Hardware - September 2007

Cabinet- Antec 900

Power- Coolermaster Real Power M850 W

Motherboard- ASUS P5N32-E SLI

Processor- INTEl CORE 2 Quad Q6700

Processor Cooling- Coolermaster Aquagate S1

RAM- 2* 1GB OCZ DDR2 PC2-6400 CL 4 FlexXLC Edition with Liquid Cooling Heat Sink

Graphics- Nvidia Geforce 8800GTX 768 MB Superclocked

Graphics Cooling- Original Fan

Hard Drive- Western Digital Raptor 74GB 10,000RPM 16MB
Hard Disk1 Cooling- Air Cooling (any compatible)
Hard Drive 2- Western Digital 250GB 7200RPM 16MB Cache Serial ATA II


Optical Drive- 18X DVD RW +- Dual Layer (any cheap brand)

CARD READER- 7 in 1 Card Reader with Floppy Drive Combo


ONBOARD AUDIO AND NETWORKING



Are the specfifications good and will I have any heat problems in future.

2007-09-14 00:20:47 · 4 answers · asked by Aman 2 in Desktops

hey there am bit confuse on ma laptop...problem is that..i got laptop. and backside of laptop i got plugins...
n i want to put a new video card..on my laptop..
tell me how i can put video card wheres the place to put viideo card on ma laptop????
In right handside of laptop i got some space like
carddd...
i dunoo wats that...
tell me am soo confuse..
thxx

2007-09-13 23:16:33 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Laptops & Notebooks

2007-09-13 23:09:26 · 5 answers · asked by peeyu p 1 in Other - Hardware

2007-09-13 22:50:26 · 3 answers · asked by mythili 2 in Desktops

i have just had new hard drive put in im not very good at computers yet mary

2007-09-13 22:43:02 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Add-ons

2007-09-13 21:57:09 · 4 answers · asked by The Man 1 in Add-ons

We are on a network printer. We can print excel (from the shared folder) etc but nothing from Word or wordpad. Can you help??

2007-09-13 21:48:39 · 2 answers · asked by doowy 1 in Printers

....i have just brought 4gb's of ram their all the same type and compatable with my motherboard but everytime start the computer and i check it in system properties it says i only got 3120mbs(Gb's) instead 4gbs, then i tested it by loading a game and when i start playing the game my whole computer will re-start. i take one 1gb off and left 3gb and it still the the same, i can only use 2gb for the whole system to work properly with out restarting. i think it might be vista thats doing that (since vista is uncompatable with alot of software and hardware) and even when i tried to check the peformance score it gives me a crappy score of 1! and my computer specs are gpu - 8800 gtx ultra, psu 700w, 2 gb's (4gb's if it didnt restart the computer) intel dual core 3.00ghz, hhd sata2 1tb and 120gb's pata drive... any ideas would be helpful (i might go back to windows xp till vista fix alot of problems they've got with software and hardware).

2007-09-13 21:31:56 · 5 answers · asked by ibit02000 2 in Desktops

Just try to impress the wife and kids, I bought this throught EBAY. Over all it looks good, but it shows too dark and the colors can not bring to real picture no matter what I try. It has SVGA 800-600. After couple weeks no ones want to see just my wife and she snores after couple min. Please tell me to give up or save my face please.

2007-09-13 19:55:34 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Monitors

the display on my screen is big enough to read from the moon! how do i get it back to normal. i do not see a magnifying glass anywhere so is there another way to reduce the text size?

2007-09-13 18:41:25 · 9 answers · asked by darryl h 3 in Monitors

Is it possible to combine an Nvidia Geforce 8800GTS and an 8800GTX in SLI, or do they have to be the exact same model?

2007-09-13 18:07:56 · 7 answers · asked by Wraith 2 in Add-ons

I have DSL, but I don't have a house phone (just the internet connection) but they gave me a phone #. Question is, can you use that # for faxing? Someone tried faxing me something with that # but it didn't go through.

2007-09-13 17:49:26 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous in Printers

2007-09-13 17:33:29 · 2 answers · asked by CHARLES B. F 1 in Laptops & Notebooks

My wife just bought my son a computer for his 10th birthday. She bought him a HP with a 1 terabyte hard drive, 4 gigabites of ram and a 3.0 gigahertz processor. I dont know much about computers. How much did you think she spent? Was it a lot?

2007-09-13 17:33:05 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Desktops

2007-09-13 17:27:07 · 7 answers · asked by chrono_reaver 2 in Laptops & Notebooks

My laptop keeps shutting itself off when i try to do anything that requires a lot of ram (?) like playing a game or running a virus or spyware scan.
I keep it relatively clean with a can of dust off, and have a chill-mat to keep it from over heating.
Lately even when im not doing anything, the CPU usage will be between 20 and 100%. If it runs at 100% for too long then it shuts off.

any ideas?

