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I have been to 3 PSU calculators and have gotten 3 different answers: anywhere from 275-650W. Here's my new build: Intel Q9550 2.83 (will OC to 3.6) Xigmatek HDT-S1283 (replacing fan with 120mm Nexus real silent) Gigabyte EP45-UD3P or R G.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1066...

Hey thanks for the idea Zap, I've got a spare enermax 80mm fan that I'll try to undervolt.

Thanks for the response. I am saving for the next real upgrade, but in the meantime I thought I'd quiet down my system a bit as my video card is my loudest component, and get a little faster graphics card to tide me over. The 9700 stills runs fine. I used to follow graphics cards closely, but...

i865P P4 2.66GHz 1.5 GB RAM, 450W Corsair PSU Need to upgrade my old-school Radeon 9700 Pro. I?m interested in getting an older fanless agp card new/used. Don?t do much gaming anymore, used to. Concerned about getting a card that the cpu will waste. Since PCIe rules I?m thinking of only...

Can I use my existing Dlink wireless adapters DWL-G520 REVB and DWL-G650 REVB5 using Atheros 5.0.0.107 drivers with this Buffalo router?

FYI... Adobe just announced PSE 5.0 for sale the other day

https://www.kable.com/pub/btwd/controlled1.asp?psrc=U_Y4_M1_M2RB 10 issues = 1 year

Just paid $386 for mine last night. Sure hope this thing works with my Sapphire 9700 (non pro) video card. I?m going to get a new video card when I do my whole computer upgrade later on. Currently running older omega drivers that don?t have a 1680 x 1050 rez option. Will probably get the...

Do either of the X800XL, X800XT or X850XT come fanless with nice huge heatsinks? I don't care about using up an extra PCI slot, I want silence (or close to it).

Although I don't *need* a 19" LCD (would be perfectly happy with a 17") I'm leaning toward that expensive ($430) Viewsonic VP191B LCD described in the article. I figure for the long run it'll be worth it for me as I do photo/video editing, movie watching and plenty of gaming. If I hadn't saved...

You are right to worry about color reproduction in your games and movies with a 17" TN panel. I'm in the same stage of LCD buying as you. I was planning on getting one of the two LCDs you're looking at, or another third, the Viewsonic VP171B. But I found out that there aren't any 8-bit 17"...

I agree with TourGuide. I also use Ulead to edit and burn, but for some reason I have been using the default windows movie maker that came with XP Pro for my capturing. Maybe because WMM automatically recognized my MiniDV cam when I first hooked it up via a firewire cable.? Firewire seems...

I am thinking about getting this LCD. Will my ATI Radeon 9700 non-pro be able to handle the native resolution? I play doom3.

I see that I can download drivers for my Sapphire ATI Radeon 9700 non-pro from either the Sapphire website, or the ATI "powered by ATI" website. These driver files have different filenames. Does it matter which ones I use?

I ordered two of these, one works great, the other one couldn't get past recognizing a PS2 keyboard upon boot up. I don't like the way the IDE cables connect to the motherboard horizontially (they have to be twisted). I'm RMAing the bad IS7, but for the price of $118, it's still a good deal to...