Recent content by NeilSmith

That game is highly CPU intensive as well, so your 5870 is prolly free wheeling while your CPU is bottle necked.

the "professional" rate my friend charges is 80$ an hour plus travel, then again he is a fully certified technician with a great deal of demand for his services. imo, anywhere between 10-25 an hour (on site) with an additional 5-10$ gas expense (25-35 cents per mile or a flat rate...) would be...

Unless your getting over 60 fps in games, having a monitor over 60hz is pointless from a gaming perspective. I got my viewsonic because my eyesight is bothered by a low 60hz refresh w/o back lighting.

Age old requirements joke. When what was really required was better programming, they ended up fostering off onto the consumer as a need for better hardware. lol Contrast ratio means absolutely nothing, there is no industry standard. So your company tacked on some zero's. Viewsonic's...

I guess they should have put their requirements higher :rolleyes: :shadedshu Viewsonic 22" VX2265wm ViewSonic FuHzion X Series VX2265wm Black 22" 3ms ...

I have this game running at 80~100 fps* on my stock 965be and stock eah 5850 with all settings maxed except for AA set at 4. More then likely could crank that, but meh. I'm still kicking myself I didnt wait another 2 months, 290 for a 5850 vs 400 for 2 6870s x.x -.<;; *1680x1050 @ 120 hz...

PM'd As for the AVC cooler in question... http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j219/Lord_Aaron/DSCF0026.jpg http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j219/Lord_Aaron/DSCF0027.jpg http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j219/Lord_Aaron/DSCF0029.jpg http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j219/Lord_Aaron/DSCF0030.jpg

Unless your box is really tiny, COOLER MASTER Intel Core i5 compatible GeminII S R... is what I have on my 965be, works like a charm. You might wana post your mobo/box over in the processor section and ask about what fits. Dunno if you can find that particular AMD cooler, I have an AVC...

Hurrah. New EAH5850 arrived today, full burn on furmark stability test was fully stable and never passed 69c somewhat funny : i also removed the rest of the PCI port grilling and stuck a 92mm 3 speed variable fan over em. Now to finish modding myself a 2x 5.25 enclosure for 2x 60mm fans...

I'm thinking this needs a little attention What exactly is "MCP" where is it on an ASUS M3N78-VM? Its a little chilly in my room right now and considering the rest of my system temps, it just looks a bit off.

Just what i needed, thanks.

All right, so i figured out how to get raid setup on my new win 7 machine (drivers on USB drive) but now my problem is thus : I have 3 1 tb 7200 rpm Samsungs, the first 2 are setup as raid 0 on my bios and are where i installed my OS however, the third drive is seen in bios but not by windows...

I've never RMA'd with newegg before, should I worry about having a witness (say an employee at the UPS store 2 blocks from my place) on the contents (that its all there)? *wills the 9500 GT I purchased from Bill to arrive faster so I can at least commence moving files from old to new machine*...

I've never RMA'd with newegg before, should I worry about having a witness (say an employee at the UPS store 2 blocks from my place) on the contents (that its all there)?

Fan was definitely running. Guess I'm just gona RMA it tomorrow.