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Antec 300 Antec earthwatts EA500 500W GIGABYTE GA-MA74GM-S2 AMD Athlon 64 LE-1600 2.2GHz Socket AM2 45W Kingston 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 667 (PC2 5300) 6 x Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD6400AAKS 640GB

Have you given any thought to WHS? I built a similar system recently but skipped on the raid card, just used 6 onboard ports on the Gigabyte board that I got. I've been extremely pleased with it.

Good call on the Sempron, going to use that instead. I didn't know that about WHS, thanks. I guess I'm still in a RAID mindset after planning on going the RAID5 route for so long. Instead of the WD10EACS I'm going to grab 6x WD6400AAKS, $/gb is better and I like the proven reliability.

How does this look. I basically stole the setup from Trepidati0n in this thread, but we have basically the same requirements. The 160gb is going to be the OS drive, then 5x 1TB for storage. The rest of the parts I don't really care too much about, I just want cheap + reliable + low power...

The A8N-SLI goes through its diagnostics checks in sequence, CPU, memory, video card, and it's not even getting past the CPU check. I get the no CPU error message without a cpu in, but when I power it on with it in it just hangs, doesn't even get to the memory test. I've tried it with a PCI...

Ignore the hyperbole, I'm really not that pissed, and I'm not swearing off Asus forever either. Don't know anyone with a 939 system unfortunately. I've tested with working ram/psu/video (pci) and still nothing. The cool thing about the Asus board is that you can sorta test the components one at...

First, my rant. I ordered a new system from newegg consisting of an A8N-SLI Deluxe, MSI 7800 GTX Lite, 3800+ X2, 2gb Corsair XMS. And it won't post. I call Asus tech to find out it's not even getting to the CPU diagnostics part of POST, and it won't read out the "no cpu installed" message...

What did your BIOS chip rea on it? Mine has 2 written over the top half in black magic marker. I read off the bottom 2 lines exactly, and what I could make out of the top line and to Asus tech support and the guy didn't know. He's supposed to have another tech call me (yeah right).

I'm enjoying Forza a lot more than GT4 as well.

If you're using another hdd, make sure you lock the eeprom before going on LIVE. Personally, I can live with xbconnect. If I really wanted LIVE, I'd just get another xbox (they're only $120 after rebate new from Fye).

BF: Vietnam. Think today is the last day to get it for $29.99 from Circuit City.

After attaching 2nd monitor, computer won't post I hooked up a second monitor via dvi (with an adapter) and installed ultramon, I figured I had to restart for the 2nd monitor to get detected and everything, so I do so. But now it won't post (or at least I think it won't) because my monitors...