Posts by thegad

If it takes an arm and a leg to get upgradeable graphics I'll do it, just have to get real liquored up first! Uh...with...non-alcoholic bevarages. Because I do not condone underage drinking of course!

I'm thinking the quadro FX1400 isn't necessarily the cheaper option but more the professional option since the quadro's are geared more for rendering/animation work and the geforce for gaming. I personally don't care if the cards ATi or...

I've got to get a bunch of humanities out of the way this year (freshman) year but after that all EE/CS courses

5690 seems to get some of the fastest benchmarks...but I can't down the 17" screens!

I heard the new prescotts have greatly improved the transistor leakage problem, so they wouldn't have to jack up the power to keep the tranny's (yea I called a transistor a tranny) charged which means less heat...

If I remember correctly what I've read in past posts, we're all pretty much assuming this new laptop will be prescott based (although I thought that would automatically make it northwood compatible like current models). Thus, my question...

Installed SP2 on my old Dell XPS w/ a 933mhz PIII...no problems.

Hey, I'm temporarily getting an 8600 which will become my little sisters in a month or two when I get the new PCI-e system from sager. However, I know that she's most comfortable working at 1024x768 so I'm probably going to get it with...

I hope I'll be able to get a spare pcie quadrofx graphics card to swap in for 3D work, that would be sweet, one card for gaming and one for animation.

I've used my old math teacher's 5680 and my friend's 8790. The 8790 was much more impressive to see (the pictures didn't do it justice, looks sleeker in person), and style-wise it had the 5680 beat in spades in my opinion. However, the...