Recent content by Tainted

I was wondering the same thing as you earlier, and another poster told me to download the chipset drivers rather than netgear drivers, similar to getting the chipset driver from intel/amd rather than mobo manf. Your chipset is RT8187L, get the latest w7 drivers from here. Realtek only has...

Thanks for the suggestion. I didn't know about getting the drivers from RALINK, I usually got them from the Rosewill site. I guess its kinda like getting a graphics driver from ati/nvidia vs. getting it from the video card manufacturer. -EDIT- are there any desktop or usb solutions with an...

Looks good. The video card will be a tight fit in that case, but the ASUS triple slot gtx 580 has great cooling. Happy gaming.

If you are one of the lucky few who live near a microcenter, you can get the 2500k for $180+tax.

I only ever use my optical drive for OS installs these days, and the occasional older game. Sometimes I make repair discs. It doesn't get in the way of anything in a full size desktop so I would include one in a new build. Case modders can always get the OS from USB.

Mobo: Gigabyte EP45-UD3R OS W7 64-bit Home Rosewill RNX-G300LX PCI b/g card I've had problems with my current wireless PCI card in my desktop; it would drop the signal rather frequently and even make my router need a power recycle. . I don't know how that is even possible. Anyway I think...

White PCBs are sexy! I wonder why there aren't more of them on the market today. That's news to me. I thought BFG as a company disbanded not but a few years ago?

Summer has been pretty hard on my GTX 470. . I've looked into some aftermarket coolers, in particular the Zalman VF3000F. In fact I've already bought it (was able to snag at $40). The Gigabyte 470 SOC has a custom-PCB design however, and Zalman specs their coolers to nvidia reference design...