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I'm getting tired head, so please forgive me but I had resolved that I needed a UPS with my new computer. In my 50 year old house, brownouts and flickering happens periodically and it's not uncommon for me to come home from work and find that my computer has rebooted or the clocks are flashing...

Title asks the question. It seems that a dedicated 8 pin is only available on some PSU's. Was the 8 pin requirement for GPU's just a blip or will all the new ones use it? Thanks!

Anyone been watching what's going on with VoodooPC? I had a Voodoo back in the day before they went ultra-luxury and it was awesome. From that time forward, they creeped up and up until the only people who bought Voodoo seemed to be celebrities and millionaires. Their barebones was 5k and...

In light of the dominant issue of the year, the economy, I was curious how folks felt about it's impact on the boutique builders. I've been shopping for awhile, but in early July, right when I was a few clicks away from buying a new machine (puget was my choice, William was awesome), I just...

I'm interested in feedback regarding Puget Custom Computers www.pugetsystems.com I've been looking hard at a number of the boutique makers. In my gaming history I've owned 2 Voodoo's, 2 DIY rigs, one from a local dealer (my first) and had extensive interaction with two Alienware rigs (a...

I'm just curious what the consensus is on this purchase, especially from the perspective of the consumer. At the time this was all going down, I was starting to do research on my next machine. I decided I was going to hold off on seriously considering VM until they had worked out the kinks...

Title says it all. I'm looking for a very basic, clean, machine for my wife to allow her to surf and send e-mail. She uses rhapsody, firefox and outlook. That's pretty much it. She does listen to music and connects to my machine via a wireless connection to my modem with her current...

I have a home-built machine A month ago, this was the basic configuration Abit KV8-Pro AMD Athlon 64 3400+ PNY 6800 GT SAMSUNG 120GB 7200RPM SATA Hard Drive CORSAIR XMS 1GB Antec NeoPower 480 We were expecting a storm a month ago, so I powered down, unplugged and went to bed.I woke...

Well, I give up. The machine that my friend built for me 2 years ago is dead. I lost the power supply ... well, at least that's what I thought. Then we figured maybe MB. Well, that solved my problem for a week. Needless to say, I've had it with my home-made machine. I'm just not up to...

My ABIT KV8 Pro K8T800and my PSU died. My local Fry's has all of the boards listed in the link and they're all open box Which of those boards should I buy? I'm just trying to limp along for another year before I replace everything...

Lightning did in my old PSU, MB and Processor. My old 6800GT is still working as are my drives I need a new MB/Processor/Memory setup and I'd like to stay AMD and have 2 GB of mem. 939 socket is fine for me as I won't upgrade the processor/MB for another 18 months or so. I'm looking to...

Hello When I was building my machine two years ago, the folks here at the Hard OCP forums were the best resource I could have found. A friend helped me build my rig and it served me well for the past two years. Well, we had some lightning and somewhere the next day, after I thought I had...

Hi. I keep getting several Windows error messages on bootup. I'm also experiencing some crashes while playing City of Heroes that bring up a BSOD. The message there isn't ever up long enough for me to read anything but it's an IRQ_notequalto_orless type of thing. When I click on the "more...

Hi My brother-in-law gave me an old Dell 21" Trinitron. The thing has a fair amount of ghosting and the general sharpness of everything (text, games) is pretty crappy. I've thought perhaps a nice, expensive monitor cable might resolve these problems because the one he has attached is an el...

Hiya I bought a Samsung 955df about 3 years ago or so. Recently the left side of the screen began a bit of blurriness, specifically in 2d situations. In games it's fine. Is there anything that can be done about this or is it time to retire the thing?

Hi. I couldn't figure out where a post like this should go, so I tried here. If it needs to be moved, that's cool with me. =) I ordered a an entire new build's worth of parts from Newegg. I paid for next day delivery and the rush order fee. I had a positive experience with Customer...

I'd like to congratulate and thank everyone here at the [H]ard|Forum for the terrific board. I've spent over 40 hours searching threads over the past week and my heads about to explode from oversaturation and my continued lack of knowledge, but I am so much better off than I was when I started...

Hi. Please forgive this question, which will surely seem inane to most of you. I've never built a computer before and frankly, rarely open the box on the one I have now. I want to buy this (note the OEM information in the product description) Seagate 80GB 7200RPM SATA Hard Drive, Model...