I am in the market for a new PC and was wondering if building it myself was a good idea it would be my first build how difficult is it ???? any recommendations weather to buy a bare bone system or case/motherboard ? any help appreciated how would i know if the parts would be conpatable I was...

Right now I have a 5400 rpm 30 gig hard drive and I'm thinking of upgrading to a 7200 rpm. I saw a Maxtor Ultra ATA/133 with 8 mg cache and also one with a 2 mg cache. Western Digital also makes one with an 8 mg cache. So my question is will there be a noticeable difference between the 5400...

On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 18:08:44 -0600, "philo" NONphiloNONplazaearthNONcomNON wrote: "DaveW" wrote in message news:RTytb.207625$Fm2.202544@attbi_s04... To use DDR you'd need a new motherboard if you're using SDRAM now.

Hi All, I'm looking to get a new system together by the new year, and I'm debating the AMD/Intel route. Without getting into the Intel/AMD religious wars, it seems that the overclocked Barton is close enough to performance of the overclocked P4C that I think that I'm comfortable in saving the...

I'm currently refurbishing an old computer. The computer was used at a work place and the inside of the case and all the cards are coated with a fine brown dust. I've tried using compressed air, but the brown dust just stays on the cards. I'm wondering if there's anything I can do to removed...

Hello, I recently built a machine from spare parts but it is very unstable. Usually within half an hour to an hour from booting Win2K it will = totally freeze. The only thing that will continue working is mouse = pointer positioning. If I immediately reset it, the situation will = repeat after...

I have enough parts to put together a computer for a friend except for the motherboard. I have 2 sticks of 258MB of PC133 RAM, a 1.13 Athlon (the 133Mhz bus one), mATX case, hhd and etc. So I am looking for a motherboard which supports 133 fsb and memory. Current or past model will do. I...

Does a JEDEC conform 6 layer DDR (f.e. DDR433, DDR400, DDR333) memory module and SPD Ram need to meet any additional requirements in order to work in Dual Channel mode with nVidia nForce2 Ultra400 or Intel Canterwood 865PE/G and 875P chipsets? Or can any pair of modules specified as DDRxyz be...

I was wondering if anyone knew the time for the next PC Show in San Antonio Tx??? thanks in advance. I had a website that usually gave the time,,, but it is 'acting up'. cl

Cpuidle has worked great for me with my old CPU PIII e 800 I recently upgraded to a PIII Tualatin and see little if any effect on the temp. Anybody had any experience with this. Here is my CPU info: Processor 1 : Intel(R) Pentium(R) III CPU - S 1400MHz / F2E86C2D : Intel(R) Pentium(R) III...

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HI everyone, I have a compaq 7990 with a k7 800 athlon, 512 ram. I'm looking to upgrade the computer but dont know where to look for parts that will be compatible with this system. I was told that there are no chips that will drop in place of the 800, as it is a "Slot A" I beleive. now does that...

hey all got a microsoft intellimouse explorer v3.0, USB and it seems i`ve lost the resolution of the mouse movement. it's not major, but it's rather 'grainy'. using asus PC Probe as an example, the time graph gives temp vs real time. it gets refreshed every 30secs. i cannot always see the 30sec...

I currently have a laptop and would like to build a tower to house additional hard drives and a DVD/CD writer. How do I go about this? I have looked around the web & newsgroups and have not found anything that discusses how to do this. My laptop has both firewire and an Adaptec slim scsi PC...

Ok ... I had a puter which either my motherboard or my cpu died on me. So I bought an AthlonXP2400+, Asus A7N8X, and a stick of Kingston RAM to go along with the Western Digital drive that was already in there. I had to know if it was the chip or the board that died, so I installed the Athlon...

Recently as some may have read, I have been having trouble getting XP to boot onto a RAID 0 array, using the onboard RAID controller on my Intel D875PBZ motherboard (ICH5-R). I have two SATA Western Digital (WD) Raptor 36GB drives, hooked up to the Serial ATA ports of my motherboard. I created...

my current system: P4 1.6A o/c to 2.133, 512mb ram, GF4 Ti4200 128mb video card which upgrade will give me higher framerates and higher resolutions, a processor or video card upgrade (not both! due to bugetary constraints)? appreciate your feedback

The KM4M has both a standard ATX 20 pin connector and a 4 pin ATX12V connector. Manual says the 4 pin connector is "used to provide power to the CPU". Can someone explain what this means ? Which AMD Socket A CPU requires this ?

Hi, Tiger Direct has decent looking deals on either of these, but I haven't heard anything as to experiences with these brands. Just wondering if anyone can offer any opinions or reviews? Thanks a lot in advance.

I have ordered a new heatsink for an XP2600 266FSB I managed to find, its a Thermaltake Volcano 11+ Xaser XP 3400+, really hoping itll be compatible with my Socket A ECS K7VMM+ mobo, as far as i can tell it should be, anyway, Also ordered Artic Silver 5 compound and a Thermaltake Crystal Orb to...