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I know this might be a dumb question, but I need to know which would be better. I have one Xeon 2.8 cpu that shows up as two in the device manager. I also have 2 physical Xeon cpu's that are 1.8ghz. which would be best performance wise?

I currently have this Motherboard, a biostar NF61S, while its good for the money, I seriously need to upgrade. I just recently combined my home server and my wife's computer, (thread here) I have noticed that when I watch a movie in my living room, while my wife is playing her Sims2 game, the...

Hello Everyone! I have recently asked this question here While I appreciate the response this is my situation. I don't have a dedicated HTPC, my wife's PC doubles as our HTPC; but I have a "media server" that sits in one corner of my office, and really does nothing but give up some music and...

Hi all, Recently I had a server built for me, and now with the rising cost of electricity, gas, you name it, I am curious if its a good idea to just add the hard drives that are in this server to my wife's computer. This server has: 650 watt power supply 5 500gb hard drives full of music...

Now let me begin, I'm 58 years old, I just got my first computer about two years ago. I let my son in law build me a server for all of my pictures and such, and quite honestly I have never really used it. Now he is wanting to put all of my movies on this server. This is way over my head, but...

Hello All, me again with another beginner question: I have now converted one of my computers, a Compaq 2.4ghz computer into a HTPC. I have a 200 gig drive for TV recording, a 500 gig drive for some movies, and another 250 gig for backup. the TV tuner card is a cheepo Avermedia, it seems to do...

I have had a HTPC built for me, bought a new Toshiba 37" HDTV. Which movies are better to take advantage of the widescreen TV Full Screen or Wide Screen. I have a bunch of wide screen dvds already but there are black bars on the top and bottom of the screen. thanks for the help everyone

My future son in law is trying to get me turn my old computer into a htpc. He says that it will replace many of the devices that i use, ie dvd player vcr. I have been reading about this since he has been ranting about it. Now please forgive me i don't know a bunch about computers, so this is all...

hello everyone, this is my first post, so if i'm not making sense, be kind :) I am pretty new to the computer world, i just recently made a home network, i have been reading how a home file server is a good thing, so i had one of my first computers made into one(a local kid helped me set it...