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I know this might be a dumb question, but I need to know which would be better. I have one Xeon 2.8 cpu that shows up as two in the device manager. I also have 2 physical Xeon cpu's that are 1.8ghz. which would be best performance wise?

thanks for all of the responses! the hard drives are in a Supermicro SATA Hard drive cage, which is attached to a Promise SATA controller card. 1.5gb/s I believe, but the onboard LAN is 100, not 1000. I had to take the gig lan card out because of only 2 PCI slots.

you know, I just reread the post and noticed that I left that info out :rolleyes: currently it has a AMD 4800+ AM2 cpu and a BFG 8600 GTS video card. She doesn't use the onboard video.

I currently have this Motherboard, a biostar NF61S, while its good for the money, I seriously need to upgrade. I just recently combined my home server and my wife's computer, (thread here) I have noticed that when I watch a movie in my living room, while my wife is playing her Sims2 game, the...

Also here is a picture of the case that the server was in, I still don't know what type of case this was, the one good thing about it is it was MASSIVE, with TONS of space. With the Drive cage, plus the things on the bottom it could hold 11 drives. The thing wasn't that bad, I was just concerned...

I really appreciate everyone's replies. I don't know why its such a big deal to me to have another computer running in the house, but in one bedroom this server hums quite loud and it was starting to bother the wife. I made some changes in my home and gave up my office to my daughter, so the...

Something else that I just thought about; Her computer has a Biostar NF61S motherboard. It only has 100mbit network so I had a gigabit network card added to it and 2 gb of ram If I put all of these hard drives in with a SATA controller card, when she plays her game the Sims2 game will the...

Hello Everyone! I have recently asked this question here While I appreciate the response this is my situation. I don't have a dedicated HTPC, my wife's PC doubles as our HTPC; but I have a "media server" that sits in one corner of my office, and really does nothing but give up some music and...

Hi all, Recently I had a server built for me, and now with the rising cost of electricity, gas, you name it, I am curious if its a good idea to just add the hard drives that are in this server to my wife's computer. This server has: 650 watt power supply 5 500gb hard drives full of music...

Thanks everyone for your comments. The server that I have now is the one he was wanting to "upgrade" as he called it. So I broke down and said do it, so today he brings me a bill for these hard drives in the amount of 500$. they are 500 gigabit drives, so he is putting them in tonight. I never...

Now let me begin, I'm 58 years old, I just got my first computer about two years ago. I let my son in law build me a server for all of my pictures and such, and quite honestly I have never really used it. Now he is wanting to put all of my movies on this server. This is way over my head, but...

Hello All, me again with another beginner question: I have now converted one of my computers, a Compaq 2.4ghz computer into a HTPC. I have a 200 gig drive for TV recording, a 500 gig drive for some movies, and another 250 gig for backup. the TV tuner card is a cheepo Avermedia, it seems to do...

All of the DVDs I buy from Wally World says "widescreen" on the top, these are the best for the widescreen tv I have right?

I have had a HTPC built for me, bought a new Toshiba 37" HDTV. Which movies are better to take advantage of the widescreen TV Full Screen or Wide Screen. I have a bunch of wide screen dvds already but there are black bars on the top and bottom of the screen. thanks for the help everyone

thank you so much for the information, it was very enlightning. Like i said, i'm not that familiar with computers, so here is the questions that i have: i went to the local best buy and they have a computer that has the new vista media center on it. this has a 250 hard drive, will it hold all...