Recent content by SChow

Phenom II 920, Radeon HD4830. Other than that it's fairly light. 2x2GB DDR2-800, 1 500GB SATA HDD, 1 DVD-RW. I do a lot of compiling so it's not hard to take the CPU up to 100%, like I said though, I won't be taking the CPU & video card to their limits at the same time. Maybe with some newer...

Hello, Straightforward question (I hope), I'm using a Corsair VX450 and according to the wattage recommendation http://extreme.outervision.com/PSUEngine makes I'm using about 76% of my PSUs capacity at 100% TDP & 100% load -- and this is assuming it provides exactly 450W which seems...

I'm no AMD fanboy, but if you already have AM2 and are aiming for something in the Q6600/E8400 range, then why not just go with one of the new Phenom II's which AFAIK land somewhere around the Q9300 & 9400? Am I missing something? Here (Canada) they're priced a bit lower than the Q6600 @...