Recent content by retep

Yes, I did do all of my updates. I updated the BIOS of the motherboard and all device drivers and all Windows Updates. According to the BFG tech representative, I am dealing with a hardware issue. The OS is pristine as it was just installed and there is literally nothing on the system except...

So with the advice of others here I put together a new system the other night and it is pretty sweet. There is just one serious problem. Every time I exit out of my game that I play (America's Army) the system gets a blue screen of death. Here are the specs on the system: Antec Sonata Piano...

I have decided to buy an AGP 6600 GT card for my new system. I did a search on Newegg and found several vendors all around the same price range, from 219-230 or so. So the question is which vendor should i go with? EVGA Leadtek Apollo Chaintech XFX AOpen Please give me your recommendations...

Ok, I will try opening things up and cleaning out any heatsinks or fans and see if that makes a difference. Any chance I have caused any damage to the system by running it in this condition and continuing to play games while it is throttling?

Hello, After reading the last post on CPU throttling, I realized that this is exactly what is going on in my system. I am running a Compaq N800W laptop with a P4 2.4 Ghz processor, 1Gig of RAM and an ATI 9000 mobile video card. The laptop has worked great now for around 2 years but recently...

Where can you get an AGP 6600 GT for around $200 dollars? Links?

I am having the same dilema in my PC decision making process. I realize that there is very little performance gain in going with a 939 motherboard, but I am finding that there is very few (if any) AGP graphics cards worth purchasing for ~$200. The graphics card market for PCI-X seems to be...