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    How far away are the SATA3 Drives?

    I am planning to buy a couple of large capacity hard drives to expand and reorganise my media collection. I see a lot of noise being made about SATA3 and USB3 being much faster then the current lot. Most of the new motherboards also seem to have these. But I cant seem to find many HDDs with...
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    DDR2 533 on a 667 motherboard

    Hello I am looking for a motherboard upgrade. Is there backward support for DDR 2 533 ram on a motherboard that has the 667 as the lowest speed for RAM? I'm not really keen to dish out extra for RAM if I can keep my perfectly working 2GB DDR2 533 speed rams. Not thinking of overclocking...
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    ATI HD 3870 with Asrock 4CoreDual-SATA2 MoBo?

    Anyone here using the ATI HD 3870 with Asrock 4CoreDual-SATA2 MoBo (Bios 1.80)? Would it be possible to give some feedback on: How easy is it to setup? What is the performance like. Any luck at all with Vista? Which manufacturer/Brand are you using...
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    Looking for a new monitor

    Hello, Thinking about buying a Monitor. Had been considering the Samsung Pebble 22" and the HP W2207h. My initial preference was the Samsung. But after having a hands on experience of both at PCWorld, I must admit I am leaning more towards the HP. The design and the adjustable stand is just...
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    Power Supply recommandation

    Hello everyone, I am in the process of gradually upgrading my PC. My current specs are as follows: Intel E4500 @ 2.8GHz with AC Freezer Pro 7 cooler ASRock 4 CoreDual-SATA2 533MHz DDR2 2GB RAM ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB AGP 3 SATA and 1 IDE HDDs Creative Audigi 2 Value PCI One PCI...
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    Hard drive partition question

    Hello all, Previously while partitioning a disk under DOS, the options were to create a primary and an extended partition with options of having multiple logical drives in the extended partition. Now in the Disk Manager of XP or Vista, I can see that although the option of extended partition...