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I don't really have a set budget, but was wondering if I'd see much performance improvements with a GPU upgrade in the $200 range.

I've been toying around with the idea of upgrading my current video card or just building a new system. The performance I get currently is acceptable, but wondering if I'd see much improvement on the gaming side if I were to upgrade. Below is the current hardware. I don't have a preference on...

Currently have a system with a Radeon HD5770. Looking into getting a second card that's compatible to enable crossfire on my Asrock M3A770DE. The current card is discontinued and I can get refurbished ones around $100 when googling. Any suggestions on if I should get the same one refurbished...

Tried plugging it into a different SATA port and still get the same error. It just says "4th Slave Hard Disk Error" at POST when it's trying to recognize all the drives. Very strange that the OS is still able to access it though. This drive was meant for DVR applications, but I still don't...

I have a system running with just 1 SATA WD5000AAKS drive and a DVD burner on the first two SATA channels. I had an old dish network DVR that couldn't be activated, but it had a 500GB WD5000AAJS hard drive in it. So I yanked it out and plugged it into my box with no connection issues on the...

Just wondering if anyone has had any experiences with an external HDD enclosure with ethernet to create a NAS solution they can share. I've been looking around and came across this little enclosure that looks pretty nifty, but there's not a manufacturer name attached to it. Thinking about...

Yea, I saw the router recommendation sticky. Guess I should've phrased my posting differently. I suppose my main question is do you think the router is the likely culprit in causing the slow HTTP over SSH tunnel?

I just recently changed my ISP to Surewest since they're running fiber straight to the house so now my upstream speed is matching my downstream speed. When they installed it I dug up my old Linksys WRT54G v5.0 router to configure my network. I previously had AT&T Uverse and just used the...

Ok, this shows how long I've been out of the game. My brother came over to help me try different hardware today. He took 1 look at the board and told me what the problem was. I didn't plug in the two 4 pin power connectors into the board for the CPU. I didn't know the CPU has its own power...

No sounds when I have no RAM or video card installed. The speaker is one of the removable kinds. I've turned it on with it plugged in both ways and no difference. I guess it's possible the little speaker could be bad, but what are those chances versus the mobo being bad? I can't remember if...

I'm not getting any beep codes at all. No sounds or anything. Just the fans on the board and the video card power up.

I've tried all the steps in the POST troubleshooting and still no luck. So far I'm guessing the problem is the RAM as a compatibility issue. The RAM I have isn't listed on the QVS for this board on Asrock's site and I'm seeing people are having issues with DDR3 1600 memory. I'm not having any...

Ok, I tried swapping around the RAM and running it with the mobo out of the case on the foam pad it came packed with to ensure there are no shorts anywhere. The only thing left I can think of is to start trying new hardware. This is the first time I've used newegg for a new system build...

Thanks, I just came across the correct model number on AMD's site. I'll start troubleshooting it further again.

I think I just found my problem. It looks like my mobo doesn't support my CPU. My CPU is the ADX630WFGIBOX and this is the compatibility list. Guess I never realized how many different variants of CPUs there are nowadays. :mad:

Ok, I've finally built my first new rig in about 10 years so I'm a bit rusty. :) When I power it on I don't get a screen or hear any of the normal pc speaker beeps. All of my fans are getting power including the video card via the pci-e power cable. The onboard LAN LEDs light up so I know...

Ok, I'll get a higher quality PSU. It also figures that that ATI card is out of stock on newegg so guess I'll be waiting a little bit to start on this project. Thanks

I like that ATI card. Only question I have is since it's a PCIE 2.1 card, will it work in a PCIE 2.0 slot? The mobo I have only has 2.0 and my quick glance on newegg didn't show any AM3 mobos with 2.1 slots, but it's late and I'm tired so I probably missed it. The PSU I'm getting is this Sunbeam.

After diggin around on newegg I came across this MSI GTS250. Would this be a good buy? I'm also getting a 580W PSU with this system.

Ok, so I'm building a new rig for the first time in 10 years and I'm totally out of the market. My Athlon XP 1700+ with Geforce 6200 is a little old to say the least. Going through newegg this is the build I've come up with so far: AMD Athlon II X4 630 2.8GHz Asrock M3A770DE Mobo 2GB DDR3...

