According to intel and amd the airflow inside a case is supposed to go from
the front of the case to the back of the case and out the back of the case.
The airflow is supposed to go past the components.
Also the case could be seen as a "air/wind" tunnel.

My computer is running Win98SE.  My boot hard drive is a 6 gig drive.
I also have a 20 gig slave drive, which used to be a 10 gig.  Changing
that slave was simply to plug in a 3rd drive and copy all the files to
it, then moving that drive to the second drive cable.

OK so I *do* plan to build my first pc (a gaming rig) between now and
next month ( based on whether I'll wait for the E6600 price to drop)
I've been doing some research and planning but am stuck with some
components and decisions and am looking for advice/suggestions/

I have seen on my friends computer that in Vista it rates your computer
specifications, giving you a score on each component to tell you what is the
slowest part.
Is there a non vista program out there that does a similar thing? I am

Today I woke up, wondering if the FreeCell sound bug would be gone ?!
So I just tested it:
1. I started Civilization 3 Conquest.
2. I started freecell.

I have a hard drive that I set the jumpers to master and installed it in a
computer, booted it up and even installed XP on it. Then I rebooted it and
it failed to recognize the drive. I tried everything but nothing worked. I
took the drive out, hooked it up to another machine and ...

I have an old PC power supply that I want to use to power an external drive enclosure.  I have tried to find out which wires I need to connect that go into the 20-pin MB connector to close the circuit going to the front plane PC case power switch, but several so-called "techs" at ...

Thanks for your guys' help on my other post. Especially the part about
being twice as likely to have problems. I already have one.
The 8800 says it requires 26amps on the 12V+ rail.
Where do I get a PSU like that? The couple that I did find were $200+

I am trying to find some information about running dual monitors. The
first one is Can you use two twin wide screen monitors? Second, I my new
PC has a video card with only one head. I have seen splitters on the web
can I use one of them or do I need a new card as well as the ...

i was browsing some days back i stormed on this site called tiger. The
site is a amazing site with cheap and high quality computer products.
Has i was still browsing tiger i saw so many good and nice looking
product that i wised that i can be able to buy them all. tiger also

can a pci expres 16x card be used in a 8x slot?

Before you flame me and tell me to google...
I've been around PC's since forever.. the 286 i guess being my first.
I've installed and reinstalled all kinds of peripherals and hard
drives.

My problem is:
I changed my chassis to a hp compaq dc7600 tower and now the front
panel audio is not working correctly: only the headphones working the
mic is not. If anyone can help how to change the wiring to work the

Hi, anybody know what the smallest SATA2 drive available is (with 16MB
cache)
For one of the Linux servers I am building I am having a WD 500gb
drive for the web files and want to have the OS installed on a

In December I built a PC and installed an OEM Windows XP Pro x64 OS
from Newegg.  It included a "free" upgrade to Vista.  In January I
filled out the proper websites and forms and sent things off.  The
upgrade people, ModusLink (https://upgradeweb.moduslink.com/Vista/),