Releasedate Possible reasons to push back the releasedate include performance problems, like low yields or an underperforming architecture....
AGP notches If it fits in the AGP slot, it works. This is because the slot keying and the card spacing will only fit if the voltage is...
Pagefile When I installed my 160GB HDD in 2003, I made a 2GB partition for the pagefile. At first, that 2GB was used with 0.5 GB RAM, but...
Closed standards are usually better suited for their appliance, so having D3D was not an advantage, untill Glide hardware could not keep up due to...
AGP setting It could also be a wrong AGP setting, like SBA, FW or AGP8x, that your chipset only supports partly. Just disable SBA and FW and...
4 GPU's Thanks to SLI, cards with 2 GPU's are back. This one, for instance: http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/VGA/Products/Products_GV-3D1-68GT.htm...
PSU The 600W Ultra seems to come with lifetime warranty. Also, 600W of normal PSU is usually not less than 450W of expensive PSU. Besides,...
Single core For multitasking applications, all 3 (singlecore) CPU's mentioned are a step back compared to your current P4, because that has...
Dual core Like all other dual core CPU's, X2 acts like 2 CPU's, able to do completely independent tasks. Theoretically, they could power 2...
Game performance If you play at high settings, you will not gain any noticable DX9 game performance if you replace a 3.2 Ghz P4 with a 2.8 Ghz or...
Second PC If you have a second PC, you can just connect the sound cards for an analog recording, with the audio recorder included in Windows....
Reliability CPU chips don't usually fail, however, I did see some AMD chips that needed to be underclocked to be able to boot into Windows,...
Virtual memory Virtual memory is designed to hold parts of Windows and other running applications that are not active, so you can hardly call...
Re: Re: Re: anybody know why sometimes I.E explorer takes a few seconds to open up? If the FF designers block out Frontpage sites because...
Doom 3 It worked fine when I had 512MB, so it can't be more than that.
Artists Most artists specialize on one package, but doing other things while encoding a movie is not unthinkable, atrough this requires at...
Upgrade Because nothing happened to make CPU's noticably better for gaming in the past 2 years, it is not unlikely to see people spending the...
Huge RAM Altrough decent RAM can be had cheap enough to upgrade it anyway, I haven't seen any single game or app using more than 512MB....
Paperweight No, you just said you got 750 out of the memory, so a new BIOS with 800 is going to change your card in an expensive paperweight,...
If flash or other CPU intensive software is used on multiple sites, you may have problems, as your CPU has no HT or other means to process two...
