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Thanks in advance for any advice. I'm building a rig for a friend out of some components we both have lying around and I'm having this strange overheating problem. These are the relevant components: AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ Brisbane 2.6GHz 65W Dual-Core Black Edition CPU ARCTIC COOLING Freezer...

gets worse and worse...seems now to take 3-5 minutes to resolve into a stable image. anyone have any idea what this sounds like?

i've been using and loving an Acer 2423 for about a year now. but recently monitor behaves strangely. if anyone can help me diagnose this, it'd be much appreciated. when it comes out of stand-by (or when the pc is restarted) it produces a bunch of noise (mostly black) that gradually resolves...

can anyone tell me if there is a meaningful difference (aside from $10) between these two cards: http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16814130073 vs http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814130062 the only difference that i can see is that more expensive card...

helpful. thanks.

thanks. i'm restricted to $400 and it has to be a mini-atx tower. (not quite [H]ard, i realize) so those boards with the 6100 or 6150 graphis onboard help me sneak in around my pricerange...allowing the person for whom i'm building it to buy a video card if wants to. are there any...

i'm trying to build a budget machine for someone as a gift...and i want to build in the option to upgrade the rig for gaming. this asus barebones system caught my attention because it has integrated video: http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16856110055 compelling because...

i too have personally experienced the performance hit associated with the 128kb L2 semprons. my palermo 3000+ tops out at 2.4ghz according to prime95, which is fine; but even at that speed it is noticeably less competent to run a 7900gs than the athlon 64 (512kb) chip i've got at 2.0 in another...

thanks. 2.6ghz would be great. any recommendation on what the right board is? someone recommended the epox sli board to me...any problems there? the ram i've got for that rig is an old stick of corsair value-select pc3200. i know that xms is the good stuff, will that value memory hold me...

new to the club. cool thread. i have a sempron 3000+ (palermo, 1.8ghz) lying around and am considering building a modest gaming rig around it. it's L2 cache is only 128k, so i figure i've got to OC it as much as possible (if it's gonna keep up with a 7900gs). i've got good cooling options...

sorry, repeat.

i've never had an x850xt, but so far i'm pleasantly surprised at how well the 7900gs handles just about everything i throw at it right now (even in 1920x1200). and if you grab the evga version for $185 on the egg, then you a downpayment on a real big upgrade (i.e. 7900gtx or g80) that's good...

thanks for the advice. it's actually a 754 board with two pci-e slots (nforce 4). my girlfriend does graphics stuff for work sometimes and she convinced her boss that she would need an SLI rig at some point when they last chipped in for her computer. i think epox makes the board. but i...

thanks. i had a feeling it was crap when i looked it up online and found it available for $30.

i have just inherited an old machine that contains the following budget PSU: DYNAPOWER USA ADW-50063 ATX 500W (output: +3.3V@32A; +5V@42A; +12V@20A; [email protected]; [email protected]; +5VSB@2A) i have a 7900gs lying around, and my girlfriend has a sock754 rig that could use the graphics boost. will...

while I was sitting around waiting for the cash to flow in so I can redirect it back out... ...the 7900GTO i was planning to buy from newegg for $255 has gone out of stock and jumped to $270. on mwave it was $250 this morning, but is now $280 and limited to 3 per customer. would you...

hey. i'm a long-time 754 user, but new member to the club represented by this impressive thread. forgive me for not reading the entire thing, which probably contains an answer to my question. i have someone wanting to give me a 7900GTX for $100, but i'm presently still on AGP (6800)...

thanks...i'll take my query about which board to buy over to the impressive 754-club thread

i have a strange chance to inherit a 7900GTX from someone ("inherit" for $100). but i'm still running an 6800 AGP card on a 754 system; and I don't have the cash just yet to jump up to AM2 or C2D or whatever the kids are playing these days... ...so would it be worth it to lay down $60 for...

thanks. any idea whether i'll be able to stick a GTX in there with it down the road? (or would that even be worth it...?)

thanks. any particular reason?

building a new mid-range gaming machine (AMD) and the budget is rigid. say you had just enough for one of the following upgrades to a new part, but only one: antec 550W psu...or...ocz 600W psu -- ($30 difference) board w/ 570 chipset...or...board w/ 590 chipset -- ($50 difference) 1gb...

fair enough. but for $100 less, i'll take the hit on oblivion...along with the better drivers, better cooler, and pixel pipelines.

that's interesting. seems like it'd have to be a GTX, not a GT...running in SLI mode 12 months from now with the GTO i buy today. does anyone know for sure how hard it'd be to run a GTO and GTX together in SLI...? is there a way to flash them with the same bios...?

after years of ATI, i'm also thinking of getting a 7900 GTO, mostly for the nvidia drivers and the better cooler... ...and i was thinking that in a few months it might make sense to make an SLI upgrade while everyone is going crazy over the DX10 cards and the unreleased games they can't yet...

thanks for the opinions. the related question was about rebuilding the whole system. are we going to need new boards, psu, and chips in order to squeeze the joy out of a G80? or will the system built now as though it were going to contain a couple of high-end 7xxx cards be adequate to the...

going back to the OP's question (should I wait for DX10 to rebuild)...say i'm humming along just fine right now with a socket 939 chip (3700 or so), a good sli-ready board, a solid PSU, 2gb ram...and so on. and even though i need a new card, i decide not to jump into the geforce 7950 stuff...

thanks for the help. so the more i read, the more i realize that the 128-bit graphics card my not hack it on my 24" monitor, meaning that an sli setup with two 7600gt cards will hit a bottleneck at hi res. so, say the configuration (no longer budget) was for an eventual sli arrangement of...

i'm putting together a budget gaming upgrade and need to add an sli-certified power supply to eventually run two 7600 cards. otherwise, a couple of hard drives and a couple of dvd drives. the two psu options i'm debating based on my limited reading: -XCLIO GoodPower 500W, $50 -Antec...

currently putting together a budget upgrade in an attempt to catch up with the gaming world, but i've been little out of touch with the graphics card market. right in my price range is a BFG 7660gt, currently available on newegg for $150 ($120 after a rebate). for those of you in the...

i've had the acer 2423 for a couple of weeks now and couldn't be more pleased. after comparing almost all the 24" panels on the market right now, this is clearly the best value and probably the best hands down. my girlfriend's company bought her the new sony 23" -- and we both agree the acer...

not sure. does it seem foolish to just grab the cheapest SLI-certified PSU available on newegg? the 500W XCilo recommended in the link posted above seems fine for $50. no? i don't plan to have an unusual number of drives; just need to power a couple of 7600s at some point.

thanks.

i'm trying to put together a budget system upgrade in order catch up to the gaming world...and i'm wondering if anyone can tell me whether a the PSU i already have will cut it or not. my current PSU: DYNAPOWER USA ADW-50063 ATX 500W the new components: Athlon 64 3700 2.2ghz (sock...

that is the right panel. i just plugged in my 2423 this morning and couldn't be happier so far. the first thing to do was turn down the crazy brightness...now running it at 20% and it still seems much brighter than my old crt. weird. also...what RGB settings in the OSD have those of...

after debating this exact quesiont (acer vs dell), i finally plugged in my new acer 2423 about 2 hours ago. so far i'm stunned. the dell has the advantage on two counts: the cool black casing and the usb/card slots. but the acer has not a single technical or display issue that i can...