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Hi all, i currently have a Audigy 4 running on XP 32bit working great im ready to make the jump to vista 64, i have another 2GB of ram on order to bring me to 4GB of ram total, so im looking for a sound card that works well with vista, i have heard all the horror stories of older creative cards...

Im looking to upgrade to a 8800GT, right now my board is a Intel 975xbx motherboard with a 975x chipset, i am having a hard time finding out what version of PCI-E is on this board, is there anyway i can find out? I want to make sure if i order a 8800GT that it will actually work in the board :)...

I am thinking of getting a HT Omega Claro to replace my older Audigy 4, since Vista drivers arnt too hot for creative im looking elsewhere. My question is, for the time being i want to keep my XP install on my second hard drive, i have a bare min install of the creative drivers (just the...

Hello everyone i have a Evga 7900GT KO right now and its been serving me well for awhile now, i have been thinking of getting a 8800GTS or perhaps waiting to see what Nvidia has comming later this year, but before i get too excited i have to ask, will one of these beasts fit in my case? I have...

I currently have a Enermax liberty 500W PSU that i bought for this new machine i built in Sept of this year, im currently running Core 2 Duo E6700 2Gb OCZ DDR2 800 1 x 320Gb Seagate 7200.10 SATA 2 Drive 1 Optical Drive Sound Blaster Audigy 4 Geforce 7900GT Not much is gonna change...

Im thinking about moving from a 7900GT to a 8800GTS in the coming months, and i just thought i would post here asking those who have done it if there are any driver issues i should be aware of? I planned to uninstall my current forceware drivers, shutdown my pc, remove old card, put in new card...

I have a pair of 1GB OCZ Gold EL PC2-6400 (DDR2-800) modules that are acting funny in my bad axe, last nights i kept getting reboots in BF2, so i started running memtest, got a bunch of errors so took the ram out and reseated it as swapped module positions, (left to right, right to left) after...

So i just built a new core 2 system, i installed sisandra to take a look around afterwords and it reports my SATA drive as being a slave? Whats up with this and is it a bad thing i should be trying to fix? Thanks

Just got my core 2 system up and running yesterday, E6700 at stock settings on a stock heatsink, between installing drivers and windows updates i poped open core temp and it reported a temp of 48C, the system wasnt idle but wasnt under a very heavy load, ive seen people report 38C but thats with...

Hey guys, my core 2 retail just shipped and i thought i would ask a quick question about thermal compounds. I have some OCZ Ultra paste left over form a AMD build, would i be better off using that then whatever comes on the stock HSF? How big a difference is it? Next if i should clean that gunk...

Im a bit confused these days with power requirements, ive been putting togeather a Core 2 Duo systema and i planned to get a Evga 7900 GT KO to go with the system, Evga recomends a PSU with 20A on the 12V rail. I was looking at the Antec Neo HE 550 but realized it only had 18A on 12V. I thought...

So im planning on putting togeather a new system in the next month or so, here is what i have picked out so far: Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 Intel 975x Bad Axe rev 304 OCZ Gold EL PC2-6400 2GB 2X1GB DDR2-800 CL5-5-5-10 Evga Geforce 7900GT KO (Might be a 7600 and wait for Dx10 cards) Seagate...

About to start ordering parts for my new conroe system, before i do i thought i post and see what you guys think :) Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 Intel 975x Bad Axe rev 304 OCZ Gold EL PC2-6400 2GB 2X1GB DDR2-800 CL5-5-5-10 Evga Geforce 7900GT KO Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB SATA2 Enermax...

Ive been looking into building a new PC (Conroe) and i have what might be a silly question about PCI-E. When putting it togeather will i plug and external connector onto the video card (Like my current AGP system) or do newer mobos have an extra molex on the mobo itself to give extra power to...

So i have always had a legit copy of XP on all my boxes, yesterday i ran windows update and noticed a new update for WGA, i was forced to install it before i could procede to check for updates, no problem i have a legit key. So everything went fine, today i start up my PC, and i notice...

I am looking to upgrade my mini pc, the case is an Antec Aria and im basically using it as a mobile box/media pc. It currently is a old 800Mhz Duron but i seen this on Tiger Direct the other day: http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1778746&Sku=MCM-GVHZL-345...

What does everyone think of this upcomming Yonah (Core Duo) desktop board? It looks VERY interesting to me Crossfire/SLI I975x chipset :D Some info: http://www.vr-zone.com/?i=3086 Detailed specs: http://www2.hardwareversand.de/7VGMoJTnElIt4S/1/articledetail.jsp?aid=6636&agid=539&ref=105...

Im putting togeather a new system in the next few months, the mobo im looking at has a Realtek ALC880 built in, by doing some searching ive discovered its actually pretty good. Ive also heard some really good things about Maudio as well. Then there is of course creative labs cards, basically...

Im thinking of putting a new system togeather in the new year and it seems intel is comming out with new CPUs around this time too, which is good. Problem is that im having trouble choosing which route to go... Yonah looks to be one sweet processor, current P-m cpus keep with with some of...

