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Thanks for the advice guys. Appreciated. Brian

I have seen good advice that suggests you should initially assemble motherboard; CPU and CPU cooler on a table prior to installing in the case and testing that everything is ok that way. My question is: how do you power that arrangemnt on? If the PS is fitted, the mobo does not power on in this...

Slightly off topic I know but interested to know what cooler you guys are using for this oc. I may overclock slightly but not much with a 2100+ and want a fan/heatsink that doesnt sound like a jet engine. Any recommendations? I like the new Vantec VA4-C7040 but seems as if it does not recognized...

Thanks for pointing this out. Guess you live an learn.. You almost have to go to the very end of checkout. At the time I was not sure it was a Palomino or Tbred. Now that I know they are out of stock. I woud prefer the retail version, biut they don't oeffer ot yet. I will order as soona s they...

Well, my apologies. I have not bought before and they certainly do not offer that on the 2100+ that I wanted. So if it is only the 1700+, I could not deduce that from the thread. So it is a little misleading. Thanks for the clarification Brian

Q]Originally posted by: BigJ2078 Paranoid! Thats why you buy the processors from Newegg with a 1yr replacement warranty ;) Check Newegg more carefully than that. OEM CPU's have a 30 day, not a one year, warranty!!!! I quote from their warranty policy: All items except otherwise mentioned...

I have a standalone Promise card now, but I find it to be a problem occasionally. First, it takes a PCI slot and while most mobos have 5 or 6 PCI slots, some of them have problems at the high end and LAN and sound cards should take up slots 2 and 3. So they are not all usable. Secondly, and more...

Most mobo's support 4 IDE devices. However Raid boards support 8 IDE devices (e.g. ABIT KT7A-RAID). I need some advice as to whether I can support 5 IDE devices (3 IDE HD and 2 IDE CDRW/CDROM) on these without running in any kind of Raid configuration. I don't need or want Raid, only the support...