You have got to get a better processor...an E8400 or something would be perfect.

My G25 works perfectly with Windows 7, yours should too.

Install the correct drivers for it, and it should work fine. Use google to search for them.

If you connect your computer directly to the modem, is the speed faster?

Phenom I CPUs and some Athlon X2 CPUs are AM2+

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L ... MD_Phenom_microprocessors

Athlon 64 X2 are AM2

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L ... Athlon_64_microprocessors

And Phenom II CPUs (except for 2 of them) are AM3 (as well as Athlon II CPUs, which are also based on the Phenom II core)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L ... ocessors#Phenom_II_series

Keep in mind that tigerdirect.com is the American website and the prices are in USD. Check tigerdirect.ca for Canadian prices. Or better yet use canadacomputers.com because they have much lower prices than tiger. Tiger is known to have the highest prices.

I've had that happen before, where it would only show the percentage, but it turned out that Windows needed a lot of time to calculate the time remaining, and it would show the time remaining a couple minutes later.

This is not a bug per se, but there's something I don't like about the way signatures are handled. Here's my issue: I didn't have a signature for a while, and all the posts I made during that time didn't show a signature (which makes sense), but when I finally added a signature again, the posts which I made when I had no signature still don't show a signature. I figured out that there's a checkbox "Show signature" for each post which would need to be checked in order to show my signature in those particular posts. However, I don't wanna edit ALL those posts just to get a signature to show up. So, is it possible to force all posts to show my signature? Can we get some sort of global setting for that?

I say you go for the E8400, it's better than both of those CPUs you listed.

Did you do a clean install of LFS? Try doing it again just in case.

Wow I hadn't noticed it's not a dual core. Wow...what a piece of shit cpu, it's even worse than I thought. Why does it have D in the name then? Wow...

Ummm actually they're not different at all, they are the same. Celeron D is a dual-core Celeron. They can rebrand them all they want, a Celeron will always be a Celeron. The D356 has 0.5 MB of cache, which is a pathetic amount, barely enough to run a decent game. My Core 2 Duo E8400 has 6MB of cache, and 3GHz clock speed, and is a much much faster cpu. Clock speed is meaningless if the cpu is continually retrieving instructions from memory (rather than from the [much faster] cache) because the cache is too small to store the most frequently used instructions, thus that 3.33 GHz spends most of it's time waiting (sleeping). Put in a real cpu in your system and you will notice a huge improvement.

lol celeron is garbage, clock speed is not the only important thing. celeron has a very small amount of cache, which severely limits it's performance. ANYTHING is better than a celeron. so yea, it's your cpu that's limiting your computer, not your video card. if you should upgrade anything, it should be your cpu.

Neither of those cards are worth getting. 3850 or 4650 are the only options worth getting for the AGP bus. And even then it's a waste, cause the CPU will probably bottleneck your system anyway. So it's not even worth upgrading.

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The motherboard isn't designed to support a 125w cpu. Simple as that.

I think this is indeed the problem. Strangely enough, it supports the 89W version of the Athlon 6000, but it doesn't say anywhere it supports a 125W CPU, so it's not guaranteed to operate at it's full potential if one is installed. Which is what's happening in this case. Bad luck I guess.

Quote from FaFaDOD :

they are too clean imo, add scratches, dust or something.

+1 I totally agree, they are too plain, they need a worn-out sort of look, or just ANY sort of bumpy texture to make them look more real. Cause right now they look like a Word document, not like advertisements.

Bawbag, what CPU did you have before that gave you higher frame rates?

You should've made a post here a few weeks ago.

WAIT! AMD is releasing their new 890FX and 890GX chipsets around this month, and new motherboards are coming out around the same time. Unless you absolutely need a computer today, wait for the new boards to come out.

I think you should get a motherboard with a P45 chipset instead of the current one with a P35 chipset. That's the only change I would make to that system.

Corolla. Very reliable, very good fuel economy, and enough power. I've had one for 10 years and to this day it's never let me down or needed any expensive repairs. I still drive it every day.

The most annoying thing for me is when people make duplicate threads.

lol the Y2K bug surfaced again, hasn't it? guess we can call it the Y2K10 bug now

Stay away from Thinkpad T42 or T43, they are garbage laptops. Pentium M at best, old and slow technology.

We'll all probably end up paying it, cause I mean who doesn't wanna have cable TV? It's obviously stupid, we already pay 13% sales tax here in Ontario (on everything we buy, including cable TV service), so why the hell do we have to pay another tax on top of that? It's ridiculous! And especially since they don't even need the extra money! This is just pure greed on the part of cable TV companies! I for one am not a happy customer. But what am I supposed to do? I want cable TV service.