Recent content by fastcat314

I haven't built a pc in over 10yrs so bare with me. I want my pc to be used for surfing the internet, and a dvr. My budget is cheapest thing possible so I will be buying my parts off of Craigslist, lol (and I'm serious). I found this mb XFX 8200 Geforce motherboard and a amd phenom II 965...

Ok, well I haven't really played around with pc hardware in about 10 yrs. So I need a crash course in mbs and cpus. I seen a XFX 8200 Geforce motherboard mb, it has an hdmi out, and I also found a phenom II 965 QUAD core. Would this be sufficient? What's the deal with the cores? I'm...

Is that for a built-in vid card?

Ok looks like ill build a new pc. And yea it will he a very cheap one. And when I say digital cable, I'm just referring to the cable wire running straight to the tv, no boxes, and the only hd channels are local stations. So would I still need a special cable card, or what everything be plug...

Ok I have an older pc it has an amd sempron 2800 (1.8ghz), 1gb ram (2gb max), and a geforce tc 5900 ultra vid card (256 ram). Running xp. All I want to do is surf the web, watch movies, and record digital cable. Is my system fast enough? Or do I need to upgrade it start from scratch. I want...