Recent content by Haywire Lycanthrope

I'm currently working towards upgrading from a system that is quite similar to this. Here's what I'm going for as a general comparison (your mileage/pricing may vary) Sempron 2400 mated to a Gigabyte 7vm400amf motherboard (all together about 170 cdn dollars) 256mb pc 3200 ram(if I...

Hey, is it generally supposed to be not the easiest thing ever locking a heat sink into place?

Oh no, I'm far too much of a newbie to jack around with that stuff yet.

Cool, I actually understood what you're talking about there hehe. Great thread. I'm going to leave it as is right now. I'll practice putting arctic silver on my friend's proc for the system I'm building her. + reputation for all.

So the jist of it is that I don't necessarily need to mess around with gooping up my proc if it's going to be getting relatively cpu light usage? To break it in, I'd basically just use it as normal?

I knew that you need something there, and there is actually a pad on the hs where it would mate up with the cpu. This must be a stock thermal interface? Thank you for the link.

Right, so the time has come for me to cross over into the dark and gloomy realm of self sufficiency that is home building computers. It just so happens that it's also time for me to retire my Via C3 733 mhz processor, passing it on to someone else for a school computer(I will miss it though...

Yeah, sorry. I do know that AGP would be the way to go here, but I do not have agp support. The problem resides more in playing things like windows media video or avi's, files like that. DVD's usually don't give me a ton of problems, but for some reason I just can't get smooth playback on...

Ok, so I've got this gimped out comp (735mhz, 384mb pc 100) and I want to be able to properly play movie files and dvd on it. Problem is, it seems to enjoy taunting me by playing the video but being fairly choppy and lousy about it(btw, that 735 is a VIA C3 proc that benchmarks on the level of a...

Techtronics has never done me wrong. I would think it's a typo except it's been listed on the last 4 fliers in a row.

This is what I figured but on this other discussion about i saw while googling, there were some people there talking about a board and duron that were put together heavily modified as a one off for a 'built' system. I think I'm gonna call the store today and see what they say about it. Just...

Ok, so I was looking at the http://techtronics.ca/ site today, and on the top left of the computers listed there, I see an add for a nice little $300 machine. A machine that is based on a Duron pro 2800+. Now, i'm not an expert or anything close to it, but does this processor even exist? I did...