Recent content by jwied

awesome guys. thanks for the links - i think i can confidently get started on a new cooling system now.

I have over a decade of experience building, fixing, and generally just mangling desktop computers. Upgrading hardware is an "every three months" kind of thing for me. Now I have run into a technical delima... upgradeablity of a laptop. I have an HP Pavillion DV8040...

Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa® Beta Key Please Garriott is a god among gamers - if anyone can pull a sci-fi themed mmo into the mainstream, I can think of no better man to do it.

Anything by Richard Garriot is worth at least a good, through look. He is one of the greats of all time.

Wow that sucks if you ask me. I've always held EA on the same pedestal as Microsoft ... both companies souls' are owned by the devil. EA still has the rights to System Shock and now Mythic... I hope they don't get involved too much in Warhammer as it was looking promising.

Hi folks, I'm new to this forum. i usually spend my time at the Guru3d forums but after browsing around TechGage there seems to be more of a passion for overclocking here. I'm moving to Japan in six weeks and when I arrive I plan on building a new computer hoping to get either bleeding edge...

So by January it will be $350 or so ... i can wait that long. Anyone think its worth waiting for this card before building a new rig with an 8800 ultra in it?

I visited Fry's electronics (a giant electronics warehouse) recently and bought a 7950GT for $199 and an 8500GT for $159. I couldn't understand why the 7000s cards could still be so highly priced with 8800s at $259. I did see the monster 8800GTX 640mb there for $500 and the sales rep told me...