OFFICIAL Computer Help Thread - Page 54

Forte · 07-18-2006, 10:25 PM

I have a little problem with my wireless card. As of late, I haven't been getting a very good signal. In fact I have never really gotten a good signal for the entire time I have had the card. So I bought a brand new D-link card with a massive antenna. Neweggs site said that it was a PCI card. It was in fact a PCI 2.2 card. Can someone link me a good PCI Wireless adapter please? Or an antenna for my current p.o.s. wireless card? Thanks.

geRV · 07-23-2006, 05:46 PM

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Replacement watercooler since the old one fucked itself up. Need cable ties to replace the "ghetto" insulation tape holding a tube.

Nyck · 07-23-2006, 06:11 PM

gerv has too much disposable income. biggrin:

ONLY 9.8 % INTEREST

geRV · 07-23-2006, 06:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nyck

gerv has too much disposable income. biggrin:

ONLY 9.8 % INTEREST

Got it for next to nothing due to some promotion the store was doing, i have a gigabyte case and the cooler is made by gigabyte and designed for that case. Theyre doing both in some bundle, i got the same deal since i already had the case, watercooling cost like £50. happy:

Jin-Roh · 07-23-2006, 08:12 PM

i hate you gerv. . . loney:

gtboys34 · 07-23-2006, 09:58 PM

i know one thing for sure, kid's definetly using 12% of the towns energy on that thing alone happy:

ninty · 07-24-2006, 11:39 AM

AMD has lowered prices, so i'm thinking of upgrading to an X2 4600+:

http://shop4.outpost.com/product/446224 ... IN_RSLT_PG

Would be around $300 CDN which is super cheap. If i went here to buy one it would be at least $600. Not sure how much the drop will affect the prices here though.

anyway, i have a 3500+ right now, but the problem is i have an asus a8v deluxe board which means i have an agp video card which blows because upgrade options for that is limited. i'm running an x800 which is pretty much as high as they go in agp now since everything is pci-e crossfire and sli.

so do you guys think it's worth upgrading to a 4600+ if i don't really have that much of an option for upgrading a video card?

i'll build a new system with crossfire i'm sure but not for a while. my rig is a couple years old and it still runs fine so i don't have justification to build a new one yet, or another 3 grand to dump.

Milla · 07-24-2006, 05:18 PM

wtf 250 for that? newegg.com has it for 547!!!

Thats a freaking steal and a half.

I wonder why they are selling itat such a cheap price, christ thats so cheap i might jsut buy one because its so damn cheap.

ninty · 07-24-2006, 09:13 PM

newegg just hasn't updated their prices. amd dropped prices on selected chips today. yesterday the 4600+ was 650 cdn, today it's 300. would suck to be someone who bought one this month.

geRV · 07-24-2006, 11:02 PM

Theyre selling it cheap because:

A. socket 939 is now being phased out in favour of socket am2.
B. They pretty much have to sell it cheap because the core 2 duo is slapping the ever loving shit out of amd in terms of performance from the low end to the high end.

Even the slowest core 2 chip which is 1.86ghz can be clocked up a bit to be easily on par with amd's fastest chip the fx62.

As for dual core in general, unless you do tons of multitasking\video encoding\photoshoping etc theres not too much to be gained from it. It is handy being able to defrag and run a game or run a virus scan and be able to play a game without it hitching, but actual gameplay benefits are tiny in most cases. If you game at low res like 800x600 then any game making use of dual core will see a bit of a performance bump, but as you increase res the bottleneck shifts to the GPU and even dual core can't do anything about that.

Honestly ive noticed 3 big differences with dual core as opposed to single core:

3d mark 06 scores higher because its optomised for it.

Some apps load faster.

When using premiere, the digieffects aged film effect can be applied to an entire clip and previewed smoothly, used to be it was a slideshow.

Jonsey_ · 07-25-2006, 01:54 PM

Quick Question what temperature is dangerous for a video card to be running at mine is at a constant 90Degrees idle or not, seems pretty steep but says core shutdown is 120 so not sure if its bad or not.

geRV · 07-25-2006, 05:02 PM

Depends on the card, x1900's can hit 95c+ on load, they idle around 60c. No way your card shout be idling at 90c, might wanna check the heatdsink or fan to see if tis working.

Milla · 07-25-2006, 05:13 PM

AMD > God and Intel.

I need a new ATi card soon.

geRV · 07-25-2006, 05:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Milla

AMD > God and Intel.

I need a new ATi card soon.

More like Intel > amd, the core 2 chip is the best chip out there at present and amd won't have anything to properly compete against it till later next year or early 2008.

Milla · 07-25-2006, 06:13 PM

No gerv, amd > intel because i fucking said so offtopic: plzdie:

beer: