Does anyone have any info about NVidia's next motherboard chipset? I know they're branching out to support Intel but I'm more interested in their plans for AMD processors. TIA

I am working on a friends HP Pavilion M7850 because he was having an issue with the computer rebooting. Well, I started noticing that whenever the house A/C comes on, the computer reboots. By the way, the power supply failed about 9 months ago and I replaced it with a 200w (the original was a...

Hi could someone recommend me a quiet 300-350watt PSU unit for under =A325 as mine is doing my head in now something that is under 20dba would be nice. Also a good heat since my AMD Athlon 2400+ for under =A310 as my computer makes so much noise and I think is over heating as the CPU is always...

Hello, I have an odd issue with two older Gateway PCs that I received from work. I tried adding a CD-RW drive to both systems, and when you power them on, the light on the CD-RW will stay solid, and the tray will not eject. I tried variations of jumper settings, cables etc but nothing seems to...

So, my niece is starting her junior year in HS. She has an old Dell that is too slow and obsolete. Like many of you in this group we are a lightning rod for help and her father asked me for a system recommendation. I suggested my niece and I could build one from scratch. I could really use come...

Hi, I have a 24 pin power supply, 20 pin (new) mainboard. Does the plug in to the middle of the 20 pin receptacle with 2 pins (1 row) hanging over each end? No adapters available here and this is an expensive, high end, server PS. I don't want to change it for another one - can't anyway, as...

So . . . what are some good sites hosting NOISE statistics and/or comparisons for the current batch of 400+ Watt power supplies available on the market? Have any good models you're particularly fond of? Let me know! Thanks guys. Angel (shh! U noisy computer U lol)

Mainboard is Asus A8V Deluxe. I was using the onboard audio until recently when it inexplicably failed. Purchased a Soundblaster Live 24-bit card. After some battling with the drivers (some driver software was detected as keyloggers among other things), I got it installed. I still have no audio...

Hi, I am looking for a case which can mount the following items: 4x Sata II harddisks: Hitachi Desktstar 7K500 500 GB, 7.200 rpm, 16 MB, SATA II (HDS725050KLA360 ) 1x IDE optical drive:

How does a system with a 1MB vs 2MB L2 Cache affect the normal user? Normal in the sense of no gaming, hardly any picture editing and mainly just burning a lot of images from the DVD/Video groups. Are there any webpages which explain the difference for this question and the one below? While I'm...

Hi, I have just installed a new intel Asrock P4V88 motherboard and a new Intel 2.8Ghz cpu, connected all the wires etc, switched on, but it won't power up. The old board was for an AMD cpu which had died. I have tested the PSU and that is working ok, in that the fan runs and I get an led lit up on...

"Tony" wrote in message ... My abit board has some blown caps and it often doesn't play nice with my 9600XT vid card and tends to freeze and/or reboot on it's own quite often (which is so (*&*(#$^#& frustrating!) Over the next...

I'm on a Dual PIII (1000 MHz X 2) with WINDOWS 2000 PRO and I'm looking for opinions on the best utilities for the following functions: 1. HARD DISK DRIVE ______including MBR, Bad Sectors, Partitions, Disk Imaging 2. REGISTRY ______including clean, repair, backup, control/manage ______and (if...

I am planning to upgrade my monitor to a TFT and will need a AGP4x graphics card with DVI out. I spend long sessions in front of the screen reading text or editing text and 2-D images. I hardly ever watch videos and never play 3-D games. I am therefore looking for a suitable card that is...

hi everyone i have a netcomm nb5 adsl modem that supports both usb and ethernet. the modem provides a firewall. according to my understanding of how things work, the firewall is provided by the router. the router is only used when you connect through the ethernet because several computers can be...

=A4j=BA~=A5=C1=B1=DA wrote: My PC uses K7S5A mother borad and Win2000, the audio is onboard. Today I add an old sound card just for testing purpose, I disabled the onboard audion from BIOS, boot the machine, and load the driver. The s= ound card starts working fine. Then I remove the...

OK.. Whoa.. Thats quite a system.... lets take a smaller summary look shall we? AMD64x2 4800+ MB - Undetermined, needs SLI... (Abit Fatal1ty-Sli looks good to me) 4Gb Ram DDR400 2Tbs (500Gbx4) SATA Hds.. CD-RW (Ide) DVD+/-RW (DL) (SATA) Well for starters you got a problem in your setup

Just wondering, as single case (high-end) PCs are starting to get noisy and hot, can you build a PC like a HIFI separates system? e.g. one box for Mboard, RAM and GPUs (max 4 as in Gigabyte's Quad GPU board), one box for disks, one for sound (probably OTT) and one for power (probably OTT but nice...

looking to upgrade my sound card. i am not a big audiophile. just like to listen to music and play games. will i get better sound from upgrading my Santa Cruz to a Montego? i am not open to a Soundblaster...i have no need for all the extra stuff including all the extra drivers and stuff they...

Are the following true for my PC (2 years old with 2 IDE ports and no SATA) and it runs WinXP: "...make sure that your CD-ROM drive isn't on the same IDE channel as your hard drive. Sharing of IDE channels can dramatically slow down CD-ROM and hard disk...