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looks good... now you need a better CPU cooler... especially if you plan to OC

please stop using your few installs as fact... after thousands of Vista installations under my belt... Vista installs, boots and runs all around slower than XP in any given system with direct comparison on fresh clean installs. Sure if you compare a 3 year old XP install that has the years of...

one portion of chkdsk checks the data, and if it sees it is corrupted it tries to fix it... another part checks the drive itself like scandisk... either way if there were corrupted files to begin with then it was hosed before you touched it, and Vista only tried to fix them, not break them...

That was going to be my suggestion.. as for Vista - NOOOOO that will add 2 minutes on top of the 2-3 minutes you already are seeing.

chkdsk in Vista is the same as it is in XP. It only checks it and fixes problems if any are found. Otherwise it makes ZERO changes to how the files are accessed. I suspect that the OS was corrupted on the hard drive before you touched it (why else was the system sitting there unused?) so you...

XP Pro SP3 and Linux of some sort. Vista is useless (my opinion from thousands of installs)

never had a problem, installed on at least 20 systems in the past few weeks without a problem

may as well find used systems on CL or local ads for $100-200 to handle this stuff... personally my next system will be a core 2 or quad core using a VM for the LAN server stuff...

the smartest go back to XP... http://www.webmonkey.com/blog/One_in_Three_Advanced_PC_Buyers_Dumps_Vista

of course it is all an advertising ploy by MS.... do you see any videos of people that still did not liek it in there? nope... if it was unbiased they would have posted them good or bad... either way it is a decent way to get people that only "heard" Vista was bad an refused to even try it, may...

I haven't setup a custom desktop yet but I think the default KDE 4.1 is pretty cool

my best offense? boot into safe mode and run the full system scan/clean with Avira and SuperAntiSpyware which takes care of it all. The other programs/anti-virus doesn't remove the registry settings and will just let the system get reinfected. NOD32, Kaspersky, AVG, Norton, Mcafee, they are the...

I can get just past 3.1GHz with no voltage bump on my E6600 on Gigabyte EP35-DS3P system... and on my P965 board a year ago I couldn't get it past 2.8GHz. These E6600 tend to top out (aka STABLE) around 3.0-3.2GHz on most systems. If you want any more speed or better Oc on something, time to get...

if it goes wrong then you have a nice new doorstop :D kidding, most boards now have "dual BIOS" so if one goes wrong it can boot from the other and possibly fix the first... and yes any settings or OC you may have will be reset back to factory defaults when flashing the BIOS which is good...

in your case I would suggest the GTX260 simply because of the CAD and engineering software. ATI consumer based cards do not always handle those very well.

Agreed... I have the same PSU and it is whisper quiet. Even my Big Typhoon is quiet...

I am the type that tends to stick with tried and true tech.... jumping in both feet into a brand new socket and CPU and boards with new chipsets is a bit more thatn I like... I usually wait about 6 months for the bugs to get worked out.. and it has worked perfectly for me... I started with a...

I gave my Socket939 system to my little brother (who is 20) with a 3200+ in it... the 939 and AM2 are still very strong systems... but just can't keep up with the new Core2s and quad cores... hell I still have 2 AthlonXP systems here running strong (3000+ and 2600+)...

I would say E8400 is your best bet. Most games barely take advantage of 2 cores so 4 cores is a waste for most gamers. The E8400 (stock 3GHz) can handle 4GHz on air with a decent cooler.

I would check their specs (DangerDen) and information to make sure that the interior of the block doesn't have the "reservoir" within a few mm of the side... but otherwise I wouldn't see any problems with it...

one example of this situation is my system... I have Mushkin DDR2-1066 rated at EPP of 2.1-2.2V (and JSPEC of 1.8V @ 800MHz) yet the EP35-DS3R board tries to boot it at 1.8V and 800MHz which runs fine (an occasional hiccup in the OS). As soon as I set it to 2.0V and 1066MHz and the proper...

