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So it's been about 4 years since I've built a comp, and it's almost time for a new one. Looking at getting an AMD chip again, most likely the AMD Phenom II X4 940 Black Edition. But the only problem I'm having is what's the best mobo out for this chip? I've been using this asus mobo forever...

Just bought the benq G2400WD 24IN Widescreen. No dead pixels or anything but quick question about the brightness. The top is darker then the bottom, no matter how i look at it. I have been playing around with it and when the bottom of the screen gets dark, the top is just way too dark to see...

So, just got this new lap top for school the Lenovo 3000 n200. Basic run down, duo 1.5 ghz, 1 gig mem, 150 gig hd and a pretty crappy video card. Anyways, i was supprized they put windows vista on it, but if anyone else has this laptop, the software bundle is HUGE. they added so much crap to...

might be the wrong forum sorry! trying to help my friend, this is whats going on: I'm trying to get my other computer fixed. What happens is all a sudden (usually in wow but not always) I'll hear a sound like the computer is working harder, then the screen goes dark and the monitor light...

i'm out of ideas on this one i have my own network, 3 computers on one wireless-g linksys router that went to the net. Now that i am moveing, i cut off the net to my network and for now am useing wireless from upstairs. Allso note that it's my friends network upstairs, he allso has the same...

A friend as a computer at home that will load and start up, but will not go into windows. it sits at a black screen where it should be saying its loading windows. tried putting in xp cd and reinstalling xp, it gets to scanning hardware and freezes, tryed safe mode, pulled out and switched around...

Allright I run a file server, on a aptiva 400 p2 300-someodd ram cant rember with a 60 gig and a 120 gig. The 60 gig is atleast 4 years old, the 120 is about 1 year. Today it started to reboot its self. The 60 gig has Windows on it and the 120 is the slave, but today forsome resone the 60 gig...

I have a question about hooking up a firewall w/ my network. I want to put a fire wall up, but I have 4 computers. now I was wondering if I can use my old 200 mhz and run a line from my modem to it, have the firewall on that, then take another line from that computer to my router, and would it...

We have a home net work with a wireless router, ever thing works great! i have a server and my main rig hooked up to it with network wires, but my moms laptop is wireless. My server has a printer and she needs to print so I gave her a login to my server so she can send it to it to print. The...

My friend is haveing a weird error, he bought doom3 ROE and after a about 20 mins or so the hole map gose black but the lights, like this: specs: pentium 4 2.8 Ghz 512 SDRAM geforce 4 ti 4600 128 MB w/ the last drivers I have searched around but dont see anything like it anyone...

After looking at the SPARKLE 350W and OCZ POWERSTREAM 420, the price is way off on them. Was wondering what one would be best for my system? (in sig) + about 4 case fans and cpu fan + maybe something later. Sparkle is $55.33 CAD and the OCZ is $110.94 CAD, but if I only need 350 then i could...

My HD fried and I am starting to look for a new one. I can't buy a Raptor becuz im short on cash, should I buy SATA or IDE? looking at Ncix and cant seem to deside, dont need a huge drive no more then 100 gig - thanks for any sugestions

any on-line retailers sell Fortron 500w Blue Storm power supplys in canada? been looking for a new one and I came to like this one, but can't find it in canada or a store that will ship to canada :(

Last night I was dusting my computer, made sure to unplug everthing and put it in a safe place, I did a lil bit of wire clean up but didnt remove any molex connectors. I finished dusting and put everthing back, but when I turned on the computer, the HD didnt come on, didnt make any sounds or...

allright now that i got my comp hooked to my tv, theres a bit of a problem, when it boots up the BIO's and xp logo are all in color and looks decent, but when it gose in to windows its all grey and white, its at 800x600 32 bit right now and i cant seem to find out how to fix the colour, tryed...

Was just wondering if I could hook my TV up to my GeForce 6800 GT and beable to watch movies and stuf on my tv insted of my moniter? Has video out/in and stuf, but my TV is a bit old, dosnt have any ports just for the cable to come in to it, am I still able to do this? and plus I need longer...

hmm looking at all these sites, i see the Heat Shrink at 1/2", 1/4", 3/4", 3/8", and the Sleeving the same, but what are they good for? whats the most common one used for like fan wires, and whats the ones for PSU's and the big power connecter? sorry if its been asked just confused, thanks for...

was wondering if this would be a good case to build a shuttel like system? http://www.vibecomputers.com/index.cfm?loc=iview&if=n&vID=193314 for the price its pretty cheap, would it be a good buy? i cant find any reviews on it yet so i am not too sure, thanks for any help

kind of looking for a mini case to make a Shuttle but i am not sure what to go with... i seen antec has one but thats the only one i see, plus im trying to go with all candian sites to get one... anyone know where to find some other cases similer to antec? thanks

i have a few extra parts laying around and was wondering what should i do with them? i have an amd 1800+, 256 megs ram, geforce 4 mx 60 gig hard drive, just need the case and mobo... i was thinking of makeing a small comp for movies and just put it beside my tv and hook it to my tv, like a...

i have a system here that is asking for a cdkey - but when i enter the cd-key it just keeps comeing back to the pop up, and yes i did buy this copy of xp, i think i have had it on for 30 days and forgot to actavaed it? is there a fix for this becuz i dont want to reformat it

allright i just got the geforce 6800 gt last night and put it in, I ran some 3dmarks this morning and came up with 3dmark2001se: 16308 3dmark03: 10102 now that is on the default speeds, i want to OC this card but not sure what program to use, I rember an old program that would OC in...

I am thinkin of buying a new vid card and in the next 2 weeks I would like to order one, I was wondering if it is worth buying now or just keep waiting for better cards? I want to keep the price down to about $800 (cnd) but I am not sure what to get. I want something that will play far cry with...

i have an old system here (233 16 megs ram 4gig hd ect) and was wondering what would be a very easy and very good lunix os to put on it, im new to lunix and i want to give it a shot, thanks for any help. :)

I got some money and desided to get a new cd-rw, but when looking at them I seen dvd-r/rw's, is it worth it to get one now or wait?

Cant deside, have an old IBM Aptiva moniter 17' that came with the old 400MHz 4 - 5 years ago, right now I have it on my amd 1800 with a gf 440 mmx, can't deside what to get first a new vidcard or moniter, cant get both but with the new games comeing out the system is a bit laggy, thanks for any...

My friend just got a new computer with a new asus fx 5200 w/ asus a7v8x-x and a AMD 2400, but the vid card its reading 64 bit in riva and other stuf, when they took it back to say it isnt 128 bit the guys at the shop put it on there comp and it was reading 128 bit, they said they looked at the...

Is it safe to put windows on one HD and not on the other? I have a 12 gig as a master and the 60 as a slave, was wondering if I can keep the 60 gig with out windows on it, will it hurt it or make it slower?