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5-5-5-15 is a ram timing. wikipedia is your friend, man - if you'd just googled those numbers you'd have found information online about it.

looks fantastic, oa. keep up the good work!

he gave a price, and i filled it. 220$ for a motherboard may be a lot - but it's a long-life motherboard with solid-state capacitors that won't leak in a few years, like most of the mid-level asus and gigabyte boards. it supports a bunch of newer technology (optical audio, e-sata, etc) NATIVELY (you might not realize this but the support for spdif audio and dual lan is kind of hacked onto the p45 boards, try an older bios and see what happens )that he might want in the future. it's definitely an upgrade from some basic mobo, and the overclocking support and sli support (both of which might be possible for the future) are worth the time. and there's a lifetime warranty, which is worth the extra few bucks because the mobo is generally the first part to fail in really well-built computers (barring spilling coffee on it or kicking down a hill or something). you're also forgetting that when lots of people review something there's generally a reason. the evga board is purchased like fifteen times more often than the gigabyte board, and not cause it's bad. and raptors, raptors are so much better than standard drives for the speed that they give you. say what you want, it runs faster (by seconds) in loading programs and the like. if it's a big deal, whatever - but it's worth getting a boot drive of some kind that's physically separate from the storage drive, since it's the heavy reading and writing from day-to-day usage of your OS that generally kills an hd as opposed to having a bunch of movies and music backed up on it. makes it easier to defrag your storage disc too =) if you don't want the raptor, get an 80gig western digital caviar drive (sata, plz) and use that for your OS instead. just store all your illegal content on the other disc =) and no, vista system rating doesn't count as a benchmark. the rating was likely higher because it was a fresh install, not because the drive was faster than one spinning 30% faster. as for a case, here's a few. remember that all three have free shipping, which means a lot when it can cost thirty bucks for shipping nowadays. fantastic smooth-looking case great-looking gunmetal gray case, great build quality, a little cheaper rosewill makes a few varieties of these. i've put three computers into their cases, and while they're not the most rock-solid cases i've ever bought they do the job and are a good price. if you don't mind modifying your case's fans a bit, this is a good buy. it's got two LED blue fans in front which you can take out and replace with yate loon med-speed 120mm fans (i've got five in my case and it's near silent - about 30db total ambient), as well as adding one to the side of the case as well if you want. anything in this list will handle what you want, and it's more of a selection, if what's above doesn't suit your fancy. hope that helps. edit: this was about twenty minutes of browsing, mostly because i had some huge downloads going on in the background =)

i thought it was like 2.75 years or so. it was my sophomore year, i think.

unless his cpu monitor is on the fritz again.

wait, 8.8ghz p4? that's wrong. i don't know what it is, but it's NOT that considering the fastest i've ever seen was 5.2 or so on a core 2 extreme, with liquid nitrogen being poured on the CPU to cool it. since i build custom computers, i likely can help you figure out what you need. pm me with what you want to upgrade, and how much you've got to spend, and i can figure out what components would be the best for you.

updated as of now. remember, i'm not going to contact you because someone expressed interest - use your pm box for that.

in all honesty, i went frmo the 7600gs to evga's stock 9600gt (whatever their cheapest was) and i got a huge upgrade. i'd say to go with evga - it's a bit more but you get their lifetime warranty. and i've never had an EVGA dead on arrival card. zotac's ok, but i'd say go with evga.

dammit, jahan, give me systems. i ain't doing research =)

da's screwed in a not-screwed kind of way

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some dells ship with an empty pci-e slot and a pci-based graphics card. besides, aren't there some 8-series cards that are PCI based? i don't remember.

i realize that. however, whatever computer he's using might not have built-in support for widescreen - a lot of laptops and desktops with basic built-in video don't - and so i was suggesting something low-end. since most graphics drivers nowadays don't support the standard 640x480 (or whatever 480p is), i suggested the standard low-end res.

xbox computer should be done by then, and i might do an OCR mod just for the hellz of it.

