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Okay, then it's going to get fun... you'll neet to try to repair the install off the original XP disc. I might suggest: http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm#RI If your data is critical or important to ya you could remove the drive, plug the laptop drive into a desktop and...

My poor Scythe Ninja... For that matter, my poor cheap AC7... :D I might argue about Intel's push-pin design being "easy" to install if the pins have seen a bit of use and aren't perfectly straight anymore, but I would agree it's far less hassle than many coolers that want a backplate...

Hm, most of this has been mentioned, but nice to have some sites like DT put their name behind it. :) I'd link to EXPReview's article on this from a month ago but the link no longer works... or their site for that matter. Might be something on my end though. The roadmap/chart indicated that...

Should be able to fix it without a reformat. When the machine boots keep hitting F8 to bring up the boot menu and try to load Windows in safe mode. Which Windows was this, XP or Vista? Vista will let you do a system restore after you boot off the Vista DVD, and both OSs have ways to repair...

I bet ya that it'll be hotter, at least under loads. ;) 125MHz higher Core isn't much, but ATI loves to push their GPUs to the thermal limit just like NVIDIA... NVIDIA would have given anything to clock GTX 280 high enough to hit that 1Teraflop mark if they could've gotten away with it...

That's what I was saying, gotta give props to XFX. :) Didn't know eVGA required that registration time limit with a receipt... Antec is similar, except you must have the original receipt at the time of RMA. Not highly likely if you bought it from a brick&mortar store!!

I'm not sure how much (if any) hardware processing lower end RAID cards actually offer... because if they don't offer any or very much, then then there's no point in having them if the motherboard supports the RAID you need. The CPU would end up covering the overhead anyway.

Ya might give a Nvidia card a shot, I've been told GRID is one of the more demanding games for a GPU. I don't have it myself to test though, sorry.

Pricing will definitely be the clincher! This is a great card, but it doesn't appear ready to handle an overclocked 9800GTX+. Legit Reviews took a standard GTX+ and with basic OCing reached 855/2200/2550 clocks on it, and every benchmark showed performance gains of 15% or higher over the...

Aye, unless it wasn't registered or somesuch. This is exactly why I recommend XFX cards, gotta give them props for being the only reseller to offer secondhand-user warranties on their stuff.

Hm, well that nixes that! I'm in Houston presently, close enough that I could've made the original date. I'll be back to good old SA long before August rolls by though.

Folding@home doesn't "share" your computer, you run a program that will use your CPU, GPU, or both to conduct simulations on protein folding. You can close it down like any other program, although with XP I could still game lag free with it running in the background. In my opinion, they have...

According to the SLI FAQ site, SLI supports TV outputting, but NOT multiple monitors. Would need to unlink SLI to use more than one monitor. Prices for the moment: 9800GTX $199 9800GTX+ $229 GTX 260 $450 GTX 280 $650 ATI HD 4850 $199 ATI HD 4870 $ $299 I have to agree with alot...

Ah. Well, to be honest... If anything I think it doesn't really help them. NVIDIA folded their Phsyx tech into their GPUs, therefore there is no upgrade path, no reason to develop for the standalone PCI cards. To do so would take some very different drivers and much more Q&A above and...

DFI does design some good looking boards, and they've done so again... This is the first I've heard of the Zalman 9900. I think I know why... it looks like a toilet with the lid down... :rolleyes:

Milking the market? This thing was only released because AMD's new HD 4850 clobbers the original 9800GTX, and does it for a mere $199. Less after supposed rebates or volume discounts (Buy two for Xfire, save up to $25 off at Newegg, etc). The issue is even the GTX+ gets beaten or evenly matched...

Well do keep in mind two 4850's in Xfire consume more power than a single GTX 280, and usually offer less performance for it. Therefore the 4870 will only be more power hungry. The ironic thing is, AMD appears to have the edge now, and I honestly was not expecting this at all. 4850 is a...

Intriging, but NVIDIA can't even design stable Folding@home CUDA drivers yet. Trying to run both PhysX and the game on the same GPU at the same time is going to be worse than trying to run Vista's Aero Glass + Folding@Home GPU client at the same time... It'll mean something to me once NVIDIA...

Linux can be run off a thumbdrive. Linux can also be run on computers without hard drives, directly from the CD itself, and you can use thumbdrives for file and setting saves. Any OS is vulnerable, the better question is how does it compare to the rest. Suffice to say Linux is probably safer...

7 degrees is a little large of a difference if both cores are equally loaded, but overall the temps still look fine to me. Have ya tried http://www.techpowerup.com/realtemp/ ?