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And don't forget the most obvious fact; the Opteron will allow the use of multiple processors, the Athlon 64 (FX) will only allow the use of a single processor. Theoretically :P

It might have more to do with your board manufactures' implementation of SoundStorm than with the chip itself. Or, you could just have a really crappy set of speakers that you want to believe are a really good speakers and instead of admitting to the fact, you choose to blame the sound chip in...

I'd have to say, move up to, at least, a 350w name brand PSU. Personally, I'd suggest getting an Enermax PSU, just because I have one and I'm very happy with it. But their pretty expensive and you may not want to spend that kind of money sooo........... anybody else got any suggestions ?????

Get a gun and use the drive for target practice. Then when you done with that, learn how to make a pipe bomb, build said bomb and strap it to what's left of the hard drive. Light fuse, then run like hell. Now thats how you destroy a hard drive. ;) P.S. This is just a joke. I do not condone...

Just because the TNT2 was "the only card that could run [32bit color] reasonably", doesn't mean that 32bit wasn't a standard. All other video chip/card manufacturers, except 3Dfx, had supported 32bit by mid - late 1998, regardless of how bad it was implimented.

This whole thing remindes me of the time when 3DFX told everybody that they don't need 32bit color depth, in a time when 32bit color was standard. Now Nvidia is saying we don't want excellent image quality when we puchase a $400 - $500 video card, when ATI has proven otherwise. I'm sorry, but, I...

Personally, I'd say pass. IMHO your system is better and faster than your friends, and all you would be doing is downgrading.

Uh, I hope you've had those for years and aren't planning on buying those know. If you are looking to puchase the Cambridge SoundWorks CSW PCWorks FourPointSurround (long name, isn't it? :P) now, don't their outdated. There are a lot of better sound systems then that now-a-days. If your on a...

Thats easy, C-media has the better codec. But the Realtek ALC650 is the most common of the two, and quite a capable codec in it's own right. Don't bother with trying to get one over the other though. If your gonna use the Digital out to get your sound, your just getting the it directly from the...

Thanks for catching that I almost forgot :D

I personally don't think so, everybody's got to start somewhere and a forum is a good place to do it. Besides your trying to learn more about computers and building one yourself is a great way to learn. I just wish we lived in a world where everyone would learn how to do this kind of thing. two...

Thanks for the reply. :) I had emailed Wesley and he had already given me the information as well as a copy of the BIOS. I flashed to the "performance" BIOS and actually had a slower boot time as a result. It was perfectly stable and all, but I found that it would allways initialize PCI first...

If your on a budget try looking at the Albatron KX400-8X (VIA KT-400 w/8235 chipset). If money's no object look at the DFI LanParty NF2 Ultra (nVidia nForce2 Ultra 400 chipset). I have both of these running in different rigs, and found them to be quite stable.

I have an DFI LanParty NF2 Ultra board, and I was wondering where I can get the "performance" BIOS that Wesley mentioned in his recent review? I have been to DFI's website and there is no such BIOS posted (not even in the Beta section), and I've had no luck in doing a search for it. I have...