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    WD Hard drive making noises

    My Western Digital Caviar SE16 has been making a noise every once and awhile, and at shut down. It sounds like a hard drive going into sleep mode I think. I backed everything up and tested it with WD's diagnostic tools and during the shorter test and the beginning of the full test the hard...
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    New build

    Mobo: ASRock M3A770DE AM3 AMD 770 ATX CPU: AMD Athlon II X3 435 Rana 2.9GHz 3 x 512KB L2 Cache Socket AM3 RAM: G.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) GPU: XFX HD-577X-ZNFC Radeon HD 5770 1GB Subtotal: $404 I already have a case, PSU (500 W, pretty sure its good yet)...
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    Upgrading my PC

    These are my current specs: RAM: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820145177 CPU: Intel C2D E6400 2.13 GHz PSU: 500W Enermax Liberty GPU: 8800GT 512M Mobo: ASUS P5N-E (LGA 775, DDR2) I feel like the CPU and RAM are the weakest links in my system. Here is what I've come up...
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    too many processes?

    I'm running on Vista and I feel like I have way to many processes running. When I open up task manager, it says around 65-70, and that's when I'm just listening to music, chatting, browsing the web. I'm not sure what the normal amount of processes is for Vista, but I remember it being a lot...
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    Devices not recognized

    So, I just built a new computer, everything got up fine. I got done setting it up and installing everything, everything worked. Then I started to tweak some stuff... I'm almost positive where I went wrong was disabling some things in the device manager. After awhile I noticed my speakers...
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    First Build :D

    Well as the title says, this is my first build. Please give your suggestions and tell me if anything is wrong or incompatible. I'm trying to keep this low on price, around 1K and I think I might get a lower motherboard and maybe even graphics card... What do you think? Processor...
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    Motherboard for new system

    I've been lookin around for motherboards as I am about to build my first computer soon :) I haven't really settled on one yet but I'll tell you what I want from it and see if you guys can give me any good suggestions. I will be getting a C2D E6400. I will be using this PC for gaming, but...