Recent content by Mordred

I looked into this series, and while they were very nice, they seem to exceed what I can afford to buy right now. EDIT: So, I found this one, which looks pretty damn solid. Anyone care to weigh in? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834215254

It's called Exactimate, it's for estimating jobs completed by various contractors. It shouldn't be too hard to run Diablo 3 on high settings, the game ran on my old PC with ultra settings, and that was just a GTX 260, i7 920 and 6gb DDR3 @ 1600. I'd settle for medium though. I want the laptop...

So, I'm looking for a laptop that will run fast enough to handle recent games on decent settings (Diablo 3 on high,) which means it will definitely be fast enough for my work, which is just typing and some AutoCAD type things, but it will not be running AutoCAD, it's a cheap knock-off that...

I built my new computer only to discover that my sound card has issues with the Nvidia chipset on my motherboard causing crackling and popping noises before my sound device gets disabled all together (apparently this is an issue with older Creative sound cards.) I was using a Creative X-fi...

Yeah, I still haven't decided on the video card, but the rest of the system is pretty much good to go. Unless anyone else has ideas about it.

It's not that I can't afford it, it's more of a "Wow, this computer costs more than a lot of people have right now! I'm not sure if I should spend that much!" kind of thing. Regarding ATI: I have friends that have had issues with spotty tech-support and bad drivers. Plus I hear that Catalyst...

I've decided to try a small Overclock on the i7. Here's a revised list of components: CPU: i7 920 Newegg.com - Intel Core i7-920 Bloomfield 2.66GHz 4 x 256KB L2 Cache 8MB L3 Cache LGA 1366 130W Quad-Core Processor - Processors - Desktops Motherboard: (The only one I could find with a lot of...

Why do you avoid overclocking? I have had bad experiences in the past. I also don't think the performance boost is worth spending weeks tweaking voltages/timings/speeds until everything runs stable. Why are you buying an after market cooler if you're not overclocking? No air-conditioning in the...

My computer is only two years old, and runs fine, but recently my brother's computer died. Being the nice sibling that I am, I'm going to pass this one on to him and build myself a new one. My budget is $2000(US) and I will be using it for high end gaming and some video editing with Vegas and...

I used to have a very useful guide on how to configure a new Monitor to get optimal brightness and color settings. After re-formatting my PC a few months ago I completely lost my bookmarks and can't find it anywhere online. Does anyone have a link to any kind of guide to setting up brightness...

Check around. Lots of people having trouble with getting their memory to run stock speeds on that board. 1066 in particular.

Do not go with: Newegg.com - BIOSTAR TPower I45 LGA 775 Intel P45 ATX Intel Motherboard - Intel Motherboards Unless you are willing to spend an ungodly amount of time configuring your motherboard. I have spent literally days trying to get my components to run just the stock speeds, and am still...

I agree with trotter. It becomes extremely annoying around the election. It has actually come down to picking the lesser of two evils. I don't think there will ever be a candidate that I will actually like.

Isn't warhead just an expansion to the original Crysis? I wouldn't see how it would improve graphically...

My GTX 260 216 is completely obliterating what little graphics CoD5 has. I would think that an 8600GT would be able to run it on high (no aa or af) with 30-40 fps. High being the settings labeled "High" not the Ultra settings.