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I've been toying around with the idea of upgrading my current video card or just building a new system. The performance I get currently is acceptable, but wondering if I'd see much improvement on the gaming side if I were to upgrade. Below is the current hardware. I don't have a preference on...

Currently have a system with a Radeon HD5770. Looking into getting a second card that's compatible to enable crossfire on my Asrock M3A770DE. The current card is discontinued and I can get refurbished ones around $100 when googling. Any suggestions on if I should get the same one refurbished...

I have a system running with just 1 SATA WD5000AAKS drive and a DVD burner on the first two SATA channels. I had an old dish network DVR that couldn't be activated, but it had a 500GB WD5000AAJS hard drive in it. So I yanked it out and plugged it into my box with no connection issues on the...

Just wondering if anyone has had any experiences with an external HDD enclosure with ethernet to create a NAS solution they can share. I've been looking around and came across this little enclosure that looks pretty nifty, but there's not a manufacturer name attached to it. Thinking about...

I just recently changed my ISP to Surewest since they're running fiber straight to the house so now my upstream speed is matching my downstream speed. When they installed it I dug up my old Linksys WRT54G v5.0 router to configure my network. I previously had AT&T Uverse and just used the...

Ok, I've finally built my first new rig in about 10 years so I'm a bit rusty. :) When I power it on I don't get a screen or hear any of the normal pc speaker beeps. All of my fans are getting power including the video card via the pci-e power cable. The onboard LAN LEDs light up so I know...

Ok, so I'm building a new rig for the first time in 10 years and I'm totally out of the market. My Athlon XP 1700+ with Geforce 6200 is a little old to say the least. Going through newegg this is the build I've come up with so far: AMD Athlon II X4 630 2.8GHz Asrock M3A770DE Mobo 2GB DDR3...

Ok, I'm finally building a new PC for the first time in about 10 years. My Athlon XP 1700+ is a little old. :) So I'm totally out of it when it comes to the CPU race any more. Looking at newegg I decided to get a quad core CPU. I'm going with AMD mainly due to budget constraints but have...

I've got this old Geforce FX5200 card where the GPU fan has died. It's the NVG34AM model from Prolink, Prolink NVG34AM. I was able to get the fan off the GPU, but I'm not sure how to measure to find a replacement. It's set up as a 2 piece configuration. There's the bottom part which acts as...

Ok, I bought a Dell Geforce FX5200 video card off eBay to use in an older rig I want to hook up to my HDTV via its VGA port. Didn't realize the card only had a single DMS-59 output on it. Would I be able to just use a standard DVI to VGA adapter or will I need a DMS-59 specific adapter? Or...

I'm looking at getting the MSI K9N4 SLI-F AM2 NVIDIA nForce 500 SLI to go with an Athlon 64 X2 6000+ Windsor CPU. When I go to the MSI website to see if the latest BIOS revision supports that processor this is what they show. CPU FSB Ratio Result...

Looked into putting together a new system and this is what I've come up with. I'd appreciate it if anyone can let me know their experience if they own any of these components. Thanks AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ Windsor 3.0GHz ABIT AN9 32X AM2 NVIDIA nForce 590 SLI MCP/SPP 190 XFX PVT80GGHF4...

Getting ready to build a new rig and I have no idea what size power supply is needed. Below are the components I've decided upon. Need some suggestions. Thanks AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ Windsor 3.0GHz ABIT AN9 32X AM2 NVIDIA nForce 590 SLI MCP/SPP 190 XFX PVT80GGHF4 GeForce 8800GTS 320MB...

Getting ready to build a new rig. It'll be mostly for gaming. Trying to figure out if the 8800 justifies the extra cash over the 8600 series. Anyone have any suggestions?

Ok, I'm finally looking to build a new rig for the first time in about 5 years. I'm definitely going the dual core route. Just not sure which model is best choice. It'll be mostly a heavy gaming rig with some DVD burning. Possibility of running Vista too. Not sure what the real strengths of...

Hey all, I've been out of the hardware world for a long time. Getting time to upgrade my Asus A7V266 (I think) & Athlon XP 2700. I remember when the nForce chipsets came out some were rated the highest for gaming. The new rig will be used for a good deal of gaming. Looking forward to...

It's finally time to upgrade from my old palomino. Figure I might as well go dual core now. I've been out of the loop on processors for a while and I'm a bit confused. From what I can tell the Opteron & Athlon64 FX2 series are the dual core chips. Anyone have any recommendations of one over...

Looking for a good Mobo to go with my Geforce 6800 AGP. My aging Asus A7V266 is just gettin a little too old for games. I'd really like to get an Nforce board, but it looks like the newer ones are PCI-e only. Any suggestions are appreciated.

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I've been out of the cpu loop for a while. Lookin to upgrade my system from the good old athlon xp 1700+. I'm pretty overwhelmed with all the different processors available, sempron, opteron, athlon 64x2. I'm kinda building around my geforce 6800. The system is mainly used for gaming & dvd...

