Desktops - July 2007

I am looking to build a new computer for college. My budget is around $500. The current setup I wish to purchase is
Spire BlackFin Case
Ultra X-Finity 500W Power Supply
Asus P5L-VM Motherboard
P4 461 3.2GHz Processor
2GB Corsair DDR 667 Ram
Asus Nvidia GForce 6600 256MB Graphics Card
Seagate 500 GB Sata Hard Drive
Samsung DVD-RW Dual Layer Burner
Generic 3 Port Firewire Card

Tell me what you think or what you would change about the system. Thanks.

2007-07-29 03:13:50 · 5 answers · asked by BRANDON 2

a hp with intel viiv core duo or an hp with amd 64 live

2007-07-29 03:00:19 · 6 answers · asked by pitlx 1

My dad just bought a new computer. It's a DELL. We bought it with windows vista. Some of the programs we used for our other computer will not work in the new one. Should we put Windows XP back on?

2007-07-29 02:52:19 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-07-29 00:48:09 · 5 answers · asked by art_33 b 1

Logging on, accessing favourites, skipping back or forward, etc., everything takes up to two minutes.

2007-07-29 00:44:13 · 5 answers · asked by Tamarind 4

I'm thinking of buying this http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103002
or should I wait till something better comes along or the price drops.

2007-07-28 23:12:58 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

i have a motherboard that isent in use that is more powerful then my other machines i got running right now. Due to the fact it wont boot up i wont use it. I was told by a friend of mine that it could possibly be a bad ram modual and that is the reason it isent booting up or even posting. I have my doubts that that is the reason for it not wanting to work for me but i could be wrong... or am i right assuming it is the motherboard itself that is fried... it still gets power and is able to show status lights like the ram LED and the HDD LED but it just wont post for me... any answers would be great!

2007-07-28 22:32:02 · 4 answers · asked by benny-boy860000 3

2007-07-28 22:10:37 · 8 answers · asked by darkforce1992 1

Hello,

Yest. I shutdown the computer as usually and today morning, when I tried to start it, It does the memory check and hangs, gives the option to enter setup (DEL) and other options ( F8 , F9)
I wanted to restore the computer to the last known good config. but when I press DEL it shows entering setup and hangs there without going into the setup. any advice will be appreciated.

Regards

2007-07-28 21:59:49 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

i am going to build a pc but i have a budget of $300 Australian dollars. is this reasonable, is this possible?? (without monitor keyboard etc. only pc)

also any computer building tips for a first timer??

2007-07-28 20:22:29 · 5 answers · asked by Bunbury23 2

Does Anyone know what button to press on startup on dell screen to run the thing where it formats ur drive? i remember you had to press CTRL+F4 or something like that

2007-07-28 18:06:07 · 1 answers · asked by shortzyboi 1

They have intel processors now, so there's not much difference other than the rediculous price difference. I'm sure there is a hack somewhere that would allow Mac OS to be installed on a PC, so why pay the extra $1000 for a Mac?

2007-07-28 17:23:01 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

On Newegg, the motherboard I'm buying says "Notice: Only DDR2-800 memory supporting JEDEC approved 1.8V operation with timings of 5-5-5 or 6-6-6 is supported on Intel Desktop Boards based on Intel 965 Express Chipsets."

The RAM I've bought says 2.1V for voltage and 5-5-5-12 for timing. Will it work, or should I cancel the order while I still can?

2007-07-28 15:51:17 · 3 answers · asked by goluxas 2

I have and Emachines Desktop T6216 and I am trying to install the Audio Drivers...I have gone to their Download Page and download it and installed it...my computer restarted and yet nothing!!!!! My audio pluis plugged in and I still have no audio! Any thouhts?

PS: I didnt wanna go customer help on Emachines cuz You gotta put in your info on the ur compuer and Im too lazy to do that.......

2007-07-28 12:45:58 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

I Just recently purchased a Comstar 16x16 dvd writer and it comes with Nero. But nero doesnt let me copy movies b/c of copyrights. And all of the downloads that i can find on the internet are just trials, so i need something i can keep on my computer , and not just for 5 days or something.

