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For DRAM, Crucial/Micron is probably more American than Patriot Memory. Like Corsair, Patriot buys memory chips from various foreign manufacturers. They just do the testing and final assembly on PCB's in the U.S. Micron does have some international fabs, but many of their memory products are...

Are you attempting to use a "Compaq" Windows recovery disk? If not, you can ignore the rest of this post. What size is your new hard drive? Is it similar to what was offered at the time the computer was purchased? Where I work, we have a bunch of Compaq notebooks from year 2002~3 or so...

I thought BF2 wouldn't run on the Geforce4 Ti series, or did they fix that?

Interesting, I had no idea a memory stick could short power rails. I did try a different slot and a different stick. I will try to see if something is stuck in one of the slots although I find that quite odd when I didn't even touch the insides of the computer before it wouldn't boot. After...

Thanks for the suggestions, I guess I'm looking at a bad PSU or mobo right now. I am using the bare minimum needed to POST at the moment: CPU+HSF, single stick of RAM, video card, mobo and PSU. Since the mobo's lights only flash once then turn off, I assume CPU or RAM are not at fault...

Running desktop system in sig with Antec Smartpower 500W. Yesterday, I tried to overclock my Venice CPU to 2.4GHz using "300MHz" mem divider, 3X HTT, and Vcore's from 1.4 to 1.5 but it wasn't quite stable in Windows. So I gave up and set it back to the 2.2GHz, "333MHz" divider, 4X HTT, and...

If your budget is tight, I found the Evercool VC-RE more than adequate for cooling my brother's Asus 9600XT. Check your own 9600XT for capacitor clearance around your GPU. It should fit the vast majority of 9600XT's though. SVC has the Evercool too, so go with whichever comes out cheaper shipped...

My experiences are based upon a 160GB 7200rpm 8MB cache Maxtor inside an AMS Venus USB/firewire external enclosure. 1 and 2) Sustained transfer rate of USB 2.0 probably still limits the benefits of 7200rpm and cache size for external use. But as you noticed already, brand new 5400rpm drives...

Most video cards are PCI-express x16 interface. But since current video cards are unlikely to saturate that much bandwidth, the earlier SLI boards divided that bandwidth in half, allocating 8 pci-express links per video card when in SLI mode. The SLI X16 now gives each card full 16 lanes. That...

A NF4 SLI X16 eats up a lot of the budget ~$700. If you go with a plain SLI mobo for ~$100 or even less, you could shift the money instead to move video to 7600GT and RAM to 2GB. For example, you could instead get: EVGA 7600GT: ~$190 before $15 MIR...

I flew out of Detroit on an international flight with my Biostar iDEQ SFF as a carry-on. For airport security, I just took the SFF out of the bag, and placed it in one of the plastic tubs just like they do with laptops when running them thru the x-ray machine. TSA didn't give me any trouble...

I had a 1.4GHz Wily system, man that CPU blows ... I didn't know better at the time. The only video card upgrade for that system was a GF2 MX400 to GF4 Ti4200. You might want to mention what games you intend to play and how much RAM you have too. Depending on those factors, you may just want...

Forbes also mentioned the Acquisition. Darn, and I was looking forward to the Uli M1697 (anandtech review) as a budget Socket 939 chipset for friends and relatives upgrading in the coming 3~6 months or so.

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If you do decide go with a new CPU/mobo, your 9800Pro is still a pretty good card. A 6600GT is faster, but not by far. So if you keep the 9800Pro, just get a mobo like the ASRock 939Dual-SATA2 which has both AGP and PCI-E Is that 1GB RAM that you currently have PC3200?