Hi, i wish to replace my current GeForce FX 5600 with a fairly cheap,
fanless graphics card and was wondering whether anyone had any
suggestions? i don't really play many games, and if i do they are only
games such as the Sims! i do watch films on my pc though. Any

...almost have my 1st full machine finished. ...trying to decide on whether to put in a floppy drive. I can easily foresee needing
the bay that a floppy would occupy for a harddrive instead (removable tray, etc.). From what I gather, the only likely thing that I
would need a floppy ...

This technology really exists. Read on....
"Three U.S. armed vehicles, eight soldiers in each, are driving through a
village, passing candy out to kids," he began. "Suddenly the first vehicle
explodes, and there are soldiers screaming. Sixteen soldiers come out of the

This is my build:
Athlon 3800 X2
2 x 512 MB 3200 DDR 400 (added another 2 x 512 same)
a8n-sli Premium

I bought my computer (parts, actually, which I put together) at around
Christmas 2002. CPU: Athlon XP (Do you need to know anything else?)
Recently I added a wireless network card and that's when the problem
started: the computer won't switch on until it's been plugged into mains

I've had a Nebula for a while now, but I've got two problems with it.
The software seems to make my PC unstable, I often get Desktop icons
vanishing, and secondly it won't fit in my new PC case unless I remove
the motherboard first (one of the antenna sockets fouls the case).

    I have a Biostar NF4UL-A9 (Nforce 4 Ultra) mainboard that has
4 DDR DIMM slots. Right now, I have 1GB (2 x 512MB) PC3200 DIMMs
running in dual channel. I'd like to upgrade this to 2GB of RAM. I've
read that alot of systems have problems when all 4 DIMM slots are

There are two sets of SATA connectors. The black ones are referred to as
"Intel Matrix Storage" and the blue ones as "Discrete Controller." What are
the differences?

In suspend to ram I have about 4 normal resumes to every cold restart.
Sometimes it shuts itself off when I try to resume on my home blt computer.
It doesnt seem to be any chipset videocard or monitor drivers or
powersupply. Baring a format and reinstall since a xp upgrade didnt

OK all those who have offered help to the last post Many thanks. Got me
really thinking, did a little research, and have decided to go for an
AMD Duel core, this is fairly simple, but Motherboard is a little harder.
One of you offered a site for comparisons, and after looking ...

 I'm planning on building a new computer as a bit of a pastime. One of
the interesting obstacles that I came across is that I can't find any
guidance on how to size the power supply.
I'm planning on an Intel Core 2 Duo E6700, an Intel DB975XBX