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I put together a Quadcore system based on the Asus P5W last December. I can provide the rest of the specs, but I'm not sure they would matter. It has been working great up until a month ago when two issues cropped up. First, the onboard sound would intermittently stop working. Not on...

Your processor is multiplier locked. This means that the only way you will be able to overclock is by increasing the bus speed of the entire system. Processor speed = mobo bus speed x processor multiplier To make this more complicated, the motherboard's bus speed is also used to determine...

RAID 5 max disk space = (n-1) * size of smallest drive where n = number of hard drives example 3 x 250 GB hard drives setup in RAID 5 would give you max storage of 500 GB adding an additional 120 GB hard drive to this equation would gimp the storage to 360 GB theoretically, no limit to...

Hey all, Not sure if this was the correct place to post, I am new to these forums. So my apologies in advance if this is misplaced. I am looking to build a single PC to act as a media player and file server. It will be running Linux (/w MythTV), maybe Windows Media Center or Vista in the...

Oh, and before you point at the PSU, its a brand new 600 Watt Coolmax. Also, checked system temps, everything is fine there as well, so not an overheating problem either.

Hello, Just built a new system, but can't get it to go into SLI mode. The multi-GPU option exists, but does not allow you to enable it, stating that there are not two compatible SLI capable video cards. Here's the specs: AMD Opteron 170 DFI Lanparty NF4 SLI-DR 2gb PC3200 DDR (2x1 gb)...