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Restart the computer and tap F8. All but a very small number of malware infections on Windows will allow an admin to run AV tools like rkill, Combofix and Malwarebytes in safe mode, and you can usually start a Crossloop or join.me session for remote support in safe mode, too. I average between 3...

I wouldn't be surprised if they have excess capacity problems. But how do they get from that to competing against their AIB customers at retail? If it's just excessive stock, discount the prices to your wholesale customers and let them undercut AMD. If it's excess capacity, measure the...

Wow. I was going to point out that nVidia should be more concerned about their global AIB partners than a retailer in one market. And I was going to say that even if BB asked they had no obligation to say yes. Or instead of saying yes they could have offered to put together an nVidia special...

Here's the reason nVidia is doing this. It doesn't show up here and I'm reluctant to say anything because of the fanboi reaction, but in the investing community there are a lot of questions about the future of nVidia. They are on a big losing streak and the future actually looks worse. The...

My build: i5 760 - $171 Asus P7P55D Evo (non-E, but it came with a free USB3/SATA6 PCI-E card) - $150 Memory - haven't fully decided yet, but I'm leaning towards this Mushkin kit. Thoughts?

Today's Newegg Guerrilla Alert email has a code to get the i5-760 for $179,99 with the promo code, but when I just plugged it in the code took off an extra $9, bringing the price down to $170.99. That's only a dollar more than Microcenter. The added discount could be an error, so YMMV...

You're both close, but you're overthinking it. Microsoft floated these bonds because they could. It's really not any more complicated than that. Look at those rates. They got one billion dollars to use for the next three years, for less than 1%. Microsoft's $37b in cash isn't in cash -...

There is a cornucopia of amazing custom mods in this forum, made by people with vision, a shop full of tools, and the skill to use them. This...isn't going to be one of them. Call it a throwback or a beginner's mod (both fit), this is about what can be done with a Dremel, hand tools, a few...

QFT. The worst part of my job is dealing with third-party software issues. No, wait. The worst part is when a client calls a third-party developer and then I have to convince both of them that Acrobat is not causing their code-held-together-with-bailing-wire to fall apart.

I'm a huge fan of Brother laser printers. The software is much less intrusive than HP and the toner costs are a little less, too. We have a 4070CDW that I got through Amazon for a little under $300 last year. That might be a bit bit for what they need, but I've set people up with the HL3040...

Yeah, and I'd like to see the test rig specs for Crysis where the hard drive could make a six fps difference. Last I checked that was a game that lived and died on GPU performance. He's also confusing IOPS with having a lot of relevance for gaming. (IOPS are used to measure seek and random...

One last comment: I know a lot of people are having their e-manhood threatened because someone might not buy a SSD, but seriously people - check yourselves. A SSD isn't Extenze with a SATA connector. Under the best circumstances it will shave a few seconds off your boot time and maybe a second...

Having your OS and applications on different drives will significantly hurt your overall read/write performance, even if both of them are on fast drives. It can also create stability issues, so I'd strongly recommend a single drive for your OS and applications if it's a SSD or a platter drive...

The average 40fps I cited was from the H tests. That means real gameplay and if you look it up (find the story yourself) you'll see there isn't a drop with the 5850 or 470 that would affect gameplay for everyone whose eyes track at ~30fps. Not everyone with the means to spend $800 on video...

HDTV resolution maxes out at 1920x1080. That would be what you're looking at for a decent 24" monitor if you go that route, so your card choice will work equally well on either. You can run a CF/SLI setup at that resolution but it's really not necessary. A single 5850 or 470 will average...

Some things never change - how big is your monitor, what resolution do you run at, and what kind of games do you want to play? ;)

The racing game is nice, but can you imagine a flight sim on this? O M G.

Lot of fun while I was away for a couple of days... Unemployment isn't welfare. It is insurance - you pay into it with every paycheck. But let's go one step further with this. Believing that someone unemployed should be forced to take any job that is offered would be incredibly...

