Recent content by Nobilangelo

This problem bugged me for days. I quickly found that the machine (an older backup model) was running like a dog under Win7 because System Interrupts were running at 65% & the CPU at 100%. After a long hunt the problem turned out to be in the settings for the Broadcom Ethernet driver. 'Moderate...

Thanks again. I have since found this Flash guy http://www.hisdigital.com/ConsultGraphicsScout/ and he agrees with you. The total power consumed by similar or more powerful boards is only a fraction of 300W. A PCI-e board with the same model code shows only 30W for the sort of thing I intend...

Thanks. I thought someone might say what SR-71 Blackbird said, but in this case it is worth it for good reasons. So the only question is will it work safely? I should have added that the machine has a 320GB WD hard drive, a DVD RW drive and a 1TB USB hard drive (Hitachi Touro), so it's not...

I want to improve an older machine, an HP-Compaq D530 SFF, by putting this graphics card into it: http://www.hisdigital.com/un/product2-498.shtml According to this site that will work: http://hardandsoftgaming.wordpress.com/2013/03/15/upgrading-the-agp-graphics-card-of-an-old-sff-pc/ But the...