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    New Video Card on an aging system

    Ok I may be sold on the 'upgrade' even though I swore I'd never go through the hassle again lol. Since I have everyones attention let me ask what everyone thinks of this and if it will run Vista Ultimate. I have a copy so no need to buy it. SAPPHIRE 100226L Radeon HD 3850 512MB 256-bit GDDR3...
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    New Video Card on an aging system

    My system has always been able to run very smooth playing HL2/WoW and even Doom III it just seems as though the Radeon's going south. Are you saying don't waste the money period? Not even on a new - let's say - 512/128bit card? The 512 and 256 cards with 128bit buses are a lot cheaper. Starting...
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    New Video Card on an aging system

    I'm running an AMD Athlon 2700+ with 2.5gb ddr333 RAM and a Radeon 9700pro vid card. I'm shopping for another card because the Radeon's about ready to die and I'd like to stretch this system out another 18 or so months. I'm still debating on this as well because I'd really like to upgrade to an...
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    Dimension e510 and XP Pro trouble

    So after pulling the internal battery and reloading another copy of WinXP minus any service pack it worked. Installed each service pack, AV, FW....etc...I ran some more diagnostics and the only problem I found was with his 2gb stick of memory. It failed both memtests. His systems working now so...
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    Dimension e510 and XP Pro trouble

    @Harvey - He didn't delete the Dell partition but I did. I deleted and formatted everything including the MBR with Partition Manager. @robisbell - I used the same XP disk for several other systems with SATA drives and have had zero issues. I can give the SATA drivers a shot after this latest...
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    Dimension e510 and XP Pro trouble

    Buddy of mine gave me his Dell Dimension E510 to work on due to some hardware conflicts. He had a couple BSOD/Stop errors and after messing with it he decided to go on his own and rebuild it without his system restore disk. He wiped his HDD including the Dell system restore section and it still...