I don't think you should get either. If Intel was slashing prices on old S478 stocks then yeah, but I can't see spending $250 (plus a new cooler) to get to the state-of-the-art for 2008, not when you could put together a really nice i5 proc/board/memory/cooler together for under $500.

Sunday afternoon reading: "Our Daughter Isn't A Selfish Brat, Your Son Just Hasn't Read Atlas Shrugged." :p

It's all relative compared to your other options, and against the 5850 a 470 is hella hungry and loud.

Little testy are we? "What choice does he have?" The two obvious ones are to create a private sector road network and create a private GPS network. (He could also create a private sector internet to promote it via Google Earth, but I thought that was piling on.) If the benefits of the private...

A Randian using government-created roads and the government-created GPS system to promote an ideology that says government programs are evil.

Be patient and a good EVGA deal will come to you. I got a base model 470 for $270 AR a couple of weeks ago.

Bull. First of all, this police department has not tagged the photos with the names of the defendants. A search of Facebook by the suspect's names won't link back to the PD's page. Go try it. Second, arrest records and mugshots are public records. It means the public is entitled to know...

I'd lean yes. This appears to be a driver issue and it's also pretty rare. If you need near perfect reliability and stability because of your work, you're going to have to make some compromises on the gaming side. Any new card or chip is going to have some issues, and overclocking is going to...

Another old Abit fan here. This box, which will be retired next month, has an IC7G and it's probably the best motherboard I've ever used. It might live on as a Windows Home Server machine if I can get the drivers to work with the Abit board.

Most games now are GPU limited, but there are exceptions. Most flight sims can run on ancient DX9 video cards but will never get enough CPU clock cycles or cores.

Wait...13" monitor???? Seriously? Wow. Does SC2 run at 620x480?

Not really related to the rest of the thread, but I considered a pair of passively cooled Gigabyte 4850's when I started planning my new P183 rig. I think this is a good example of perception vs. reality. A 470 uses a little less power (and would thus generate a little less heat) than a pair...

Using two 8x lanes won't make a difference in performance. Since you brought that up, what resolution are you going to be using? SLI or X-Fire is cool, and the 460 in SLI is an amazing performer for the price. But unless you're running at 2560x1920 you're not going to see the improvements. And...

I'm really interested to see what kind of temps you get from two 5870's in a P180 mini. Please post an update when they get in.

There's a pretty big difference between the P180 Mini and the full size P18x cases. I dug up the specs on Newegg last night and the 180 Mini is four inches shorter on length and almost three inches shorter on height - nearly all of it out of the motherboard chamber. That's removing a lot of...

1) Between MSI and Asus, I'd take the Asus. (I can't recommend specifics on these two boards because both links are dead.) I'd recommend looking at the Gigabyte P55 micro ATX board, too. 2) There's nothing on the horizon for the 1156 boards. USB3 boards are out if you want that, and if the...

Someone is going to have to explain this to me some day. Sealed liquid cooling systems cost significantly more than even a high end heat sink and fan combo, all the ones I've seen so far make more noise, and they don't cool as well. So the point is...what?

PS - I hate to say it, but your wife is right about the legs. Any shorter and they'll lose the long, skinny proportion that was a trademark for that period.

Great inspiration and wonderful execution. My favorite mod project in a while. Nicely done. For a badge, it would be incredibly cool if you could track down a TV or stereo (HiFi) badge from the period.

Another vote to shitcan it and build or buy a new box. When you're doing IT work for a business, thinking about the best way for the customer to spend their money is as important as finding the cause of a problem. Your dad (or the agent) has definitely gotten his money's worth out of this...

NVDA is a falling knife. Try to catch it at your peril. This has been a rotten stock over the last year. It's underperformed the NASDAQ by 19 points and AMD has beaten it by 109 points. An investment in NVDA a year ago has (barely) beaten inflation, while the same investment in AMD has more...

Thanks for speaking for everyone. But next time try to be more prompt, now people have to wade through thirty posts to get the answer and that isn't very helpful, is it? Also, don't know if you noticed but GTX470's are now priced below 5850's. I ordered a EVGA GTX470 for $270 AR last week -...