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Since my wholesaler didn't have the processor until June 15th (probably) I went to downtown an check prices, surprisely they have almost the same price.

But how I check which core is it, does it say in the box?

A friend maybe will come in june from the states, I can order online, he'll could bring it.

The wholesaler does not have until June 15th :(

I'm finishing off my bedroom / computer room / home theater room. I have 5 wall outlets which have Cat 6 networking cables running inside the walls (to use with the new pc I'm going to build soon and my current pc). I went to install the wall plates and I looked at the snap-in connectors, and found that they are Cat 5e bulkhead inserts. I went to the company's website and they don't have ...

I sold some componets of my actual PC P4 3.2Ghz 512MB (2 256MB sticks) with two 40GB ATA with SATA to PATA adapter in a RAID conf and MSI 875 MoBo.

Possible upgrade: P4 3.4Ghz 1GB (2 512MB sticks) and 2 real SATA drives (80GB each) my options Maxtor or Seagate, new graphic card, GF6600 AGP

Possible change: MSI K8 Neo4 (Nvidia chipset), AMD 64 3500, same memory and disks as above, graphic card: GF6600 ...

I've got a Lanpartypro 875B motherboard with an Intel P4 3.0 processor that supports the hyperthreading.

When i put this system together, i just used the two 512 Kingston sticks I had in my old system.

The mb supports the dual channel memory so i was wondering if it would make a bigger difference to upgrade on the ram? i do alot of video editing and what i have now is adequate but bogs down ...

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OK my computer is starting to give me trouble - self reboots etc.
looks like i'll have to invest some money in it, improve the cooling, replace the lousy heatsink-fan unit i've got.

any recommendations?
yeah, i know Socket-A is old and most you guys with AMD systems have an Athlon 64 CPU, but still...

right now i'm thinking of the Thermalright SI-97.
http://www.thermalright.com/a_page/main ... t_si97.htm
read a ...

I saw Ian made a news post yesterday about the new Imation Stakka. Hoxlund showed it to me earlier this week, and it does look very nice. You can buy it at CDW: http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/defaul ... EDC=747482

Some more information:

OCAU Review - http://www.overclockers.com.au/article.php?id=345254
Toms - http://www6.tomshardware.com/storage/200504211/

I'm thinking about getting one soon...

I have an older HP Pavilion that is used in the office only to create and print invoices and inventory. No gaming, videos, etc...
When the motherboard died, I replaced it and installed a larger hard drive. I find that the recovery disk supplied with HP will not recognize and reload the windows system.
I've already called HP and when I finally got to talk to someone who could speak english....they were no help at ...

This is the newest color laser printer that sells for $399 retail or $299 on sale or at SAM's Club.

There are two issues that I have heard about:

1) Very high AMP usage....is that normal for all color lasers?

2) Starter toner 1500 pages x 4 ..... they sell for about $70 each therefore if you replace the toner that is about the value of the printer.

3) Loud clunkening noise after 20 to ...

Please bear with me.....Let me explain what happened.....my laptop is running WinXP home SP1....the owner's name is johndoe......the user name is montecore.....while logged in as montecore I made a snapshot of the system to an external USB2 HD. Against my better judgement I attempted to install SP2 and that completely hosed my system.....I thought OK lets just restore the snapshot of the system....now two things happened:

1) I tried mounting the snapshot image on a ...