A GTX 285 is perfect for DX8/9. Since XP doesn't have DX10 support. Better to find one new, because they run hot. Solder breaks down on high hour cards. I went with a GTX 650ti with a Q9650, 8GB DDR2 800 and XP 64 bit. It runs DX9 perfect. Dont use DX8 on this card, but im shure it would work fine. …

Bootit flipped it! Thanks. If it works on a Kingston ultimate it should work on alot of CF or SD cards. I also have a sata multi card reader. I'll have to install it and see how a micro SD card preforms.

Windows WILL NOT install on removable media the MBR needs to be in a fixed disk drive. I gave up awhile ago with Kingston ultimate 266x 32GB cards. Tried scandisk ATCHWFG. That didn't work. Got an Addonics IDE CF adapter pro which has a bridge chip to force a CF as bootable and still impossible. By …

Don't know if this was discussed before. But what is a good 40GB CF card that is cheap and is Fixed Disk without Windows or Linux detecting it as removable media? Non fixed are next to impossible to get in Fixed Disk I read somewhere.

The HD 4770 was the last/fastest agp card to be released from ATi The 4670 AGP was the last. Second to last is the 3850 AGP. Although the 3850 is a bit faster in some cases. These cards are getting rare and will probably be very hard to find or expensive in five years. I have a both and they are …

CardBus only supports WPA-PSK at the highest. WPA2 isn't supported good in win98. It is backwards compatible and will connect to a WPA2 router. It can and will slow down a mixed router if every other device is using N. You could get an old G router and patch it to your main router so N can do its …

Netgear WPN511 works with WPA on Windows 98SE. Although it may slow down your wireless network if everything else is using N. If the laptop doesn't travel It may be better to get a used wireless router and connect it as a client and use the Ethernet.

DTS connect will work on digital output. No thanks. These cards work best for their analog outputs. There is trickery when connecting an analog 7.1 receiver with RCA jacks. You need two 4-pole 3.5mm to RCA adapters and one 3-pole RCA adapter. The side channels have a reversed polarity. So you will …

So after much studying. I came to the conclusion that the X-gamer board is the best layout in the PCI roundup. It is also the same board used in the Champion series. Only the EEPROM is flashed diffrent. It still baffles me that the FPS version has 64MB RAM when it looks like it has one RAM chip. If …

Why did creative disable Dolby and DTS on the 2nd gen SB046A? Copyright protection? Or Is it just not needed anymore since current players can decode both. Also on the x gamer there are two (RAM chips?) compared to one on the SB0466 fatal1ty. Why is that? Could the EEPROM be flashed with the two …

Here are pics of the cards I am choosing.

Has anyone had a creative Fatal1ty fps? And what issues they had with it. The Fatal1ty x-gamer is supposed to be the latest and greatest of the x-fi PCI legacy with all the quirks ironed out. Or am I wrong and the FPS is superior. The X-gamer looks to have a revised board and both have 64 MB RAM. My …