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Gotta love the Athlon 64... lol :cool:

There should be instructions if you click on the help section, however, a general knowledge of partitioning is pretty necessary. To get a better idea of how to boot multiple OSs off of the same computer, go here... http://www.osloader.com/support.htm Scroll down the "Multiple OS Installation...

Asus man, you a board manufacturer or something? jeez. :cheese: actually, no... I'm just trying to spare everyone from the technobabble.

I do not personally own one, however, I have a couple friends that have the Creative Zen (unfortunately, not Xen, as some of us Half-Lifers would like :thumbs: ) But it received top ratings in PC Magazine for a Hard Drive-based MP3 player. It seems to be pretty sturdy and well built, and is...

FSB is short for "Front Side Bus" and it's the speed of the connection between the processor and the main high-speed components (such as RAM and AGP, etc.) Basically FSB is a big part in how fast your computer will run. The differences are huge between Intel and AMD. AMD has something called...

3500+ has quite a performance jump compared to the 3200+, however 3200+ should be fine for your new computer. Your new CD-R/DVD-ROM drive will be able to boot a CD to install XP, if that's what you're asking. And no, a floppy drive isn't required, it's up to you whether you want one or not...

Goto newegg.com Select the speed of processor you want (I recommend AMD Athlon 64 Socket 939-based proc: 3200+ ($191), a 3500+ ($274), or a 3800+ ($420). Then an ASUS A8V Deluxe mobo ($135). You will probably have to get new RAM. Basically any RAM will work, just make sure you get PC400...

He's right ;) Knoppix was designed as a systems diagnostic and/or a linux demo version. It wasn't meant to be a permanant OS on your HD. I looked it up and there are projects that have ported Knoppix to HD version, however, I would recommend just going with FC3. And as ghost said, go for...

With that rig... you'll be able to play ALL games, at least for a year or two. The most you might have to do is eventually upgrade your RAM to 2GB or something. Oh, and the Intel 64-bit proc has been out forever... and it's a server-only proc, and not NEARLY as good. It's called the...

Knoppix (I think) is downloadable from their website in a Harddrive-bootable form, however, you'd probably be better off with a distro (as you said, easy for beginners) such as Fedora Core 3. For this, go to fedora.redhat.com and download the ISOs. From there, just follow their easy setup...

linux is the best OS available, imho. Fortunately, it's shortcomings a few years ago (with RedHat and FC1) are becoming less and less... as FuriousV and others have pointed out. We can even play HL2 on FC3!!! woo hoo! I dual-boot XP and FC3 on a single 200GB SATA hard drive (separate...

This would entirely throw off the balance of the game. We're aiming at fast-paced action mixed with tactics, not something like Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six etc. Definitely don't add anything "realistic" like that... it doesn't suit the game. And something like a car-bombing scenario would be...

as_tundra was fun, I just didn't have room for it on the poll list. Same with a couple other really good originals. I'm surprised more people don't want de_torn. That would be a really cool map on source with the bomb room with water. There could be some really awesome lighting FX coming in...

go with A8V-E not the nForce4. you won't need SLI, since you'll get ATI, lol... oh, and try newegg.com. I buy all my stuff there, and it's always cheapest. and you could go with the All-In-Wonder, then you'd have TV on your computer... but I don't recommend it since the gaming performance...

Agreed, brick... ATI dominates. Just make sure you get the PCI-Express version with the new Asus mobo... freaking sweet. And trust me, your comp. will be way better than a P4 3.0c. TONS. ...actually, it should outperform even the P4 3.6/3.4 EE procs in most, if not all games - especially...

AMD64 all the way just make sure you get the right distro - most come with an x86 and a 64bit version - to answer your question, yes - 2.6 does have 64-bit support Also, get the AMD Athlon 64 Socket *939* not 754 - it's the predominate socket style now - more upgradeable, mobos that go...

cs_torn yeah, I agree... the map is actually de_torn... vote for it in my thread if you like it so much... how cool would that look on source?

k, thx - btw, do you know for sure, or are you just guessing?

For those of use that bought HL2 5-CD edition, I just read in another thread that there will be a stand-alone edition that you can purchase through Steam separately of DoD. I have HL1 that I haven't bothered to install on Steam. If I install it on Steam, will I get Half-Life: Source and Day of...

I agree. Makes more sense that way. Current T model is good, but I guess you could use a couple of the other models from the origional CS (updated, of course) randomly applied.