Recent content by kha1i1

lol glad u got it worked out. post the linky of the thing you're buying if u like. darknova is spot on with the ata6 explanation. then there's ide , lol. its such a retarded set of naming schema for standards/connectors/etc i dont know how ppl are supposed to figure it out. e.g. i, in the...

i agree with dan. s3 has a history of dodgy products and i cant see this one being different. it does *sound* quite nice and does pack a great ppw ratio. however, the company has yet to do anything to improve its perception in my eye.

all laptops (including teh averatec's ive seen) take 2.5" hd's. speed isn't usually an issue because a) 90% of 2.5's are 5400 RPM ; b) 7200RMP for 2.5 is ungodly expensive. edit 2: i almost forgot. be sure to check ide/sata. im sure you're using ide but some drives for sale (especially...

ntfs quick is not a low level format, it just deletes the table with the pointer to the files, making the spots rewritable. everything you've described points to this drive being completely fucked. however, here are some things to try. boot from the xp cd go into the recovery console (i...

how much? for just crystal i shouldnt be that expensive, right?

quick cpl questions. when u guys say the 8600gt's are shit, what are you using as reference? is this just shit quality in general or when compared against the 8800? why would a 128 bit bus bottleneck 1GB of memory? and lastly, besides the 8800 and the 2x00 series what else uses a 256 bus?

that is absolutely disgusting. do you play on ranked servers while cheating?

u cheat at bf2?

im going to agree with ubuntu. its the shit. easy to use, easy to setup. i run ubuntux64 in a vm on vista 64 no issues.

i like rappelz. its a great game. check it out: Rappelz

i run my 939x23800 @ about ~60 under heavy load on a summer day and its fine. i did have to move from 2.5 to 2.4 recently as the heat was affecting it badly (hot in ottawa this last week). i only have 1 case fan, the pwer spply fan and 1 masscool AL heatsink/fan.

i agree as well. with that cpu, cooler and ram, you can get that chip to at least 3.2. i have a 3800x2 running @ 2.5ghx from stock 2.0 on corsair value ram and a aluminium cooler with video card gpu paste. the money you're thinking about throwing down makes sense only if you're going to make a...

i second that. the bios is locked to accept very few chips. however, the best way to find out definitively is to do a search on the dell support site. http://support.dell.com i believe. if you type in your service tag, it should give you full system specs and upgrade paths.

ya step 1 with no boot is clear cmos. write it down. ;)

im thinking that its going to be november at the earliest. if its gonna be that late, why not just push it until around christmas season?