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About the age of the PSU. No idea sadly, I'm not the first owner.
Rest of the PC:
low end Core 2 Duo
2 sticks DDR2 SDRAM
1 IDE HDD 7200 rpm
1 DVD-RW/DVD+RW Drive
cheapo Sound Blaster
2 USB devices
As modest as it can get.
http://www.fspgroupusa.com/blue-storm-ii-400watt/p/413.html
This is the power supply I have. New PSU isn't an option currently. Basically I want to get the best card this thing can handle.
1) First card: 8800GT/9800GT
Official requirements: Minimum 400W or greater system power supply...
Lets assume you have both buttons. My understanding is reset would be better for your PC rather than using the power button for the same function. But it doesn't really make a difference?
Generally speaking doing hard reset is better for your PC than power off/on, right? Can you list all the reasons and specifics. I only know something vaguely about the HDD.
Something like with the power off it's bad for the HDD to power the PC back on when it hasn't fully spinned down. And...
Is the in-game FPS display counter buggy or what?
I have everything maxed out and it shows constant 60 fps but when I ran Fraps alongside it then Fraps fps counter can fall to 40s during ultra.
edit: Nevermind, it's becasue of the fixed frame rate setting that drops frames to keep the game...
Ok thank god figured it out and got it fixed. It was the game demo I installed indeed.
Battlefield 2 demo, at the end of the install it had some microphone settings stuff or whatever I just chose cancel as I don't have a mic. But what it did was adding +20 dB Boost to mic which translated into...
Ok, previously I had some crappy motherboard with even more crappier integrated audio. That means there was constant static noise in the headphones which differed depending what the PC was currently doing.
So I bought cheap ass Creative Audigy SE but at least the constant static noise in the...
I tired that, then it just got stuck on the Gigabyte boot screen.
Then I tried to set CD-ROM master and HDD slave and got the "bootmgr is missing" error just as with the slave master other way around.
How are you suppose to set the drives with just one cable then? Or could it mean the hdd is...
Ok, I have CD-ROM and HDD both connected with the same IDE cable (only one IDE slot on the mobo), Then with jumpers HDD set as master and CD-ROM as slave.
HDD is formatted so I'm trying to install WinXP so I set the first boot device as CD-ROM in BIOS, 2nd and 3rd ones disabled.
Now the thing...
Maybe a stupid question but I've been out of loop for a while. Basically I'm trying to buy a second hand DVD burner and most of the offers I get are of black version. Or when you open DVD Burners section at Newegg all the drives are black.
Is it because nowadays there are much more black or...
That's the feature that a standalone download manager has... So Firefox could have something to do with it if their dl manager wouldn't be so bare bones.