Recent content by nathanfrenk

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    MSI KT6V-LSR - com patibility with ultra ATA

    i'm sorry, but what do you mean by that?
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    memory upgrading - problems

    hi, well, i was trying to install new memory dimms, but something went wrong (i'm afraid one of the times i tried to push them in - i mean PUSH, it was really hard to get them in.. and yes, they were in the right position - i might have left the no-break on, and i'm afraid the slots, or...
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    MSI KT6V-LSR - com patibility with ultra ATA

    hi, i would like to know if this motherboard (or any other wich has SATA interface) is backwards compatible with ultra ATA. thank you very much!
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    newbie guide

    thanks a lot for the really detailed answer! by the way, which psu would you recommend (brand and model) as being a CHEAP (ok, i don't mean THAT cheap, but i plan on spending on it as little as i can), reliable one? thanks
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    newbie guide

    thanks everyone for all the answers! just to explain it, i wrote "mount a rig" because, as you can see, i'm not that fluent in english, though i'm happy that at least you have understood what i meant, lol by the way, montag451, why do you think i should buy a new psu (i mean, what are the...
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    newbie guide

    Hi, i plan on buying and mounting a gaming rig for me, and i have some questions.... 1st: do you know of any detailed, newbie-aimed, guide for mounting the comp from scratch? (considering that i know pretty much only the really basic stuff (and by that, i mean BASIC) 2nd: i was reading the...
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    buying bare drives HDs

    thanks a lot! by the way, do you think i may need a better power source, considering that i probably wont OC (considering that i simply dont know how to do it, lol)
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    buying bare drives HDs

    Hi everyone! I wanna buy and build my new computer, so I've been looking up each part in sites like zipzoomfly and newegg. However, i'm no computer specialist, and i've found out that these sites only sell HDs as bare drives. Well, i've looked up what that meant, and found out that they come...
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    gaming processor

    I'm sure this is a completely newbie'ish question, but what are the differences/similarities between the AMD Athlon and Opteron CPUs? Thanks
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    gaming processor

    Hi everyone! I wanna build a new machine, mainly for gaming, and I would like to know which CPU you guys would recommend (considering price and performance): Intel or AMD, single or dual-core, etc. Thanks a lot
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    DDR2 and AMD

    Thanks!
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    DDR2 and AMD

    Hi everybody! I've read something in Anandtech about future AMD CPUs suppporting DDR2. Does that mean that the current AMD 64 and 64 X2 don't work with DDR2. I'm only asking this because, from what I've seen, DDR2 seems to be actually cheaper than DDR. Thanks!
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    Nvidia motherboard - ATI videocard?

    Thanks a lot for all the help!
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    Nvidia motherboard - ATI videocard?

    Hi, can anyone tell me if I can use a NForce4 motherboard (with or without SLI) with ATI video cards (with or without Crossfire)? Thanks a lot