Recent content by savagenator

Thank you for your responses. This is not what I expected, but the more I thought about it, the more I should have expected. This is a forum of people constantly tweaking thier machines, and therefore take care of it by adding RAM or stopping processes. I've seen users with computers running...

Im sorry to say, i'm a linux fanboy. If you get it working: it works. And it works forever. Now my testimonial. I just built a machine for my mother. Intel Xeon E3110 at 3ghz, 4gb of DDR1066 ram, an ok graphics card from ATI. Windows XP. Now about the system. I boot up with 250mb of ram being...

thank you everyone for your help, I will post again after the computer is built with comments

Thank you for all your responses. Now, since I am 100% on everything except the PSU, which I am thinking of a 500watt, unless that is too much. Newegg.com - Antec earthwatts EA500 ATX12V v2.0 500W Power Supply 100 - 240 V UL, CUL, FCC, TUV, CE, CB, C-tick, CCC - Retail is that okay? It has to...

Well, Now i'm finished except for a case, PSU, and a graphics card. What should I get? I need to be very quiet and the case to be not so large

Newegg.com - Intel Xeon X3220 Kentsfield 2.4GHz 2 x 4MB L2 Cache LGA 775 Quad-Core Processor - Retail haha! intel Xeon X3220. Very nice looking CPU. Looks like thats in. Thank you!

Wow, This is concerning. I want to keep it cool and super quiet. I already though of Newegg.com - Scythe SY1225SL12L 120mm Case Fan - Retail or Newegg.com - Thermaltake A2329 120mm Case Fan - Retail Of course, a nice big passive heatsink would be the best, and keep the Core 2 Quad cool. How...

Ah, thank you but what about the rest? i do not know what kind of motherboard to get at all, and what heat sink I should get (i had a gigabyte mobo, and its horribly loud since the stupid fan control doesn't work at all! (constant 2500rpm)

so a Newegg.com - Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Kentsfield 2.4GHz 2 x 4MB L2 Cache LGA 775 Quad-Core Processor - Retail Q6600 Core 2 quad would be better than a E8400?

I need to build a high end machine, budget of around $1400, has to stay in a bedroom so needs to be quiet (case fans, case, heatsink quiet) so far i think 2x500GB HDD's about $200 and a Core 2 Duo E8400 Newegg.com - Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 Wolfdale 3.0GHz 6MB L2 Cache LGA 775 65W Dual-Core...

Hello everyone! I was hoping to get my problem of head and loudness solved out here. Firstly, I have a gigabyte ga-k8n-sli mobo and a AMD 4400+ X2 CPU. My motherboard is idling at 69C! (hot) and my cpu goes at like 95F idle and 125F under load. The problem is the cpu fan is always on and really...

well, then there needs to be a program that can do that, either now or in a few years, becuase i cant stand rebooting, and i stlil want to play games. Does anyone know and developer in the linux department that can make something like this? i'm sure it will help alot of people, maybe switching...

ok, maybe i have to rephrase my question. I have vmware in linux, but i want to actually switch OS's and use them to their full extent, like games and such, without losing performance. Like instead of just loading one OS, load both on different sticks of RAM, or something like that

hello all My idea, and question, is if i can boot into linux, or vista, and give it like half of my ram (i have 3gb) and then load the other OS on the remainder of the ram. I hate daul booting, becuase i cant just go back to what i was doing right away. So is this possible?

hello all, i've got a windows problem. I dont even use windows anymore, but my laptop needs it to run, so i use it instead of linux, anyway i got a problem that linux will never have: windows update is being wierd, and every time i start up svchost goes 100% CPU on me. The problem probably...