2007-09-13 17:20:56 · 4 answers · asked by kristin 3 in Laptops & Notebooks

I am running on an IBM Thinkpad R51 1830AHU and have already tried this in the BIOS- unfortunately the BIOS is VERY limited and I have no options for sharing memory or increasing the AGP Aperture size. Are there any applications or programs that can change this? Thanks so much.

2007-09-13 17:06:48 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Laptops & Notebooks

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2007-09-13 16:55:15 · 11 answers · asked by ayu 1 in Laptops & Notebooks

2007-09-13 16:54:31 · 8 answers · asked by aunti_m19 2 in Other - Hardware

I have a new notebook with Vista and want to hook up my HP printer but I don't have the installation disk. Is there a compatible driver loaded onto vista that will work with the D4160 printer.

2007-09-13 16:51:10 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Printers

My laptop wont let me use the characters above my numbers, such as percent and the and sign. What should I do.

2007-09-13 16:27:10 · 2 answers · asked by Ren B 1 in Laptops & Notebooks

2007-09-13 16:05:37 · 5 answers · asked by Serious Asker 1 in Printers

I checked the Total Size of the Hard Drive is 143 GB- OK
My Documents Size 38GB
I-Tunes 6GB
Programs 6GB

Remaining Space 38GB!! Does not make sense. I Defrag did not help I checked Temp. Files Nada. Where is something hiding?

2007-09-13 15:55:06 · 3 answers · asked by Mike H 1 in Other - Hardware

I recently got a new computer and my new logitech x540 speakers will not work. I tried an older set of speakers as well but those did not work either. All sound was looked at and nothing is muted etc. What could be the problem?? If it is that i need a driver, where could i find it?

2007-09-13 15:48:26 · 4 answers · asked by DroopD 2 in Add-ons

I know a ground up system is better then a store built PC, but for the price, it was cheaper for me to get a PC with vista preinstalled, then to do a full build...

I want to remove the guts from this PC:
gateway GT5428 and install it into a HTPC case.
according to gateways website, the hard drive is a uATX micro ATX 9.6 x 9.6 inches

here is the gateway component site for my computer :
http://support.gateway.com/s/PC/R/1009466/1009466cl3.shtml

removed from the stock specs are the fax/modem

added to the stock specs are:
1 of the 512 DDR2 chips replaced with a 1GB DDR2 chip total ram = 1.5GB (will be upgrading ram again soon)

happauge winTV HVR-1600 with QAM support (PCI)

ATI X1550 dual DVI tuner (PCIexpress)

maxtor external 500GB harddrive (USB)

1- can I change the case for this PC?

2- can someone recommend a HTPC case that I can use..

2007-09-13 15:30:40 · 4 answers · asked by joe r 7 in Desktops

It's happened to me before, and I lose all sound. I don't think it's the speakers because all I have to do is restart and it's back. It happens when I'm on Internet Explorer and/or Yahoo Launch. I dont remember if thats the only times, but those are the most common. Any ideas?
Thanks.

2007-09-13 15:06:21 · 4 answers · asked by Hawk 3 in Desktops

My hard drive seemed to mess up on me. I couldn't use it in my computer anymore.

I removed it and put it into my other computer as the Slave. XP ran the scandisk thing and fixed/deleted/restored many files etc etc.

When I'm at my Computer, the hard drive shows up, but I can't access it. It's corrupted or something.

How can I recover important information on this hard drive? ANY help would be appreciated!!! THanks

2007-09-13 15:03:41 · 11 answers · asked by Grimwick 1 in Other - Hardware

I'm about to purchase a sata2 hardrive OEM but my computer has a sata150 controller. I know Sata2 is backwards compatible but will the cable be also? I'm thinking I should go with the SATA2 cable but am not 100% thanks for your help!

2007-09-13 14:56:54 · 2 answers · asked by leedogg1981 3 in Desktops

I'm connecting my external hard drive(usb2.0) to my computer(1394a/b?), which is 7 years old. The external HD's port looks like this http://images10.newegg.com/NeweggImage/productimage/22-136-078-03.jpg
only other port i have is USB 1.1 (usb 2.0 to usb 1.1) and that is too slow for huge transfers.

2007-09-13 14:53:28 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous in Add-ons

I recently purchased this machine... http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883227027.
And I was just wondering what upgrades I should buy so that it can run WoW without any lag on highest settings. I'm thinking about getting more memory, but I don't know much about computers, so can this computer get more Memory? Please give links to upgrades. Please and thank you.

2007-09-13 14:46:23 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Desktops