and...thank you, bahamut! if you want to buy something, pm the seller. if you want something or are selling something, post in this thread.

i'm tenatively going as a vendor with some computers. i'd be staying with oa and avaris. i might be bringing two other people (not sure yet). i also have room in my car, i'm coming from central NY (ithaca area) straight south to the conference. i'm willing to deviate from my driving plans to pick someone up.

likely the resolution for your PC is out of range (too big or too small) for your tv. most tvs can't support the normal resolution for a pc monitor, it's far too big. if it supports 720p, turn your screen res down to like 800x600 and go from there to find the largest possible resolution that is in the correct ratio. btw, this should have been in help and newbies. i'll pm a mod to move it.

sounds like your drivers are bad. i mean, your card is bad, but your drivers probably are the issue. install, restart when they tell you, and give it a shot. see what happens. if it's still fritzing, look into a new card. even an 8500 (like 40 bucks) would be a massive upgrade.

i don't remember what it was, actually. but you still owe me a collab or two.

cerrax, you still owe me a collab on something from like two years ago.

i hear that. i have a few pics from my wedding where my eyes are suspiciously reflective.

singing that piece with my choir was one of the high points of my musical education. leonardo dreams of his flying machine by eric whitacre was the other big one i can think of.

yeah i just figured you were mistaken or something. i'm going to try that controller-to-usb mod once i get a little farther along with my setup. i'm also going to attempt to find the info on a n64-controller-to-usb mod, cause i KNOW i've see them and i don't own an n64 anymore.

gimme a few minutes, i'll work you up a good system. ok, here goes. dvd burner boot hard drive storage hard drive evga 9800gtx+ dvd drive zalman zm600-hp 600w hard drive (up to 750w under load...it's modular and amazing) 2x2gb ddr2 800mhz ram evga 780i motherboard e8500 cpu xigmatek cpu cooler retention bracket for the cooler, totalyl worth the 7 bucks shipping to me (14867, near ithaca ny) is about 25$. at that price, you could go with either two cards or just get something like the gtx 260 core 216, which is an absolute beast when it comes to processing power. one of the most powerful card profiles available today. not that much more money either, considering it almost doubles the performance of the 9800gtx+. i go with evga boards and cards - they have a lifetime warranty if you register it within 30 days. and they have the best customer service in the industry. i had a card that had issues about a month after the 1-year warranty you get if you don't register, and they still replaced it for free AND let me sign up that card for the lifetime warranty. it's worth the extra ten bucks or so. i'd say to go with a 64-bit version of your os of preference. vista's 64-bit version is excellent. if you're not going to do that, you'll get between 3.25 and 3.5 gigs of ram based on how much video ram your card has. just keep it in mind. it's not a big performance hit (xp is SO slim compared to vista) but it's there. 64-bit'd give you all 4 gigs of your ram...and at that price you could get 8 gigs easily. total with the above loadout would be $1156.33. assuming you don't need a case. if you need a case, get something big that's worth the time. if you don't mind it being a little louder and want something flashy, the sunbeam transformer is a great one (about 100$ shipped at newegg, lots of fans and blue leds). the antec nine hundred is another good one. if you want something a little classier, just dig around. but watch shipping costs, they add up a lot. if you want a quad instead of the one listed above, the q6600 is a good offering for a good price. if you want a 1tb drive for storage instead of 750, go with the samsung 1tb offering on newegg. it's the standard for price, speed, and temp performance. don't go with the 1.5tb drive, it's an open drive. more of an enthusiast item. if you're into bluray, go with this hd-rom/bd-rom/dvd-rw drive. it'll read hd and blu-ray and burn discs, and it's got lightscribe as well. if you get just that and not the other two drives, it'd be about 90 bucks more. hopefully that'd help. if you want anything more, let me know.

so, i've started attempting to get some sponsors for the system from smaller mod organizations that might want to get some advertising out of it. oh, and on a whim i contacted Stardock about a copy of their WindowBlinds skinning utility for the UI once it's done. we'll see what happens =)