Recent content by Johnsernickle

I'll look more into the Asus board. The things I don't like about it are its audio riser and its $50 price premium. The layout otherwise is real nice though. I hear good things about g. skill ram. The geil looks real good but I am still open for suggestions. What optical drives do you guys...

Thanks for the info on the 9700 and ram. I think the ASUS board is obnoxious, and even though it makes me cry to have an EVGA board everyone seems to love it and it seems high quality. I wish DFI released a board already.... Any other RAM recommendations? I'll Look into the pc-7b cases, I love...

I'm building my first new rig in a long time. I'm still rockin' the Athlon XP 2500+. I feel its about time for an upgrade. Heres my basic plan, tell me what you think. Recommendations welcome EVGA 680i Mother Board http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813188009 Intel Core...

I have been contemplating building a new computer for a long time now, And i never know when i should take the leap. I Guess alot of my desision of stalling has been waiting for DX10 hardware and Socket M2. Do you think these technologies will be worth waiting for, or do think they will be...

I have the following system Athlon XP Mobile 2500+ @ 2.4Ghz 1024 MB PC3200 DDR Asus A7N8X Rev. 2.0 Radeon 9600 Pro WD 1200JB 120Gb HDD 7,200 8MB I am thinking about upgrading my graphics card this christmas to a 6800GT AGP, but I was wondering if anyone had any better...

I actually just tried an Antec 350 i knew to be working fine to no avail. I already changed the CMOS battery and that too made no diffrence. My mobo already has the newest BIOS, so it has nothing to do with that. Thanks alot, Petes

Hey, Im working on building a computer for my mom, and i was able to scrounge up enough spare parts from my friends to build her a pretty decent system. Here are the specs: kt3 Ultra2-C : Via kt333 msi Athlon 1.2 @ 1.33 256Mb PC2100 2-2-2-5 1t 10gb WD 7,200 2Mb Nvidia Vanta 8Mb Aopen NIC...