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Thanks a lot, took about 5 minutes on the phone and all is perfect now^^

They'll give me a new key for free? o.O

I just came back from a lan party. On the first boot, it didn't detect my dvd drive, and then, when I rebooted, all was fine except for one thing: Windows XP asked me to reactivate it because too many hardware changes were made on that product key. I enter my key and it says it's invalid because...

Thanks, it's good to know. And no, lol, I don't have that setup. I'm going for an E6400 and a X1900GT(maybe X1900XT 256Mb).

I've read that future directX10 video cards will be power hogs. I was looking at the 500W Enermax Liberty(I think this is quality stuff) and I was wondering if it'll be enough for an upgrade. Roughly 2 years down the road I'll probably do the switch to Vista/DX10 and I don't want to have to...

I checked on the sizes for ATI so far. The X1300 and X1600 series cards are surprisingly identical in size. You can put a medium end card in those no problem.

http://www1.ca.dell.com/content/product..._performance?c=ca&cs=CADHS1&l=en&s=dhs The Dimension 9200C caught my eye with its form factor. Are there any cases out there of the same size for building a custom PC? All the small ones I've seen are desktop types(horizontal old school) or cubic...

Well, high-quality textres today probably use between 128 and 256MB. If you add the several samples of each texture that the video-card takes for good AF, I'm guessing it could rack up past 256MB. Then again, I might be wrong (I don't claim to be all that knolegable).

I plan on making my next PC a 'future-proof'(if that's possible) gaming rig. The basics are a dual-core cpu and 2GB of ram. All my choices for the parts are made except for the video-card. 7800GT vs X1900XT. I know that the latter is literally twice as powerful on the benchmarks but I don't...