Recent content by KillaKilla

A more open exhaust, either through a larger pipe or more open muffler, will help fuel economy and improve mileage. I'm assuming it's naturally aspirated, so a turbocharger would also increase fuel economy by increasing the air pressure on the intake side. A more open intake can also help...

Bump; Moreso I'm asking if it could also be the mainboard (though it was properly reporting HDD activity) or the CPU.

System: Know working parts, from previous build: Antec True power 450 watt Hard drives (SATA) Optical drive(PATA) Sound Card (Audigy, original) New parts: Thermaltake Graphic Card PSU (250 watt) MSI 8800 GTS (640MB, with PCI-E power connector) Asus P5B-E Core 2 Due E6600 OCZ plat...

Building a new system for the holidays. I will be ordering the case/PSU today and the rest on 12/10. It is entirely for gaming, nothing more and nothing (hopefully) less. I have a budget of about $1100. Total system power draw is of no consequence (power is a flat rate/included in rent), and It...

Offical page Newegg's page PCmag review Note that I will be using it primarily for gaming, but I cannot afford a monitor too much more expensive than this one. I do, of course, have a DVI on my video card (9700 pro), if that matters. It's $180 after mail-in rebate, which I'm willing to...

My Abit Kv8's northbridge chipset cooling fan died, and it doesn't have any heatsink (just a spreader and the fan) so it is, of course, overheating. Can this be replaced from a general retailer(Newegg, ZZF, etc.) or do I need the specific part from Abit? IE will a NB heatsink (such as This...

The exact motherboard can be found Here. The CPU And I don't know the RAM, but it's DDR400 at stock speeds and latency. STORY I have a problem in that my CPU is running too hot (65C under load) and I'd like it to run a bit cooler. I figure I can accomplish this with a simple...

Looking for a video card, at roughly $50, that will work in: Athlon 3000+ 512MB of DDR-333 It's an eMachine bought as a budget rig about a year ago. It has an AGP slot, probobly 4x

Will it see a USB floppy as drive A: ? I've already tried using a CD with the drivers on it, it doesn't work. I was putting it in the floppy slot, it has about 30 pins as opposed to the 40 on stantard IDE. The problem is in the slot - it has one too many pins. There is supposed to be a...

I might be able to borrow a USB floppy, but will the installer support that? I have spare floppy drives and cables, but the motherboard's floppy connector doesn't fit them, it has a pin in a place it shouldn't (compared to other MBs)

How might I do this? All slipstream guides seem to be for service packs, not drivers.

I've recently recieved a brand-spanking-new Seagate 7200.7 80GB. Unfortunately, I got an SATA drive. Which is now biting me, my installation of WinXP, and my patience in their proverbial arses. I pressed F6 at the start of the install, aand it came up with a message to insert the disk...

Not shure - never used anything but PATA for storage. Just wondering whether or not it would interfere. I'd assume that SATA is bootable, but not entirely shure about NCQ compatability with older non-NCQ boards.

I did a search and it turned up people having problems with a solo SATA disk - getting "no IDE HDD installed" errors and such. I'm considering Seagate's 7200.7 SATA150 NCQ, as I plan on using this drive for atleast 5 years. I was wondering : will having SATA or NCQ make this drive unable to...

Nothing? (Bump)