Recent content by Parth

About my replacement hard drive, is the WD10EADS good as the primary drive running XP?

Long DST also passed and after reading the above post I decided to leave the computer running for now and will back up more stuff later today. I do have a new hard drive (a WD 1TB Green which I hope is good) so I can replace this one and reinstall everything on that. Can my current hard drive...

A few hours ago when I encountered a 'Disc Read Error' when I tried to start my computer. After a few tries I was able to load Windows though it took some time. HD Tune has the Health Status as 'Ok' but two of the sections were in yellow. There were also no errors when I ran Error Scan...

Currently my system is as follows: Motherboard: Gigabyte 965P-DS3 rev 3.3 CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo 6600 Heatsink:Thermalright HR-01 RAM: Corsair Twin 2x 2048-6400C4 Hard Drives: Two Seagate 7200.10 500 GB DVD Drives: Samsung 18x DVD RW and Pioneer 18x DVD RW Graphics Card: EVGA GeForce...

What are the differences between the OEM version of Windows XP Home Edition and Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005? I'm probably going to buy one of these two operating systems for my new computer and am currently leaning towards the latter though I want to make sure that it's worth the extra...

Thanks for all of your help! I decided to buy the X-540 speakers and will most likely order the X-Fi XtremeGamer in a few days.

Even though it would cost more than I was hoping to pay for a sound card, the X-Fi XtremeGamer does look like a good fit for my computer. How does the X-530 compare with the X-540? Amazon currently has a deal for the latter (MIR though and I'm not sure how good Amazon is when dealing with...

I have been buying parts for a new computer and at this point the sound card and speakers are the two major parts that I haven't bought. The computer will be used primarily for gaming as well as for movies and music. What sound card and speakers should I consider buying? I'm not looking for...