The fan is making noise. I can stop it with a pencil. I sprayed a jet of wd 40. It is a little more quiet. I think if I could get it spinning faster and give it one more burst, it might hit the spot.

I can buy a Sapphire Radeon 9800 considerably cheaper than the Pro version. Is the gaming performance difference that great between the two? I can find all kinds of reviews on the Pro but nothing on the non-pro.

I have an ECS K7S5A Pro mobo with an AGP 4x slot built into it. Can I use an AGP 2x card in the slot, or does the card have to be 4x? Thanks in advance. -Wiley

I searched for information on the internet and found several recommendations, but they were a year and a half old and their suggested Motherboards were no longer available. Can someone point me in the right direction for a budget priced system, under $500 if possible, for a solid kid's PC. Thanks...

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...

I tried posting this on comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.networking, but got no answer. Not sure if this is really the right place to post it, but this is the only PC group that I monitor, so here goes: I have recently moved into a home that already has a small Ethernet network consisting of a cable...

....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

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...

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...

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...

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'm going to be building a computer soon, but I have some questions.... On TigerDirect, They had (For awhile) a Phenom 9600, ever since it came out, but for some reason, it's no longer on the site. It's a brand new processor. Is there something wrong with the 9600 or some reason not to get it other...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

"doug blaisdell" wrote: I'm building a cheap gaming system with these parts, and I want advice on a good but inexpensive monitor: A7N8X deluxe rev 2. m/b 512 DDR PC3200 Corsair memory Athlon Barton 2500 processor Gigabyte Radeon 9200 video card Antec 400W case & PSU

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?