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    Upgrade Graphics Card for older Motherboard

    Interesting. I guess I waited too long to do the card upgrade. I thought I could build the system and it would last five years before I would build another one for "me". In the final couple of years, I'd upgrade the ram (done), the optical drive (done), the hdds (done), and the Graphics Card...
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    Upgrade Graphics Card for older Motherboard

    Interesting - and I just read your rig specs. "All running on a 350 watt psu". This is too funny. Oh well, I got a heluva lot of power for future upgrades. Where do you get the info that the 4650 is 3x faster than x800xl? So the 4870 that I bookmarked months ago and the 5870 just...
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    Upgrade Graphics Card for older Motherboard

    Really? That's funny. I don't mind since I regularly have reason to laugh at myself, but that's too funny. When I had 380W, the computer regularly shut down, and from this very forum, I came for info and I was led to believe that my system was underpowered. Since it was only $100, I thought...
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    Upgrade Graphics Card for older Motherboard

    Yeah sorry, I meant to say it's an ASUS EAX800XL Graphics Card (aka AX800XL). I missed the X in front of the 800 and the XL after the number. I don't usually do that, so I must be getting tired of reading. It's been a while since I researched cards. And I thought I could keep the mobo and...
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    Upgrade Graphics Card for older Motherboard

    Well, with 4 Hard Drives, 4 banks of Ram, 2 optical drives, 1 floppy drive and memory card reader, in addition to the Graphics Card, I just thought it was sensible to upgrade the 380W PSU I had to something more substantial like the 750W PSU I have now. I thought it was a wise decision actually...
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    Upgrade Graphics Card for older Motherboard

    I have an ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe motherboard bought in 2005, with an ASUS EA800 GPU, and a new 750W PSU. I want to give this system a couple more upgrades before investing in a completely new system. The ASUS EA800 (256MB) card I want to upgrade is a GDDR3 card. I want to buy the most...
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    Will a SATA DVD drive hook up anywhere on old mobo?

    I have a 3 year old ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe motherboard with 4 SATA connections (NVidia controller) and 4 SATA connections (Silicon controller), intended (as per the manual) to install 4 internal hard disk drives and 4 external hard disk drives if necessary. I have filled up the 4 internal hard...
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    My PC is dying a slow painful death

    Check this app. out. It will tell you all about your computer - http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html Check out "NextSensor" for advanced monitoring / reporting of hardware performance - http://cbid.amdclub.ru/ It appears that you have ample power, but that doesn't mean the PSU is not...
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    Question about Firefox... Can I "merge" my settings from two installations?

    First be sure that you have the latest stable version of Firefox running on the target machine (in this case the cruzer). Locate the profile folder (which is usually located) at START - My Computer - Local Disk (C:) - Documents and Settings - All Users - Application Data - Mozilla - Firefox...
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    XP START - All Programs lists wrong programs

    Thanks for the tips piasabird and Baloo. All the users are family members, two with Limited Accounts. We don't want all the PROGRAMS to be available to the children easily through the Start menu. So ALL the programs are made available to the parents but not the children. By clicking START -...
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    video playback color messed up

    I have an ASUS EAX800XL Graphics Card (2005), and everything was fine until Christmas 2006, about a month after I bought Nero 7. The Problem: Whenever playing videos in Nero and Media Player Classic (but not Windows Media Player), the picture has blurry colored stripes. Nero Showtime was...
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    XP START - All Programs lists wrong programs

    Of course you're right. An oversight. Hopefully this will explain and be helpful to someone. The Problem: When I click START - All Programs, the list displayed is not my (user account) list, but is my wife's. When I download a program, it asks me whether I want it to create a shortcut in...
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    XP START - All Programs lists wrong programs

    Thanks anyways everyone, but i finally figured out the solution myself. (Thanks to those of you who have read this post.) At first I was totally surprised that no one at (what I feel is) the best computer and tech forum could tell me the solution or help me find the solution, but I had sent...
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    XP START - All Programs lists wrong programs

    I bought a couple of new hard drives. After reinstalling Windows XP Pro and setting up the family's 4 User Accounts, I noticed that when I click on START - All Programs, Windows displays my wife's list of All Programs instead of mine. I have more Administrative type programs in my All Programs...
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    The Power Supply Thread

    Yes there is Johnny. Got your A8N-SLI Deluxe owner's manual handy? Page 2-3 has the section 2.2.3 Motherboard layout, showing a b/w sketch of the mobo. Over on the left, just above the LED warning light, is the 3 pin connection, marked PWR FAN. The Antec TruePower380 that came with this Sonata...
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    The Power Supply Thread

    Excellent thread. Made me realize I needed to replace my Antec TruePower 380 which was totally inadequate. Got the new OCZ GameXStream 700 Watt ATX Power Supply. The OCZ came without any installation instructions whatsoever. Now I'm not a complete novice, but I've never replaced a psu with a...
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    Installing a New Power Supply

    I too have built my own computer but this is the first time I have swapped out an old PSU with a more modern power supply. I have an ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe, AMD 4000 64 bit CPU, two SATA HDDs, and an ASUS EAX800XL GPU that does not require a power source other than the motherboard. I had an...
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    The Power Supply Thread

    This is how the paragraph looked that I read: I noticed that he recommends an OCZ too, AND he recommends any one of the SLI approved power supplies on nVidia's website. I've also read his reviews and noticed that he recommends a number of power supply units that have passed pretty close...
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    The Power Supply Thread

    Feedback? Well it consumed a night of my life. :) Yeah, it was good. very good information, great link and I've got a bit of a list going now. Forced to really, since I found out that there is some kind of Freak Power Supply issue involving Antec modular PSU - the NeoHE series (the one I...
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    The Power Supply Thread

    Yes a very interesting read, especially this point: I guess I wasted alot of time and space with my questions. Still, it would have been nice to know everything there is to know about all the other rails too. Even if the major drop in the ratings (as I pointed out in my post above) for the...
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    The Power Supply Thread

    This is my first post. After a long search, I came across this thread in this forum (a site I have had bookmarked for a year because I used to subscribe to CPU, but I had rarely returned to it), and I was initially convinced that this thread was going to answer all my questions. Although it...