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    Opinions and recommendations on prospective build...

    OK I hope this is the right thread for this. I've been trying to compile data and squeeze everything I can out of the $1000.00 I have to spend. Here's the current shopping list: Case http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16811517016 Hard Drive...
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    Problems with drive letter assignments when installing Windows 2000 and XP

    MODERATORS: If this is not the best place for this thread feel free to move it. OK, so here is my problem. I have a number of partition mangers I can use, and I'm getting some messed up results. I bought a Western Digital hardrive for my laptop, a Gateway 450RGH. If mempory serves I used Easus...
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    Hard Drive Imaging on a Dell Inspiron 2650, need help!

    Try to bear with me here as this will be so sort of confusing.I have a Dell Inspiron 2650 laptop, running: Windows XP SP3 Intel Pentium 4 Mobile CPU 1.80 ghx processor 512 megs of RAM I have several hard drives in a USB connected dock which I swap out, and need a way to manage. I have no...
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    Seeking unbiased advice for a system rebuild

    OK, I read the comments for the board you suggested. Seems some RAM does not work with this board - even some which is listed as compatible. The comments for this only go back a day or so. This tells me that an updated BIOS to fix this has not yet been released. All I need to know is this...
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    Seeking unbiased advice for a system rebuild

    Thanks for the suggestion! I'll look for some reviews on both boards before I order anything. Anyone have a recommend review site which has proven unbiased and accurate over the years? Yeah I noticed that what some of the folks said at NewEgg wasn't worth paying attention to. My approach was...
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    Seeking unbiased advice for a system rebuild

    Ok, so here is the final list: ASUS M3A AM2+/AM2 AMD 770 ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16813131234 AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ Brisbane 2.5GHz 2 x 512KB L2 Cache Socket AM2 65W Dual-Core Processor - Retail...
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    Seeking unbiased advice for a system rebuild

    So for simplicities sake... I need a MOBO that has at least 2 PCIe 2.0 slots that run at 16X? It is confusing, because browsing around NewEgg I see a lot of MOBOs that have just one PCIe slot, but 2 or 3 PCI slots. I must be missing something here... - Deathbliss
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    Seeking unbiased advice for a system rebuild

    OK, thanks for the feedback. I have a question though... Do I need two PCIe X16 slots for a later Crossfire setup? If so then I need to delete my latest board links from my post, and get thoughts on this one instead: ABIT AX78 AM2+/AM2 AMD 770 ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail...
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    Seeking unbiased advice for a system rebuild

    Hey a little update here... I noticed that someone left feedback saying they wished the processor - the 2.9 ghz I linked to - had a 1 meg cache. Anyhow I decided to look for Dual Core processors with larger caches and found this: AMD Athlon X2 5400B 2.8GHz 1MB L2 Cache Socket AM2 65W Dual-Core...
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    Seeking unbiased advice for a system rebuild

    HD4850? So everything you listed should work together? Anyone have any experience - good or bad - with any of these parts? Thanks for all your replies, help, and patience. I understand that you guys probably see a lot of these kinds of posts. For me it was just the quickest way to get...
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    Seeking unbiased advice for a system rebuild

    Ok, so far the ANTEC power supply looks like the one I should get. For RAM I should get 2 - 4 gigs and I'll probably try for a matched set of the ones suggested here. So that leaves me with a few questions... Is there any reason I should not get the MOBO I have linked to? Will that MOBO work...
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    Seeking unbiased advice for a system rebuild

    Thank you for the advice! I want to stick with ASUS because, well because my uncle designed this with well researched parts at the time, and for 2+ years I had no hardware issue whatsoever. I had a stable, reliable rig, which, even at it's old age, could easily run UT 2004 then UT 3. How many 2...
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    Seeking unbiased advice for a system rebuild

    OK, I will try to detail this as clearly as possible. Please keep in mind that loosing my computer is a hard hitting blow as I depend on it. I'm also witting this with a serious headache and I just don't feel very well. Moving on... My third-hand experience on putting together computers goes...