Posts by eweddle

I am considering purchasing the Sager 9261. I'm a gamer and I want to go with the best video card setup. Not sure whether I should go with dual 7950s is SLI or dual 8700s in SLI. Please correct me if I am wrong, but it is my...

From one newb to the next - thanks! Do you know how to use the recovery CD to repair my Windows files without reformatting the drive and starting from scratch?

I recently got a trojan virus that took me quite some time to clean. I tried McAffee and Ad Aware but finally had to restore from a backup to get rid of it. Anyway, after I did all the cleaning and restoring I can't run windows update....

Thanks Actuary. I have already seen that post. However, my real question is when my machine runs for a prolonged period at 56-58 when gaming will this be a problem. Also, I'm concerned when I see the temp hit the 60 mark a few times...

I've had my 8790 for ten days now and I'm curious about my temperature reading. I'm using mobilemeter and when doing mundane things it seems to cycle between 40 and 50. When it hits 50 the fan kick on and cools it to 40. Then in a few...

I just received my new 8790 with XP preinstalled and dual 60 gb hdd in raid 0. I've been playing KOTOR and the game has locked up on me twice. BTW, does this happen to anyone else - it has locked after several hours of play when I try...

I have an 8790 on order and I understand that from reading the posts there are several utlity programs I should have for this beast. These programs include: SiSoft Sandra 3dmark Norton AntiSpyware Powerstrip Is there anything...

I'm very close to ordering an 8790 and I'm considering getting the dual 60 gb 7200 rpm HDs. In raid 0, how much performance boost can I expect? I'm also concerned about extra heat. Any words of wisdom.

Thanks!

I've just about decided that I will go with the 5680. Now the question is will the 5680 be offered with the M11 in the near future? If so, I definitely want to wait. It seems that the performance difference of the M11 versus the M10P...