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- Wed Jan 16, 2008 1:14 pm
- Forum: Tech Support & Help
- Topic: ibookair - any words of wisdom anybody
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3338
Hate to sound like the hopeless Apple denier that I am but ... that thing's the usual half-baked, shiny, overpriced product everybody loves / hates from Apple. Tbh. when I first saw it and read about it I was drooling too, thinking that'd been the laptop I'd bought would it have been around a year a...
- Fri Sep 21, 2007 4:43 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: BF2 mod - Battlefield Pirates 2 (BFP2)
- Replies: 33
- Views: 11938
- Fri Sep 21, 2007 10:57 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: BF2 mod - Battlefield Pirates 2 (BFP2)
- Replies: 33
- Views: 11938
- Wed Jul 18, 2007 7:39 pm
- Forum: Tech Support & Help
- Topic: Grafic card dying? or POE2 bug
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4426
They had their receptionist cutting old capacitors off and soldering new ones on at the front desk. Crazy crap. Mine got sent in and I got a new replacement card which had a different pcb, diff. color, with more connectors (my original one lacked either DVI or TV-out, new one had all three), additi...
- Wed Jul 18, 2007 2:50 pm
- Forum: Tech Support & Help
- Topic: Grafic card dying? or POE2 bug
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4426
Lost a TI4200 [...] this way. I had a Gainward 4200 that started doing that (and locking up). After several thousands of us complained they extended the warranty and replaced a bank of capacitors that were failing while denying that there was any problem. Heh, guess who had produced my failing TI42...
- Wed Jul 18, 2007 9:42 am
- Forum: Tech Support & Help
- Topic: Grafic card dying? or POE2 bug
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4426
I've seen these effects before. The tearing 3D-ish lines are usualy related to GPU errors, the texture mishmash can be caused by various parts on the gfx card (VRAM, resistors, transistors aso.). As it's summer now I'd bet on overheating. Try playing with an open case, maybe put a vent in front of i...
- Thu Jun 28, 2007 8:16 pm
- Forum: Tech Support & Help
- Topic: Considering a laptop
- Replies: 23
- Views: 7751
Well, then I'd definitelly go with a laptop. Battery runtime on the gaming beasts will always suck compared to business ones. Downclocking both cpu and gpu helps and some may offer an additional bat, still it'll never be truly comparable. So if gaming is what you want to do with it, you might as wel...
- Wed Jun 27, 2007 6:28 pm
- Forum: Tech Support & Help
- Topic: Considering a laptop
- Replies: 23
- Views: 7751
Are you gonna carry that rig accross the country every week? Say if you travel a to b regularly, you could just go with 2 screens (adding costs of course, but I guess you own at least 1 screen already) and transport the rig only. If you travel even more, I would only concider a laptop. By what means...
- Wed Jun 27, 2007 8:18 am
- Forum: Tech Support & Help
- Topic: Considering a laptop
- Replies: 23
- Views: 7751
Alienware is about to release an upgraded model of the 9700 next month, so I'd sure wait a little: http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/26/alienware-m9750-now-with-dual-512mb-nvidia-gpus/ Asus has one ready that might be interesting in terms of it's upgrade ability: http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/18/asu...
- Mon Apr 02, 2007 5:47 pm
- Forum: Tech Support & Help
- Topic: D-Link DGL-4300 Wireless Gaming Router
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4319
- Mon Apr 02, 2007 3:26 am
- Forum: Tech Support & Help
- Topic: D-Link DGL-4300 Wireless Gaming Router
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4319
The Linksys WRT54GL can do all that gaming router does ... and some more if you want it to. And it costs a lot less. Basically what you need is packet prioritizing, something that different open source firmwares for this Linux powered box allow (just unlike the gaming router, you can adjust the prio...
- Mon Feb 05, 2007 11:28 am
- Forum: Tech Support & Help
- Topic: Multi Monitor Displays (resolved)
- Replies: 18
- Views: 6215
- Sun Jan 28, 2007 9:11 am
- Forum: Tech Support & Help
- Topic: Opteron 185 vs. FX60?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4765
- Sat Jan 27, 2007 7:41 pm
- Forum: Tech Support & Help
- Topic: Opteron 185 vs. FX60?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4765
- Sat Jan 27, 2007 1:46 pm
- Forum: Tech Support & Help
- Topic: Opteron 185 vs. FX60?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4765
Opteron and FX can both run win32 resp. x86 software. Both the 185 and FX60 have 2MB L2 cache. They both need/need not have ECC ram, depending on the platform you buy em for. They both cost a premium over the consumer lines 64 and X2's as the FX aims at the OC geeks and the Opty at the server nerds....