Recent content by Frankie27

I've read this in the CPU buyer's guide: So are they "verified" now?

Thanks for clarifying things. I'll consider Asus P5K with Intel e6750 or e8XXX and a better graphic card but for the time being I will not be able to really take advantage of their performance but it's ok, I'll upgrade my display sooner or later and discover 3D games. Ideally I'd like Apple's...

Thanks for the replies. Let me clarify my situation. I need a brand new system and my budget is not more than $1000 with the OS but without the display. I know there's not a big difference in price between the e6420 and the e8400 but the latter or the e6750 would require another motherboard like...

Hi, I'm on a budget and don't want to buy a LCD display for now (I use a good old CTR monitor so the gaming will be limited to 1024×765 for the time being) with a VGA port and my trusted ACNOR (multilingual) PS/2 keyboard. I'm not a gamer but would like to enjoy Lara Croft in Tomb Raider...

I changed my mind and will probably try to build a low-cost Intel platform based system. That's what I did 10 years ago and I'm still using the high quality parts that I chose at that time (Asus Mobo, Intel CPU, Quantum Fireball hard drive still going strong) so I will set myself for a bit below...

BTW I just read "CPUs to avoid: Pentium 4, Extremely power hungry, nothing special in terms of performance..." in the buyer's guide. I think I have a lot of reading to do.

Thanks. But my rationale behind picking this system was that it's a single core and I'd like to use XP and I heard that Vista manages better the multi cores and that I would have to download special drivers to take advantage of a dual core with XP. And also since it's a business grade PC it...

Thanks for the reply MU_Engineer. Actually I'm thinking I could even get away with the on-board video because it's Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 900 (128MB) which supports DirectX 9 (Shader 2.0) to run that game, on low settings or something. If it doesn't work I still can get a GeForce...

Hi everyone. Sorry if I should have posted this in the Consumer Electronic / System section but I need answers quickly and thought there is more traffic in this section. I am on a budget and would like to buy a used HP DC7100 (pre-built business grade "convertible minitower")...