Recent content by aricjonho

From Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI_Express

I could be wrong, hopefully someone will correct me if I am... but, the way I understood it was that everything is backwards compatible, and will work, but will be limited by whatever is the slowest speed.

I used Raid-0 For a long time on a spare gaming machine, where I wasn't concerned about losing any important information. My overall reaction to using it? Not a significant improvement, except when installing applications and moving my massive media folders around. I wouldn't bother with...

So, after more planning, I've decided upon the following. Eventually down the line, i'm going to build a HTPC out of a bunch of random spare parts I have, and it'll probably be some sort of file server too if I can find a decent case that's microATX and still has plenty of internal 3.5" slots...

My cpu was an Athlon 64 X2 3800+ Windsor. It's probably still good, and I really hate to waste it, but I'm also tired of the headache. I considered just replacing my motherboard and memory, but for the price, I figured it would be more logical to just upgrade. After this build too, I should...

Hello, another user who's been out of the game for too long requesting some help. Thank heavens for this amazing community! My computer's been giving me too many problems so I'm going to do a rebuild. PC will be used for medium-high end gaming, net browsing, carelessly leaving a million...

I have recently purchased an a8n-sli motherboard. I have two seagate barracuda SATA 200gb hd's. I'm trying to install windows onto a raid setup with these hard drives(but to no avail), here's what I have done so far. Enabled Raid in the BIOS, and enabled the SATA1 and SATA2 slots for RAID...