I still have my ATI 128MB 9600XT card and still play CS:S on it every 6 months or so just to get some use out of it... but I remember wanting the 9800Pro at the time but it wa sjust way too much money so I settled for a $189 9600XT which came to $119 after MIR

Yes you need a new PSU: http://www.guru3d.com/article/radeon-hd-4850-and--4870-crossfirex-performance/3 Radeon 4850 single card 269W Radeon HD 4850 Crossfire (2) 421 Watt Add in the max 65W for the CPU under load and you are already coming close to max, this is without everything else.

then I will link everything I say like this: http://www.google.com/search?q=nvidia+flaky+chipset&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a :laugh:

edit, not bad but it is usually closer to 8000... will retest later

my 5 year old Belkin F5D7230-4 Version 2000 is set to 192.168.2.254... see if that gets you anywhere... also check in the windows networking under the Support tab, what does it show for the Default gateway? As long as it is 192.168.x.x then type that into the browser

My suggestion: wired only router (no wireless) SMC7004VBR Typically runs $30-50 Plug and play, very little needed to adjust, it works and works well right out of the box... granted there are no firmware updates but it is really not needed since they are already pretty tight with their NAT...

ditto

I guess I need the editor tag over my name for people to listen to me... I said the same things all over this forum (nvidia has flaky chipsets) and I get blasted for it... oh well...

I have dealt with their tech support and even sent my board (EP35-DS3P) in for RMA for a bad IDE port where they plugged everything in, it worked fine and they sent it back... no further testing... got it back and no IDE device would work, still... so I got a SATA DVD burner and have not used...

that is a negative... nvidia is not leaving the chipset business... VIA did. http://www.nforcershq.com/nvidia-were-not-leaving-chipset-business/ but I still discourage use of nvidia chipsets unless you plan to use SLI... the nvidia chipsets are flaky and tend to cause more problems that...

In my experience, nvidia cards/drivers has been good up until the 9xxx/2xx cards from nvidia... those cards seem to have more problems with any drivers, but the 8xxx cards and older still work very well (in most cases)... versus even the newer ATI/AMD cards work well with any linux driver...

If IE is started for any reason, it takes over the default browser setting... when FF starts up it takes it over so it is fighting over that one setting... go into the options of each and set IE to NOT be the default and to NOT check if it is the default.. and startup FF and make sure it is set...

where did you get 1 out of 1000? Try somewhere around 800 successful installs with 200 having the OS related problems (and another 30-40 with hardware issues and 2 or 3 with user-related errors). These are approximate give or take 5-10... numbers were up to date at the last employee meeting 3...

so this poll with 100 votes in this little corner of cyberspace so far qualifies as the defacto standard? How many have voted Vista when they also have XP and/or linux? read back through the previous posts mmmkay?

good stuff!! I had a similar situation... I got a HP ze4540us.. but I had to get my own hard drive, RAM and wireless card... since I was a bit short that month I picked up a 60GB 7200RPM drive, 1GB RAM and a wireless card from geeks.com.. I did have to use the ndiswrapper for the wifi but it...

look through several of the systems and make sure the Use NetBIOS over DHCP... and if it still happens, try to enable NetBIOS over TCP/IP... also if they are all the same type of systems, see if there is a driver update for the NIC...

I am just going by what the linux network monitor says when I transfer files to it.. I will have to see if there are any updates relating to this... I understand what you mean, 8 bits to a byte... 100Mb = 12.5MB.... it must be showing a "B" instead of "b"... if so, time to send a bug report...

Thank you, that is the very issue: an inherent problem is something that comes up in certain circumstances. Maybe not yours or 800 other people but it will show up in 200 other peoples setup. Looking through the number of OS related problems with Vista here is a pretty good indicator that...

that is very true silent... 5 FPS is not the end of the world (not even in Crysis).. but the fact is there that there is a well documented discrepancy between XP and Vista as the original poster stated and documented here.