Building a home desktop system. Just basic home use, plus a database and some Java applications to be run. Was all set to buy an Athlon 64 3000+ or 3200+ with an Asus A8NE mobo. (about $ 145 + $ 110) 90 nm (Venice) core, 67W, socket 939, 512 Kb L2 cache Saw the prices of Opteron 144 and 146 have...

I'm interested in building a new system with an Asus A8N-SLI Premium motherboard and an AMD Athlon 64 3700+ San Diego. Unfortunately, the Asus site lists only the 3700+ rev E6 (not E4) as being supported. How can I buy an E6? I called newegg tech support, and they couldn't tell me what rev...

Some questions about Raid 0. its for a new PC. From what i read raid 0 is the fastest version. But not the safest. Not realy concerned about safe just want fast :) Ill have abackup program saving important stuff to another drive. Anyways heres the questions. Does raid 0 put any extra stress on...

I am looking to upgrade to the AMD Athlon 64 4000+ processor. However, I see there are 2 versions of it, the Clawhammer and San Diego. They appear to be identical with regard to specs. Both socket 939, but the Clawhammer about $35.00 more. Anyone know the difference? Recomendations? Thanks --

I'm looking to buy a laptop that will get me through graduate school the next few years. My main goal is to have a laptop that will run Windows Vista and future 64 Bit OS. Since Intel doesn't have a chip that runs both 32 and 64, it's ruled out. Since I want to run Windows Vista, dedicated...

I have not built a PC for several years. Thermal paste, for example, is new to me. Is there a good (on-line preferred) source to catch me up on what to do and care about? I really don't know why I have decided to do this again, but I might as well do it right. TIA --

I've been keeping an eye on the prices of 754 chips at newegg. They had a good deal around thanksgiving on the 3700 + a motherboard for about $200. Since then they've dropped the freebie motherboard and upped the price of the 3700 to about $295. Talk about a sorry ****ing deal. You're better off...

Does anyone have a link to a recent AMD CPU roadmap? Thanks

Hi Everyone, I have read as much as I possibly can, and tried to draw my own conclusions. Please let me know if I am making them correctly before I make this purchase. This is my first newsgroup entry, apologies if it is not to spec: Photoshop CS2 seems to love more Ghz. Photoshop CS2 is...

Note: The Boxed Retail AMD processor looked OK from the outside, but the green packing material housing the fan and heat sink was badly mangled and almost disintegrated. The CPU itself was secure in it plastic cover. I built a lightly loaded system with the following: AMD 4200+ X2 Asus A8V Deluxe...

I've noticed on the ASUS web site, the majority of their socket 939 motherboards are SLI. Is SLI really that popular now?

Hi, I have that motherboard, but I have a question that I can not get any answer from Asus or the Mobo's instruction I already have the nVIdia SATA controler fill, and when I try to add another to the second SATA connector set, all I get is an error message telling me that there is no proper...

Hi I was stupid enough to buy this chip to upgrade my computer. Now after 3 motherboards I have had only partial success. This is like the PC deferred success (utter ****ing miserable failure). So far I have had one successful boot. I installed windows and installed the MB drivers but have not...

will a Sempron 2400+ work on a ECS K7S5A

Hi, I' m a very newbie on PC (i was a mac user) since 5 days, so i have no idea of the following problem. Any help will be appreciated. I' ve got a blue screen "Machine_Check_Exception" about 1 or 2 times for 2 hours of use. In this blue screen it is mentioned: ***Stop: 0x0000009C (0x00000004,...

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Have an old Gravis Blackhawk serial joystick that doesn't seem to hold calibration. Trying to use MS Flight Sim 2004. I calibrate, save, everything looks OK. Get in Flight Sim and its way off. Go back to calibration and it shows the joystick off calibration. Repeat process with the same...

Intel has made over $500,000,000.00 investment in INDIA. NOW INTEL SAYS THE WORKERS IN THE USA WON'T WORK. INTEL is investing ANOTHER $1,000,000,000.00 THAT IS ONE BILLION DOLLARS in INDIA and is taking jobs from AMERICA WORKERS to India. Basicly, INTEL says SCREW THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.

I read that the Intel chips now have thermal protection, ie, they will shut down if the die temperature reaches a fixed point, as would happen if the heatsink fell off, etc. Do any AMD chips feature thermal protection now?

A friend reported a problem I have not encountered before. CDs playback slow, maybe 60% of normal speed. He didn't indicate whether pitch was a problem. MB is a MSI RS480M socket 754, Sempron64 3100+, 512m of DDR333, couple of hard drives on IDE0 and a Benq CD R/W on IDE1, Win2K SP4. Its...