2007-07-28 11:36:19 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

Hell people, I need some quick advice on which one is a ebtter computer.

http://www.bestbuy.ca/catalog/proddetail.asp?logon=&langid=EN&sku_id=0926INGFS10090327&catid=20217

http://www.bestbuy.ca/catalog/proddetail.asp?logon=&langid=EN&sku_id=0926INGFS10090347&catid=20217


Thanks

2007-07-28 11:06:25 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

what other cable ties can i use other than plastic when building a pc?

2007-07-28 11:02:09 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

Here are my specs:
-Intel Core 2 Quad Processor Q6600
-2x 500GB Hard Drive [Serial-ATA-II, 3Gb, 7200 RPM, 16M Cache]
-Asus Striker Extreme nForce® 680i SLI Chipset
-2x GeForce 8600GTS 512MB
-2048MB [1024MB X2] DDR2-800 PC6400 RAM

I'm pretty sure I have it beat on the GPU and Hard Drive... but I'm not sure about the processor?

2007-07-28 11:00:29 · 4 answers · asked by clendn2000 2

6,7,8, or FX series?

2007-07-28 09:56:19 · 5 answers · asked by nukemobile 3

Radeon or GeForce?

2007-07-28 09:44:49 · 5 answers · asked by nukemobile 3

can u explain how the hard drive crashes.
thanks.

2007-07-28 09:27:05 · 0 answers · asked by JIGSAW 2

Amd Athlon X2 6000+ processor
MSI K9N SLI Platinum motherboard
4 x 1gb OCZ Platinum DDR2 PC2 6400
160GB Western Digital HD
XFX GeForce 7600GT

2007-07-28 09:23:02 · 5 answers · asked by speedracer989 2

What's in a tower that means it still has to be huge? Are they becoming obsolete?

Re: physical space? A thumb drive puts a gig on a keychain.
My laptop is every bit as powerful as my PC and yet it fits in a briefcase.

I know that computers are a lot smaller than they used to be (room-sized) but they seem to have reached a plateau lately and I wonder why the tower itself isn't shrinking anymore. In spite of technology that proves we can make most things smaller including monitors, storage drives, etc, the tower remains huge...we either switch over to laptops or buy furniture to hide them in order to deal with the amount of space that they take up.

My guess is that it is in ventilation. Even expansion and power doesn't seem to need so much space.

2007-07-28 09:21:18 · 6 answers · asked by musicimprovedme 7

Which is better an AMD Athlon 64 FX or an AMD Athlon 64 X2?

2007-07-28 08:40:39 · 2 answers · asked by nukemobile 3

2007-07-28 08:32:39 · 4 answers · asked by Chris A 1

where buy???

2007-07-28 08:19:42 · 3 answers · asked by an4 1

I have problems waking up for work any1 got any ideas i sleep normall hours but just cant get up sometimes i have trouble sleeping to this could be part of it

2007-07-28 07:39:06 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

Could some one tell mewhat itr is please.
Also i am on windows xp and every day about tea time my pc getsa bubble in the bottom right hand side of my screen
it says something like " windows virtual memory is low windows will increase the size some operations that require virtual memory may shut down"

but nothing seems to shut down.
how can i make my memery biger to stop getting these messages is they a way?

i know very little about pc's

thank you

2007-07-28 06:41:13 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

I am comparing it with the AMD Turion 64 x2 processor.

2007-07-28 05:05:36 · 3 answers · asked by Francis B 1

My husband's desktop Dell 4600 PC needs the motherboard replaced in it, is this something we can do ourselves? I had it at a technicians place, but Dell is giving him the "run-a-round" about getting the part for him. So he don't want to fix it now. How can we fix this problem, short of buying a new computer. We really can't afford a new one right now. Would a different brand motherboard work? Can we do the work ourselves? How hard is it? Any and all information would be great appreciated. Thanks and God bless. ♥

2007-07-28 04:54:51 · 3 answers · asked by mawma7 3