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That's actually what it seems like. Can you expand please?

Hi Since a fairly recent chrome update certain pages in Chrome (like Gmail) seem to make certain HDDs on my desktop spin up from idle so I get an annoying delay/browser freeze of a few seconds while this happens, it is definitely happening with a drive I have in a fw 400 caddy. Is there any...

Thanks for your help. If I went for that AMD solution is there a cooler you'd suggest or should I just stick with the stock one?

I think because I see cheap PCs like these with dual core chips and a decent amount of DDR3 memory I assumed there would be something I could swap out my motherboard for, and then just be able to add cheap memory: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/251310 Is this a decent cooler for my needs...

Thanks. In your opinion should I just get two of these and wait and do a proper upgrade in the future? http://www.ebuyer.com/product/142399

So to clarify, is there no such thing as a motherboard that supports my CPU that takes DDR3? Sorry for my ignorance.

Thanks for the reply. That's kind of what I was getting at, DDR2 just doesn't seem worth it given it's price and the face I could only use 4gb max with my motherboard. What would be a good motherboard upgrade for my Q8200?

Hello I have a 2 year old or so machine that I built originally with audio work in mind that has ended up being mostly used for Photoshop/Illustrator work (cs5) and I am having issues running out of memory. Also, I have always had an issue with core 0 of my quad core running 10c or so hotter...