Forum: Homebuilt PC's
January 25th 07, 04:23 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
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Power Supply?
Be careful with the Sapphire x1950pro, check the sapphire forums, there are
tons of posts about failing cards(both the AGP and PCI-X versions). It
appears the cooling solution for the single slot...
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Forum: Homebuilt PC's
December 31st 06, 04:44 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
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Replies: 9
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XFX 7950 GT (PCI-e)..
Power Supply: Antec Smart Power 450
There are threads on the Sapphire forums about this and that power supply
and what you really need. Some terribly outrageous claims that you
ABSOLUTELY need...
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Forum: Homebuilt PC's
December 31st 06, 04:36 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
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Replies: 15
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Recommendations for newbie home built PC
I just built a barebones from mwave, their website allows you to select
everything: case, MB, processor and memory. It is easy and painless and it
saves me the trouble of figuring out which...
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Forum: Homebuilt PC's
December 28th 06, 10:00 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
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Replies: 15
Views: 923
Recommendations for newbie home built PC
Try mwave.com for either motherboard bundles(the CPU and RAM come shipped
assembled) or their barebones systems(this is the motherboard, CPU, RAM
installed in the case of your choice, this makes...
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Forum: Homebuilt PC's
December 28th 06, 05:10 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
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Replies: 9
Views: 433
XFX 7950 GT (PCI-e)..
I can't recommend as I have no special knowledge in the GPU department. I
recently had the Sapphire card problems on my box and replaced it with the
HIS Iceq3 version, it's worked out of the box...
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Forum: Homebuilt PC's
December 27th 06, 09:57 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
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Replies: 9
Views: 433
XFX 7950 GT (PCI-e)..
The Sapphire X1950Pro base version(not the ultimate) is known to have
cooling problems. Check out the reviews on newegg, almost all are panning
the card hands down. You can get around the cooling...
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Forum: Homebuilt PC's
December 20th 06, 04:05 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
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Replies: 3
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Setting fanspeeds for XT1959Pro
I had this card also and returned it. It appears either the design is
poor(which I believe to be the case after comparing it's cooling to
competitive models) or they had a bad batch of boards. ...
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Forum: Homebuilt PC's
December 20th 06, 03:08 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
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Replies: 2
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Best videocard for your dolla dolla
I would check the typical places like tomshardware for benchmarks but I
believe the X1950PRO provides the sweet spot right now at the $200 price
point.
Stay away from the Sapphire X1950PRO(not...
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