Other - Hardware - September 2007

hey..Crysis is coming and i really want to upgrade my graphics..my system specs are:

BTW i have 200$ to spend on the card so keep that in mind:
windows vista home premium
AMD athlon 64 x2 dual core 3800+
2gb ram
and my video card is nvidia it is 128 video ram (pci)
i also did the test for CRYSIS at http://www.systemrequirementslab.com and i passed everything greatly exept graphics
so which card can i get for 200$ that i can play crysis

2007-09-29 10:58:11 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

is it worth buying a directx 10 compatible graphics card (for example the geforce 8600gt) , or is it better to spend the same amount of money on a more powerful (non directx10) graphics card, for example the geforce7900 or the ati x1950pro?

i have vista, but i prefer to use xp. what advantages would using a directx 10 card give me?

thank you

2007-09-29 10:11:20 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

For some bizzar reason my partner copyed an entire CD with a newer version of windows XP over on to our computer instead of installing the XP from the CD. After doing this it now keeps prompting me to delete files from my C drive the hard drive is full there is no free space. It wont now let me log on to the computer only in safe mode. When i get into safe mode to delete the XP files copied over, i can not find them. when i right clicked C drive to view the hard drive it is completelly full. Please help i dont know what to do. I can not access my computer, it wont let me, it only says free up space from your C drive of which i cant get to. Should i delete every thing from the computer and start again with installing everything from new, as in windows EX? if so how do i do this. Thank you to anyone that can help me x

2007-09-29 08:10:30 · 8 answers · asked by Anna G 1

I dunno what to get GeForce 8800GTS 320MB or GeForce 8800GTS 640MB? This is what I have so far..

CD/DVD.....Sony NEC Optiarc 18X DVD±R DVD Burner With 12X DVD-RAM Write Silver E-IDE / ATAPI Model 7170A-0S

CASE.....COOLER MASTER RC-690-KKN1-GP Black SECC/ ABS ATX Mid Tower Computer Case

Hard Drive....Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3500630AS 500GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM

Power Supply...Rosewill RP600V2-S-SL 600W SLI Ready-ATX12V V2.01 Power Supply

2 Memory-CORSAIR XMS2 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model TWIN2X2048-6400C4

MotherBoard...ASUS P5N-E SLI LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 650i SLI ATX Intel Motherboard

Processor...Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 Conroe 2.66GHz LGA 775 Processor Model BX80557E6750
Should I get the Core 2 Duo or the Core 2 Quad..I like to play games multimedia edit movies everything and i need help on pickin which is better for me...any addons is great

2007-09-29 07:14:37 · 2 answers · asked by grim126629 1

ok....im about to by a Nvidia GeForce 7600 GS and a new power supply.....my question is do i need a PCI-E connecter on the power supply for the card to work (and my motherboard has pci-E).......PLz help

2007-09-29 05:15:53 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

Can someone tell me in layman's terms, how can I burn chips for my own use? What do I need to burn the chips? Where do I get the chips? How do I install the chip on the motherboard or card after I burn it? What card is that that holds the chip? Thanks.

2007-09-29 04:12:18 · 3 answers · asked by Sleuth! 3

If i drag the contents of my hard drive C onto my usb 250gb
portable hard drive and then restore my pc to factory settings
will every thing i need ie music, photos, updates, settings, anti virus etc be on the portable hard drive to put back on my pc again
Or is not as simple as that PS i have a drive c "main" and drive d recovery. On HP pavilion 423.uk

2007-09-29 04:05:23 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

motherboard PC Chip socket 775 has a 4pin cpu connector.

2007-09-29 03:59:43 · 6 answers · asked by sugarray 1

I saw some one in my class press something like ctrl + and the right arrow on the key board. Im not sure if he press control or something else, but anyway, it rotated his desktop screen, anyone know how to do that, if u do, can u post it?

2007-09-29 03:52:17 · 10 answers · asked by Marianne 1

2007-09-29 02:56:38 · 4 answers · asked by Pratap H 2

2007-09-29 02:23:10 · 13 answers · asked by Maria H 2

Well I want to buy a new motherboard and processor....but the motherboard I want to buy contains a built-in graphics card of 128mb...(Intel)...but in my old motherboard I had a NVIDIA GeFORCE MX4000 128mb....and I wanted to know which one is better, and why?

2007-09-29 01:50:21 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

My pc says that it has 256mb ram and 2ghz processor and it runs really slow it doesn't play games like my friends pc which his is 800mhz and his plays them fine and mine is the king of lagging.Please help.

2007-09-29 00:36:02 · 16 answers · asked by zompirewolf 2

it gets to the dos part and stops, and i cant get in to the safe mode

2007-09-28 23:59:37 · 7 answers · asked by GARY C 1

I am upgrading motherboard.

