Posts by doghouse

With the artifacting, which component is failing? GPU? Video RAM? Other?

My 8790 has started artifacting as well. It went 2 years, but I have not been using it hard till recently. Now that I think about it, I used to notice a strange little artifact when I played Farcry around 9 months ago. Didn't...

My AC unit has worked fine for 1 1/2 years. But the Auto unit I had gotten failed shortly after getting it. Should have seen about getting it replaced but didn't. Wasn't a great need at the time. Now I could reall use it. Might...

My 8790 is running stock clock and I have not tried to overclock it ( yet ). The display has no problems until I run Farcry. I have several of those blocks that stay on during the game.

My son was playing Far Cry. Closed the lid for a break. Went back after about an hour, lifted the screen and the screen was blank and the 8790 would not respond. I powered down and tried to bring it back up. It will boot up to...

I had the same problem when I set up my 8790 late last week. I installed xp home ( upgrade ). It would lockup at dvd usage. It did not happen after I had first setup the system. I had installed several apps several hours after...

When I get an 8890, ( after deleting XP Pro from the dell notebook,) will the XP install to the Sager from the media I got with the dell?

Is there an option to get an 8887 with 800 fsb parts ( CPU and memory ) for those planning to upgraged in the future? It would cost a little more now and not run as fast ( What, 2ghz for the 3ghz cpu? ) but save a lot later. Or would...

I am not knocking Sagers upgrading policy. It is unrivaled and not likely to be imitated by many, if any, other makers. The past pricing has been very reasonable. But I see posts saying something along the lines of "get an...

Does the previous upgrades use the old CPU and ram?