Posts by DrewN

haha...actually there's also a second one stacked right underneath . Went a little eBay crazy after the DC dropped off the face of the earth and now have 150 games as well -- Dreamcast is an awesome system, can't get enough of Soul...

check my sig for stock RAM specs. You are right on track with the right memory brands. I prefer Corsair personally, but OCZ also has great rep

Thanks yeah, the Z5500s are powerful enough for an apt w/o question my volume level never goes over 25-30%

WeAreNotAlone, it could be a 15", in which case the 7600 Go is not an option. If the 17" was an option then by all means return that baby and get a 7600 Go! Also go with WeAreNotAlone's recommendation to buy through costco. ...

The 7400 benches at ~2000 stock for 3DMark05, good enough for low to medium detail at low to medium resolutions (1024x768 to 1280X1024). I run modern games natively at 1680x1050 but at low resolutions with most eye candy turned off...

Quote: Originally Posted by tph Could any expert say whether there are ANY SATA drivers on Win XP disc AT ALL? Not natively on a standard Windows XP disc. Usually you need an external FDD to load the SATA...

Sure -- Card Reader: 2.0.0.2 Texas Instruments date: 9/20/2005 PCMCIA adapter: 5.1.2600.0 Microsoft date: 7/1/2001 Keep in mind this is for a dv8000t, not sure if we have the same card reader.

Not sure if this helps, but my HP NB with a TI card reader reads a 2GB SD card just fine, so that HP article is bogus. It might be the brand, or the memory itself is picky (peronally have Corsair not Sandisk) This won't help you with...

Quote: Originally Posted by chris_b Different question for you Drew. How much are you OCing you Go card and how much performance difference does it make? Is it stable? I found some info on the Coolbits hak you are...

Chris, I have the original bios F.08 and drivers 83.20. Reverted back to the original video driver because the newest ones disable overclocking through the Coolbits registry hack. Never updated my BIOS. And I am using Sandra Lite, free...