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Several. Played baseball with a kid named "Jimmy Weeney". Went to school with a "Candy Sprinkles" Had a customer with a last name of Poonpoolpoke. Another one was a Gangh Bang. No lie.

It was actually the wife's idea.

I use the Brown Laminate Folding tables myself. No need to ever buy a desk. :)

A lot of the ram manufacturers have their own memory selectors available. Patriot, Corsair, Crucial. Takes a lot of the guesswork out of it. Also going that route will typically save you money, especially versus going through the manufacturer's ram pricing. Patriot Crucial Corsair

Yeah, they are getting better availablity. Of course just in time as I decide to sell mine on Ebay because I never play it. :) Not trying to profit, just trying to get enough for a Xbox 360 instead.

Yes, the Powersupply is the least glamourus item to look at, however almost any random problem can stem from it. I had a personal machine that would come up with errors such as: Memtest Errors CPU Overclock Error on POST Windows BSOD Swapped out the PSU to an Enermax Noisetaker, system...

Well, you're pretty much looking to change the ram as well unless you stick with socket 939. (DDR versus DDR2) Also, do you have AGP or PCI-e for video? If you stick 939, you're going to need a 4000+ to equal your performance (2.4ghz, 1 meg cache) as far as a single core chip. Obviously, you...

Pretty much all of the 1 meg Cache per Core 939 pin cpus went EOL by AMD a long time ago. You gained some clock speed (200mhz, but lost half the cache) Some applications will be slightly faster, some will be slightly slower. It's pretty much a toss up IMO.

Yeah, look at the standoffs. It does sound like its grounding out. Some servers we had to use a Mylar shield because of the small clearance between the board and case.

Yeah, the DRAM setting was commonly set too low to 100mhz. Back when Socket A was very popular, we'd get at least 2 calls a week about it.

Decent ram, no rebate. Link I also second the opinion of going integrated video on the motherboard. Abit or Asus are what I'd recommend. Hard drive, 250 is the sweet spot currently as previously stated.

Better deal on Ram, no rebate: Link The power supply itself should have the ratings on it, it may be on the top of it so I'd take out the power supply to check. That will tell you if that will handle the upgraded video card. Anything in the 300-350w range should handle the updated components.

When I was at Monarch we did a ton of systems with the OCZ GameXstreams, never had any issues with them. 700w

The Freezer 64 Pro is pretty decent. I also had good results with the Thermaltake CL-P0200 cooler as well.

Depends on what you want to spend. Is it a socket 939 board or socket 754? 939 board you have other choices as far as cpus go, you may not have to gut everything. What video card do you have? PCI-e or AGP?