Posts by Da Alians

heh..for the bums that bought a 5200 with oh so little ram..doom runs around 13 fps...on the lowest of settings dont buy a 5200

well..after it sit overnight, its running at 2 ghz at 34C..but then again..now that fan is running..so i have a feeling its an iffy fan im going to hit up doom3 and see if i can take it this time edit: yup, everything is fine and...

i dont see anything about speedswitch in the power options..but i tried setting everything to always on with no avail

yes, i have installed the drivers i was looking at my pc a little closer, right after xp boots i can open up speedswitch and ik8fan and the cpu runs at a few seconds..maybe 10 or so, before reverting from 2 ghz to 600mhz. also, in...

checked the bios..it says the cpu is running at 2ghz in the bios..i saw the speedstep, and when i switched it off the speed went to 600, so i left it on. unless it is causing some weird conflict with speedstep

oh, oops an 8600 with a 2ghx p-m 512 megs gfFX 5200 with 64 megs xp pro ill look through the bios and see what comes up..

Everytime i check on my cpu it seems to be at 600 mhz, or lower if the dynamic switching is on and im nto doing anything. both windows and cpuz both say the same things, and speedswitch keeps estimating that my max speed is around 600,...

does anyone know how to create a custom resolution for doom? make it fit the widesceen better on the 8600

This thread seems to be as good a place as any... I just ordered my 8600 a few days ago, and was curiouse if I wiped the hdd and did a clean install with another xp disc (not one from dell) if I would need any dell programs (besides...