Recent content by MrDowntempo

Is it possible to run the machine with no dedicated graphics, and the iGPU turned off if you're only accessing it remotely? I'm not sure if any BIOS supports that? Getting a used dirt cheap GPU like Wyodiver says though would be an option too. I'd be curious to see if using a gpu would lower the...

First off, here is my build: https://pcpartpicker.com/user/MrDowntempo/saved/vMhsJx It's functionally complete and up and running right now. But there's still a few minor things to do and one big issue. Cable management isn't done well yet either, but only because I know I'm going to have to...

I just got my 120g Sata III SSD installed and it's running great. I currently have everything installed on it, meaning windows 7 and all my programs. (I've got a BSD NAS system I'm working on to store all my data). 120g though isn't enough room to install all my games, hell it's not enough to...

hmmm the Intel one does look pretty damn good. Anandtech gave it a big thumbs up too, and newegg has a good price for it. Not only that but they throw in the new Total War! We may have a winner.

I have a P6X58D Premium mobo. Love it. I was running off an old HDD and planned to continue doing so until I could get an SATA III SSD. Well the HDD finally crapped out. I'm reinstalled on a small 32gb SSD I had laying around empty, but its nothing fancy and its already basically full of course...

ಠ_ಠ I do not live in a world where UPS battery backups are a disposable items. I don't need a setup so stable I can run a CS server during the zombie apocalypse. I just want to be able to save my game/files and shut down when the power goes out.

I just ordered a Frost tactile too! I will stop eating by my keyboard as soon as it gets here. In the meantime OM NOM NOM NOM.

What good is the 6 minutes a battery backup provides you to save your data if you can't see your data on a screen to save it?

Oh well. Not really interested in it for games. I just wanna minority report my chrome browser =)

Lots of good stuff to go through here, thanks! Also, I forgot that half my battery backup is a surge protector and half is battery backup. So looking at it again I see only the monitor, PC, and router were plugged into the battery backup side. (speakers, inkjet printer, external HDD and...

This is the one I have. My system is an 920 i7 with a 5870 and a buncha fans and a couple of HDDs. Also have the monitor, printer, router, and speakers plugged into it. Cable Modem is actually elsewhere, I admit I'm calling it names in frustration and it probably is underpowered. Still I can't...

My PC (which uses a 1000watt corsair PSU) and all it's accoutrement is hooked up into a battery backup. Some days everything works fine, some days the backup shuts off the system. (the opposite of what it's supposed to be doing). The backup beeps and the system shuts down and everything else in...

It's awesome how MS left the kinect open for PC modders, we've all seen the bids people have made of it being used to throw virtual fireballs etc. But has anyone nodded it to be useful on the PC yet? Could it make a viable HTPC controller? Can it be used as a standard webcam to make skype calls...

Nope, don't live next to any fry's down here in Floriduh ಠ_ಠ. Amen brother.

After taking another look at my case, i realized a single slot card is my only option. I haven't been able to find any single slot GTS250s do they exist? I know galaxy has made a single slot 260, but they're ultra rare and expensive if you can find one. I'd really like to spend less than $100...