Forum: Motherboards, CPUs and RAM  Mar 20th, 2005 |
| Replies: 3 Views: 2,735 Video ram is Video ram, you cant expand Video mem into RAM as far as I know. OpenGL and DirectX (The most common card techs) 'almost' do this by using system ram if the vid mem runs out, the two... |
| Forum: Motherboards, CPUs and RAM Jan 8th, 2005 |
| Replies: 5 Views: 2,504 athlon 64 (non fx) is DEFINITLY better value for $ by far - and its performance is still blistering for HL2 and any other modern games.
If you know someone who can put together the components for... |
| Forum: Motherboards, CPUs and RAM Jan 6th, 2005 |
| Replies: 18 Views: 8,664 I realised its not MSCE! :( he has a hardware certification though! However i still feel that socket A would be a bad idea - mainly as most customisation options and indeed most people i know have... |
| Forum: Motherboards, CPUs and RAM Jan 4th, 2005 |
| Replies: 18 Views: 8,664 i thought it would have been obvious by now that the superior processor is the sempron. Now for the price. A sempron with a basic motherboard can be done for £100 if you go to the right places: for a... |
| Forum: Motherboards, CPUs and RAM Jan 1st, 2005 |
| Replies: 18 Views: 8,664 IMHO the best bang/buck CPUs at the moment (in no particular order) are ath 64 3000, ath 64 3400, semp 3100. They scored highly in a recent CPU super test against all the p4s ect... you can pick up... |
| Forum: Motherboards, CPUs and RAM Dec 29th, 2004 |
| Replies: 18 Views: 8,664 My brother (an MSCE technitian) still insits Socket A is on the way out so its irrelivant really. the new semp is the one to as like you said it is on the Socket 754 NOT the Socket A which the XP is... |
| Forum: Motherboards, CPUs and RAM Dec 28th, 2004 |
| Replies: 18 Views: 8,664 I would go for the sempron - grab a 3100. Ive had better results from semps than low spec XPs but looking at what Coconut Monkey says it would come down to price/motherboard/over clocking ect...
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| Forum: Motherboards, CPUs and RAM Dec 27th, 2004 |
| Replies: 3 Views: 1,572 try www.coolermaster.com (i think its .com...) they do kits and accessories but "replacements" are to be avoided unless they are from the original kit as mis-matched kit is more likely to fail. If... |
| Forum: Motherboards, CPUs and RAM Dec 23rd, 2004 |
| Replies: 18 Views: 4,216 ah yes ive seen those boards. It should be stable, if im correct i believe the LANPARTY has multiple bios profiles? if it does then at least you have stable settings to revert to should things start... |
| Forum: Motherboards, CPUs and RAM Dec 23rd, 2004 |
| Replies: 18 Views: 4,216 ah ha! i only found one architecture. If the temp didnt change much then it could be a safe bet. reducing it a few degrees would give you a safety margin though. What method did you use to cause the... |
| Forum: Motherboards, CPUs and RAM Dec 23rd, 2004 |
| Replies: 18 Views: 4,216 im confused. I have had a look at an Athlon 64 3400 and it showed a base setting of 2.4 GHz? a LOT of retailers have been notorious for supplying the wrong AMD processor as they get mixed up with... |
