Recent content by dmdallas

Remember, nehalem is supposed to scale to 8 cores, so 60% doesn't sound that outlandish, and since Intel has been on a streak as of late, I'm inclined to believe it...

In that case, it sounds like you may not have installed the CPU properly. check to make sure that you have the heatsink/ thermal grease applied properly and maybe even reseat it for good measure (you never know). Then, my next bet would still be the PSU.

True, but having a 10 megawatt PSU is just SOOOO cool... especially when you turn it on any all the lights in the city dim a little.

I have a blu-ray burner for backup and burning videos, it has worked surprisingly well and as you said, the disks are REALLY scratch resistant, like REALLY REALLY scratch resistant (its almost kind of scary). Anyhow, the only thing with this technology is that you are going to have to be a very...

right now, I am typing this on a new MBP that I got for college. Like they said, don't have incredibly high hopes, but at the same time for a mobile chip, it is surprisingly powerful. The 8700 that they are talking about is just an overclocked 8600 gt, there is nothing physically different about...

it's not nvidia only. it should be out in a month or two from what rumors are saying.

Its for graphics cards. Right now, most graphics cards have a hard time using up the bandwidth of pcie 1 and since all pcie 2 does is double the bandwidth, it might not be that useful for a few months more. If you can wait, I would say that it is probably best to wait and see for a couple of...

remember that xp was developed before dvd drives were really mainstream. If it all actually works and the disks are readable, it is just xp doing another of it's stupid little things, otherwise, I would just advise you to only use the burner (it's not really like you are going to be able to use...

might be a stupid question, but on the back of the dvd drive, did you set it to slave? or did you just put it on the part that said slave? If you have two masters, than it would do something like that, otherwise I really don't know what else it would be...

windows XP doesn't really recognize dvd burners ( I don't remember if they fixe it in SP2, they might have). anyway, just don't worry about what windows says and keep using nero or something like that. The files should still be readable as "cds".

I don't live in England so I can't really help you in the area of which store to choose (I would say newegg but...) anyway, I'm going to figure that that is a budget of 900-1000 USD (stuff is more expensive in England). I would go for this: CPU Intel Core 2 Duo E6420 Motherboard LGA 775...

What do you mean you don't believe in time??? Its not one of these things that you can say I don't believe in all willy-nilly-like. Time is probably the MOST important part of Physics. Something can still happen on one or two dimensions and without light, but without time, there is no ∆. If...

Ok, I've seen soooooooo many people who have, lately, been talking about how miserably the PS3 has been selling and how much better the Xbox 360 sold when it came out, so I decided to do a little research on this topic and I've come to an interesting conclusion. Looking at various sources, I am...

On this test, they get 8 fps at 1280 medium settings on the 6200. If I were you I would save that money and buy a new video card (but thats just me)

No, that makes perfect sense because the British army had itself raped up the butt, they were like 10x as powerful as the "American army" (if you would even call it that) and yet they still got beaten and kicked out of the United States.