Posts by ZX81

Good question Steve, it's relative price mainly: Best bang for buck, doing an upgrade on Asus platform for least cost. Chose Asus for component familiarity, and compatibility. This model is also relatively new to market. Quad AMD...

Its here, its together, just updating vista x64 First impressions great, very cool mATX motherboard, nice case, smaller than the old dell 8300 Bit of a squash getting Silencer Quad750 PSU in, wish it were modular as dont need a lot of...

Can you try a 32bit OS and see if there is the same problems, that could test the hardware side If so, see if catalyst in win 7 is set up for 720p (?) I have an asus card and noticed that when asus splendid is running the picture is...

EDITED My 2nd 4770 got canceled as discontinued, and coincided with the wife's dell 8300 starting to fall over, so doing a wee build with parts left over and scavenged from the P5Q build In the interests of cost, going AMD, and using...

Quote: Originally Posted by dave-p I am also considering adding a second GTX-295 to the unit - but that means a 1200 watt PSU or better - my 1000 watt probably won't cut it. "just...

Its been weeks since the new PC arrived and no pics or benches or anything, even with the raid issues I'd be interested to see what an over the counter brand does compared to self builds, whether its worth the extra or not. Your...

I ment to say before, that watercooled 295 looks brilliant, you always have the best available hardware in your builds, which makes for great reading cheers!

I hear you Dave, I at least will never buy a HIS again, with their 1 year warranties I got an Asus version this time as it has a 3yr warranty which is okay, esp as its return to reseller not rma hell. XFX also offer double lifetime on...

nice, i like it

yes, above post shows just using sliders to max in ATI Catalyst Asus cards also have a software overvolt feature but I haven't used it yet as the max clocks are the same as ATI. Think I have to use riva tuner to get higher. I'll...