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Hi there; I'm looking for a cheap Socket T CPU, preferably with a cooling solution. Please post here or PM me. All offers are welcome up to $100. Also, if you have any cheap DDR2 RAM, I'll look into that, too. My eBay and HeatWare profiles are both under "xonitex" (possibly with a capital...

Okay, I'm taking option #1. Thanks, guys.

Hi; please check your PM's when you can. I think I'll buy the motherboard.

Thanks for the tip. I'm currently a student, though, and I have no car. The nearest Fry's is probably an hour drive away...rats.

I'm not so sure about this myself but I'm guessing it has something to do with your voltage if you're having to go up to 1.43v for 2.93GHz and if CPU-Z is giving a strange reading. 1.43v for 2.93GHz seems kind of high...have you tried something lower? Also, I'm having the same RAM timing issue...

Maybe this will be Doom 3 all over again...

I could do 1280 x 1024 with 4x AA and 16x AF on my 7900GT. You'll be able to go way higher on the 8800GTS.

I would do that except that I've tried those deals at Fry's twice before and both times I got DOA's from their crappy ECS motherboards. Getting a nice motherboard with a fast Celeron D is the same or better than getting a crappy motherboard with a comparable Pentium D in my opinion.

Sorry about the long post. Hi; Fry's currently has the Ultra Wizard case and the Ultra V-Series 500W PSU for free after rebates, so I went ahead and bought them on impulse. Now I need a motherboard, a CPU, and RAM for a cheap workstation PC. I have three video card lying around and I don't...

The GeForce 6200 is comparable to the base Radeon 9600 (I have both). The 64-bit 6200 is slightly slower than the 9600 and the 128-bit 6200 is slightly faster than the 9600. The 9700 Pro will be much superior to both.

Check the trading section on this forum. There's someone selling a 9800 -> 9800 XT (flashed) with an aftermarket cooler for $27. Another guy is selling a 9800 XT or a 9800 Pro for $40 or $50. $10 won't get you a 9500 or a 9700 unless you find a really, really good deal.

Hmmm...I've been lucky with rebates so far but I hear of this happening often, depending on which company the manufacturer has outsourced to handle the rebates. My main gripe is that it usually takes a long time to get the rebate check back, long enough that you've forgotten about the rebate...

Hey, on the trading section of the forums someone is selling a 9800 XT for, like, $40 (could be $30 or $50). Also, someone is selling an effective 9800 XT (flashed 9800 or 9800 Pro) with an aftermarket cooler for $27. The problem is that he says he overclocked the card until it artifacted at...

Really? I always do the rebates...I figured mainstream buyers wouldn't want to do the rebates but enthusiasts would go for it. Anyways... There's a "Hot Deals" section? Oops; sorry. Moderators, please move this thread if it's in the wrong place.

Is $15 too low for the Ti4200? (I'm a cheapskate, I know...)

Honestly, I think your system is worth a bit less than $600. Recently, a completee system with a Pentium D 930, an X850 XT, and 2GB of RAM sold for about $500 on eBay. Someone else on these forums is selling an X2 4200+ system with a 256MB X1950 XT (could be X1900 XT) for $600 - $700. Your...

I figured this might help since we are seeing a few threads about building a low-budget gaming machine... http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814143049

Actually, that 9700 with the aftermarket cooler makes the thing worth it. New 6200's are going for, what, $30? The 6200 is comparable to the base 9600. Of course, it also supports Shader Model 3.0, but for gaming purposes a 9700 along with a crapload of old cards (including a Voodoo 5500) for...

I think most companies do the stress-test thing but I read in a Hexus article that XFX specifically pays nVidia more for higher-quality cores to be used in their more aggressively-overclocked offerings. eVGA, on the other hand, just does the stress-test thingy.

It depends on your core. The overclocked XFX cards use better-quality cores from nVidia, but you may still be able to hit XXX speeds depending on how your core came out.

