Recent content by Gavinburt

What about Arctic Cooling? I noticed its about $14 more than the CM Hyper 212+. EDIT: Should do my won research as well...

You guys are awesome. Thank you so much for the suggestions. These builds are indeed better and faster. With the i5/4890/4gb ram combo above, is aftermarket cooling suggested? If so, what would your suggestions be? It seems for $100 or so I could get something decent with the HAF midtower.

Hey guys, looking to pull the trigger on a $1000 AMD gaming rig but wanted to hear any opinions first, since I'm relatively new to the whole PC building operation. (3 years ago I built an Intel Core 2 Duo system but I'm more interested in a better system thsi time around). 1) What will you be...

OP wrote a really indepth analysis of .NET and hasn't really got an indepth rebuttal yet.

It's just an OS, bro.

My Newegg preorder status is on "Transfer". No charges yet to my account. I'm getting Ultimate 64-bit (OEM).

Finally, I have completed the building of my new PC. It took a goddamn long time, with a lot of stuff being delayed. Anyone else complete their first builds in the past year? It's pretty exciting! I can't quite figure out my soundcard (appears, but no sound coming out), but the Intel audio...

I need to know where the wires from my case connect to my Intel DG965WH board. Here are the connectors I'm currently wondering about: Mic In Return L Speaker L Return R Mic Bias Speaker Right Ground

With my buying Media Center 2005, I am interested in getting a TV Tuner card. What are the possibilities for someone who wants to go pretty damn cheap? I don't really know why I would want an FM Tuner or any of that, I just want to be able to watch TV on my computer. I have an Acer 19in...

Yeah, and I think the power cable is with the soundcard... but what about the "Analog" and "Digital" audio connectors on the drive?

LOL, the first two threads of my existence here have been questions. If I had answers, I'd give them. Anyway: how am I going to connect my optical drive to my computer? It's from Samsung, but it's OEM. So it comes iwth no cables. My motherboard has an IDE/PATA cable, but no no other...

Thanks for the suggestions. I'm looking at the 7600GT. This is my first computer build, so I'm a bit nervous. Will the GMA X3000 last for a few weeks?

Thanks for all the help guys. Interesting about the GPU. I will be using Intel's GMA X3000 for a few weeks, possibly months. Are there any halfway-decent cards around $200? Please understand that I am not a hardcore gamer like I'm sure some are here and I don't need the "best". Thanks...

Hey guys. This is my first post (well, second, seeing as I posted this in the wrong forum) and I have a question: what is overclocking and would it provide any advantages to a person like me? I'm building a new system, with an Intel DG965WH (which I've heard is difficult to overclock anyway)...