Recent content by bowdagger

I realize it's 4 months later, but I figure you might still be having this problem. I currently have it, and for me it's entirely Aero. If I turn Aero off, the problem goes away. My solution has been to have Aero on, but turn off "window transparency" (personalize -> window color -> uncheck...

I found threads on this forum discussing it, and looked up some benchmarks. The extra bit of money for a single card upgrade isn't a problem for me, I just want to narrow down which one.

That's good to hear, I should run it even better on my rig since ill be at a much lower res. I had thought about another 4890 but had heard the performance increase was barely noticeable with current games. Anyone have experience with unlocking a 6950 to a 6970? for 70 bucks cheaper it seems...

Hey All, I currently have a 4890 and I'm looking to upgrade. My goal is be able to play skyrim, the old republic, and battlefield 3 on highest settings at 1920x1080 with no slow down. newegg has a 5970 for $300 for black friday, but Ive heard it has problems with scaling on some games since...

Tried this out and realized that the 4GB of Corsair wouldn't boot on there own. I isolated each one, and found one could boot and the other couldn't. Seems one of the two new sticks of Corsair was DOA. FANTASTIC! Thanks for the help, at this point it seems my troubles came from a bad stick of...

Hey everyone, I own the GA-EP45-UD3P mobo, and i'm currently trying to get it to run 8gb of ram (4 x 2gb). Before this I had 4 gb (2 x 2gb) of Corsair pc8500 ram. They died, so I RMA'd them. While they were gone, I went to purchase 4 more gb or ram and found out corsair no longer sales the type...

now im leaning more towards the asus k42jr http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00352LQOE?tag=softcafe-20 thoughts?

unfortunately 949 is a little too far out of my range. I agree that the Acer definetley has the best specs of those 3. I just tried out the Samsung at a best buy and was not a fan of the look and feel. How reliable is acer and hows their customer service?

I have about 800 dollars and need to get a laptop. I plan to use it mostly for music production (sibelius, pro tools, reason, etc) but would also like to be able to game on it. I've narrowed it down to a few choices. Acer AS5740G-6395 ($799) i5 2.4ghz 4 gb ram ATI 5650 mobility 320 gb HD...

I'm just going to RMA it, a pain but it's better than using deteriorating ram that will probably just die in time anyway. last time i try to overclock ram...

I already ran memtest, it got through one pass with no erros, then on the second pass started getting tons of errors, up into the hundreds. guess it's time to RMA.

Well I didn't actually change any voltages or timings, i went into this bios and changed the multiplier a step higher so instead of 1066 it was 1333. Everything else was left on auto like it's always been. I've been told by several people that if the ram is bad it isn't my fault since i didn't...

bump I ran memtest and it got through all the tests without any errors, but i left it going and it started the tests again, on the second time of running through all the tests it started getting errors around test 6 and got them all the way through 8. On the third it was getting them right from...

Hey i have the Corsair Dominator DDR2 1066 2x2GB Kit and a Gigabyte EP45 UD3P mobo and i'm having some frustrating issues. The ram defaults to 2.1v and 5-5-5-15 and was that way for weeks, but then i attempted to overclock it and it failed to boot a few times. Now the memory will only run at...

well my plan is to get a 4870 then evnetually either crossfire or trifire it, a 4850x2 would pay off more immediatley but in the long run the 4870 seems a better route. I'm also considering waiting for the 4890 to come out and picking up one of those instead. Right now i'm leaning a little more...