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opps I should have mentioned that i would be using it on a pentium 4. :rolleyes: AMD told me that you shouldnt use unsetting thermal grease and other substances because of dissapation plus it voids the warranty. Intel on the other hand say its fine for there chips and does not void the...

Ive got a 120gb IDE HDD installed on my comp. I wanted to add a 160GB SATA hardrive of the same make for extra storage. Becuase i didnt want windows on the secondary drive (SATA remember) before installing the drive I installed the drivers for my onboard SATA controller on the master IDE...

Im building a seconadary system and wanted to look into high performance cooling mediums to aid overclocking. Ive heard alot of good press about ARCTIC SILVER but would like to know what you lot at hardware forums think. *Is Arctic silver the dogs bol :swear: ks? *Is there something better...

Could you be a bit more specific, like how the router connects to the network and what cables are needed plus what plugs into what? that sort of thing. :o

I recently posted a question about how to network 2 pc's (thanks to all those who replied :good: ) I am now wondering how I should go about sharing my ADSL broadband connection between those two computers. Ive heard lots of people talk about wireless routers (although must admit that im not...

Much thanks ninja Im thinking perhaps that one of those led case feet might do the job :good:

Im about to build a shuttle system and the onw ive chosen has vents on both sides. This got me thinking about case lighting. As some of you may know there isnt a lot of space inside an XPC so I was wondering if anyone knew where i could get a small green led light. :good: Im in the uk so...

So UTP cat 5e cable is for connecting to a hub or switch not another computer??????

I take it "UTP Cat 5e" cable would link to a hub but not direct to another computer then?, because im sure Ive got some cat 5e lying around somewhere. :rolleyes:

Anyone know why the power supplies in barebones systems are diffferent to normal desktop variety? :confused:

Nice one ProcalX thanx :good:

I cant see why i would need two network cards when one has it onboard? :o Whats the benefit of a network hub? :confused: Also would a gigabit lan really give any benefit for gaming? I looked at the transfer rates for gigabit and 10/100 and i cant see the point of networking at that kind of...

Ive got two computers I want to network for gaming :D Only trouble is ive never really networked two computers together before and would like to know how to do it. On my Latest computer I have a Onboard 10/100M LAN Controller, but the older comp does not. I take it that i would have to...

Does anyone know if you can use the Abit EQ software which monitors fan speed and several temps like cpu and system temp on any system? :o (not just an Abit board) I know you can look at this data in the bios but it would be handy if I could look at it anytime.

Well i finally got round to tidying those wires. Well almost tidy anyway. Added some night pics.

If you are a new system builder and know little or nothing about how to build a computer this book is an absolute MUST! The Haynes "BUILD YOUR OWN COMPUTER" book. I knew nothing about building computers and have managed without hitch to build my own using only this book. :good:

After building my own system my brother got interested in doing the same. CPU wise he wants an AMD ATHLON XP 3200+ which we all know kicks butt. :good: But I suggested to him that he buy an OEM chip and get the heastsink seperate to see if he could save money. Anyone know of a really good...

The X800XT is not the PCIe version of the X800XT PE becuase i have an X800XT which is agp. The PE version is an overclocked version of The X800XT Also A great deal of Reviews show that Nvidia are actually lagging behind slightly not to mention the extra power the 6800 needs over the X800XT...

Yes the X800 will work on 64bit systems. Basically If You want a graphics card thats gonna rock get the Radeon X800 XT. Ive got one and its blistering. Its the one to get If your thinking of running Half Life 2 on max. Dont be tempted by the X800 XT platinum edition though. Its just more money...

Ive have been looking at shuttle systems aswell as biostar, MSI, Soltek, and Epox.