My old 3.06B (533fsb) Northwood is starting to look a little long in the tooth so im in the early planning stages of my next system, I am kinda out of the loop here but I threw this togeather quickly on Ncix.com (Canadian online computer store), the stores policy is that they assemble it for you...

I am looking to buy a VIEWSONIC VP171B pannel, i have been researching it and it seems to be a really nice model. One thing that confuses me is the responce time, some sites call it a 16ms moniter, others call it a 8, i heard there were two versions, i assume the VIEWSONIC VP171B is the...

I have always used CRT's on my computers but now i am finally going to give LCD a try, i am looking for a 17 to 19 inch moniter to replace the puny 15inch i currently have running on my linux box. If i like this moniter i will probably get another to replace my current CRT on my main Rig. I...

I am about to take the A+ cert test next week, i have been taking a class at my school to prepare for it and i have been using Exam Cram books. Recently i found these sample questions on CompTia's website: http://www.comptia.org/certification/a/samplequestions.aspx I was wondering if those...

Alright in the winter of 2004 i did some updates to my current "main rig" its specs are as follows: P4 3.06Ghz 533FSB 512k L2 cache Asus P4PE Motherboard Corsair 1Gb pc2700 Evga Geforce 6800nu 120Gb WD 8mb cache I play Hl2/CS source at 60+ FPS with everything on high with 4xaa and...

Half life 2 is too dark for me, it is too hard to see what is going on, i have the Brightness slider maxed and it is still too dark, is there a way i can make the game even brighter though a config file or something? I really wanna play this game. Thanks

I have been using NoD 32 for about a month now and i notice that it is amazingly fast at scanning files, but i also notice a problem, on my USB jump drive, windows reports 399 files, when i scan the drive with NoD 32 it only says 96 files were scanned, in the advanced tab i have everything but...

Here are my system specs:: P4 2.0ghz 400 FSB P4PE 533 fsb 512mb ddr pc2700 120Gb hard drive Evga geforce 6800 vanilla 128mb Just ran 3dmark03 on a fresh install and scored a 7785, i plan to get a 3ghz 533 p4 and another 512mb of ram to keep my video card from being held back but is this a...

I have a Asus P4PE mobo with a I845PE chipset, i was wondering if Intel Application Accelerator is at all useful? Does it have any clear preformance increases? This could be a really stupid question but i am setting up my dads pc again and dont really know what to make of it. I read on intels...

I just ordered a Evga Geforce 6800 (yay) and a bigger hard drive and power supply. Right now my specs are: P4 2.0ghz northwood Asus P4PE Asus Geforce 4 Ti4200 64mb 512 Pc 2700 40 Gb Maxtor 2mb cache 56k After the upgrades i will have P4 2.0ghz northwood Asus P4PE Evga Geforce...

Anyone have any problems running a 6800 in a Asus P4PE 533 fsb mobo? Heard some stuff over at the Evga forums and now im worried :(

I start college sept 1st and am getting ready to do my upgrades, right now i have: P4 2ghz Nrothwood 512k 400 FSB Asus P4PE 533 FSB 512 PC2700 DDR 40 Gb Maxtor 2mb Geforce 4 Ti 4200 64mb Now i plan to upgrade my video card to a Geforce 6800 non ultra, and up the hard drive to a 120gb...

I seen on the sp2 compatibility list that Nero 6 doesnt work with XP, i would assume 5.5 would be SOL too, has anyone had any problems with it so far?

I have a linksys router and Mcafee 7, i am going to move ot Nod32 for my AV software, now i like to play games online for a firewall i was thinking zone alarm, but how gamer friendly is it? What do you hard core gamers use? thanks

When i order my Evga 6800 128 Mb card it will be my first time installing one of these new cards that require extra power (I have installed over cards like geforce 2's 4's before) Now i have a Sunpower 420 Watt PSU (lesser known brand but not completly generic) now it is my understanding that i...

Been shopping for a new software firewall, and in the past these forums have always been very helpful, i was going to purchase zone alarm pro 5 but i have been wared that version 5 is very buggy and that i would be better off with something else, i have been looking at Kerio firewall...

I am looking to oder a Geforce 6800 Video card, not the GT or Ultra (cant afford those right now) i want to be able to play Tribes Vengence for sure and probably a little Doom 3 and HL2 and other FPS. Do you think this card will be able to hold out at decent frame rates? Also should i get the...

Im planning some major upgrades(hard drive, processor, and video card), now because of this i am not getting the best from each catagory, and i was wondering, how come i see no talk about the regular 6800 on ultra? I cant seem to find any benchmarks, i found a eVGA 6800 NU for 287, this is alot...

I have been considering a new AV program and i have heard good things on these forums about NoD32, i have also heard good things from people about F-prot, these are the two that i have seen so far that look the best, i plan to use them in combonation with Zone Alarm Pro on my XP rig. I play...

I currently have a P4 2.0Ghz Northwood 512Cache 400Mhz FSB, 512 DDR Pc7200, Asus P4PE 533FSB mobo, and a Geforce 4 TI 4200. I am getting ready to preform some upgrades to this thing. (Incuding a new hard drive) I was wondering if i should Simply get a 3.02 Ghz 533 FSB processor (Fastest i can...