Recent content by the3kgt2

nice. thanks.

I'm about to do a fresh install of Vista. I always get excited when I get to start clean. What are your essentials apps that you immediately load up with a fresh install? My essentials: office 07 CCCP ccleaner vmware workstation ACID Pro or Audacity Adobe Reader firefox/thunderbird avast...

Hmm. After looking at this comparison I think the 640mb might be better for 1600x1200. it got over 20fps on most current games. If I get the e6420 instead of the e6600, I can afford the 640mb version.

Thanks a lot for the links, Bbq. I'm going to go with the 2nd one you posted. Very helpful. My monitor is a Dell UltraSharp 2007fp 20" 1600x1200 max resolution. Great picture but only 16ms response time. 1600x1200 is a low resolution for today's standards, right? Judging from the 20...

According to every benchmark I've seen, the 320MB version is just as fast as the 640MB. Small difference for a card that is almost $200 more. The e6420 doesn't sound bad to me either. The e6600 will overclock much better though, won't it? It's only a $60-$80 difference.

It's time for my 2 year upgrade. I plan on buying these parts the day Intel drops their prices. Just wondering what your opinions are. Intel E6600 - $240 on April 22nd, or $180 for E6420 GigaByte GA-965P-DS3 Motherboard - $122 A-Data 2GB (2 x 1GB) PC2 6400 Memory - $119 8800GTS 320MB -...

I'm running xp pro. i'm 100% positive my mobo runs HT and yes it's enabled. HT worked fine on my 2.4c.

i think the problem is that i'm using "MPS Multiprocessor" when I should be using "ACPI Multiprocessor". but it wont let me pick that one. i found that the driver name is Halmacpi.dll but i cant get it to use that driver even when going through "Have Disk"

reinstall windows? i'll just stick with my osx86 haha

Just took pcx's advice and was able to change singleprocessor to multiprocessor. then had to reboot twice. Same problem. Only showing once processor

I think you're right, but my previous 2.4c chip was HT so I dont know why it would be a problem to swap it with another HT chip. I checked device manager and under computer it says: MPS Uniprocessor PC I also went into sisoftare Sandra and checked out my cpu info and had a little warning...

positive. says right on the cpu pentium 4 2.8 512/800 i can also tell it's 800fsb when i OC it.

I just swapped my 2.4c (OC'd to 3.17ghz) with a 2.8c (OC'd to 3.31ghz) but the HT isnt getting recognized on my Abit AI7 board or in the OS. I made sure that HT support is still enabled in the BIOS. I still noticed a big improvement over the swapping of chips and I don't think it's just because...