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I don't think that I want to use my old hd in my new system so I am looking at getting at new 1tb drive. Should I go with the WD Black or the Seagate Barracuda?

I am putting my new system together this week and need some advice on the best way to setup my drives. I bought a M4 64GB ssd which I know is not going to fit all of my games and what not on it so I will be putting those on a second drive. I am going to pick up a 1TB WD Black I think. I remember...

Has anyone had any dealings with this retailer. I have never heard of them before and I was looking at buying a case from them.

1) What will you be doing with this PC? Gaming? Photoshop? Web browsing? etc Gaming 2) What's your budget? Are tax and shipping included? ~$850 3) Which country do you live in? If the U.S, please tell us the state and city if possible. SC 4) What exact parts do you need for...

Does anyone know of a freeware hex editor that works well. I have a few files that I need to edit and haven't been able to find one that works well.

I was looking at upgrading my graphics card from a 9600GT to a Radeon HD 4850. Its an older system with a Core2Duo. For the money it seems like a good deal, any thoughts.

I want to upgrade my pc to 4 gigs of ram, I already have 2 X 1GB sticks in and could get two more with out a problem. So which is better buying 2 X 2GB or just picking up a couple of more 1GB sticks.

I am getting ready to setup up my first HTPC using. I have all of the parts minus the storage I want, but don't know the best setup to use. I would like to run the whole thing from linux using XBMC but then I can't use netflix. I don't have a lot of linux knowledge so I thought it would be a...

I have never put a CD and HD on the same cable before because I remember hearing years ago that it would slow down your HD. Is this true? I just put a pc together from some spare parts and am short a ide cable and was going to put them on the same cable if it wouldn't make a difference.

I need to get a new hard drive and was going to get the WD 640GB but then saw the new Seagate 640GB. I know what the WD is very fast, but I like the idea of Seagate's warranty. Any idea?

I just built my new pc last night, and I haven't had time to test like I wanted to. My question is I am using the XIGMATEK HDT-S963 to cool my E7200. I left the pc running last night and this morning using the motherboards temp it was reading 24C. can this be right. I always get very nervous...

I have an old Creative Audigy Platnium sound card from years ago. I have never really thought about it till now. I am rebuilding my computer and out of habit I didn't get a sound card figuring I would just reuse mine and then realized I wasn't sure if it is worth using any more. Should I just...

Huge thanks to tiraides and enginurd for all of the information, I have been out of the loop for too long and there help was awesome. E7200 or E2180 I am torn on price/performance/longevity MSI P43 Neo3-F or GIGABYTE GA-EP43-DS3L the same initial price leaning towards the MSI XIGMATEK...

This is the list that I am looking at getting. My only worry is that my power supply will not be sufficient. I have a 430w Antec, will that be enough for this? CPU E7200 XIGMATEK HDT-S963 92mm GIGABYTE GA-EP35-DS3L G.SKILL 2GB (2 x 1GB) DDR2 800 XFX GeForce 8600GT

I loaded XBMC on my old xbox and now want to get it on my net work. I was going to run a wire but don't feel like cutting holes and all of that good stuff. So I looked a newegg and found ENCORE ENRXWI-G does anyone have any experience with this or is there something better. I don't want to spend...

I modded my Xbox to run XBMC and have been streaming my media from my main computer. Well it upgrade time I am about to build a new pc and was wondering what would be the best use of the old one. If I set it up as a NAS will I still be able to stream my media off of it to my Xbox, or do I need...

I am looking at rebuilding my pc, I am trying to keep it cheap. I am going to be reusing alot of my components so I only need a cpu, motherboard, and ram. But I have run into the problem of not knowing whether to go with AMD or Intel. I have always built AMD but everyone is saying to go with...