Ok, I'm finally building a new PC for the first time in about 10 years. My Athlon XP 1700+ is a little old. :) So I'm totally out of it when it comes to the CPU race any more. Looking at newegg I decided to get a quad core CPU. I'm going with AMD mainly due to budget constraints but have...

I've got this old Geforce FX5200 card where the GPU fan has died. It's the NVG34AM model from Prolink, Prolink NVG34AM. I was able to get the fan off the GPU, but I'm not sure how to measure to find a replacement. It's set up as a 2 piece configuration. There's the bottom part which acts as...

Ok, I bought a Dell Geforce FX5200 video card off eBay to use in an older rig I want to hook up to my HDTV via its VGA port. Didn't realize the card only had a single DMS-59 output on it. Would I be able to just use a standard DVI to VGA adapter or will I need a DMS-59 specific adapter? Or...

I'm looking at getting the MSI K9N4 SLI-F AM2 NVIDIA nForce 500 SLI to go with an Athlon 64 X2 6000+ Windsor CPU. When I go to the MSI website to see if the latest BIOS revision supports that processor this is what they show. CPU FSB Ratio Result...

Yea, I won't be doing any kind of high resolution 3D rendering. Currently have a 21" Viewsonic CRT so it's not like it can do insanely high resolutions, but there is the possibility of upgrading to LCD in the future. Main reason I chose that board is because I like the Abit brand and there are...

Main reason I'm not going with Intel is price. Don't plan to do any OCing either. The RAM I chose is G.SKILL 4GB(2 x 2GB) DDR2 800 at $175. A few games I'll be playing are Quake Wars, Hellgate London, and Crysis.

Looked into putting together a new system and this is what I've come up with. I'd appreciate it if anyone can let me know their experience if they own any of these components. Thanks AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ Windsor 3.0GHz ABIT AN9 32X AM2 NVIDIA nForce 590 SLI MCP/SPP 190 XFX PVT80GGHF4...

Getting ready to build a new rig and I have no idea what size power supply is needed. Below are the components I've decided upon. Need some suggestions. Thanks AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ Windsor 3.0GHz ABIT AN9 32X AM2 NVIDIA nForce 590 SLI MCP/SPP 190 XFX PVT80GGHF4 GeForce 8800GTS 320MB...

Getting ready to build a new rig. It'll be mostly for gaming. Trying to figure out if the 8800 justifies the extra cash over the 8600 series. Anyone have any suggestions?

Ok, I'm finally looking to build a new rig for the first time in about 5 years. I'm definitely going the dual core route. Just not sure which model is best choice. It'll be mostly a heavy gaming rig with some DVD burning. Possibility of running Vista too. Not sure what the real strengths of...

Hey all, I've been out of the hardware world for a long time. Getting time to upgrade my Asus A7V266 (I think) & Athlon XP 2700. I remember when the nForce chipsets came out some were rated the highest for gaming. The new rig will be used for a good deal of gaming. Looking forward to...

It's finally time to upgrade from my old palomino. Figure I might as well go dual core now. I've been out of the loop on processors for a while and I'm a bit confused. From what I can tell the Opteron & Athlon64 FX2 series are the dual core chips. Anyone have any recommendations of one over...

I was hopin to stay under $300. Seems like a waste to just toss that 6800 off to the side.

I currently have an AthlonXP 1700 & A7V266 mobo that I want to upgrade. I'm working around my AGP geforce 6800.

I'm open to CPU & chipsets. This will be mainly to play games so I was lookin at an Nforce3 chipset.

Looking for a good Mobo to go with my Geforce 6800 AGP. My aging Asus A7V266 is just gettin a little too old for games. I'd really like to get an Nforce board, but it looks like the newer ones are PCI-e only. Any suggestions are appreciated.

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I've been out of the cpu loop for a while. Lookin to upgrade my system from the good old athlon xp 1700+. I'm pretty overwhelmed with all the different processors available, sempron, opteron, athlon 64x2. I'm kinda building around my geforce 6800. The system is mainly used for gaming & dvd...

Just an AGP video card. Looks like the only K8N board that has AGP is the Neo-V.