Recent content by aff1nity

Ah easy. Do an ebay search for PS2 to USB or something of the sort. I have a PS2 controller hooked up to my computer right now by a 2 controller-1 usb converter. Dirt cheap too.

It was so funny reading the responses, the flames, after hearing the first speculation that Dell bought Alienware. Shame on those who believed the rumors. Rumors are only rumors =P

In the bootsetup/BIOS. They're the same thing. I had the exact same card as you (a radeon 9800 se... modded to a pro) on the same motherboard and it worked fine. I don't remember whether actually NEED to install the AGP drivers, but I know that that setup WILL work.

Yet another person didn't use the search function or did much reading before posting =P. What ATI Tool reports is never completely accurate. It reported my r480 chip as an r430. The only way to know for sure your chipset is an 480 is to take off the heatsink/fan and actually inspect the core...

The original bio is an x800xl bios! I dumped my v-card bios for backup purposes and when I opened it up with RaBiT it showed up as an x800xl too. As long as both DVIs work and all 16 pipes are open, you should be fine.

I have a feeling the original poster just heard the word overclocking and got excited and wanted to jump right in without even googling the term. If you didn't know what a FSB is, why did you trying to increase it? A short answer to your question is, open up your BIOS (do a google search for...

Dorm temps here tend to hover around 71F, but it's still strange =/ I don't think that the temp difference (going from 66 to 71F) alone could account for such a huge change in load/idle temps. I mean, there's a ten degree difference between load temps! Strange =/

Hey all, After building my computer using the stock heatsink that came with the AMD64 3700+, I used MBM to find that it tended to idle around 30 degrees celcius, which I felt pretty safe at. At top load (prime95) testing it would go up to 38/40, and usually in games it would only reach 35...

Have you looked at the steampowered forums? A lot of people have been reporting poor performance on ati cards after the new update. Have you tried running half life on the the old computer too after the new update to see the difference?

I can tell that you're rushing into things without reading things properly. I've heard people complaining about lockups after over-overclocking their computers and not knowing what to do (solution? lower the clock speeds!) The soft and hard mods do the EXACT SAME THING. If you have the...

Oooh... gentoo? Even though I haven't tried that, I heard it's a harder linux OS to start with, since it involves much more initial customization than mandriva or ubuntu, which both have easier install processes (I'm pretty sure) But good luck!

Ah to answer your compiling question: It may be a pain in the ass (especially when you have to go around getting every single requirded library and package) But! When you compile from source, you have complete control over what will end up in the final program. When I was compiling my own...

I don't know if anyone's been tracking this, but all the help responses (while they were legit attempts at helping) only told hotrippr to do what he already tried to do. Removing the battery - which he already said he did - clears the CMOS. Weird =/. Anyways, I had the same thing happen to my...

It sounds like linux would be perfect for you =) I understand your pain about this whole microsoft windows ordeal, but if your parents don't do any kind of gaming or 3d design or any of that sort of thing that runs mostly on windows (which I suspect they don't) I can imagine working fine. Have...

Hey all! I just built a new computer (socket 939 3700+ sandy asrockdual) and put a gigs worth of pc3200 ram in dual channel mode. It's working fine, but I also happen to have some spare pc2100 ram lying around (an extra gig worth of memory) and I was wondering if could help my system at all...