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Thanks for the replies! It s all starting to come together now. Motherboard: It seems the motherboard can really be the cheapest one that features everything I need. Now, with just one storage HDD and one SDD I dont need tons of SATA ports. I dont need tons of USB 3 ports either, I think any board w...

I am making my threat come true, I am back with more thoughts on my new system. Here s what I ve come up with: Core i5 3570K ASUS P8Z77-V Radeon HD7850 Coolermaster Hyper 212 EVO Err.. alright. I said I am still in the process of consideration, didnt I. CPU seems like a good choice for a substantial...

I am always astounded at the amount and quality of advice you can get by posing a question in this forum. Thanks a million everyone for your thoughts and pointers. I am aiming to indeed wait for the Ivy Bridge processors to be released (I can wait that long) as was suggested. Until then, I will have...

Hello! I am someone who has always built their own PC, mostly because I dont have a computer shop nearby that I trust enough to do things the way I want them to be. Maybe I am not trusting enough, but I had a bad experience. And I enjoy building the PC, aside from that. I am looking at building a ne...

Hey the badflash.com is really a great tip - if I ruin one again, I ll know where to go to get a new chip. There is also plenty of links, including one in Europe, to get a new BIOS. Thanks for that! Just a little update again, I did RMA it, and I am getting it replaced, which is nice. But the postsc...

Thanks for the replys. Update: I went to a shop that offered restoring my BIOS, by putting a working version back into it. Doing that, obviously, I did disconnect it from all power sources, and the battery was also out, as I had cleared the CMOS before (had already tried that), and actually forgot p...

Hello! I have successfully ruined my BIOS, and hence my MoBo - now is time for analysis on what the hell went wrong, I would wish very much for your valued assistance, what did I do wrong and is there anything I can do now? OK: Rig as follows: ASUS PN5-E SLI, E8200 Core2Duo, Zotac 8800GT, 4GB Corsai...

Then I would say go with a P35 board as well, the cheapest good one being the Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L. Why do you recommend this board? Because without SLI I won't need the ASUS, and the Gigabyte comes in a bit cheaper, or is there another more important point that I missed? The ASUS seemed to have be...

That argument about SLI now or never has something speaking for itself. I guess I ll just stick to one 8800GT, I run a 1280*1064 display, and one should be able to handle that well enough. Especially as a second one would strain my budget, seeing that I d also have to invest more on the PSU front. S...

Seems I can't "really" know till I try it out. Anything speak against trying it out with the old PSU, and if it don't work I can still get a new one? I m not sure if I have 2 12V rails, how to find out without software (don't know if i want to buy something just for that reason, any freewa...

The 12V Rail is 18A - should that be enough?

So as I understand it, the E8200 really beats the E6750 in each respect, given it's the same price. I think I ll go for the E8200, in fact. The Q6600 runs at only 2,4 GHz, and I understand that most of my games (which is what I use it for) can't really benefit from the extra two processors, plus it'...

Hello! I am upgrading: My new build includes a E8200 (since I can't get the E8400, and I need to build quickly as I already sold my old config), a Zotac 8800GT 512MB, ASUS P5N-E SLI, 2GB of RAM, I am also keeping my old DVD-ROM and DVD-RW, so that's two more power consumers, and now the question is,...

Hello! Seeing I won't be able to snatch a E8400 anywhere (they re very out of stock, and I m in a hurry, cuz I sold my old system and need a new one), I am thinking what to buy otherwise. As the subject says, E6750 or E8200, they seem to be similar in prize, and it seems the E8200 beats the E6750 in...

Hello! I am planning an upgrade that will take my system to something along the lines of what TR is suggesting in its Sep 07 system guide: Processor Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 Motherboard Asus P5N-E SLI Memory Corsair ValueSelect 2GB (2 x 1GB) DDR2-667 Now I still have of course my good old Palit 7900GS...

Another question to this topic: What about the motherboard? I guess it would be wise to choose a nForce 4-4x chipset option, rather than a nForce410/GeForce 6100 combined one. But as for manufacturers, any hints there? I hear that the ASUS K8N4-E SE ( http://www.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=3&l2=14...

Performance wise, how would a 7600GS AGP and a 7800GS AGP compare with a 7900GS PCIe or a 7600GS PCIe? The only option that's really a bit cheaper is the 7600GS AGP - it comes at EUR 155,- . The 7800GS AGP comes at EUR 300 - that will hardly be worth it, will it? In that case, if I get the PCIe opti...

Thanks for the quick replys. It's OK for me to discard the Mainboard with the next upgrade, as I consider it a "new-graphics-card-annex", just 50 Euros extra that the graphics card costs. So looking at it as it may be, if I buy the K8N-E Mainboard and the 7900 gs card, there really should be a notic...

Hello! 2 and a half years ago I bought a fairly sweet system, and I am kind of reluctant to accept that by now it's not so sweet anymore. Still it seems I ll have to upgrade a bit to play the newest games (eg Medieval 2) smoothly, and therefore I want to upgrade the essential bits on a tight budget....