Recent content by mrjohnstrange

The PSU is by Xilence. It seems that the problem was my motherboard bios, I tracked down an update (latest version from 2005 haha) and that seems to have mostly fixed things. I have been able to play through The Witcher demo with no issues (before it would lockup or restart the computer within...

Calm down man. The card is new so if it's bad I can send it back, no worries there. The PSU is 480W and has 35A on +12v. I believe ATI recommend a 450W & 30A. Other than the x1950 all that's connected to my PSU is the mobo/cpu/ram, a harddrive and a dvd drive. I'll get it tested in another...

The x1950 pro was about 1/3 of the price and is probably being held back by my cpu anyway.

I went for 2GB and a x1950pro. The difference is like night and day. Games that I wouldn't even think about running before work brilliantly, I don't have many newer games but on things like Quake 4 I can turn everything right up and the system doesn't seem bothered at all. Tried out the...

I have an old PC that has an Athlon64 3200+, 512mb PC3200 and a Geforce FX5950. The motherboard doesn't have any PCI-E slots. I really don't use it enough to justify spending a lot of money on a real upgrade but would like to try out a few newer and upcoming games like Stalker, Fallout 3...