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1) What will you be doing with this PC? Gaming? Photoshop? Web browsing? etc - Gaming, with some video converting and then general online stuff. 2) What's your budget? Are tax and shipping included? - $550, before shipping, prefer online purchases so taxes aren't an issue. 3) Where do you...

in an effort to clean up my case wiring, i'm going to extend and sleeve all of my fan cables, however i have very little electrical knowledge. I presume for this all i would need to do is cut the fan cable, strip it, and add another length of wire in between, soldering it together on each end...

k, so i have 2 500gb storage drives now(samsung's, if it matters) and have been thinking about putting them into a raid configuration, however i have some reservations. 1. will i lose the data on the drives? 2. if yes, what is the best back up method?(i would assume some sort of hard-drive...

so currently i'm using a silverstone tj09, but while it's an amazing case, i'm moving a lot(between dorms and home for break) and wanting to start traveling to lan events, but the case is HEAVY. newegg has it listed at 24 pounds, and it's rather unwieldy, so i was wondering if you guys have a...

so after building my computer, my hard drives and disk drives were on the removeable storage list(where like flash drives and whatnot show up) how do i get them to not be on there? did i miss a step while installing? is it as simple as downloading drivers? thanks for any help, i realize this is...

i recently purchased a new sony laptop for school work in college but have encountered a problem. when trying to install xp professional over vista home premium i get the error "can not find hard disc drive" and can not do anything but exit the installation. after some google research i found...

so using atitool to do a mild overclock my 8800gtx is running at 67 at idle, what is a safe temperature range for idle/load? thanks.

i have 2 1gig sticks and 2 512 sticks of ram, each one set in the right slots to run dual channel, but according to any diagnostics program i run i only have about 2.7 gigs of ram instead of 3, is that normal or is one/multiple of my sticks bad?

now that i've got my processor running comfortably and stable, i'd like to move on to my video card! i know these 8800's run hot, so i'll only be doing mild oc'ing until i get the cash together for a water cooling set up. anyways, whats the best program/way to overclock my 8800gtx? i noticed...

i'm currently running my e6600 at 1.47 volts, 400mhz, the temps are sitting at about 50c right now, i assume that thats pretty safe? i just want to make sure since i'm new to overclocking, thanks!

so i'm using an EVGA 680i SLI motherboard with onboard audio, and it works great for music and movies and whatnot, but anything that plays a sound in firefox wont come through my speakers! i cant figure out what it is. any help is GREATLY appreciated!

first, system specs: e6600 EVGA 680i SLI mobo Tuniq Tower heatsink and fan 3gb g.skill ram ddr2 800 i'm currently running at 3.33ghz stable, but if i try to push it to 3.6(1600 FSB according to bios, 9x) or more and then run orthos right after starting a cpu stress test it says "rounded...

ok so while installing winxp on my new machine i made a bit of a mistake(very long day, very tired, should have slept) and made my windows partition only 2 gigs. is there any way to expand that partition without reformating and installing windows? thanks.

ok so i just got all the parts for my new computer and i have a bit of a quandry. the case is a TJ09 so the PSU is bottom mounted, and i was wondering since the fan for my PSU is on the bottom of it if i should mount the PSU upside down so the fan is drawing from the case. however, if it were...

i'm going to be ordering this sometime around mid-day today, so any last minute opinions would be nice. i would have gone with the corsair 620w PSU but its out of stock and i'd like to get everything at once, and the OCZ psu has great reviews. i'll be using windows XP professional 32bit by the...

so i have a linksys WRT54G and my mom just bought a HP laptop to use for work and traveling. it has windows XP and a built in wireless lan card of some kind(not sure how to find out what kind). anyways, the wlan is turned on but it cant find my router, even when i'm in the same room with it. is...

so I'm trying to build a good gaming computer. I'll be playing all of the new fps's and rts's and a few mmorpgs. also, I'd like to do some air-cooled over clocking and whatnot. so far i have this as a parts list, but I'm very open to suggestions. my max budget is around $3000 but spending less...