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The parts: Gigabyte motherboard # GA-P35-DS4 The MB has two different SATA controllers. It has an Intel SATA controller ICH9R with 6 SATA connectors (ports) and a Gigabyte SATA drive controller with 2 SATA connectors(ports) I have 2 SATA hard drives. (not to used in RAID)

Hello people. I am looking for a scanner. It will be required to scan mostly text forms to *.PDF files. After this I will fill out these text forms virtually with acrobat. The scanner will need to cue documents ranging in pages from 5 to 40. TCP/IP interface not essential however would be good....

First, I appologize if this is not the best group to post this in. I've got an AMD 1700+ with 512 ram and an Intel 3.2 with 1 Gig of ram. We run a web server with IIS and Cold Fusion which gets about 50,000 page views per day. The application is very db intensive. Which machine would be best to...

Newbie starting a new build with a SSD 64GB drive which I intend to use as the boot and a separate 1TB drive for programs/storage. Question: should I only put the Win-7/64 files on it and/or other files to utilize the speed of the drive? Thanks.

Who makes the best motherboard with SLI support in terms of dependability and features?I've had conflicting reports on Asus,Gigabyte,and MSI,some rate them according to good customer support(is there really such a thing with any company?),overclocking(not an issue with me)and price(again,not...

Hi all, after a bit of advice. I'm looking to upgrade my asus A7v8x-x motherboard as I'm pretty sure it doesn't like my new ATi x850xt graphics card. I've looked all over the place and nowhere has given me any ideas as to the best way to go with a socket A motherboard for gaming. Now I am fully...

Hey all! Just picked up a new Pioneer DVR-A05U DVD writer and I was wondering what the best software package out there is? Two items I'll be using the drive for... - Mostly, backup and archive of files... MP3 collections, old documents, etc... - A little bit of duplication of some of my movie...

Hello I need to place a lcd monitor 14 meters from the pc. The video card has vga and dvi ports. I need to run fairly high resolution. The lcd will be a ceiling pole mount. What is my best cable solution standard vga cable? DVI fiberoptic extension? What is most commonly used here. Any help is...

I have 2 machines that I plan to do moderate upgrades on. One is a P4 2.8b with 1 gig of ram and a 9700pro. In this machine the powersupply is crappy and has ben having problems on the 3 volt rail. The monitor is a 19" Viewsonic E90FB that is getting dimmer and brighter and dimmer again. I think...

Well, if you have about 30 GB free space on your NTFS partition, where installed XP located. It will be rather easy. At first using Disk Director http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/diskdirector], you need shrink your XP partition (NTFS) to 10Gb. Then you need copy this new partition to...

Whats the best sound card for £20-£30 for games and DVD's? Would you notice any difference between it and the onboard 5.1 sound? and are there any good sound cards that have a blue PCB to match my gigabyte board and abit graphics card? Thanx.

Hi, What would be the best PCI soundcard for recording stereo music? At this moment I'm using the linein on my mobo, but I'm looking for something with a better signal-to-noise ratio. I don't need MIDI, surround, a remote control or any other fancy stuff. I only want the recorded stereo music...

Decided to invest in new pc speakers. Any recommendations for good 2.1 system. To be used for music sure - but also used for spoken word stuff - internet radio etc. Within reason money not an issue. Thanks, John

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Hi all, Im looking to broaden my horizons and find more tech sites. Im looking for any kind of Information or News that has to do with COMPUTERS, ELECTRONICS, SOFTWARE or anything HI-TECH. It can range from Hobbyist to Professional. These are the ones I currently look at. Some I have in my...

I had assumed that gold thermal compound was better than silver but I may have been wrong. Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_grease shows a table where silver is second best behind diamond but gold is not mentioned. Opinions?

Several sites I've looked at recommend OCZ Ultra II or AS3 Ceramique (though they do warn that the latter is mildly conductive). But both claim they reduce the overall temp 10°C under load. I know, to my cost, that all pastes are not created equal, so what do you use? Also, does anyone recommend...

Hi... I just bought Call Of Duty 2 for PC and have found that my GeForce 4 MX card doesn't support the game. In hunting for a new card, I have found that my Sony Desktop Tower (PCV-RZ14G) does not have the newer slots...PCI-Express or even AGP. So, my question is this... What is the best...

My PC is acting-up and I am thinking about replacing it. I am having boot problems (it freezes at various stages during boot, taking me about four attempts to get it running). I'm looking for advice. My current configuration is: Athlon 2000 512Mb RAM (PC2100) ATI 9600 Pro graphics card Avermedia...