swaaye

swaaye

Frost Gate Guardian

Joined
May 2005

Recent Posts

Nov 10, 2008 at 9:52 PM Building a 2500$ Computer

The reason I suggest not bothering with "fast" DDR3 and DDR2 beyond 800 is that you gain very little speed from it. A game PC is almost...

Nov 10, 2008 at 6:05 AM Building a 2500$ Computer

Tips... Forget X48. It won't benefit you noticeably at all for gaming. It's one of those pointless luxury items that just costs more and...

Jul 15, 2008 at 9:45 PM HD4850 and thermal compound

I wouldn't touch it. These cards just run hot. I've been down this road before and have replaced stock thermal compounds, but you just...

Jul 15, 2008 at 9:26 PM Thinking about building this

I suggest you go to Newegg's PSU area and look up 80+ units. They are very power efficient. For example, this Corsair unit is superb. 450W is...

May 5, 2008 at 10:33 PM pentium 4 HT, GW maxes out at 50% CPU usage

Yeah but the advantage HT gives for multi-tasking is better than a tiny bit of extra speed IMO.

May 5, 2008 at 10:32 PM forcing gw to run on a single core

In 2 years and on various Core 2 Duo, Quad, and Athlon 64 X2 machines, I've never messed with the affinity of Guild Wars. The game just...

Apr 30, 2008 at 9:57 PM Is this enuff power =(?

a bit below SLI'd 8800Ultras.

Apr 30, 2008 at 8:27 PM Is this enuff power =(?

http://techreport.com/articles.x/14355/9 And this is at the wall, folks. PSUs are at best around 80% efficient, so the actual internal PC power...

Apr 8, 2008 at 9:27 PM College! Time for a Laptop

http://www.anandtech.com/mobile/showdoc.aspx?i=3273

Jan 17, 2008 at 10:20 PM Does my Motherboard Support SataII?

Like said earlier, the speed wont be affected either. Even the fastest HDD only can manage about 80MB/s in a linear read. And that's rather...

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