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That's another thing that's making this tough for me. I DO live near a Microcenter. I can get a 2500K and a Gigabyte GA-Z68-UD3H-B3 together for $297.48 after tax. Throw in another $40-$50 for some RAM from newegg and I've got an upgrade for $337.48. That's before the $10 MIR on the...

Thanks for the feedback. That's really my primary concern, whether this is a good time or not. Since my current system still can do what I want, I can definitely hold off if something very appealing is coming soon. I haven't been able to find anything other than Ivy Bridge really, and the new...

Been a long time since I've posted here. I built my current main rig in Dec 2007 and at the time, I dropped quite a bit of money on it. This proved to be worth it since I'm still using it for general computing and pretty heavy gaming. My question is, it's almost been 4 years now, and I feel...

So what you're saying is, this is an issue because I am running at 1680x1050? My roommate played through AC with his 8800GT at 1440x900 (16:10) and he saw no issues. Also, why does only half the screen appear to have the issue in my screens?

Hopefully someone with a 9800 and AC can chime in. Like I said, I have tried the latest official drivers from Nvidia, and a couple beta releases with the same result. I have not changed any of the default settings in the Nvidia control panel except for the Transparent AA which was suggested in...

Ok I tried enabling transparancy AA in the Nvidia Control Panel but it didn't help at all. I have made an observation though, it seems like only edges on the right side of the screen are affected. Could this be an sli issue? I took another screenshot below that shows the problem much more...

Thanks for the replies guys, but I am not sure this is a matter of enabling anti-aliasing. In that screenshot I had 4x anti-aliasing enabled. I also game at 1680x1050 so the blocky edges shouldn't be that big as in the screenshot. You can see the stairs in the distance that are circled in blue...

Hey all, ever since I got my EVGA 9800 GX2 I have noticed that it displays these weird blocky horizontal lines on the edges of some 3d objects in games. The lines appear to stay stationary as the 3d objects move, almost like an overlay. I have been searching google and forums for a while on this...

When I had my old BFG 6800nu in my main PC, I had a Arctic Cooling Silencer on it and after a few months, the fan header on the card itself actually blew. I remember smelling something burning and when I took a look inside my PC the fan was no longer spinning. I then replaced the silencer with...

Well I found out that my apartment uses Verizon for thier DSL provider and after doing some google searches on DNS issues with verizon I came across a forum thread where a bunch of people were having DNS issues with verizon. One guy said that dowloading a program called Treewalk fixed his...

Yes Xipher is correct, WoW uses DNS initially to login, then it uses IP to the actual server I play on, which is probably why I don't lose my connection when I can't browse websites anymore, but can't login if I want to during one of the said 'outages'.

I not sure its my NIC card. I'm using the intergrated Nvidia network controller built in to my DFI motherboard. I've been using it for a long time when I had my own cable intermet at my last place. It has never shown any problem symptoms before.

Here are the results of the ping command: Ping statistics for 4.2.2.2: Packets: Sent = 1437, Received = 1419, Lost = 18 (1% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 14ms, Maximum = 249ms, Average = 18ms Control-C

I recently moved into a my new apartment which offers included DSL internet access. Every room that has a cable and telephone jack also has ethernet as well, making it very convenient. The only problem is, is that once in a while, as I browse web sites, the internet seems to die on me. I will be...

rofl @ this thread :D

Ok, last night, oblivion froze again out of nowhere. I thought it was a one time thing originally but now I'm really suspecting the psu. I think I'm going to order a new one today.

Hate to break it to ya, but your optical drive isn't saturating it's IDE interface. Moving optical drives to sata would be purely for the benefits of a smaller, easier to deal with cable.

I just bought a second Evga 7800GT vid card and added it to my system so I am now running in SLI. I've had my 550w TTGI modular psu for about a year now and its been running my system fine but since I've added my 2nd vid card I am worried it isn't giving my system enough reliable power. My...

Yeah theres no such thing as Directx 9.2. That just adds to the rediculous-ness of this so called "support" chat. :rolleyes:

Yeah, I'll give them a call when I get home from work. It seemed like the chat would be more convenient since I am at work right now and could chat and do work at the same time but I guess not. :(

So my vid card in my Inspiron 5150 is dying (Radeon 9000), after a few minutes of playing games, it starts to artifact and corrupt everything on the screen. My laptop is still under warranty so I thought I'd chat with Dell support while here at work and see if I can get a replacement. The person...

Just grab some thermal tape and cut it in little squares for the bga ramsinks. I bought this off ebay to reuse my copper OCZ ramsinks on my new 7800GT, cant go wrong with the price...

I recently did a fresh install of windows xp pro w/sp2 on my system and one of the first things I do after doing all the critical things on a fresh install is I switch to the classic logon rather than the welcome screen. But this time around, Windows prompts me for a password everytime I boot...

oh yeah, i like to blowtorch my new opterons. overclocks much higher, every time! I also found out that putting my old athlon xp's under my car tire overnight really helps strengthen the die allowing me to attach bigger, heavier heatsinks without cracking! :rolleyes:

I have read up on the Ultra-D to SLI mod, but I am hearing reports that DFI will not sell the SLI bridge seperately to anyone due to this mod. The price difference between the Ultra-D and the SLI-D is not much at all so I don't know if it worth going through the trouble of making the Ultra-D...

Ok heres my dilemma. I currently have an MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum mobo with a 6800nu agp. I love this system except for one thing, my graphics card. I've been running this 6800nu for a little over a year now in this pc and I'm finding myself looking for more performance in some newer games like...

ok I tried resetting the BIOS to see if it would help the problem, and as a safety measure, I ran memtest on my 2x512 sticks of PQI Turbo pc4000 memory. Memtest showed 1 error on the same address each pass of the tests. The test it fails is test #7 (Random Number Sequence). Now thinking I have a...

UPDATE: I tried booting to the windows CD again but the system would still lock up to a blank screen after the initial bios screen. I unplugged all my drives and tried again, and this time it worked, only there was nothing to boot off of. I plugged just my optical drive and my windows drive but...

Ok so heres the story. Recently, I put my friends hard drive in my system as a secondary drive in an attempt to save some files he needed off it. Once I put it in, the computer was refusing to boot reliably into windows. It would get the the desktop and immediately reboot itself. I took out his...

i thought saccharin was the rat poison, like in those pink packets, not splenda/nutrasweet?