Hey folks. I'm WAY out of touch on the hardware side these days. Any help on the below would be appreciated. And thanks in advance y'all! :-)
1) What will you be doing with this PC? Gaming? Photoshop? Web browsing? etc
Gaming primarily -- anything that can run the games I want to run...
Yo, I have an 8400 GS (?) video card, that, well sucks. I mean, it's slow even in WoW. I game at 1400x1050 and I don't play things like Crysis -- just WoW, although I want to be able to play Fallout 3 and the new Witcher re-release thing, Diablo III, etc.
I have about 150 bucks and a newish...
I have an AMD FX-55 retail, with retail heatsink which is pretty badass on these - heatpipes and really good fan - $125 obo
ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe - potentially flaky - $25 obo
1 GB of OCZ (?) high performance RAM (2 x 512MB for dual channel operation) - potentially flaky - $25 obo
ATI X800XL -...
Greetings:
I've been unsuccessfully trying to install NVRAID for the past day on my new a8n-sli board. Here's a synopsis, any insight would be greatly appreciated.
System setup is 2 75GB SATA Raptors, in Nvidia RAID ports 1 and 2.
I have them set up in the NVRAID utility as a mirror...
Pardon me for being a memory idiot, but the stuff has always confused the beejezus outta me.
A8N-SLI manual sez:
Channel A: Sockets A1 and A2
Channel B: Socket B1 and B2
Then it sez:
When using two DDR DIMM modules, install into slots A1 and B1.
Wha? You can't dual-channel...
I'm about to order a new power supply. It says it's ATX V2.0 compatible, but makes no mention of ATX v 1.3. It's going to be a bit before I build my Athlon 64 system (a couple months), but the power supply in my old Athlon (non-XP) system is dying. I may as well buy the power supply I want...
...an article about the pros/cons of SFF? I'm in the market for a new rig within the next 6 months, not sure where to go...but the SFF seems attractive and I'd like to learn more.
Thanks!
I've got an issue with my old mainboard...one of it's RAM slots died, and now I'm running on 256MB which is ass.
However, toward the end of the year, I intend to build a whole new rig, using PCI Express, SATA, etc. It's long past time for an overhaul. I vaguely remember hearing something...