It's busy season her - I've spent most of the past few weeks in the Grand Canyon - so no computer time.
BSOD was the result of a bad stick of RAM. Newegg RMA'd that RAM. I lucked out and scored a set of G. Skill CL7 for $69 on one of those Newegg 3 hour killer deal sales! It's sitting at home waiting to be... Read More...
-Not sure on OS. I have a copy of XP on disc I installed on a machine about 10 years ago. Dad "thinks" he has a copy of Vista somewhere...
-I have a at least 2 keyboard/mouse setups I'll be willing to donate, so were covered there. The earpiece/mic I use for... Read More...
Thanks again for such an awesome site! I recently completed a build based on the $550 BudgetCore system, and it's simply fantastic! I'm REALLY pleased with the performance to cost of this machine! I'll post up re that build soon.
What I'd like to do now is build a bare bones system to run... Read More...
So I assembled all the parts for the $550 Budget Core machine, with a few substitutions (marked with * below), loaded Win 7, but when i try to update windows, I get blue screens. After a several hours of dealing with it, it was locked in a boot>BSOD>shutdown loop, so I pulled the HDD, erased partitions and reformatted it.
These guys are criminal. They sell USED and/or PULLED equipment without disclosing the fact up front!
I received a motherboard from them sans manufacturer packaging - shipped in a plain cardboard box. The unit was missing EVERYTHING - no I/O shield (after I complained to PayPal they added this to Read more...
FF come out only on really extreme days ~ 10% of the time max. Most of the double-black runs I've done in the past several years have not been planned, i.e. I grunt after my buddies for three hours of brutal climbing - they're on their 25lb hardtails Read more...
I'm SO happy to see this build! Thanks guys for a GREAT looking machine!
My question is in regard to the MoBo. The one suggested is: Asus M4A87TD EVO. I found the ASUS M4A89GTD PRO/USB3 for $10 more. Would there be any reason to get one over the other? I may add a second 6870 at a later date, if that matters. This machine will b Read more...