2007-09-28 23:47:33 · 4 answers · asked by ? 5

AMD Turion 64 Mobile Technology MK-36 (2.0GHz)

AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core Mobile Technology TK-53 (1.7GHz)

AMD Turion 64 X2 Dual-Core Mobile Technology TL-50 (1.6GHz)

2007-09-28 22:55:40 · 5 answers · asked by applebeer 5

Im planing to buy a dvd writer. But there are two kinds of connections, BTW i can go for IDE or SATA.
But im asking which is better to use, IDE or SATA...

2007-09-28 21:29:26 · 9 answers · asked by snarf14344 1

I am looking for a graphics card for video editing, I will be using it with Avid Liquid Pro

2007-09-28 21:06:08 · 3 answers · asked by Suren 1

What is a centrino technology which comes with some notebook processors?

I am planning to buy a notebook and i don't know which processor to opt for

2007-09-28 19:41:12 · 2 answers · asked by dude 1

2007-09-28 19:08:51 · 1 answers · asked by doki 2

and it won't let me. It says it can't find it, but it's listed right there in the folder. Is there any way to do this without re-booting? Thanks...

cheers,
Shauna!

2007-09-28 19:05:02 · 5 answers · asked by Shauna Kasey 4

i just turn my computer on and my sound doesn't work, it worked last time i was on it (w/in the last 24 hrs) i have no clue why? i could use some help restoring it to normal. also if you have ne clue what caused this abnormality

2007-09-28 18:42:39 · 3 answers · asked by james 2

I bought Lord of the Rings: Battle for Middle Earth II a few months ago, and it doesn't work on two of my computers..I went to technical support and for my problem, the main reason is usually a lack of RAM..Where do I get it? I know you can get it at Wal-Mart and stuff, but I don't know what kind to get, how to put it in my computer, or what kinda prices im looking at...if you can answer any/all of those questions, Id really appreciate it. Please give me any information about money in USD (American Dollars) and keep in mind that I know absolutely nothing about computers. Thanks, in advance.

2007-09-28 11:31:56 · 4 answers · asked by Zach 3

So basically I bought a new video card and power supply about a month ago. I actually heard a little screeching/buzzing out of the PSU before, but it went away. As of moments ago its back. I installed new video card drivers from ATIs site, and upon doinging so and restarting the computer the computer wouldn't load passed the loading screen. I couldn't see the log in screen or whatnot, and the computer and monitor just shut off.

So I boot the pc in safe mode and hear this loud screeching/buzzing in the power supply... Any ideas what this could be? The power supply is actually hooked up to the video card. There's a white coord that goes from the end of it to one of the many psu coords.

Anyways, any information on what this buzzing could be would be really appreciated, and if it's linked to my video card drivers failing.

2007-09-28 10:45:49 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-09-28 09:03:39 · 7 answers · asked by schickfly278 1

I have heard that there are 1000 megabytes in a gigabyte (or 1024 depending) my computer says that i have 2046 MB of RAM. Is that the same as 2Gigabytes of RAM then?

2007-09-28 07:10:42 · 8 answers · asked by oranges311 2

After my primary hard drive failed on me, I decided to put the slave as the primary. However, when winxp goes to setup for installation for some reason it does not recognize my hard disk. My IDE controller picks up the hard drive just fine. It is a seagate 200gb hard drive and I noticed I had no jumper pin on the back. I tried a western digital one with no results.

ABIT AG8 ATX Intel Motherboard
Intel Pentium 4 630 800MHz FSB LGA 775 EM64T Processor
CORSAIR ValueSelect 1GB 184-Pin (x2)
WD 160 gb ata/100 --------------DEAD
Segate 200 gb ata/100
SAPPHIRE Radeon X800 100107-BL
Creative Sound Blaster Audigy2 ZS Platinum
500 w enermax

2007-09-28 06:22:57 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

I usually tend to stay up these things, but apparantly I have missed this development, another person asked a question in reference to them earlier, just wondering if anyone had any links to some information about them.

2007-09-28 04:05:56 · 2 answers · asked by mysticman44 7

Hard drives are getting so fast they are as fast or faster than RAM, there can even use RAM as a hard drive, so wouldn't it be smart to take RAM away totally and just use virtual memory, or take away virtual memory and partition off a but of the Hard Drive to be RAM. It will soon be a cheaper option than loads of separate expensive RAM chips, and will be easier to change, virtual memory will be the same speed as the RAM so why have data going from hard drive to virtual memory to RAM and then back again, when you can take out the middle man and make operating systems and programs soooo much simpler to run, taking up less energy, smaller size and way faster systems... also currently couldn't be have only a small amount of RAM and speed the PC up majorly by having a solid state or atom based hard drive as virtual memory...

Am I right or wrong.. we could also use current programs we have now, just with a different operating system handling the RAM..or virtual memory, or new partition...

2007-09-28 02:30:05 · 3 answers · asked by Aaron 5

IMPORTANT FOR HW !

2007-09-27 23:02:04 · 5 answers · asked by ddddd 1