I'm also a programmer, as working in front of computer day and day, my right hand is so tired and ached. So I tried to mouse in both hands. I find that it is really an efficient way to release pains. At first I switched the mouse buttons in windows control panel, but it taked me several steps to...

Building a new system wondering how big a power supply I need? Yes i have seen sites helping to figure it out but I think it gets more complicated with a dual core cpu and perhaps (at some point in time) two graphics cards using SLI. AMD Athlon 64 dual core X2 cpu, perhaps the 4000 series 1 nVidia...

someone told me, that when building a pc...a thermal compound usually comes with the heat sink..either a compound or a pad....he said that i should buy my own compound...remove the one that was supplied and put the new one in....i am not sure how necessary this is...as from intel...i would excpect...

Greetings, ThinkPad A22P XP Pro SP2 Was working fine. Now a recent problem with my A22P. On power up, seems to go through POST then immediately into hibernate. I say "seems to go through POST" because it's not hitting my floppy in the boot sequence. In fact right at that point it goes into...

Hi! Any suggestion about "converting" an atx board to a "laptop", in the sense that I don't need the PCI/AGP slots available, just want to use the 2 integrated usb ports (for wifi, perhaps external hd or flash drive), mouse/kbd, vga? The mobo has a 1ghz PIII, with the CPU fan on it, so it can be...

according to resaearch and noise on this forum, ocz modstream and this seasonic one is on top.. i need everyone to input into this...what is theee quetiest power supply...but also has very good power and good cooling

well cool! my new processor which only cost 100.00 brand new + a 50 dollar rebate was running about 176 deg F, i knew that was peaking, the performance was not up to par either. So, I got some thermal grease, which has a little bit of silver in it, and walah! now the core is running around 122...

I see there seems to be two types of Opteron 252 - one has a fixed core voltage of 1.4V, http://www.cpucitystore.co.uk/amd-opteron-252-1mb-skt940-ret-p-544.html the other has a variable core voltage. http://www.cpucitystore.co.uk/amd-opteron-252-1mb-skt940-ret-p-531.html Why would one choose...

I've got a case that has 5.25" bays for drives but doesn't accept the quick release type slides that mount on the sides of the drive. For serviceability I'd like to have this feature. Does anyone know if there is a drive mounting kit that would allow a 3.5" hard drive to be put into a 5.25" opening...

A mate of mine found a couple of Ultra 320 36 GB SCSI disks with SCA connectors (80-pin). But unusually these are about the size of laptop drives (I have not seen them myself) rather than the more common 1" thick ones. I gather they are not much wider than the SCA connector. Does anyone know what...

My wife's machine. clone, P4, 1.6GHZ, D 845 Intel MB. Intel Pro/100VM integrated LAN. It is hooked up to a Lynxes WRT54G wireless Router and the 54G is connected to my whole house Linksys BRSF41. The wireless parts always works great but when you boot up her tower there is no network...

i just bought a ddr400 memory module, although my mobo says it can support that type of memory, the shop i just bought it from says it cant handle asus mobo can someone explain please -- Live long and prosper

I am thinking of building a new pc and have been looking at the x1800xt graphics card (e.g. http://www.microdirect.co.uk/productinfo.aspx? ProductID=11397 ). I would like the possibility of adding a second card at a later date. The models i have seen come with an active cooling system which blows...

Hello, I have a MSI K8N Neo 2 motherboard with a 36gig SCSI drive connected to a PCI SCSI card and two SATA drives configured to SATA ports 3 & 4. I want the SCSI drive to be the boot drive for WinXP. My problem is that when I go through the Windows setup, the SCSI drive is the 'E' drive and...

for my video card..it says it needs a PSU with 30 amps on 12 V rail i have no damn idea what this means...what does this mean? and how do i read the specs on the PSU to compare to these specs. thanks

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