Posts by dr/owned

Newegg for sure...anywhere else that has a cheaper price i wouldn't trust...except for maybe Amazon.com

You'll also find that the parts can be quite expensive individually.

Well, imo, there really isn't any way to screw up soldering....just worse/better techniques. And if you put on too much you can just use a copper braid to wick it up. I suppose the only danger would be burning something with the...

Yeah you experienced one of the rare instances where a generic brand is worse that the name brand. I agree with Quicksilver's post.

I have a nforce mobo/gfx combo so I do it through nvidia's system tools. I bet you could o/c you computer if it's non-nforce but you would have to take it apart to find which clock gen it is using

As I always say, for $3500 you could have got a banging desktop with dual gtx 280's and a quad w/ 4 gb of memory. IMO laptops, even upgraded ones, still aren't good enough / meant for gaming. But to his his own right

Adding on what Quicksilver said, Dell is a very solid brand. HP is good as well (it's what I bought) and they have verrrrryyy good warranty service. Apple is a little overpriced IMO...$2000 for a laptop which dell sells for $1000. ...

AMD Turion X2 1.9 ghz OC to 2.3 ghz (roughly) nvidia 630m/geforce go 7150m 425 mhz OC to 560 mhz so the turions do o/c pretty well but i hear intel's new offerings oc like monsters . my core2duo e8400 went from 3.0 ghz to 4.2 ghz. I...

As long as the socket-types are the same I personally would just overclock your cpu. I went from 1.9 ghz to 2.3 ghz for free

i'm avidly against Acer b/c they are of a very very poor build quality (flimsy).