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by blackhawk
Sun Feb 07, 2010 5:41 am
Forum: AMD CPU & Cooling UnderGround
Topic: Is the Intel vs. AMD chip war back on?
Replies: 13
Views: 9657

went intel about 2 years ago but got a deal on a matx asus mb and X4 propus 620, the 4 core under 100 dollar new amd and excellent value, put it in the spare room then I decided time to update my wife's 6600 rig so got an X4 BE 955 with gigabyte mb and very impressed I updated my cpu from the E8400 ...
by blackhawk
Sun Jul 30, 2006 8:36 pm
Forum: Video Cards / Video Editing
Topic: Looking for a newer PCI-E video card than my X850XT
Replies: 4
Views: 2140

there'll always be a newer card coming :D

finally picked up a lightly used asus 7900gt, time to try nvidia again!

with the coreduo reviews, maybe time to try intel again ;)
by blackhawk
Thu Jul 20, 2006 3:00 pm
Forum: Video Cards / Video Editing
Topic: Looking for a newer PCI-E video card than my X850XT
Replies: 4
Views: 2140

thanks for the reply, still haven't decided so the box is sitting without a card right now but also looking at a slightly used x1900xt, I'm still happy with ati os am partial to them I can pay whatever for a card but just calculate its life at about 50% value per year or about 350-400 for a card tha...
by blackhawk
Sun Jul 16, 2006 4:56 am
Forum: Video Cards / Video Editing
Topic: Looking for a newer PCI-E video card than my X850XT
Replies: 4
Views: 2140

Looking for a newer PCI-E video card than my X850XT

I'm completing the family upgrade to pci-e now and am moving my x850xt card to the family computer and need to replace it on my dfi ultra with opteron 165 overclocked. I do a bit of gaming, maybe two games a year and have used mostly ati over the last 4 years so am used to them. I'm looking at an at...
by blackhawk
Mon Jul 10, 2006 5:57 am
Forum: For Sale, Buy and Trade
Topic: FS/FT All sold.
Replies: 3
Views: 1483

pm'd you :)
by blackhawk
Fri Jun 30, 2006 9:52 am
Forum: For Sale, Buy and Trade
Topic: FS: XBOX 360 Setup, HDD, 10" Bazooka, Verge Amp
Replies: 5
Views: 1849

email sent :)
by blackhawk
Thu Jun 29, 2006 4:41 pm
Forum: For Sale, Buy and Trade
Topic: FS: XBOX 360 Setup, HDD, 10" Bazooka, Verge Amp
Replies: 5
Views: 1849

warranty remaining?
by blackhawk
Tue Jun 27, 2006 4:08 am
Forum: General Hardware
Topic: What is your oldest hardware component?
Replies: 22
Views: 6220

old floppy drives in each computer plus two external 56k usrobotics modems, all from 99 or 00, g400 vid card in small celeron machine as well is about 5 years old
by blackhawk
Fri Jun 09, 2006 7:31 pm
Forum: General Hardware
Topic: Problem setting up raid on new hard drive
Replies: 5
Views: 2261

took almost a week of frustration but bad ballistix ram and one hard drive making the death click, both rma'd, swapped out the ram first then same problems so tested each drive on another mb and one was bad and got worse quickly till finally wouldn't recognize
by blackhawk
Wed Jun 07, 2006 5:15 pm
Forum: Overclocking / CPU's / Motherboards / Sound Cards
Topic: Asus A8N-E with opteron 165 problem with overclock
Replies: 2
Views: 3790

Just thought I'd update and let anyone else know that the problem ended up being the crucial ballistix ram. Took me a long frustrating week, a damaged hard drive and lots of parts swapping and OS reinstalling to find out. My dfi mb has a built into bios memtest function I thought I'd try and thats w...
by blackhawk
Fri Jun 02, 2006 6:39 pm
Forum: General Hardware
Topic: Problem setting up raid on new hard drive
Replies: 5
Views: 2261

found an old wd lifeguard disk so ran the tools and partitioned the array and tried it on an nf3 mb, got as far as the format and it started but 4% after 3 hours................tried them alone, same

what is wrong with these drives? or my setup?
by blackhawk
Fri Jun 02, 2006 4:02 am
Forum: General Hardware
Topic: Problem setting up raid on new hard drive
Replies: 5
Views: 2261

Got the raid drivers installed, the nvidia required ones, computer recognizes the raid array but just cant format it when it comes time to prior to installing windows. I'll try each drive individually to test each is OK but want to try the raid array. Cabling was checked and reset a couple times. My...
by blackhawk
Thu Jun 01, 2006 7:36 pm
Forum: General Hardware
Topic: Problem setting up raid on new hard drive
Replies: 5
Views: 2261

Problem setting up raid on new hard drive

Got a pair of the new WD 16mb cache 250gb hard drives to put on a DFI Ultra in raid configuration. Got the mb setup fine and the raid array and started up to install winXP but running into a problem with the raid array when it comes time to format it, it just sits there at 0% saying its formatting b...
by blackhawk
Sat May 20, 2006 7:56 pm
Forum: Overclocking / CPU's / Motherboards / Sound Cards
Topic: Asus A8N-E with opteron 165 problem with overclock
Replies: 2
Views: 3790

Asus A8N-E with opteron 165 problem with overclock

Got new mb and cpu and tried the cpu in my other MSI Neo2 mb and it went to 270 x 9 with retail hs and fan so into the asus it went when it arrived. Initially it also went to 270 x 9 with retail hs and stock settings other than the fsb. My mb has 2 x 512 crucial ballistix, maxtor 10 ide, ati x850xt ...
by blackhawk
Tue May 16, 2006 10:49 am
Forum: AMD CPU & Cooling UnderGround
Topic: Repairing broken/bent pins on a 939 cpu
Replies: 10
Views: 6130

Cant thank you guys enough :D You're almost always right on and quick with good info. Tried out the old MSI mb I thought I'd fried and after a few burps & hiccups it booted up! Left the power off and the battery out for a couple weeks so that must've done it. Was going to risk pulling the bios a...