I dunno, if you've gone ahead bought a psu by now - and if you have thats fine too, this might help someone else: Its worth bearing in mind some...
Wot about GFX? You'll need something better than an x800 for bioshock... I know its too late for you, but for someone else considering something...
AVG and other anti-virus or anti-spy are unlikely to find trojans - try to find trojan remover software specifically (I can't remember but have...
First of all run anti-virus/ trojan software (everything you have) because a very old crude method of gathering passwords used to be emulate a...
His card is unlikely to be screwed because he is still using it and able to play games (for a while anyway) - the cooling fan is no longer working...
Might be worth getting a a tuniq tower or some other after market cooler for the CPU just to keep things quiet (as tzang said, stock cooling will...
Krikkit, I really know very little about RAID, and from what I've read (very little) software RAID5 IS very cpu intensive but surely a quad-core...
Everything else seems to have been covered by others far more qualified than me - except you did mention quietness and I'm thinking that Raptor...
Good point, Hazardous. Although I would say it might be useful for anyone else looking for a budget card and reading the post.
Samsung, Western Digital and Seagate (in that order!) - The Samsung (T166 models) I have not tried but all the reviews rave about their lack of...
Seasonic M12-700.
I have this NV6 from Arctic Cooling (see E.E.L. Ambiense's reply above) but on a 7600GT! It may not cool QUITE as well as the Zalman (but it is...
Consider one of the Arctic Cooling ones to see if it fits your processor (Q6600 is LGA775? Sorry I know little about *ntel cpus - AMD me!) - it...
I don't believe you'll probably lose TOO much efficiency by having the fan PULLing the air instead of pushing but one thing that maybe worth...
With regards to PSUs. One of the supplies recommended by BBQ is a Seasonic 700 - I have a lower power (no pun intended) model 430 and can say...
Hi, Dunno if you've bought yet, but I would not recommend the 2400pro (rare considering I like AMD). Personally, if you do not want to spend much...
Oops, I took so long to post!
Probably better to get the faster memory. Also, probably better to save money by buying Vista Home Premium and getting a 8800GTX 640MB (sorry...
Hold I would second crazybob's idea: hold onto your cash for now (or if you really must get rid of it, send the money to me and I'll send you...
Neither! Get neither! ;) Get something with AM2 socket on board :-)
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