Looking for a mobo recommendation. Just want to upgrade mobo & cpu and work around my Geforce 6800. I mostly do gaming and DVD ripping on this pc. Can anyone recommend a well rounded mobo, preferably Athlon 64 model. Doesn't have to be top of the line. Don't want an Asus board as I've had...

I've got an Asus A7V266 mobo with 1 bad stick of 512MB PC2100. I think this was Hyndai brand when I put the system together a couple years ago. Can someone recommend a good brand to replace it with? I do quite a bit of gaming on this system. I'd like to move up to 1GB of memory whether it be...

Ok, I put together a system and now it keeps shutting down on me after being up for less than a minute. The specs are: Asus A7V8X-MX SE Athlon XP 2600+ 512MB PC2700 DDR ATI Radeon 9600 I had this same problem a couple months ago when I first put it together, but I got a new cpu and that...

I'm pretty much a noob to the HTPC scene. I've got the system built, but have some questions about displaying output to the TV. I put a radeon 9600 in the system, but the TV & receiver I have only have RCA connections. I bought an s-video to rca cable and I know that using a TV as a display...

Does anyone know if flashing the BIOS with a different version for the same model will work? Everest says I have a Tyan Thunderbolt but I still can't install windows. I'm wondering if it'll work if I flash the BIOS for a different version, but the same chipset?

I've got an Asus A7V266 that currently has a 1700+ in it. I'm putting together an HTPC system and got a 2600+ for it and decided to just swap cpu's since I could use the 2600+ for gaming. When I popped the 2600+ in my A7V266 it keeps detecting it as a 2000+. I can't find any options in the...

Ok, I've got a Geforce FX 5200 that's been a temporary solution in my brother's pc until I can get a better one for him. It's been in there for a few weeks now, but all of a sudden last windows keeps saying the device isn't conigured correctly. I've downloaded the latest 61.76 drivers and...

I'm swapping the cpu with another system I have. Currently, it has a 1700+ and I'll be putting a 2600+ in there. I was going through the manual again and noticed a set of jumpers for frequency differences between standard athlon/duron processors and the palominos. I thought my 1700+ is a...

I've decided to swap CPU's between two systems I have. I'd like to take an Athlon XP 2600+ and swap it with my 1700+ that's currently in the A7v266 mobo. Should I have to make any changes in windows or the bios before I do this?

I'm having a problem with win 2k not seeing a compatible partition on an IBM SCSI DDYS-T36950N hdd, even though I can go into the recovery console and format it as either NTFS or FAT32. It's in a fiery server that I want to convert from NT to 2K. Another person says they may have locked the...

Ok, I've got a dual P3 700 at work that we really can't use in it's current state at work. It's a fiery tower that was meant to be a print server from EFI. They won't even support the hardware on their website. It's got a Tyan Thunderbolt mainboard in it. They used their proprietary BIOS...

Does anyone know if there's a site that has specific info on what BIOS settings to use if you wanna OC? I've got an Asus A7V266 with with a 1700+ processor. I've been playing with the multiplier, but haven't been able to get far. Either it shows no difference or Windows crashes when it boots...

Dumb question here, but an Athlon XP with a 333 FSB will run in board that only has a 266 FSB right?

Has anyone ever tried running 2 sticks of DDR that have different speeds? From what I understand, it's theoretically possible. I've got 1 stick of 512MB PC2100 currently and want to add another 512 stick. Could I just buy a stick of PC2700 and pop it in to run at 266Mhz? My main board is the...

Does anyone have any experience or preference on video card manufacturers? I've decided to upgrade to the Geforce 6800 128MB. I've found PNY's card to be the cheapest at $280.00 and eVGA's at $300.00. The PNY card is from www.gameve.com and the eVGA is straight from eVGA. Anyone have any...

Ok, I've decided it's time to upgrade from my old GeForce3 Ti200. I just wanna be able to play games with good performance. Max resolution I ever go to is 1024x768. I was looking at the Radeon line, but my brother put a 9600 in his PC and had nothing but problems with it. I'd rather not...

I've recently gotten very interested in HTPCs, but the tv & home theater system I have is ancient. Does anyone recommend particular hardware/software for tv's & receivers that only use composite connections? It'd be mainly used for recording movies/shows as an alternative to VHS.

I wish I had found this forum when I ordered the parts a couple months ago. I need some comments/suggestions for mainly getting the video to my tv for stuff I record, but don't wanna burn to DVD. Here's my setup: Athlon XP2600+ Asus A7V8X-MX SE 512MB ram 160GB Samsung hard drive ATI...

I'm upgrading my mom's old P2 400 so she'll be able to to more stuff she wants like photo editing, movies, and a little bit of gaming. Only things I need to upgrade are mobo, cpu, & ram. It's definitely gonna be an AthlonXP system and I've been looking around. The two mobos that caught my eye...