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    Full hardware upgrade with Vista

    I'm doing a mostly new build for my brother-in-law. He already has Vista (32-bit) on his current machine and would prefer not to reformat his HD. New CPU, MB, and video card. Can I get alway with that? I've always done completely clean installs since some bad windows 95 issues. Has the OS...
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    Intel Core 2 Duo 6420

    What are the differences between the 6420 and the 6400? (why is it $20 cheaper?) Thanks!
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    4Gig memory problem

    I built two nearly identical rigs back in May Intel Duo 6600 2.4Ghz Conroe Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3 (rev 1.3) 2 gigs Wintec DDR2 800 (1 gig sticks) PNY 8800 GTS 320MB Seagate Barracuda 320G Roswill 600v power supply Asus 18X DVD burners Both running Windows Vista Business 64-Bit (the...
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    Gigabyte Ga-965P-DS3 on board audio (rev 1.3)

    Having audio trouble with the motherboard listed above. Windows media player works fine, full audio. But when I play a game (Supreme commander or Wow) I get some (but not all) of the sound effects, but no voice? Tried installing the lastest drivers from the manufacturer, no change? Any...
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    Raid setup -- Which SATA connectors

    Hey all, setting up a new computer for my wife and want to do my first RAID setup. The motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3 which has 6 SATA connectors. 2 are controlled by gigabyte SATA2 and 4 are controlled by Intel ICH8 controller. Any difference between them? Which do I want my HDs...
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    First time RAID setup

    Setting up a computer for my wife and she just suffered a HD failure (on the old computer). She is terrible about backing up and lost a bunch of photos, etc. I was thinking of setting up a RAID 1 (mirroring correct?) array for her in the new computer, but have never done this. Can anyone...