Recent content by Aastii

Well the thing is, although people like warranty (who doesnt ;)), 3 years from now you will be able to pick up a comparably sized hard drive that is faster for pennies. Look at the price of 180GB drives now to see what I mean. That is what I had in my system 3 years ago, a single 180GB drive and...

Wouldn't go with WD, not because they make bad drives, quite the opposite, but because Samsung drives will give you more performance than the black drives whilst costing less for similar capacities. From your post, I see you have a 1TB drive, so assuming you actually need that space...

This is the company that, apparently, has won award after reward for customer services, but how they got them, I really do not know. For those that aren't aware of the goings on of the last 4 months: December 2009 - Bought an Asus M4A79XTD EVO mobo from Scan 20th November 2010 (d-day) - Deduce...

The mark forums as read seems to be an issue with vb rather than an issue with your site specifically, it has been around since at least vb3 You could make it all big and red so it stands out, few people will still use it, it is the same on pretty much all forums. Making it stand out more...

Indeed I understand that, but you will probably know as well as I do that most people don't realise the little "report post" button, and even if they do, they generally don't report the post anyway, or can't identify it as spam. To overcome this, and I'm not saying you should do this, just a...

Is the gaming section moderated, because there are ridiculous amounts of spam. For instance: http://www.computerforums.org/gaming/what-your-first-ever-games-console-104635.html#post1077051 post #8 and all other posts by the user, which all seem to be in the games section :rolleyes...

You won't be able to (almost certainly) for 2 reasons: 1. It isn't like a standard fan. It has a different connector to your video card PCB, it will be connected differently, and the radius will potentially be specific to the card. If you can find an old card with a similar sized fan with the...

i3's have hyperthreading, they don't have turboboost though, which the i5's do You will get the best performance from building it yourself, you can get a better system than Echo posted, but for at least $50 less, and with that you get higher quality, more power and better warranties. If you...

It really wouldn't. On the rig in my sig I get lag in it, especially between turns, because it has to process every unit, every city and every AI turn. A quad core processor really does help. I can play on mid - high settings, so offering a 5450, not just processor wise, but graphics wise he...

Are they rented, or are you running a home server? Were they ever working?

It is because of what I said before - it depends on how the program is written. All that the number of processors option does is allow Windows to use all available cores right from the word go, potentially making boot times quicker. By default, Windows will only use 1 core, even though as an...

You can't make software utilise all of the cores, it depends entirely on the software. Most games will use 2 or 3 cores, with a few programmed to use 4 cores, but very, very few of these are optimised well, meaning if the code was written properly and made more efficient, even though it can use...

You need some project reality with that ;) Is it any good? I was considering picking it up, however I'm pretty happy playing Fifa at the moment as my PC won't play it since it is STILL, 4 months later (great work there asus warranty service :mad:) without a board and without a system suitable...

For a few quid extra you can get a GT440 Scan.co.uk: MSI NVIDIA GT 440 Low Profile Graphics Card - 1GB - N440GT-MD1GD3/LP but honestly, for gaming & CAD, it wouldn't be much good. What power supply do you have, and what is your budget for a new card? And a quad core processor means a single...

666 is correct, as you said DDR is double data rate, it handles data on the up and down of the clock cycle, so the effective speed is double the actual. f you had 1600MHz, it would show 800MHz for instance, it is no error