Recent content by SirShaggy

Just to update: I installed COD4, Oblivion and Far Cry 2 last night. I played a little of all 3 games and with task manager running, never used over 50% CPU power on any of them. I know Crysis and GTA4 will bottleneck this setup but won't buy either of those games anyway. He does however want...

Thanks to all of you. I just bought the cards and he threw in a 250GB Seagate 7200.10 SATA hard Drive he never used! He has been using the cards for about 6 months. He bought them on clearance after his 8800GTX died. They are Palit Super 9600GT 1GB dual slot cards with rear cooling vents. Pretty...

So my son (9 yo) wants a new PC. His old one died. It was my old Opteron 152/Gigabyte K8N system. Anyway, I am reusing the case, fans, optical and floppy drive. I Bought a Foxconn C51XEM2AA AM2 motherboard, x2 6000+ CPU and 4GB of Corsair DDR2-800 for $100 from a buddy. I already have a Zalman...

OK, been researching this for about a week. Answered most of my questions reading forums/posts all over the net. I still have a couple of basic questions I need an answer to. I have a DFI Lanprty UT NF590-SLI motherboard. It has 2 PCI-Ex16 slots. I DO NOT want to run SLI but do wish to run 2...

OK, I built this system in January of 2007. It was real basic at the time. As the next year went by, I bought an upgraded CPU (6400+), 2 Raptors in RAID 0, 4x1GB OCZ Platinum DFI Special PC2-6400 RAM, Sunbeam Heatsink and so on. The motherboard died on me in November 2008. On a whim, I sent it...