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well that all depends on what you are trying to do and how much patience that you have to learn. If you want to try and get a job doing it, then you are probably going to want to look into getting a MCSP (microsoft certified solutions provider). If you are just wanting to mess around, then you...

For a while AMD was packaging all of the Athlons as slot A. Slot cpu's are more expensive to manufacture since you have to make the Slot pcb in addition to the cpu. Thunderbirds were originally only going to be Socket A since the only reason that athlons had been using a slot was due to the L2...

A couple of weeks ago my FIC-PA2013 Rev2.0 2mb MVP3 super socket 7 board just gave out. I think it was the AGP port dying from the power drain of the video card. (If you look on their website and a few others, you can find that such problems did exist. They usually advise against using GOOD...

(This *might* have something to do with it): FIC mb's have problems running video cards with 16mb of ram or more. If you read their website (http://www.fica.com), you can find that there are significant problems with the ATX equivalent of your mb (the pa-2013). The problem has to do with the...