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Detail: Sempron2800 on socket754 9600XT 128mb 512mb ram AMD3000 socket939 X600Pro 128mb 512mb ram. Thanks.

Did you screw your mobo down to the case before inserting to graphic card? I heard some people have a problem that (without inserting the graphic card first) their graphic card doesn't align perfectly with the slot at the back of the case. It's better to, insert the card on the mobo, make...

ENERMAX Noisetaker Series 420W (ATX12V v2.0)

Thanks a lot people.

Hi, I have a 5 years old pc running Celeron 500. It uses a ATA66 Quantum 13G HD. It's 5400rpm. Too slow. So I bought a WD 80G 8MB cache HDD, hope to make it a bit faster. Now about the cable. The original one used by the 13G has 40 wires. I know ATA100 harddisk should use 80 wires cable...

I suppose Winnie is best. So how is Newcastle compared to Clawhammer?

Now I see 3 different AMD64 3500 2.2Ghz 512K 400fsb at my local store. They are 1. #ADA3500ASBOX (just came out) 2. #ADA3500BIBOX (slightly more $$) 3. #ADA3500AWBOX Looks like (1) is the new Venice with SSE3 (available now?!), (2) is Winchester, and (3) is Newcastle. Can anyone confirm...

My local store DDR400 and DDR333 512MB ram dropped price 18% suddenly yesterday. The same thing happened for a few other stores, around 15%.

How come I see an entry like "Western Digital Raptor WD740GD (74 GB SATA w/o TCQ) - 585" here at Storage Review (choose any benchmark) ?

I got a MSI mobo (the ATi Xpress200 S939 mATX one) for my friend and I also picked up a Seagate SATA hdd 160G w/NCQ for him. Recently, I read something somewhere that I need to enable the NCQ function (in BIOS?) and hence the mobo needs to support such feature. Is that true? Or is it that you...

Question again: How to identify a 74G raptor w/TCQ from one without? Do they have different product code?

Question from aside: Does it make any sense to put 2 ratpors in RAID1?

I have a Antec SLK3000B case. The front panel power LED cable is a 2pin (but since it has an empty pin between the 2 pins, it has a 3pin size). I thought that is standard. Now I have a MSI RS480 motherboard. The place where it has two rows of pins for me to plug in those front panel things...

Does anyone (e.g. Canadian, Toronto people) know if any store sells those quiet PSU in Toronto? I can only find Nexus's :( Thanks.