Recent content by wwischerath

The first PC in our house was an IBM 4.7Mhz with a 5MB HDD. I think it had 64k of RAM, but I know it was an 8086 CPU. I remember when we got a 10MB HDD ans was told we would never fill it! HA. Even had a 9600 baud rate modem. Ran on PC-DOS, not MS-DOS. At least until the first upgrade. I added...

International Definition of Computers (just kidding)

My desktop is using a WD 256gb SSD. Its going to be transferred to my laptop. Not sure of age since I got it used. Still works fantastic (at least I assume so. Havent been home in a few months!)

A lot of ifs. More than likely all will come to pass with the time restriction being possible holdout

Looks interesting

removal of the HDD bracket is easy. I used a couple of aluminum angle pieces and double sided tape to mount the HDDs on the interior front. I am using 2.5 HDDs, but same technique shgould work for a single 3.5 HDD. I am not sure if yo will have the space to mount the fan between the GPU and the...

looking forward to hearing your results. Good luck!

Best thing is just lifting the rear of the case about an inch. I have a DV2000 that when I installed the long life battery lifted up the rear about an inch and the temps dropped almost 10C. So a small peice of wood would work best for $/perf ratio. You probably have something laying around that...

Judging from the way he worded it, playing either over 1080p would max out GTX 580s in SLI

I find the idea fascinating. Since I do not know enough about fluid dynamics I will stay away from that discussion. I could ask my engineer brother, but he gets way too technical sometimes. (he was a nuclear technician in the Navy-he would know something about heat transfer) But the idea of a...

going to claim ignorance on this one. No experience with a case that has fans. Might be best in this case to turn the PSU to draw it air from outside and not fight with CPU cooler.

might also be helpful to know what GPU you are using.

I havent tried HDMI with DVI, so not sure. Since OP asked about VGA and DVI, I know that works. When I first built mine, thats what I used. The drivers installed automatically for the graphics and 1 monitor needed an update driver that installed online. I never had any problem using multi...

It should default to integrated graphics. Use whichever port you have a monitor for. You can even use both for dual monitors. Basically, just plug the monitor(s) in-no set up instructions required.

acording to the Best Buy site, that is a quad core.