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[pwrcat1]

 

[k-state-wildcats11]

Man my laptop on Monday decided to be and now it will work fine for about 5 minutes then it will go to an all black screen that says press f1 to reboot or F2 to do something else can't remember and when I hit F1 it wont reboot very frustrating. Should I take it in to one of the computer  and let them have a looksy? Or has anyone else had this problem and any ideas?

[fatty fat fat]

btw, i'm installing my new nehalem chip today. if n e 1 wants some benchies vs an amd x2 4200+, just ask. 

[Saulbadguy]

btw, i'm installing my new nehalem chip today. if n e 1 wants some benchies vs an amd x2 4200+, just ask. 

forums.anandtech.com

always and forever

[dr00d]

btw, i'm installing my new nehalem chip today. if n e 1 wants some benchies vs an amd x2 4200+, just ask. 

doesn't matter how fast you are if you lose all your games again.

Get a raid 5 and fast.

[Saulbadguy]

btw, i'm installing my new nehalem chip today. if n e 1 wants some benchies vs an amd x2 4200+, just ask. 

raid 5

[dr00d]

 

[hemmy]

btw, i'm installing my new nehalem chip today. if n e 1 wants some benchies vs an amd x2 4200+, just ask. 

Rest of specs?

[pissclams]

btw, i'm installing my new nehalem chip today. if n e 1 wants some benchies vs an amd x2 4200+, just ask. 

fatty- http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=3502

have you oc'd yours?  been reading some mixed results

[fatty fat fat]

not gonna try. stock cooler idles it at 60 C.

[hemmy]

Get a TRUE120, at minimum the 920's are getting to 3.6

The only limitation on air or water is heat with the i7's they have tons of headroom if cooled enough

[Skycat]

Screw raid.  Get a solid state HD and let me know if it's worth it.

[steve dave]

I had a girlfriend in college that asked me if I could somehow "hook together" her two old garbage computers to form some sort of super computer.  I told her sure you can, you just don't want to because then you end up with a bunch of Terminators running around killing everyone. 

[hemmy]

Ok so my computer died a couple months ago and I've been trying to decide on how I want to replace it. 
Ideas so far:

Option 1)  iMac - I decided against this.  Don't want to learn something new (OSX) and they're overpriced.
Option 2)  Sony Vaio VGC-LV150J - Still might get this, overpriced and underpowered though.  Love the all-in-one design and "media center" system.

Option 3)  Custom Build- here's the parts list I've come up with-

Mobo
GIGABYTE GA-EP35-DS3L LGA 775 Intel P35 ATX Intel Motherboard - Retail
Model #:GA-EP35-DS3L
Item #:N82E16813128337
$89.99 -$5.00 Instant $84.99

VGU   
VisionTek 900244 Radeon HD 4870 512MB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFire Supported Video Card
Model #:900244
Item #:N82E16814129113
$269.99

PSU   
CORSAIR CMPSU-650TX 650W ATX12V / EPS12V SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS Certified Active PFC Power Supply
Model #:CMPSU-650TX
Item #:N82E16817139005
$159.99 -$60.00 Instant $99.99

CPU
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 Wolfdale 3.0GHz LGA 775 65W Dual-Core Processor Model BX80570E8400
Model #:BX80570E8400
Item #:N82E16819115037
$169.99

Memory   
2 x G.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1000 (PC2 8000) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model F2-8000CL5D-4GBPQ
Model #:F2-8000CL5D-4GBPQ
Item #:N82E16820231145
$97.99 -$30.00 Instant $135.98

HDD   
Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD6400AAKS 640GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive
Model #:WD6400AAKS
Item #:N82E16822136218
$74.99

Optical Drive
LITE-ON 20X DVD±R DVD Burner Black IDE Model DH-20A4P-04
Model #:DH-20A4P-04
Item #:N82E16827106228
$22.99

Subtotal: $858.92

I already have a case I want to use.

Thoughts?   

I have those 2

Also, get an SATA dvd burner, not IDE

And SSD's are ridic. price / GB

Also, for the "VGU"I think you mean GPU,