I have a question about a new GA-EP35C-DS3R and an HD Western Digital
velociraptor 300 GB...
I have another hard disk Maxtor DiamondMax 22  500 Gb, but I do not
understand because it is faster than the Velociraptor

Any thoughts on the above motherboard??
I am thinking of this but am unsure of the chipset performance. I want a
good all rounder for the Intel Quad Core processor and i will be using DDR3
Ram.

I'm getting ready to assemble a system with the GA-MA78GM-S2H and a SATA HD
and Optical Drive.  Can anyone explain the SATA options in the BIOS.  I
don't want a RAID setup, but should I select native IDE or AHCI?  Can I
install WIN XP from the SATA optical drive or do I need to ...

I am going to build a computer based on a Gigabyte GA-EP35-DS3R mobo.  The
video card will be a Nvidia 9800 GTX.  The mobo has a PCI-E x16 slot but the
video card needs a PCI-E 2.0 x16 slot.
What is the difference and will it work in the mobo?

Does it hurt the computer any to leave it on all the time , with the STR-3
setting i just walk away and don't touch it until the next day, only using
it from 1 to 3 hrs per day. power down in windows xp is set for 1/2 hr. am i
doing the right thing ? hurting anything?  thank you

i had a stable configuration w/ winxp pro , E6750 , 2 1 gig sticks OCZ
mem(priemium w/heatsink etc) 7600gt nvidia. my questtion is: did the
addition of 2 1 gig sticks of Crucial Ballistic Tracer 6400 ( same as the
OCZ - kind of) added 2 fans and a 3rd HD, so far as far as i can ...