Posts by RobDMB

I have two questions regarding the Sony FE690 line of laptops. First I was wondering what speed harddrive ships in them. 4200 or 5400 rpm? Secondly I notice it only ships with 533mhz ram. If I purchased faster ram would it run at the...

My friend is a casual computer user and is looking to get a dell laptop while spending as little as possible. I noticed on Dell's website there is a T2050 Core Duo chip with a 533 mhz bus and a T2400 with a 667 mhz bus. Is it worth it to...

Really, even though the 7300 is a more expensive option. This is for a dell by the way.

I'm deciding between a 256 megabyte ATI x1400 with Hypermemory or a 256 megabyte NVIDIA 7300 with hypermemory. If anyone knows which would be the better graphics card I would appreciate it. -Rob

So does everyone recommend removing the stock thermal pad and replacing it with arctic silver 5? I've noticed my fan is coming on more and more and at times my temperatures are extremely high. I'm wondering if I should replace it for...

Dropped price to 100 shipped. Cheapest I could find online was 115 plus shipping.

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I bought an extra 1 gig sodimm to use with my msi 1029, but decided the performance different between 1 and 2 gigs wasn't worth it to me and I want to put the money toward a new desktop I'm building. I'd like to get about $100 shipped...

Thanks, i set it to 400 mhz and it seems to be running at that speed. Anyone know what would happen if the system wasn't stable at this speed. Would it just automatically downclock or would you experience errors?

Ok.. Does the MSI bios show the brand of ram. Cause I went into the bios and didnt see anywhere where it showed the manufacturer. Also i have two sticks of ram which I think are both supertalent but the ram is downclocking to 133 mhz?...