What are differences between micro atx and atx mbo's except their dimensions and less pci slots on mATX boards? Are there any more important differences?

Hi, I recently found a good PC on the street and try to upgrade its only 32 Mb memeory. Does any one know how much memory a motherboard with SiS 5597/8 can cache? Thanks, Rick

mobo - Gigabyte GA-8I915P-G Intel 915P CPU - Intel Celeron D325J 2.53 GHz BOX RAM - GeIL 2 x 512MB PC-400 CL2.5 VGA - GeForce 6600 Gigabyte GV-NX66128D 128MB (128-bit) HDD - Maxtor DiamondMax +9 160 GB (8MB) 6Y160M0 SATA combo - Lite-ON SOHC-5235K bulk (x52/x32/x52/x16) Midi Tower - Codegen 6039...

mobo - Gigabyte GA-8I915P-G Intel 915P CPU - Intel Celeron D325J 2.53 GHz BOX RAM - GeIL 2 x 512MB PC-400 CL2.5 VGA - GeForce 6600 Gigabyte GV-NX66128D 128MB (128-bit) HDD - Maxtor DiamondMax +9 160 GB (8MB) 6Y160M0 SATA combo - Lite-ON SOHC-5235K bulk (x52/x32/x52/x16) Midi Tower - Codegen 6039...

Hi, I have a old computer configuration with Pentium 166 MMX and 6 GB of hardisk. This has not been of much use lately. I was wondering if there is any limit on the size of the Hard disk that can be attached to this. If I attach a recent 160GB hdd to this, will it work? Regards,

I've got an old PCG-Z505RX with 128M RAM, which is 64M on motherboard and 64M SODIMM. The instructions say it can take 192M max by swapping out the extra 64M SODIMM for a 128M SODIMM. Does anyone know if I could put a 256M SODIMM in it and get even more memory? I'm wondering if the instructions...

How many sound cards can one pc have?

What is the max operating temp for one of these processors? If it gets to 56 or 59 deg celcius is that to much? I was unable to find any info on the intel site thanks

Hi all. I was wondering if anybody can tell me what the fastest CPU/Memory is that i can put in my FIC AU13 motherboard. I wanna upgrade it to the best it can do. Will update bios help any?? Thanks in advance. C

Approximately what is the maximum percentage fullness an XP system drive should be? (Including all system and data files.) Don't allow space for growth as I will add in the extra space from my own figures for rate of growth of my own data. I have the impression that when the fullness gets big...

Hello, I have an older Gateway E-4200 machine with a Intel 440BX motherboard. BIOS revision is 4MPB0X1.15A.0018.P09 It originally had a P2 300 MHz, which I replaced with a spare P3 Katmai 500 MHz I had. It worked fine except the BIOS reports the processor as a "Pentium II 500 MHz". I was curious...

What is the maximum resolution that a VGA connector can support? Can it run an LCD at 1920x1200? Also, what is the advantage of DVI over the VGA?

Can someone tell me (or link me to someplace that will explain it) why 144pin MicroDIMM (non-ddr) PC100/PC133 modules only seem to go up to 256MB? I for the life of me can't find what, if any, technical limitation there is, and am curious if it is a technical or market limitation that makes them...

Hello I have just installed 2 TP-Link 1000bps TG-3269 NICs - replacing the 2 ADDON NIC1000Rv2 NICs. From the Windows 7 PC to the XP Pro PC I now get 20MB/sec, and from the XP Pro PC to the Windows 7 PC (both using Windows Explorer on the Windows 7 PC) I get 36.9 MB/sec. Both figures much better...

Hi, LF sites to check for CPU or other upgrades? Here's the original spec: http://www.ari-service.com/blender/cache/503298-001.htm Thx Mac

Hi, I have a Dell Dimension V450 with a 200W power supply. I presently have 2 hard drives and 1 cd-rw connected to it. I would like to know whether I can add another hard drive without changing the power supply. I checked on the net and it seems it should work fine. any help with this would be...

Can anybody tell me which keys I need to enter the bios on an 3 year old maxdata pc. It doesn't show me at startup.

The distance most quoted for standard multi-twisted pair Cat cable is 100 meters. I assume this is worst-case. How much can this be streached? Does it degrade in effective speed, or does it just fail after a certain length? Will it fall back to 10 Mbps? I'd like to run about 650 ft, outdoors,...

Hi everyone, I would like to change my 2,5 inch 6.5 GB internal harddrive on my Inspiron 3500 PII 366 MHz for a bigger one : According to you, hardware experts :wink: , what is the maximum capacity of the hard drive that could be supported on such a system ? Below is the reference of the...

What's the maximum length of a SATA cable? know of any `four device' SATA adapters for RAID? That is two RAID-0 pairs? -G