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by Rusty
Wed Nov 26, 2008 6:30 pm
Forum: Talk Zone
Topic: Funny Pics
Replies: 1725
Views: 375533

Saw this at a school the other week
by Rusty
Wed Nov 05, 2008 1:36 pm
Forum: Spud n GURU's Tech Topics
Topic: 4870 Troubles.
Replies: 8
Views: 3653

Glad to hear no more BSOD. Not sure about GB Bios underclocking CPUs it might just be the .5 multiplier setting. I would be concerned about the bad sector. They are rarely ever fixed by a format, its most likely you just haven't writen to that sector again. I would download the manufactures dos/boot...
by Rusty
Sat Oct 25, 2008 1:20 am
Forum: Talk Zone
Topic: FARCRY 2 impressions
Replies: 15
Views: 4039

I have only tried single player ... its it a fair bit different from the first one. It doesn't appear to have a 'set' story line, but I do like it. I thought i'de have to run it at low settings but with a single gtx 260 (glad i got mine when i did with the AUS$$$ they way it is now) but can run it a...
by Rusty
Fri Oct 17, 2008 2:14 am
Forum: Spud n GURU's Tech Topics
Topic: 4870 Troubles.
Replies: 8
Views: 3653

Hey Sammus, I know this is not want you want to hear but you may have a faulty card, especially when you mention artifacts in games... to me this is looking more and more like a bad card. Have you checked temps? In my experience ati cards are just a not as 'finished' a product as nvidia. I had 2x387...
by Rusty
Sat Aug 30, 2008 4:44 pm
Forum: Spud n GURU's Tech Topics
Topic: what's best
Replies: 43
Views: 14383

Well I got my striker board back sometime ago and decided I'd retire the 2x Ati HD3870s I had in the other machine as they are just too loud and ATI have to get their drivers sorted properly. So I got 2 x GTX260s and ran them in sli however I'm really disappointed in the performance of these cards c...
by Rusty
Wed Aug 20, 2008 10:48 pm
Forum: Spud n GURU's Tech Topics
Topic: Ancient Fish Dies & Upgrades
Replies: 24
Views: 8811

by Rusty
Tue Aug 12, 2008 11:03 pm
Forum: Spud n GURU's Tech Topics
Topic: Ancient Fish Dies & Upgrades
Replies: 24
Views: 8811

Nice pc m8, core 2's are so cheap now.... the 4850's in Crossfire should go very well. I only got 3870's and they run crysis pretty good.
by Rusty
Tue Jul 08, 2008 5:29 pm
Forum: Spud n GURU's Tech Topics
Topic: what's best
Replies: 43
Views: 14383

Does anyone here have access to or can test 2 Xeons and ECC DDR ram? :?
by Rusty
Fri Jul 04, 2008 9:04 pm
Forum: Spud n GURU's Tech Topics
Topic: what's best
Replies: 43
Views: 14383

HAHA yes scummy I should do that, its still away at ASUS..... what a load of shit its been over 4 months now. However the gigabyte x48T DQ6 board is rock solid... really happy with that mobo. Anyway I scored a dell poweredge 2900 server with what appears to be a dead mobo :(, dual xeons, 3x75gb 15K ...
by Rusty
Fri Jul 04, 2008 8:57 pm
Forum: Spud n GURU's Tech Topics
Topic: wacky drive issues
Replies: 4
Views: 2558

It woun't be that the cd laser has died? Have you tried it on another machine?
by Rusty
Sat Jun 14, 2008 4:16 pm
Forum: Spud n GURU's Tech Topics
Topic: what's best
Replies: 43
Views: 14383

Well I dropped it off today to get tested......... It the third board !!!!!!!!!! 1) First one was DOA... it got swapped the same day 2) The above DOA replacement had the corrupt video issues however is was stable..... it got sent away for 3 weeks 3) The above replacement is DOA The reckon they will ...
by Rusty
Fri Jun 13, 2008 10:44 pm
Forum: Spud n GURU's Tech Topics
Topic: what's best
Replies: 43
Views: 14383

Well my STRIKER II RA return board is dead LOL

All other parts were working fine on another board !! ....... wondering who I must have killed to keep having this shit happen???

:lol:
by Rusty
Fri Jun 13, 2008 6:10 pm
Forum: Spud n GURU's Tech Topics
Topic: what's best
Replies: 43
Views: 14383

GRRRRR hope all goes well m8....... I tried doing a VGA bios update through a windows utility and it F**Ked it up big time. However I was lucky enough to boot from the other card and flash it the ONLY way... through dos/command line, all returned to normal after flashing through DOS. I know I was la...
by Rusty
Fri Jun 13, 2008 6:05 pm
Forum: Spud n GURU's Tech Topics
Topic: Vista Service pack 1
Replies: 11
Views: 4356

Running 64bit SP1 and (so far) no problems
by Rusty
Mon Jun 02, 2008 12:16 am
Forum: Spud n GURU's Tech Topics
Topic: what's best
Replies: 43
Views: 14383

That sucks the big ones m8. Hope you can finally let the beast inside that setup loose and get some good overclocking happening. :)

Still herd nothing about the striker 2 i sent away too. :(

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