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XP Pro SP2 also with some general tweaks. im not going Vista, recently heard of double borked gaming performance, so not untill first Service pack will be out for retail version. Then prolly will go Vista Ultimate or anything one step below that maybe will have all good features and no useless stuff...

Well, depends who told you that, i myself also thought Thermaltake better due to 6 heatpipe design, but problem with that is that fan still makes some blind spots on the heatsink while the lay-on-the-side position almost eliminates those. But again, both are great systems, difference only in OCing a...

The minimum requirements dont really mean much,...for e.g. FlatOut2 requires at least 2.0 Ghz processors, but my friend with a core 2 duo E 6300 running at 1.83 Ghz experiences better gaming performance than his older Pentium D at 3.2 Ghz.... Anyways, if u want better fps while playing at full grap...

um...Zalman 9500/9700 series are better then Big Typhoon. Especially if you got strong horizontal air flow then Zalmans fan position will draw heat away from heatsink even stronger. Not to mention a huge heat dispassion are on 9700 models, it might be a pain to fit but it one of the best air cooling...

well, 8800GTX bottlenecks E6300 series hehe

Jmac-, exactly but once your friend combine it with DX10 card his CPU will give out all its potential, hence my CPU is also bottlenecked by the gpu wich is X1650XT.

Processor is pretty much what it spells like, Central Processing Unit. Wich means that pretty much by itself it wont give you a huge boost of performance altho it will increase it by a bit. But the key is that your whole rig will work faster, if you have decent video card then it will move further t...

just open PC up and yr power supply should have power written on it.

p.s. 350W is kinda low, i suggest minimum of 450W nowdays.

ok, major part of spyware removals scan only for files, but most of spyware hides in registry and activex controls. furthermore security doesnt only means viruses/spyware, worms and other stuff usually goes right into the security bugs that is called a bug because an attacking application bypasses b...

lol? below 1Ghz gain is nothing? Well how about I OC Conroe system to even 400Mhz above limit, that accroding to the above poster wont make much difference? My friend, 1Ghz is a maximum that you usually can squueze from CPU moreover that most of CPU`s got maximum clock value, for example mine is run...

m...afaik multiplier doesnt have anything to do with OCing unless you got high-end processor with unlocked multiplier. I mean it does have alot to do with OCing but its not useful for those CPUs that have their multi set to specific bounds like minimum of 6 and max of 10. And factory settings are us...

Whoever says that windows firewall is secure enough just dont know how unreliable it is. You can adjust any kind of personal preferences, more of that if you dont use even a simple anti-virus your just asking for tons of spyware. You do know that spyware also exists in registry values and you cant t...

I wont be switching to Vista before all apps I use will fully support it, and vista will have all its security holes patched up. Right now it looks like a good cheese.

I doubt that 'dont OC unless you got new PC', alot of people overclock without having money to buy same CPU again, nor anyone would actually bother with it. Just know what your doin, have a oldish system to practise on. For example if you have good PC that you wanna OC and old one that you dont need...

Well, point is that youll have 2 10k rpm drives running as one, wich will combine into same as 1 HDD running at 20k rpm, wich will certainly unlock more performance from CPU+GFX combo. p.s. well, 10k ones doesnt do whole lot of noise if you have a good case, you might hear them better in quiet room ...

You wont hit 2.5Ghz straight away like Jmac said above, on a side note, BIOS doesnt matter, any PC can be OCed on any mobo. Software overclockers do exist while they provide even better control of what your doing. However the downside is that changes cannot be auto-reset from BIOS, as you didnt chan...

Id rather picked 2 x250Gb Raptors with 16Mb cache, 10krpm and set em into RAID (stripe). Would be better then just 640 gigs of space, unless your fan of movies ofc.

looks nice tho its kinda smallish now...

god lol, missed that, nice tho!

Happy New Year folks, just rolled in 1:40 hrs ago!

how can a 40 gig HDD be primary, i mean if its only for Windows, fine, but primary for games/other stuff?

3200 Socket AM2(Thats what you meant by A?) would work best imo.

CPU cooling kit thats what i got

Start your engines and prepare your PC to ROARR!!! (c)

definatly.

but not as huge as 2.0Ghz Single Core to E6600 =)

um yeah 3.4Ghz Pentium D is only few bucks cheaper then lowest C2D E6300 wich is way superior.