Recent content by bosnian81

I don't think you need to go I5 route. I would recommend getting a quad-core (new $100 Athlons 2 x4 are out) or at least a tri core. Price difference (I5 is 25% of your budget and Athlong is 12.5%) is rather large for the benefit of i5. You might not be able to OC as much as you want, but in my...

Thanks for all responses. just unhooked everything and reassembled only board/psu/cpu and one stick of ram. No beep. According to the chart of beep code, its either PSU or mobo. So next step will be to exchange the PSU (that part is at least transferable). This has been quite frustrating...

thanks for the replies. this mobo uses 8 pin cpu plug. shpuld mobos beep no matter what if they are working corectly? I will try cpu/ram only next to see if i get anything

Hi guys, This is my first home build. I have just received my computer from newegg and after connecting everything, I can't get anything to my screen. Even worse, I don't hear any beeps from the mobo. However, everything seems to turn on - CPU/graphic card/case/power supply fans, LEDs on the...

Hi Guys, I am wondering how much $ is it a year to run a 65W processor compared to a 125W processor. Reason I am asking is because I was thinking of investing in E7200($130) and OCing to 3.2GHz to equal E8400 ($190) that I would no OC if I bought it. I buy computer every 2 years so if a...

1. Stop showing synthetic benchmarks as the main or the only criteria when comparing video cards. They are very much useless and don't show how the cards will perform where it matters (games). 2. It is pointless to speculate about 4870 because we know very little about the card. Hell, we...

Couple of things: 1. Is there anyone who really cares about synthetic benchmarks over the real ones? What good does getting a high score in 3DMark is when it doesn't mean much in real games. If these were meaningful, 2900XT would be the king of the hill when it came out. 2. Are you guys...

Not including Crysis doesn't make this review irrelevant. Not including Crysis or CoD4, BioShock, Quake Wars, UT3, WiC, CoH, FSX, Test Drive Unlimited, Grid, Mass Effect, etc. is what makes this review irrelevant. I don't want to sound mean, but you might as well have benchmarked Pong, Space...

Hi Guys, This is my first post, but I have been reading this forum, and this section especially, for over 6 months now. I have decided sometime in September to upgrade my computer (4 year old P4 2.4, 1GB ram, 9600XT), but haven't been able to find a system that I could justify paying the price...