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    Building new gaming PC

    Hi! First here's the quick infos... The PC will be use for gaming, internet and movies. My budget is 1000-1100$. I will be buying the parts from Canada. I have no brand preference. I intend on using my old monitor, keyboard, mouse and speakers. I have searched and/or read...
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    New gaming computer

    Hi! I've been wanting to build a new pc for two months and now that the venice are here I think it's time. This pc will be mainly for games and I don't plan on overclocking. I want it to be stable and not too noisy. Here's what i'm thinking of building: MB : ASUS A8N-E : I don't need...
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    My soon to be new computer, do you think it's good?

    Hi! I once thought of going the S734-AGP route but now i've finally decided that it would be better to go for S939-PCIE since the price are lower than I expected. Here's what i'm thinking of buying : CPU : AMD ATHLON 64 3500+ ***Changed to 3200+*** MB : I want an Nforce4 board without...
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    Will this computer be good for at least 2 years?

    ***UPDATE*** I just realised that some prices have drop for the components below and I have also decided to try to build this computer myself so in total I have 175$CAN (about 150$US) that I can use to make this pc better. Tell me what I should do and keep in mind that the main goal is...
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    Computer instability in games... I need help!

    ***UPDATE*** I have find the problem! I tried testing my system with just one stick of ram and it goes perfectly.. prime95, 3dmark03, games, everything works fine. I've tried both stick of rams individually and they both work fine and they get no errors in memtest86 but as soon as I put them...
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    Computer won't boot after installing a new stick of ram

    ****UPDATE**** I found out that my new ram is actually a PC3200 with CAS3 contrary to my old ram which is a PC2700 with CAS2.5. Could you just confirm that there's a good possibility of this being the source of my problem? Thanks a lot. Hi! I just installed a new 512mb stick of PC2700...
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    Mobile 2500 overclocking problems

    First off sorry for my poor english.. it's not my first language. Now here's my system: CPU: Mobile 2500 HSF: Vantec Aeroflow with AS5 CASE: Antec SX630-II with SL300S 300 W Power supply MB: MSI KT3 Ultra2 RAM: 2x512MB PC2700 VIDEO: Leadtek GeForce 4 TI4200 The temperature is about 43C cpu...
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    Weird cpu problem

    Hi! I've read this forum for a long time and I know there's some people with a lot of knowledge on computers so I hope somebody can help me.. BTW sorry for my poor english but it's not my first language. So here it goes.. yesterday I open my case to put some new fans because my cpu was...