I don't recommend getting the 6800 XT. It only has 8 pixel pipelines, compared to 12 on the vanilla 6800 and the 6800GS and 16 on the 6800GT and the 6800 Ultra. I'd just wait until the new build (or build the new one after R600/refreshes). Like everyone else said, to play newer games like...

MSI 7900GS going for $130 on w00t? LOL, I bet this is one of the stolen ones. Buy this thing and you'll have a piece of video card history.

Those two cards are in completely different classes. The X1950 XTX should be considerably more expensive than the 7950GT, and also much faster. If you're looking at the X1950 XTX, try the 8800GTS. Otherwise, the 7950GT is a good deal if you can get it in the low $200's.

The 256MB X1950 XT will be faster than the X1950 PRO 512MB.

Seriously, unless you are rich, blowing $5,000 on a first-build computer system with enthusiast parts is pretty high-risk. Some of the people here are just messing with you with their advice (24" LCD's, massive RAID storage, Quadro video cards). You should probably do some research at...

Vista looks and feels great but it's definitely slower for games. If you're a performance nut like me, I'd recommend a dual-boot until the drivers become fully functional. The two big problems I have with it is that it's slower in games and I can't overclock my video card in it. Also, I get...

On the other hand, the DX7 mode looks like crap compared to the DX9 mode. It makes the game look like the first Call of Duty, but with slightly more detail.

Pretty awesome. You have to get a lucky BFG 7900GS, though...looks like they just slapped G71 cores onto the board and software-modded them to 20/7.

I think there are some special 7900GT's that are HDCP but none of eVGA's are.

Okay, it got sniped up to $55 before bidding ended. I was really considering buying it for no damn good reason other than that it was a ridiculously good deal.

I was browsing along eBay and I found this: http://cgi.ebay.com/Sapphire-Radeon-X800-GTO2-Graphics-Card_W0QQitemZ150081027796QQihZ005QQcategoryZ80190QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem I'm tempted to buy it but I probably shouldn't. It ends in, like 15 minutes as of this typing. It kind of amazes me...

I haven't used CPUID, so I'll try that. I thought about the specification page, but I think it shows the stock rating rather than the actual clock frequency. My BIOS is at the default settings (I switched everything back to stock for Vista), so I guess SpeedStep and C1E and all that other...

I just installed Windows Vista onto my computer and it works great. However, CPU-Z tells me that the multiplier for my E6600 is only at 6x and that my total CPU frequency is only 1.6GHz. Huh? I thought this might be a SpeedStep thing, so I ran OCCT, but the multiplier doesn't go up despite...

Corsair XMS2 DDR2-800 PC2 6400 2x 1GB RAM, 5-5-5-12. They run at 4-4-4-12 on the stock voltages. I think these are a popular pair because they're Corsair's cheapest 2x 1GB set of DDR2-800 RAM on NewEgg. Supposedly they don't overclock well, though. I got mine for $200, so I'm happy, but the...

I have one on my 7900GT. The core is factory-overclocked to 560MHz. Before, my load temperatures were around 75 degrees. Now, I can run my card at 650MHz and my load temperatures are around 60 degrees (I'm voltage limited). The VF900-Cu is definitely one of the, if not the, most quiet...

I think BF2 may be capped at 100 frames per second, anyway, so he might be higher frames in some areas. Get the 8800GTS if you're choosing between that and an X1950 XT.

Dammit; I'm running an SP-500 2.0 in my main system right now. I'll post here if it blows up or something.

I read on Hexus that eVGA hand-overclocks all of their chips. The chips that they use in their overclocked cards aren't special, but they are tested to run stable for at least that overclocked speed. XFX, on the other hand, pays nVidia extra to get better cores for their overclocked chips so...

A year or two ago I went my local CompUSA looking for network cable and found that every single cable they had was overpriced (think $20 for the cheapest cable). I looked more carefully and discovered that every single cable for sale was made by Belkin. Did they have some sort of deal together...