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I'm building a pretty low (as cheap as possible) system. The MoBo is a micro ATX that has 2 memory slots and supports dual channel memory. It appears that I can install 1 stick of memory (obviously without the dual channel access) or 2 sticks. I am debating which I should do for a 2GB system...

Based on feedback from the Operating system forum, I'm suspecting the MoBo is having a problem. Is it worth trying to salvage anthing from the old system? i.e. power supply, memory, tower etc. Will the old PS (Antec True430) work with the newer MoBos?

I'm suspecting the same thing. Is it worth trying to salvage anthing from the old system? i.e. power supply, memory, tower etc. Will the old PS (Antec True430) work with the newer MoBos?

I ran the Western Digital diagnostics from the CD. Although it seemed to take a very long time to boot up the diagnostics, once they were loaded the HDD was found and both the quick test and the extended test found no problems. If there was a memory or CPU problem, would the Bios POST test...

I changed the jumper on the CD Rom drive to Master and it now shows as IDE2 Master in the Bios, but XP setup still does not see the HDD. I also ran the Western Digital diagnostics from the CD. Although it seemed to take a very long time to boot up the diagnostics, once they were loaded the HDD...

I'm trying to recycle an old Epox 8k5a3+ MoBo into a usable basic system for a friend. I am only using the IDE channels with one dedicated to a single 120G HDD and the other to a CD Rom drive. I also have floppy drive in the system connected to the FDD controller. Nothing is connected to the...

I'm trying to recycle an old Epox 8k5a3+ MoBo into a usable basic system for a friend. I am only using the IDE channels with one dedicated to a single 120G HDD and the other to a CD Rom drive. I also have floppy drive in the system connected to the FDD controller. Nothing is connected to the...

I have two 1TB drives in my new system. I am trying to decide if I should use Raid 1 for redundancy or use them as seperate drives and do nightly incremental backups. The Raid 1 option benefits, as I see it, are up to the minute redundancy and some improvement in read times. The seperate...

The recovery disk does give me the opportunity to load the Raid drivers and I do that. The problem is that the recovery program still tells me it can't find a disk to restore to. Could it be that the disk has to be the exact same one that was backed up?

I just built a new system with 2 Samsung 1TB drives and a Fantom USB backup drive. I initially had the internal drives configured as seperate drives in the mobo bios. I installed Windows 7 and some primary applications and used Windows 7 backup to create a system image backup on the Fantom...

So, are you saying the ASUS with the DDR3 would be the better card for the price?

Newegg now has the EVGA 512-P3-1242-LR GeForce GT 240 Superclocked 512MB 128-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready Video Card on sale for $39 after a $35 rebate and $3 shipping. From the comments above abot the DDR5 memory, this would be the better performer. How does EVGA compare to ASUS...

Is it worth the $40 to replace the onboard ATI Radeon HD 4290 with the GT240?

Newegg is selling the ASUS ENGT240/DI/1GD3/A GeForce GT 240 1GB card today for $40 after rebate. Is this a good deal to go in my new Gigabyte 890GPA-UD3H motherboard? I'm not a heavy game player although I do use MS Flight Simulator occasionally.

Well I hit the submit button. GIGABYTE GA-890GPA-UD3H G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 4GB DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Model F3-12800CL9D-4GBRL AMD Phenom II X6 1055T Thuban 125W Retail Now I can't wait to get the pieces and put it together. Thanks for all your help and guidance. I'm sure I'll...