Posts by Princess Garnet

If this is for an HTPC and you have no specific, demanding needs, then go with a Core i3 and a lesser GPU. You're shooting yourself in the foot by getting higher end parts for that because there's more cost, more power use, more heat...

That motherboard doesn't make it appear so. With stock cooling, you will be limited, but you may be able to get to 3.6GHz, give or take.

Quote:Originally Posted by Feild Scarecrow He has a wireless adaptor as well I would like to connect directly to his computer with Ethernet but maintain my wireless connection as of now I need to disconnect from the internet.You...

Even if it wasn't all, I'm glad you recovered them!

So you mean like Internet Connection Sharing? I know you said you tried, but Google turns up plenty of guides.

Try something like Recuva. If it's not been overwritten, yes, there's a chance you can get some (or all). Any disk writes at all can overwrite a small part of them, so act sooner rather than later!

From one of the comments, it's a GeForce GT 640 with GDDR5 (instead of DDR3) memory? At that rate, might it not even compete with the GeForce GTX 550 Ti!? Edit: Beaten to it by seconds...

Quote:Originally Posted by lacrossewacker i wouldn't mind if it was 4-8 gigs of GOOD ram, maybe 1600mhz ddr3, and have another 4 of cheap ddr2 ram for the TV usage and background featuresI thought DDR2 RAM is more expensive in cost...

To give an idea (of what the others are saying), I had a Core 2 PC that had a Core 2 Duo E8600, 8GB RAM, and a GeForce GTX 560 Ti. Just for fun, I wanted to overclock an old Pentium 4 I came across. It was one of the better ones, a...

Minecraft can be heavy on memory. The only time I've seen the "out of memory" error with Minecraft was once (I haven't been playing longer than a couple months at most though). It was after a long session, and when I quit back to the...