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ti4200 is your best bet yeah ive owned the 8500 and it is good but the ti4200 is faster and at a lower price and it plays colin mcrae rally without having to mess about with any settings!!!!!! The ti4400 that i got (gainward) is pretty impressive but the 1 think i do hate about it is that it still cant manage 4x fsaa at high res in reasonably new games and keep 80+ fps

I used to use gigabyte (like slotA era and before) and that was extreamly stable and reliable, even had some overclocking options. Ive owned more abit boards by far though now, and i really have no complaints about the actual boards, they are still all working perfectly. Some instability probs with some of them, but they were the via ones and nothing the latency patch couldnt handle. The Abit TH7-II is the best board i have owned to date and ive very happy with it I keep thinking i wanna try an asus board but they seem to take ages to actually release the board and by that time ive bought the abit alternative I was also very suprised with MSI, the board at the time was very cheap cos it was just going in my dads system for word and excel but its ended up being used for games and its 100% stable and ive no complaints at all, and thats a via kt133 board I take it the AA coalition is disbanded now?

Yeah refresh lock is excellent, only found 1 problem with it, or rather some games. Some games insist on a particular screen mode, mechwarrior 4 is 1 example and the game ends up fighting refresh lock for the 'correct' mode. The lock eventually loses as its got an option to give up after about 30 tries. Had to go back to the usual nvrefresh fix just to play mw4. Excellent program though and should work for all drivers

Madonion.com is terrible yeah so much false info being given out by 12 year old 'hard core overclockers' just makes me laugh though sometimes btw if you wanted to do some testing id be happy to do some on my pc at stock settings, its a p4 with rambus.

SHS ive got both amd and intel systems, 3dmark 2000 works better with the athlon and 2001 works better with the p4s. Just my personal experience from actually using them though, im sure others will get different results. Bit of a silly argument really, its your money and you can buy whatever you want with it. I can understand sdr over rambus but sdr over ddr seems well.....stupid. Suppose you do get to keep your existing ram though and as long as your happy with it

Wish i had a really really bad computer that i could upgrade and actually see a performance difference.

Try running some real games and check the fps, something that isnt 3dmark 2001, it seems to worship intel. I dont see how a 1.6 p4 can be better than a 1.4athlon (speed wise) when using sdr ram.

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I had it working but it would always drop back to desktop eventually authough some ppl see to have had it working fine. The only thing i found that actually seemed to affect it was lowering the DX sound acceleration as OLEerror suggested

Try taking out everything but the bare essentials and then reinstall, see if it works then

not married .....yet

Knowing rambus your gonna need to sell you house, car and mum to afford it.

hey im only saying sdram is a bad choice for the p4, you seem to be saying that its better than rambus performance wise, which is just not true.

SHS sorry, your just wrong in this case, rdram is just so much better for the p4 than SDR ram, ddr is another story though.

hmmm rambus kills the performance of the p4? never heard that before, and seeing as ive got 1 i can tell you that its far from slow. Dosfreak as far as i know your right about that rdram out performing ddr at a certain speed thing. Its shown on tomshardware, where a 2.6/rambus beats a 3.0/ddr SHS maybe you should go look at some comparasons of sdr/rambus and look at the difference. Sorry if ive mis-understood your post and taken it totally the wrong way

I think you should give abit another chance They certainly dont warrant and anti-abit 'coalition'

Ive had that error only once before, on a friends via system, was caused by the power supply not being enough for the system.

3 words Dont...do....it It will run fine and as stable as an 845 ddr board but you will totally kill the p4 running it with sdr.

Well just bought a gainward gf4-4400 with TV-IN Think that should do the job using the composite out. The ps2 can have composite out but has really bad quality when its in use. I dont think it can use S-Video but it can use scart i need a cap card with rgb in really.

Anyone know of any card that could take a signal from a ps2? Always wanted to stick it threw video in.

Basically, no matter how large a swap file you have its never going to be as fast and as 'instant' as more memory Just get at least 512 and you should see a big difference in things like returning to the desktop.

Lock -> Ctrl+Alt+Del then push enter. The computer is then locked. You do not have to put the password in to LOCK the computer What Admiral said sounds right, it does sound like you are locking and then unlocking without realising it.

Yup, TV cards always seem to have bits in the manual saying something like "this card has problems with via chipsets...etc". Tis a shame really because its at the stage where i wont build amd systems for anyone any more because they are such a pain to support if they run into problems and its really not worth the time any more. Ill just get them to spend a bit more and have no problems later

Well...i could do you shots of the box, the cd cover, the holographic cd...even the cdkey, authough i could blank it out. But your obviously not worth the time. Ive had this problem with XP since i started using it back when it was RC1, same prob with RC2 and same prob with the final retail version. Im not gonna start trading insults with you, i just dont like being accused of things like that when i had to go out and actually spend £160 to buy the thing.

heh, loser would you like a picture of my legit copy of xp?