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A 480W should be fine. Look at Antec's TruePower series, or the NeoPower 480. They should both be great for your computer. (The x1.8 thingy is kinda excessive, put it within reason, like around x1.4 or less, even. That extra x1.8 is just for flexibility and to account for abnormal cards...

Yes, seems I've seen something about that too. some particular ASUS mobos have some VIA chipset issues, however, from my experience of building MANY computers with VIA-based ASUS mobos, I've never had a problem with my ATI cards. I don't think it really matters, anyhow, since nForce4-based...

1) write 2) it will run Windows XP (either home or pro), however Windows XP Pro 64-bit edition will be coming out soon, which (supposedly) has performance benefits for those of us that own 64-bit procs. 3) yes - I know ASUS and MSI make some very good quality AMD mobos w/ PCI-E... especially...

No. The generation of the "cheap, but good" graphics card you're looking at - was ruled by ATI. Don't even consider nVidia... ATI will outperform all nVidias for the same cost. :cheers:

Orional pronunciation of Linux has been confirmed as "lye-nux", after Linux creater Linus Torvalds (as in Lye-nus=Lye-nux - he named it that way), however, I among millions of others all over the world prefer "lin-ux" since it is much smoother over the tongue and just sounds cooler :cool...

He's trying to get his other PCI slots made available by removing the huge passive heatsink, however, so that wouldn't solve the problem.

That one should work great... maybe more so than the one I had recommended. DVI is generally regarded as a better picture quality, response time, etc. - so go for it. Good luck! :thumbs:

Sorry I misunderstood. There are some pretty good GPU cooling systems out there. go to newegg.com and search for one under the cooling section. Here's one that you might be interested in... http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=35-103-151&depa=0 It should work with...

Are there even any 3Gb/s SATA Hard Drives available for purchase? Jeez, even the almighty Western Digital Rapter is only 1.5Gb/s. Why are they adding support to it on this board then? f*ed up. f*ed up cool, that is... lol :cool:

Don't bother with overclocking at all. And btw, "stock cooler" meaning the passive heatsink that came on your card when you got it. In other words, don't change a thing about it, just add a couple case fans and you should be fine. I'm guessing that your tower probably has slots for 80mm...

One of the great things about ATI is that they make their cards as quiet, but as fast as they can. Your card is fine with the stock cooler as long as you don't overclock it. If you do any overclocking you'll need to replace it with an active heatsink. Generally overclocking the newest ATIs...

My apologies, I hadn't checked on the price... :angel: 5gb is enough to hold approximately 80 hours of music - depending on your bitrate - so probably about 70 CDs worth of music. If you want to use it as a portable hard drive, figure that you can store about 6 games in 4GB - depending...

Amen, brothah... Amen. I am actually using my MX700 and Cordless Elite Desktop right now. I use it all the time for graphics work, and the only mouse that beats its precision is the MX1000 on my gaming machine. And even then, it's hard to tell a difference. Good luck! :cheers:

I agree, it'll make it a lot easier for you in the long run if you just get a new case - most come with a good power supply pre-installed, if you get a good-quality one, like an Antec. I believe that you had already said in a different thread that you'd get an ATI X850 XT Platinum Edition or...

Not necessarily... at all. MX1000 is the best mouse available for wireless, yes... but just like CPUs and so on, you don't have to pay out of the nose to get something that will work really great, still. MX510 is the best for wired, yes... but you could get the MX700, MX900, or MX1000 and...

I would recommend the 30GB Xtra with EAX if you have the money, the 5GB Micro if you don't.

I have both the MX900 and the MX1000. Both are VERY good mice, I would recommend either one. As other people have said, the MX1000 is laser rather than LED optical, which makes it about 20 times more precise/responsive as Logitech claims. I don't notice much difference, since the MX900 is...

Just get a USB flash/stick drive, they're much faster, more reliable, and versatile than a CD Burner - if you need to transfer files, no matter how large or small. Plus they're not round - they fit in your pocket. :cool: And yes, read the manual that comes with the motherboard - it should...

In Windows 2000, right click on "My Computer" then under the "Advanced" tab, select the "Settings" button under Startup and Recovery options. From there you can change the boot loader and menu settings. If you can't figure it out there, you can manually modify the boot.ini file in your root...

Whereas HT in Intel language means HyperThreading. It's basically a virtual dual-proessor system. In other words, it tries to make your computer act like it has two processors rather than the 1 physical one that's really in it. There some minimal performance gains from this.