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My Seasonic S12-380 has begun making a buzzing noise that sounds a lot like a hard drive randomly seeking. So much so that I thought it was the hard drive failing and swapped it out for another one which I knew was good and quiet. The noise continued, so I placed my ear near various components...

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Thanks for the responses. I knew the [H] would be the place to go. His monitor resolution is 1280x1024, but he's mentioned moving up to something like 1680x1050. He plays mostly FPS (COD, L4D, etc). He's given me a limit of $600. Problem is, we're in CA, so Newegg gets me with tax. So far...

Is the Corsair 400CX (400W) enough to run: Antec Three Hundred Gigabyte 770T AMD Athlon X2 250 (stock) 4GB (2x2) DDR3 1333 Radeon 5770 500GB Western Digital SATA DVD+RW drive Thanks in advance!

I'm building a new budget gaming rig for a cousin. Trying to decide if it is better to get the Athlon X2 250 and a 5770 vs. something like the X4 630 and a 4770. He does mostly gaming and is dabbling in Photoshop. Fewer cores but a better video card? Or more cores and a less-capable...

1) What will you be doing with this PC? Gaming? Photoshop? Web browsing? etc Gaming and Photoshop, but also general use 2) What's your budget? Are tax and shipping included? $600 total. No higher. 3) Where do you live? San Diego, Calif. 4) What exact parts do you need for...

Guys and gals -- I've done a bunch of reading, searched these forums, etc, and still can't make a decision on what best fits my needs. I'm interested in building a Windows Home Server box that will, in addition to doing its server thing: - run 24/7 - serve a simple web page and FTP to...

Heroes -- I'm attempting to build a SFF file server/media hub/backup server/classic game player/Hulu watcher for about $150-$175. I already have a 640gb WD hard drive I'm going to put in it, but would need to purchase anything else (memory, etc). I would like it to be as small and quiet...

Seriously. I literally said "WTF" when I saw it was going to cost me almost double. So is that how it works? It automatically adjusts?

I was all set to buy 4gb of the G.Skill PC8000 RAM to overclock my new E8400 when, much to my chagrin, Newegg bumped the price from $90 to $150 right in front of my eyes!!! What gives? So, in light of this, can anyone suggest something different for me that will allow me to bump the FSB to...

Thanks a ton guys. I think the E8400 is the way to go. Thanks!

Building a new gaming rig and considering the E8400 and the E7200. Assuming they are both clocked the same (it seems both could do somewhere in the neighborhood of 3.6-3.8), what would be the performance difference between the two seeing as the E7200 has half the cache as the E8400? Are we...

I am building my brother a gaming PC on a budget, and have come to the altar to ask for assistance and comments on this build. I have added my own comments/questions after each part to give an idea of my thinking on choosing the part I did. I am also reusing some old parts from a 2 year old...

My brother has a Compaq Presario that is having issues with the battery. The battery is not charging, and the laptop also is not running off of the power coming from the wall plug. The block in the middle of the power cord has a green light that is not lighting up when plugged into the wall...

One more thing guys: Will True Image, Ghost, etc do file backups similar to SyncBack, or does it only backup to an image file?