how about this one: 8500GT

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6814121093

it's got 512MB 128-bit GDDR2 and it's 2D and 3D load are nearly half of my current 6600GT according to

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gef ... 122-6.html

I actually have a kill-a-watt, I haven't measured the power consumption of my system in a long time but I remember I was a bit surprised that it was over 100 watt and I know that the 6600GT is a power hog (also it has a loud tiny fan on it) it's been almost 3 years since I bought the 6600GT so I gue...

Hi guys, I have a (old/hot/power hungry) 6600GT and I am looking for a replacement card that has about the same or better performance and requires less power. I would prefer something without a fan and would be happy to buy a new motherboard if there is an intigrated solution The power consumption c...

That's what I managed to do, and put them all on a flash drive. Thing is, some are .rar files instead of .zip, and the new computer's XP doesn't like .rars, so I'm searching to figure out how to install those drivers from a .rar file. gzip or winrar will work for those stange, I didn't know asus wa...

I have four 200GB SATA drives from segate 7200.7 SATA only model number ST3200822AS Price: $25 per drive (plus whatever shipping is) all four drives were bought around the same time. Warranties are good until Jan 2010 (not too shabby!) buy one or all of them - if you purchase more obviously you'd on...

linky: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6813138091

Cheaper then the Jetway board, but looks like it has better componenets. non-standard heatsink.. but still very attractive

Hey guys, thanks for all the replies... if I was just trying to remove porn I wouldn't be concerned, that's why hitachi and segate make the big drives right? :wink: I had personal data, tax returns, phone numbers, information about my daughter, basically everything you don't want to fall into the wr...

Hello, What utility did you use to put all zeros on them? Was it SpinRite? it was called "zilla..." something or other I ended up using a version of eraser that's free and worked well from http://www.heidi.ie that works in windows, but you still need to have the drive partitioned to use it, but it ...

thanks! I'll try it

I'm going to be selling 4 HDD's and I tried a utility that wrote 0's to all sectors, but when I used a program called "activeUndelete" (which rocks!) it was able to find stuff still on there and pull it off with ease


any suggestions? I need to totally wipe these things for good

I'm a guy


But pink LOOKS COOL!!

very nice work, kudos =)

the zerothom is working pretty well for you then? I've looked at that one several times, wish I had gotten that instead of the ninja

Id say what this boils down to is a case of subtle price discrimination: Newegg is treating customers differently, in one case the free shipping it offered to those customers who would only purchase a single item as Newegg elicits an impulse buy. The second case where the free shipping is not offere...

If you can get it. the MSI 945GT is a fantastic motherboard, the new drivers and Bios have fixed all the problem, and it's will allow overclocking and the PCI bus is frequency locked so there's no stability issues like on the Asus. granted, you can only up the frequency by about 30mhz, but it's enou...

I'm waiting for the socket P mini-atx variants to hit the market - should be good considering what the 965 chipset is capable of.

just wanted to add that the new graphics driver works great - no more video problems!

A new video driver was released on Sept 03/2007!!!!!!!!!

check http://global.msi.com.tw/index.php?func ... rod_no=243

hopefully it will fix the 'defualt to laptop disply' issue + there are now vista drivers

I have both a 945GT Speedster A4R with T7200 (as main desktop) and a Asus MA2-VM HDMI with X2 3800+ (as HTPC). Both running on the same fanless ST30NF power supply. Both computers run Vista. Only since very recently I am able to use the integrated video from the Speedster, before it would output to...

well, my Rev B isn't even flat - sure it's polished but I took a real 'flat' - a piece of steel that's milled to a high tolerance and placed it on the contact plate and it was a nightmare, light leaking through a gap in one area, a rise along one side that caused poor contact around the edges... if ...

- Apple used the Yonah chips for the first Intel MacMini's but is now using Conroe instead of Merom as I would have expected I don't have any Conroe systems so I don't have a good reference point for comparisons. I also haven't seen any Conroe vs Merom articles. Luna, I a pretty sure they started w...

just checking but, you have the power switch hooked up to the correct pins right?

just saw this - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813153077 JetWay J9F2-KHDE-PB Socket M Intel 945GM HDMI Mini ITX Intel never seen mention of it before in the news, and I'm a little wary of Jetway, but overall it looks like it has alot of features for the money (just uner $200) ...

I like the idea of building a system to last as I’ve been messing around with various systems for over a year now which is not my usual way. The G33 gives me the ability to move to Penryn and quad core if needed, although I can only see the need for that if I start video editing again. Choices, c...

MSI board has problem reading the memory timing from my ram sticks too. Sometimes it reads 4,4,4,10, sometimes 5,5,5,12. I think MSI needs to update the bios. But I don't think that is going to happen since they have just update the bios to 1.4 and this mobo is not a main-stream big-seller. I’m h...

tried clockgen, and have had some success - it allows me to set the bus speed up to 199 but computer locks above the 170mhz range so I'm feeling pretty sure now that the yonah core solo, and core duo have a tough time in the 2.3ghz+ range without a vcore bump (which is right around where the top cor...

just got the T1350 (has the x14 multiplier) and have had some strange experiences right off the start on the MSI 945GT speedster The CPU is definitely controlling what range of bus speed overclock is available. Any cpu that is a 533FSB is going to give you a 133-165 range, and any chip that is 667FS...

ahh - no PCI lock..... that's a terrible thing...what were they thinking! I've noticed more and more core duo's on ebay lately, they are getting downright cheap, wish I had picked up another MSI board back a few months. The MSI Axis 945GM (barebone at newegg) uses the MSI 945GM1 mini-itx motherboard...

Guys...

I was just sniffing around - according to This review the ASUS N4L-VM board might be a good choice for overclocking chips with 533 fsb. no Vcore adjustment but shouldn't really be necessary.

it doesn't have socket 478 mounts though =(

My ram are HP OEM'ed ram (got them cheap - like $20/1G after rebate). That may be the problem. I will play with the settings more. ahh, that might have something to do with it - Buzz - I just checked something.... I am running the exact same memory in both my server (MSI socket M Board) and my main...

Buzz - That's really strange that you can only get 175 even though you set the divider to 533fsb setting.... what kind of ram do you have? whats the voltage requirement for the ram? I'm thinking that you have ram that requires higher voltage than the MSI board can supply, making overclocking difficu...

I wouldn’t assume anything but wait until you can test it. I think I said something to that effect when I first met my wife..... :lol: Hopefully Buzz will come back and tell us the range of fsb speeds on his MSI board using the T2050.... looking at one of his earlier posts he did mention that he ...