An SATA 2 drive should be backwards compatible with SATA 1. I personally think RAID 0 is too much hassle, and risky. I would just get a decent 7200 RPM drive around 200-300GB.
You can always add a Raptor or RAID setup later. You may find Raptors too noisy if you are sensitive to noise...
Are you talking about the neo4? That "it should be greater than 18A" recommendation is for a single rail. If you look at the MSI Neo4 Platinum test report, they have 300W and 350W power supplies that tested OK. I wish MSI would publish a recommendation for dual rails (or if they did I would...
Sounds like something is majorly screwed up and I doubt it is your RAM. It could be a disk problem. You should try scanning for adware/malware, resetting your BIOS, maybe looking at the event viewer in windows to see if there are problems being logged. Does CPU Z report your correct processor...
Switching between open applications by itself is not "multitasking". Having multiple cores / multiple CPUs will make your computer more responsive though.
Are you saying that you only want to upgrade your processor? It doesn't seem worth it to me since you
are only talking about a roughly 15% CPU improvement by going from your 3200 to a 4000.
SSE3 might increase that a bit more.
Both have 2000MHz HT. Check the retail 3700 specs. Monarch cut and pasted incorrect text from the 3700 socket 754, and it is still on the OEM chip.
Nobody has compared the two (3700 & 3800) processors head to head yet that I know of. Some oddball site I'd never heard of had a 3700 San Diego...
Yes. Your software player will need to have support for AC3 passthrough though. e.g. mplayer, WinDVD, PowerDVD
Once you decide on a system, you may want to search for its sound chipset on avsforum.com or another audio/video site to confirm it will do what you want. Most current onboard...
It's easier than that. You just need a sound card or onboard sound with SPDIF out, which most have. It's only a matter of getting a toslink or coax cable and hooking it up just like any other digital input.
That seems like a decent setup. The only thing I really don't like is the mouse, but I know that's a personal decision. I would go for an MX518. The benefit of having something that's two feet from your computer be cordless is lost on me, but then I do other wacky stuff like networking with...
This computer doesn't seem to be anything special at all, just an exercise in buying parts with bad price/performance.
I would want SCSI or dual CPUs for 4k. Raptors don't even have NCQ.
Other companies had 64 bit processors and dual core processors before either AMD or Intel.
First has nothing to do with being successful in the computer industry. It's marketing and competition. If anything, it's better not to be first.
Intel is coming out with an expensive high end dual...
32 bit PCI can't really handle Gigabit Ethernet. It has a burst rate of 1 Gbps.
AGP 8x is 16 Gbps. PCI Express x1 can do 2.5 Gbps (5 Gbps duplex).
I read that the standard for PCI Express goes up to x32.
You should be able to tell from the performance tab of the task manager if you're running out of RAM and paging to disk. Beyond that you can look at the system monitor and performance counters. It may be that the best solution here is just running fewer applications at once.
Even if you put...
Yes, but they will run at PCI speed. PCI-X cards will work in PCI slots and PCI cards
will work in PCI-X slots.
PCI Express rules. PCI-X drools.
PCI-X is an outdated shared-bus system that is backwards compatible. PCI-Express uses a more sophisticated packet switched model but is not...
That graph is bogus.
The bars do not start at 0. The "Wini" is not nearly as bad as the graph makes it look. It actually has 98.90% of the performance of the FX-53 and 98.97% of the Venice's performance. Who cares about 1%?
Check the manufacturer model numbers on newegg and zipzoomfly. I think those are the same CPUs. I thought sledgehammers were all
socket 940, but I am probably not up to date.
Do you really want an FX-55? For gaming you are looking at maybe a 10-15% fps improvement at stock speed for 150%...
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