Recent content by Regin

Ah, thank you for enlightening me ! I think I will try it out to see what it's like.

Thank you both for the quick responses ! @ jesterb84 : I don't think I have the insight to go with Linux. I have always been afraid of it when I have the impression that it's only for experts. I know my way around Windows, but I'm not at all into programming. Plus I've heard of some...

I'm not sure how much room I should reserve for the OS. I will be using a single drive and partition it, but it would be regrettable to spend too much space on the OS. Is there any rule of thumb telling how much extra space you need beside the OS in the partition to keep it working properly...

Thanks for the answers. I'm very thorough and cautious as you can tell by my question ! I have done really much to learn a lot about this, and have some competent friends too. But they are not available all the time, and it's almost impossible to find basic knowledge about it all. And I learn...

I'm assembling a rig myself for the first time and I have a noobish question. I was wondering if the type of RAM on the VGA differing from that on the motherboard matters ? The motherboard made for DDR2 and VGA has DDR3..... There's no compatibility problem in that, right ?