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Agreed! "Make what people want to buy, not what you want to sell" has always been my motto. We must be stupid though, mate. Nobody seems to want to do that.

Rob, is Sears actually offering a 40"... that they only have 3 of? Or, for the sake of making a point, is the author just randomly choosing a retailer's name and slandering it? There are some items that supplies won't meet demand. For those items you might have to get up early and brave the...

I would have been curious to see what kind of OC you could have gotten, and the corresponding performance, using 3rd party aps on the 5870 (like rivatuner possibly?). I haven't seen anyone do a full benchmarking on a max OC 5800 yet. Thanks for the review though. I always like your reviews a lot.

Keep in mind that not everyone plays their games stock. Many use custom models, backgrounds, effects, etc. with much higher res meshes and textures. I realize that you can't take every user into account, and I'm not trying to come in from left field here. I don't play at high resolutions but...

It's a good campaign, IMO. I would have had 3 or 4 test subjects and given them varying amounts. The person mentioned, a young "gamer" type, a business man who uses a computer in his daily job, an accountant, etc... Instruct them to look at both Mac and PC and choose for themselves. I'm sure...

The original story, while troubling, wouldn't come as a surprise to anyone who's worked in retail sales. Now their response comes, and I greet it exactly the same, troubled but not surprised. They are going to throw some salesperson(s) under the bus and say, "See we don't condone this type of...

Vista is a case of a company making a product that nobody wanted and then trying to market it. That's where 7 comes in. If they just made it Vista SP2 everyone still wouldn't want it, because it's still Vista. Make it a new product, because everyone wants something else besides Vista, and you...

Thanks, Cougar. Her PC has integrated video and a floppy drive. I'll read the info you've posted.

Thanks for the input. MSI suggests returning it to my retailer to have them recover the BIOS. Problem is there's no local (full service) retailer in Christchurch for the card. NZ is a small market and I'd have to have it curriered to the No. Island. :rolleyes: I think my next course of action...

Thanks, guys. The only video card I have lying around is a Radeon 7500 AGP card. Will that even work with my mobo?

Hi guys. I'm having a real issue. My computer won't boot up. Last night I was attempting to update my video cards bios. It's an MSI 3870. I went to the sight and tried using their auto update utility. I let it scanmy computer and it found an updated bios for me. When I attempted to use the...

Hi all, I've just started messing around a bit with RAM settings. I've 4gb (2X2gb) G.Skill F2-6400CL4-2GBPK It's rated: 5-5-5-15@1.8 volts 4-4-4-12@2.1 volts Right now I've got it running 800mhz with 4-4-4-12@1.9 volts. I overclocked it to 1066mhz with 7-7-7-24@1.8volts. The...

I've been hoping for the "spider" platform to live up to the hype and produce some real world benefits. Maybe with the phenom II it will? I'd also be curious about pricing? Are they going to be better priced than Intel?

That's pretty funny, Rob. Good going admitting it. Nice to see you aren't afraid to admit you're merely mortal.

Thanks for the advice. I'll keep that in mind next time.

That's exactly how I did it. Seemed foolish to allow for the possibility of an internet hiccup (any sort of outage) screwing up my computer. I guess if you aren't competent enough to know what model mobo you have then it's the lesser of 2 evils. I didn't do any controlled readings prior to the...

Never mind. I decided to just try it. As it turned out, it was easier than updating my video drivers. The @bios utility did everything. Just had to reboot and reload the defaults after it was done. That reset everything so I had to redo my OC settings. Shows the updated bios (F3 was F1) when I...

I have a gigabyte GA-X38-DS4 mobo that's still running the 1st release bios. The newer bios says that it offers enhance memory performance, add new version super I/O code, and Improved CPU compatibility when compared to the original 1st release bios. They say not to flash your bios if you...

I just checked out their current listings. Their prices do seem too high. I can do better than that here in NZ even though the NZD is worth about .80USD and it has to come all the way down to the southern end of the planet.

I hand stuff down to the wife and kids. (What, you thought that I buy them new stuff?)