 8500C5 1066Mhz memory. Of course, when I put the extra 2 gigs in I will run it no where near that speed in the evga 680i motherboard.

I think you misunderstood me. The machine came overclocked by Maingear. True, I should have done more research and turned down the overclock once I saw what they had done, but I trusted them to do it right. It also happened a week after I got the rig, and I did not think to read the evga boards...

Your experience was quite similar to mine. I ordered an F131 just after windows vista came out and it too came with a virus. But my virus checker caught it and cleaned it. I did not think to report it to maingear however. But, a week later 2 gigs of my memory burnt out (I ordered 4 gigs), as...