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I just built up my new college computer and I have everything installed including Windows XP. Everything works fine except when I install a new program and it promts to restart the system. The screen goes blank like its going to restart but then it just stops. The computer itself stays on, but...

Well, I put the MSI board on since it was ranked #1 new board by toms hardware and is backed up by consistantly good scores in tests and I dont need an SLI board cause I'm not going to be buying two video cards anytime soon. The memory I messed up when I said 2GB. That was a different setup...

I have a $2000 budget for my College Computer, so I went to Newegg.com and put this system together. Tell me what you think: AMD Athlon 4000+ San Diego Core (Socket 939) MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum nForce 4 Ultra (Socket 939) Gigabyte Geforce 6800GT 256mb PCI-Express GeIL Value 2GB (4x512) DDR 400...

For your RAM there are many things to look for. First the speed is an important factor. Most RAM now days is PC3200, but the more dated less expensive PC2700 RAM is fine, too. Another thing to look for is the latency or CAS latency. Genrally you want a low # latency. Good brands to look at are...

Airflow is a fairly important thing in terms of keeping a computer cool. The airflow can determine the operating heat of a processor. Like aj2003 said, its the movement of air into your case, over your components, and then out of the case. In general you want more air going out of the case than...

Well, anyways I got my card back up and running, now I'm running full force with my Radeon 9700 Pro. I simply went down to FRYs and got a capacitor with higher capacity (330) but the same voltage. After asking around I found out that this would work for a replacement so I soldered it on and low...

Don't expect your scores to get too high. 2800-3200 seems right for a comp like yours. I was at FRY's the other day and they had a computer with the Nvidia 6800 Ultra, Athlon 64 3700+, Watercooled, and with four sticks of what Im assuming was dual channel 512MB (=2GB) RAM since I couldnt see the...

Intel...Max...Games...HA!! You'll never be able to get max GAMING performance out of an Intel. If you want maxed gaming then you better start looking at an AMD Athlon 64-FX. And if you cant afford one of those, go with an Athlon 64 3000+, its faster than the pentium and its pretty cheap. As...

Ya, I would suggest that if you want a good custom budget computer that you dont have to build yourself, then go with cyberpowersystems.com. My friend and I did the math once and figured out that you are only paying a couple hundred dollars more there than if you were to buy the components and...

The old one is too smashed to use it. Capacitors, i know, are supposed to stay the same shape to work properly. If they become bent or cracked the delicate plates within them become distorted and no longer function properly.

Go to this link to see comparison charts on all the top VGA cards, including the 6600GT and the 9800 Pro: http://graphics.tomshardware.com/graphic/20041004/vga_charts-04.html Looking at these should help you in a desicion

Getting this thread back on topic If you really want to know the performance differences between the 6800 GT and the 6800 Ultra vistit this link: http://graphics.tomshardware.com/graphic/20041004/vga_charts-04.html It will take you to Tom's Hardware, where they have tested the latest batch of...

I have no idea how it happend. I just looked down and it was sitting there. But thats besides the point. I need help finidng a new capacitor.

I need help with my Radeon 9700 Pro. One day I was working on my computer and I went to close it up, but it did't close. I tried harder since sometimes that works, but still nothing. When I went to go find out what the problem was I found a small bent up Capacitor from my video card, which had...

My computer (Mac LC III) has been acting up lately and I was wondering what was wrong. So I opened the case to find the picture below Is it fixable? Any suggestions?