Recent content by goc305

just curious really. it sounds as though, the hardware is here or close(quad cores, dx10, etc.), the software applications are still a ways off before they will fully utilize these capabilities...

awesome answer, but isnt power consumption coming down with the core 2 duo, what isnt to say that will happen with video cards? signing off. g

so lets say i have just purchased my computer, but want to build one next time around, what is gonna be hot? 1. 1000w power supply? 2. multi-core processor? 3. type of video card? is there any way to forecast what is gonna happen? discuss:)

ok, did a search and tried to flash bio? didnt work. i am going to read up on it. any other suggestions, hints, tips? btw, you guys are awesome...

anyone?

ok, i ordered, received and replaced the amd athlon with an amd duron 1.8. everything seems to be working fine, however, at startup, its says, "CPU - unknown, 1.345 mhz" why would it not be at 1.8, and if so, what should I do to get it there. thanks. G

ok, so i took the heat sink off, and the sticker on it says 950mhz. Surely this heat sink will work on the new amd pcu, right?

so maybe this video card: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814102031 and this cpu: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819104206 what do you think? i am also going to add 1 gb or pc133 ram.

awesome! it has a Nvidia Riva Tnt2 64 video card in it. should I replace that as well?

Hi everyone, I am new to all of this, and am going to upgrade an old computer for practice(in anticipation of first real build). My first question is, as long as a cpu is a socket A, will it fit in any socket A motherboard? the motherboard in question is this...