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My PC won't start up,it's stuck in a death cycle of rebooting, then going to the screen saying "your computer was not shut down properly last time, how do you want to start it" with the options -safe mode (3 types) -settings of last successful startup -start normally NONE of these...

My PC won't start up,it's stuck in a death cycle of rebooting, then going to the screen saying "your computer was not shut down properly last time, how do you want to start it" with the options -safe mode (3 types) -settings of last successful startup -start normally NONE of these...

Building my first rig, don't really know what wattage to get/ which one. This is the setup so far. AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core 4200+ 2.2GHz Socket 939 Asustek A8N-SLI nForce4 SLI 2048Mb Corsair Value Select PC3200 DDR400 Memory Kit GeForce 7600 GT 256MB PCI-Express Western Digital...

What are the differences between the 939 and AM2 sockets?

It looks like only the sli-deluxe version is for sale here... unless I'm missing something edit: nm I'll just get a non-sli one. I don't think I'll be upgrading anytime soon

Thanks for the advice. The m2n motherboard is quite a bit more expensive here, are Gigabyte motherboards any good? Gigabyte GA-M57SLI-S4 Motherboard

Is there anything I've forgotten/need to change? I really don't have much of a clue about this... Hopefully everything here is compatible If links don't work go through www.pricespy.co.nz AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core 4200+ 2.2GHz Socket 939...

Thanks for the replies If I do decide to overclock, do I need the cooling system?

Shameless bump. Help please

Hey all, I need some help here: I'm going to be building a new PC (my first time doing so) I have a budget of around $1000 US. I'm not all that much of a gamer, but I do use Photoshop a bit + other graphics programmes. I will probably be using some java designing programmes soon. I'm...