Recent content by EddxPT

Crossfire scales allot better than SLI, and nvidia cannot latelly compete with ati on the price/performance ratio. My guess is the GX2 from nvidia will perform a little better than 3870X2 but for a 30% to 40% higher price than the 3870X2. Also Nvidia as been struggling with availability.It will...

MOBO is dead. Try outside the case with cpu. Listen to beep code. Check if that code means no ram installed. Try outside the case with cpu and one RAM stick (random slot). Check if beep code means no graphics card. Try outside the case with cpu and ram and graphics card. If it does not work ->...

Can u check the voltage on the CPU, trough the motherboard readings or CPU-Z once on windows ?? How old is the motherboard ? also check for leakage in any capacitor on the motherboard, specially on the CPU socket surrounding areas. If u haven't done it already, try a different PSU, although if...

Vista runs very good on average hardware with the proper drivers. The problem here is the concept of average hardware. Compare a core2duo with an a athlon64 or with a pentiumD and u can see the performance gap on average between every model from those families of processors. If XP does it for u...

I think it will sell more or less by 400 dollars, in europe we pay normally 1.5 * price in the US ( and the euro and the pound are worth more than the Us dollar right now...grrr). Some items I have seen them to by priced there by half the price here. ( European Taxes !!!)

We are going to see a "driver" release battle in the next couple of months. Crossfire scales allot better than Sli in most games, i have my doubts that the ati card will be a winner in terms of performance, but i don't have any doubts that if priced correctly it will win the selling battle. Also...

ask someone to lend u a pci sata controller or buy a cheap one and try it. via based chipset mobos are usually not the best ones when it comes to overclocking...

"....the MSI K8T Neo2-FIR includes an additional Promise IDE/Serial ATA RAID controller...." are u using that one to recognise your sata drive our the two connectors closer together ?

- > Check for link between pci bus frequency and fsb frequency on the bios, if linked, disable it. - > i don't know that mobo but, did u try all the sata connectors on the mobo. - > do you have an extra sata/pata controler like jmicron, if so, disable jmicron and plug to the onboard sata...

It would be awesome if nvidia and intel finally reached some kind of agreement on sli on intel mobos, not just for this high end mobo . but for that to happen we need a more powerfull ati. Hopefully ati will kick ass on the following graphics gens when it comes to single and multi graph card to...

Yep. Crysis increases its demmand in processing and graphics power has the game passes each level. Are u running any anti-virus while u are playing ? any process on the background that can ask for an unusual amount of cpu usage ?

This new line of core 2 duos are going to throw quite a punch on amd. I think it is a pitty that amd is now doing not so good on the desktop. We have seen amd really down before, but each time intel strikes ( like now )...well it just seems that amd is not gonna be back as desktop cpu speed...

The ip35 has a great price and it is fairly well designed, it is only a pitty that it is reported to have some issues when it comes to overclocking. There is a similar board in the uk, actually slightly cheaper from gigabyte that overclocks a little bit further. Still waitin on those bioses...

I saw on your system specs that u are using 2 gigs of ram, You would be fine with vista, specially with service pack1 (release candidate still, but soon the sp1 will be out). Perhaps adding 2 more gigs of ram (same brand type and specs would be better) would ensure you a smoother experience...