Are cheap watercooling kits(~$150) any good?. I am COMPLETELY new to watercooling, and I don't want to waste too much money for my first watercooling system. I saw some watercooling kits (3D Galaxy II and Tt BigWater series), but I heard they have lousy...

Do these Cheap Netbooks Work?. Newegg has 2 netbooks for $199: (at least as of this writing and my wife wants a "laptop" for one thing: internet. All she does is Yahoo email, Facebook chatting and watch exercise videos. I showed her the pictures and the...

Cheap HTPC. I haven't been on here in a couple years, but the holidays are coming, and I'd like to throw together a cheap (very cheap) computer which can play Blu Ray files (.mkv) without a hitch. I have no idea what's out right now in the market. I'll need...

Cheap video upgrade for Dell Dimension 3000. First off, I would like to say that my Dell has worked well for me for the past 5/6 years. Now that I have started to play WOW (never got into PC games before) and my wife has started to play other games like...

Cheap Xfire mobo. Can someone reccoomend a USD100 or lower rated AM3 mobo with dual x8 PCIe2 slots? Dont care about anything else like HD audio or RAID etc. Will an ATI 5850 be limited much by an x4 slot? I intend to get one next month and xfire another...

Looking for a cheap 5.1 digital sound card. HI, I'm looking for a 5.1 or 7.1 (either) sound card. It needs to be able to pass the digital signal through optical or coaxial to my receiver. I've searched, but am unable to find one that has decent performance...

Good CHEAP card to use a PPU. Hey guys, got a question for the forums. I just bought a bunch of parts to build a new gaming set up and I want to get an older nvida 8xxxx series card to offload the physics to. The card I bought is an ATI 5770 and I hard the...

one im building for my mom but on the cheap :P he isnt looking for a budget system... just the cheapest possible i5 setup. (i will however, take some liberties to upgrade w/o telling him :P) so, i told him i would see how cheap i could go... the crap like...

Dedicated NAS - Raid 6 options on the cheap?. I've been lurking for a couple of weeks now reading and researching a lot but unfortunately haven't been able to come to a conclusion for my storage requirements yet. I have a Vista HTPC with 3TB JBOD but the...

Challenge: a decent cheap system for short term gaming!. APPROXIMATE PURCHASE DATE: Before this month (i.e. b4 nov ends) BUDGET RANGE: $360-390 (short term use, see additional info) SYSTEM USAGE FROM MOST TO LEAST IMPORTANT: Internet browsing and intensive...