building a system and have a question. If I build a system from the ground up (i.e. new mobo, new proc, new memory etc) and reuse a hard drive from an existing computer do I need to reformat and reinstall the HD or will the settings configure themselves. I...

play newer and upcoming RPG's, MMO's, and FPS on this machine.) I have done some recent reading and wanted to build a good system without going overboard. I will list the system here and my questions, appreciate any advice and thought you may have. MB:...

or hard drive space. We have a centralized data storage system. If anyone sees any problems with this set up, please let me know. Any other comments, improvements, will also be appreciated. I will NOT be overclocking this system. A question to get...

this? Interesting story. I have a couple of questions, I will give the results depending on the questions. 1. Did you build your system? If yes go on with question 2. 2. Did you use ESD protection? If no, go on the question 3. 3. Did you use the studs...

1><EM>Edited by mason4 on 02/11/01 05:38 PM.</EM></FONT></P>. Just a simple question but I am just learning how to build a system, The question is I have a PIII 866 PGA. The new motherdoard i want to get says it supports PIII FCPGA. Is FCPGA the same as PGA...

And we are mostly a LAN Gaming center but we also build systems. My question is that right now i am using a borrowed g4 powerbook (400mhz) and its getting dog slow. Should i wait for the G5 powerbooks ($2100) or build myself a nice laptop for under 1400...

can also support the PIII 1.4GHz simply by adding an adapter. So I'm not going to talk bad about you replacing the entire system, but I am going to question your computer knowledge. After all, you should have known better than to try even 2k with only 128MB,...

1 Ghz Duron with copper shim..... Hey Guys I am a newbie to building systems and have a question. First of all I bought a Retail 1Ghz Duron and will be using the Soltek Sl-75drv5(with future plans of upgrading to a much faster XP cpu). From what I have been...

I'm not in the market for a full system upgrade so I'm not going to replace the mobo, not for a while. All I'm looking to do is maximize the performance of the system I have. My question revolves around card performance when limited by the PCI bus speed....

Question on system im building. Im about to build this system: AthlonXP 1500+ Asus A7V266-E (maybe EX) 256MB DDR SDRAM PC2100 Seagate/IBM 40GB 7200rpm HDD GeForce3 Ti200 64MB Ricoh MP7080A CD-R/RW (8xW 4xRW 32xR) 1 generic Lan card 1 generic sound...