Western Digital are very good so are Seagate Barricuda's and they generally tend to have a 60-70mb/s read and write speed.
Hi, first of all I would try slaving your hard drive in a spare machine and deleting pagefile.sys, I think windows automatically creates a new...
Hi, that motherboard will work no problem with your cpu or ram and doesn't require a different bios revision. I would recommend investing in 2x...
your ram is the bottleneck in your setup. as your systme bus is set at over 1600mhz =12.8GB/s and your memory bus frequency is set at just over...
Hi just checked your motherboard and the third pci-express x16 slot runs at x4 mode so (1GB/s bus) Personally I wouldn't bother going 3 way sli...
Hi sounds like you've got a corrupt partition. Have you tried running a chkdsk? or even running a program called Spinrite for any bad sectors it...
There is not much difference between the Asrock and the Asus motherboard they both similar in spec. Me personally I stay clear of Asus because of...
Hi you motherboard has two memory controllers intergrated in the northbridge chipset (MCH) the blue slots are for DDR1 modules only. The yellow...
Hi, I would send the disk back and get it replaced, I doubt it's your IDE controller or data cables. I think it's a problem with the hard drive...
Hi I've just checked your motherboard specs and it has a PCI-Expresss x16 2.0 (4GB/s) bus. So you can get the full potential out of PCI-Express...
What motherboard have you got? what OS are you using? Post your motherboards make and model and we will suggest if there's any upgrades available...
why what drives are you going to be using on the sata 6gbit bus? just the caviar blacks and the Barricuda? or you also doing it because it's...
lol sorry about that had the wrong link from a pervious post. My personal experience with Asus they are utter rubbish since they moved their...
Hi go for a core I7 not core I5, if it's gaming and perfomance you want core I7 is the way to go. Stay away from Asus nothing but trouble. Evga...
processor is good choice but it's bit expensive $167.99? for a core 2 duo. Video card probably get a Nvidia 8800GT for around $80 Ram need's...
The motherboard I recommened has onboard raid controller (ICH10R) Intergrated into the southbridge chipset on the motherboard. I would recommned...
What OS are you using? Here's my recommendation GIGABYTE - Product - Motherboard - Overview - GA-EP45-UD3R (rev. 1.1) cost around £90 to £100...
Hi you chose a mid range Intel system personally I would scrap the core i5 it's not going anywhere not future proof. You want to invest in a core...
That motherboard is a rip off $80 is way to much, it's very limited doesn't have anything going for it, 2 phase powers lol, no lower rdson...
Hi yes in some cases the OS disk can be a problem. The problem could also be the hard drive cache memory. Try installing windows xp on a different...
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