I have a PC Power and Cooling 470W unit that's a few years old but hasn't had a lot of mileage on it and the rig it was in didn't come near to stressing its limits. It was modestly pricey when I got it so I figure it's worth seeing if it's still working the way it's supposed to. If I want to ensure...

Isn't Google Great? If Firewire supports 63 devices ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_1394 ) and you got 500 GB external drives ( http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=102653 ) could you build a system with 31 Terabytes of storage? (more with USB) Granted, cost of 31...

I posted last week about my computer (15" pbook g4 1.33 GHz) crashing. I called Mac outfitters today to see how the repairs/stauts was on my machine. They said that the hard drive needs replaced as well as the optical drive (I just had a new optical drive installed 6 months ago!). They said they...

Hi, I am getting a system together. It's my first computer in many years and I decided to build it myself. For convenience's sake, I'm getting everything from Newegg. So, since I don't know as much as I should to pull this off, I was wondering if some of you who actually know what they're doing...

I've been using windows 98 for since it came out! Now I'm in situation to decided to upgrade Windows XP or nor. I ask myself this question: do I need windows xp? This is what I've know about windows XP: 1) XP system seems run slower than windows 98 because of the running multimedia files...

The last stick of RAM that I bought was SD so I haven't been updated in a while. Anyway, I plan on buying both a motherboard and memory with dual channel support. Do I have to have TWO sticks of 256 ram to get dual channel, or can I just have one 512 stick? (I'm not sure if the "dual" refers to...

I have just purchased a new LG IPS236V 23" monitor a few days ago, I have it hooked up to an Asus Sabertooh X58 I7 950 CPU and with an Asus 5850 Videocard. It is a really good fast setup and I am more than thrilled with the monitor, Both the Videocard and monitor have HDMI connectors, My...

....I'm the prettiest bell of them all: http://init-sce.tripod.com/newbuild/pretty.htm ....and I'm the ugliest duckling of all: http://init-sce.tripod.com/newbuild/ugly.htm The pretty one is: Abit AW8

The long 60+ second boot time in a reconfigured computer (see original message "Slow booting, 1/2/05") was caused in part by the 24 seconds it took to load vnbt.386, even though it's only 86KB. Browsing around the internet, indications are that this has something to do with waiting for a DHCP...

get an addon card with ports out the back and a header on the card "Ken" wrote in message ... I have an Antec case with an ASUS P4PE mb. There are two front-mounted female USB ports on the Antec case but I have used the only...

Hi, I have 512mb in my PC and think it is time to upgrade with a bit more (probably add a gig). I want to make sure I'm getting the right type. Current memory has a label which says: MT16VDDT 6464AG - 335CA CCTA4494007 200343

Hi, all. Since there are postings here all the time with questions about what kind of system to put together, I thought I'd share my pretty good experience. After tons of research, I realized I had no idea exactly which parts to buy, so I went to a local computer store, MicroCenter, and worked...

Anybody have a flash drive and don't like them? Somehow I doubt it. I just received another, going from 256 MB to 1 GB (much faster, and cheaper than the 256). I'm giddy. Yes there are larger sizes, but I like to buy at the price/performance point. Looks like the old annual prediction about DVD...

On Sun, 29 Jun 2003 15:35:34 +0800, "Timberwolf" wrote: Hi there I'm creating a new PC - I'd like to find out which CPU will give better performance in a PC used for digital video editing: An AMD Athlon XP 1800+ or an Intel Pentium 2GHz?

For 10+ years I've intermittently built my own machines. It was so easy when the choices were a 486, or a 486DX. When bus speeds were all the same (66 MHz) and the CPU had a (pretend) relative number. Now AMD has XP, Sempron, 64, and 64FX. I've tried reading the spec's but fell asleep. Pricing...

I just got a liteon drive from walmart I wanted/needed a second drive just to have well it worked for 5 seconds and now it loads up fine but nothign is detected when I put a CD or DVD in it (its a lite on DVD-ROM) Well I will just go buy a CDRW 52x or something to supplement my DVD-/+RW or maybe...

What is the best soundcard (or setup) to: 1)hook up directly through a surround sound reciever, 2)play DVD movies in surround sound -output to my TV, 3)play surround sound games -on computer monitor, maybe TV, 4)and also do semi-proffessional music recording (hard disk audio) since I am a...

I've got a homebuilt Athlon XP 1800+ on an Epox 8KHA+ mobo with 256 megs of PC 2100 ram. Video card is a PNY GeForce 3 TI 200. The video is fine for what I do now, but I think I can keep this system peppy for a few more years just by upgrading the video. What's a good recommendation that won't...

Hi All, Anybody have any Recommendations for silent or near silent power supply? I'm doing a little project box with older AOpen AX4B-533 TUBE mainboard fitted with a nifty ATX case I found at a show that has a jukebox array of lights on both sides of the front panel. I intend to fit an FM...

Apple is going to switch over to Intel processers in a year or so. They already modified their OS to run on Intel P4 CPUs. From what I've read on the Net, this modified Intel version of OS-X has no restrictions at all -- it runs on ordinary PC hardware. Does anybody know if this OS-X modification...