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Same question for me. I'm running with hardware that's 2 years old (and was probably a year old when I bought it). I want to upgrade but I'm not sure if this is a good time to do it. Intel has some new CPUs coming out in Jan/Feb 08 and it sounds like they will either A) be a better "bang for...

Yes jump on unemployment insurance immediately. You've been paying into that system for years... it's time to get something back! I've been laid off twice and I used the AZ UI both times with absolutely zero regrets.

I just bought the 3200+ Venice over the 3000+ because of some multiplier thingy. The 3200 is 10x and the 3000 is 9x. Something to do with making it easier to overclock the 3200. As you can tell from my highly intelligent post, I know nothing about overclocking yet. But the 3200 was only 10...

I had a Belkin UPS (can't remember the model) and it flat out didn't work. I had a 400W PSU and a 21" monitor hooked up to it, and when the power went out it shut off with the rest of the house. I was hoping to use it at least as a surge protector, but it seems to have died completely when I...

What about the Smart Volume Management feature. Can anyone tell me if there's any difference between these 2 cards? If it works well, this could be an important feature for me.

I would like to buy a sound card for the system shown in my sig below. I'm using Klipsch ProMedia 4.1 speakers and I never use headphones. My primary concern is gaming. I rarely use my computer for listening to music. I'm limiting my choices to the X-Fi ExtremeMusic and the Audigy2 ZS based...

Funny, I hadn't really considered buying a 7200 SATA drive. I was thinking of getting a hard drive that upgraded not only from ATA to SATA but also from 7200 to 10k. I'll have to give this some more thought.

I don't remember off the top of my head the exact drives I have. They're identical, Seagate, 160GB, 7200 RPM, ATA100, 8meg cache. I'm not familiar yet with the 7200.x terminology, so I can't answer that part. My primary interest is increasing the performance of games. My idea was to boot...

I ordered all my hardware last weekend (see sig), but I haven't decided if I should buy a WD Raptor 74GB 10k drive. I've currently got 2 160GB Seagate ATA100 drives and I can't decide if I should just stick those into the new system or not. Fry's has the Raptor on sale for $160 - $30 rebate...

I posted a question about PS wattage and two people (GalvanizedYankee and JEDIYoda) posted this link: http://www.pureoverclock.com/article15.html It only reviews 4 PS's, but it's really detailed.

I'm thinking about buying the FSP AX500-A 500W PS. I was just looking at the images and I noticed that 500W is the peak rating, while 460W is the steady (for lack of a better word, and lack of knowledge) rating. I would like to buy the DFI LP UT nF4 Ultra-D motherboard, and I read somewhere...

And all you smokers out there, don't forget to get one of these... Cigarette lighter (no I don't work for frozencpu.com, I bought one of these for my brother)

The 3200+ is $152 on NewEgg, so it's $60 more for that Opteron.

The 3000+ and 3200+ are basically the same price now. From what I've gathered from this thread, if I use a DFI LP Ultra-D then the 3200+ is the way to go. Am I thinking correctly?

Thanks for the replies! That's great info. And thanks for the quick tutorial, forumpass. It sounds like it's fairly easy to OC these components. Now I'm leaning toward getting everything I need to build a new system since all I have to do is add a case and hard drive and I'm there. I'm...