I want to make sure this system will allow me to play crysis at a reasonable level. (among other things, i would never spend this much for a single game)
I figure you guys know your shit.
Any feedback is appreciated.
Pioneer 20X DVD±R DVD Burner Black IDE Model DVR-116DBK – OEM
Model #VR-116DBK
Item #:N82E16827129023
Return Policy:Standard Return Policy
In [...]
System:
Dell Inspiron 1520
Intel Core 2 Duo T7300 2Ghz 2gig RAM 32bit
Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN Mini-Card
My Internet has been acting up lately — just a series of kicking me on and off. When I do get on, I seem to be capped at like 10kb/s whenever I try to download anything. I tried diagnosing it on [...]
My laptop has a 60gig hardrive (52 in ntfs terms). So I decided to reinstall XP, thus deleting everything because my laptop’s performance was shitty at best. I was getting highly variable fps on old games.
So anyways, everything went fine, but now I just realized my computer has 36 gigs of free space. Where did [...]
After trying to build my own and all that shit my computer has died again so I’m just saying fuck it and buying a pre-built now. I was looking at this guy and it seemed like a pretty good deal.
Does Vista or XP have any built in support for monitoring SMART on harddrives? Or do you need a utility?
Most decent ones I see are $. Are there any good free ones that can send an email alert when a problem is detected?
run spinrite on your drive every couple of weeks > smart
smart is good [...]
for home media server
needs to have 8 ports
<$300 ?
i noobed myself by trying to let the mobo handle the raid.mobo raid from most consumer mobos is fail and aids.
the only mobos that do decent raid are server-grade boards.here’s my recommendation… assuming you mean SATA-II and you have a PCI-Ex4/8/16 slot available.
I have a rocketraid card [...]
So I have this Dell in my home, thats been collecting dust the past few years, because the hard drive fryed up or something during a power surge. The support guy said to put in a new hard drive.
I’m wondering, instead of going out and buying a hard drive, could I use my blank iPod [...]
dammit, hour and a half worth of work down the drain
didn’t install antivirus first…then got hit with xp antivirus – which is not an antivirus program, it just looks like one
i learned my lesson
1) antivirus + newest updates (turn on firewall first also)
2) windows updates
3) then install your software etcFunny that, I always install the [...]
So my friend’s computer had Vista and won’t boot now. I’m not sure what exactly is going on but figured it would be best to backup their hard drive before doing anything. I downloaded a Live ISO of Ubuntu and Kubuntu and am trying them out before going over there. In both *Nix flavors I [...]
.. how i can downgrade from Vista to XP i don’t have a cd and can’t seem to find any links to help me online, do i need to purchase a cd from microsoft or should i contact acer?.
Can i buy it online?
I have an Acer Aspire 5100 and i feel that Vista crashes too [...]
