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Please enter me! thanks

Pretty sure I'm going with the 550BE, Giga or Asus 770MB, Gskill Ram. Not seeing the Samsung F3s in stock at newegg, may go with: Seagate 7200.12 500GB http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148395 And... looks like I'll go with the 5770 and drop the 4850 from the...

Thanks for the tips... time to figure out what I want to do. Thanks!

5850 might be a bit much for now.. tempting though it is :) If I'm only going to be gaming on this second machine at 1280X1024, will the 5670 be enough? That savings could then be applied to the HDD.

1) What will you be doing with this PC? Gaming? Photoshop? Web browsing? etc Secondary Gaming machine for the kids. World in Conflict, Battlefield2 are possibles. 2) What's your budget? Are tax and shipping included? I'd like to keep it all under $500, but cheaper would be better...

I still don't see anything in the BIOS for Native Mode, IDE Mode, AHCI, RAID, etc.. I also don't see anywhere in there where it notes my Hard Drive. It just shows the On-Board SATA RAID. However, when booting up, it does display the WD Raptor drive on screen as the boot device drive. I...

enginurd: I believe BIOS is detecting the HDD. It shows the boot device as an onboard SATA RAID add-in, but this is the same as when it booted successfully recently. serpretesky: 1) I've double-checked the connections for power and SATA. I can feel it spinning, so I know it's getting...

Okay, I've done some more troubleshooting, to no avail. I've confirmed that the boot sequence in the BIOS is set up appropriately, the primary hard disk is spinning, and that it tries the floppy boot first. But after the floppy boot, nothing.. black screen. Is my HD dead? Any thoughts...

Hardware is listed below. I am getting a good post code (FF), and everything appears to be going fine, but then.. nothing.. blank screen. I tried to boot into Safe Mode with the same result. I have removed everything but the mouse, keyboard and monitor connections. I have even unhooked...

http://www.avadirect.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=426 Should arriving today, assuming UPS can find my house (it's hit or miss with them.)

Trigger is pulled. Thanks to everyone for their help and Joseph at AVA for walking me through the order process! Core 2 Duo E8400l XIGMATEK, HDT-S1283 with retention bracket ASUS, P5Q Pro G.SKILL, 4GB (2 x 2GB) PC2-6400 DDR2 800MHz CL4 (4-4-4-12) VISIONTEK, Radeon® HD 4850 WESTERN...

I have the 880 and LOVE it! I "inherited" it after my father in law decided it wouldn't run a few pieces of his equipment. Took me about 10 minutes to set it up. Very easy to set up and a breeze to use.

AVA is already listing some of the new processors in their builds (e.g., E8600, Q9400, Q9650 [no-X]), but at prices different than what I expected. Q9400 is virtually the same price as the Q9450, for example. I don't know if July 20 will change that or not.

You might save a bit more at AVA by selecting a Barebones assembly with those components, since you don't need the OS. It would still be more than the Egg price, but that might be worth it to you to have the other pieces assembled and tested.

Okay.. getting ever closer.. ANTEC, Performance One P182 CORSAIR, CMPSU-550VX VX GIGABYTE, GA-EP45-DS3R INTEL, Core™ 2 Duo E8400 XIGMATEK, HDT-S1283 CPU w/XIGMATEK, ACK-I7751 Retention Bracket G.SKILL, 4GB (2 x 2GB) PC2-6400 DDR2 800MHz CL4 (4-4-4-12) SDRAM DIMM, Non-ECC...