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  1. If the machine is going to be used as a router make sure you have 2 NICs installed and seriously consider a hardware firewall. Otherwise sounds like a good setup. I have 3 people not including myself running off of a 2.8ghz celeron 512MB and a measley pata 80gb drive housing windows 2003 SBS. Runs great and never bogs down so you should be doing good on whats listed.
  2. LOL man i've never seen one that small. I've had a few with very long twisted cables but never seen one that short. I have 2 cases that came with little piezo speakers already built into the front. They are actually better than the ones from the days of old that were paperish. If you run linux or bsd there is a program you can compile that'll let you make all kinds of buzzes and blips to tick off your room mates with
  3. Fastwrites is a faster way of accessing the AGP slot. For alot of people it's problematic but i've found it to be quite stable on that board. I've only used it with a geforce 4 and a radeon 9200 so it might not play well with others.
  4. I belive it does. It's been a long time since i've had my k7s5a but i remember not using the latest version of the bios because it changed the way the pci slots were accessed. If memory recalls I think 0309f was the best version i used. You may not want the bios with fastwrites enabled tho i used it with a radeon 9200 with no problems. It actually helped the preformance of the video card by having it enabled. @Thauzar: you can also try the ram in a different computer and see if it's not just bad sticks.
  5. @dirtwarrior: It allows you to change the FSB and speeds of the memory. Also allows support for newer cpus. I havent had no problems in flashing to these bioses. It's just like flashing an offical. I'd recommend reading through all the faqs and the forums there before doing anything though.
  6. Had the same board, same probs. Everything worked like it was supposed to after flashing the bios to hacked cheepo bios @ http://www.ocworkbench.com/2002/ecs/k7s5abios/cheepobios.htm if you dont want to flash maybe the guides there can help you @ http://www.ocworkbench.com/2002/ecs/k7s5aguide/
  7. ok now i need some recommendations for a powersupply. Any chances of getting a good one under $30? I've only got 200 to spend from income tax and probably wont have cash for something like this till the end of the year so if i can get a PSU and a decent vid card all within that range that would be awesome.
  8. I wouldnt say best but if i had the money to get a gaming lappy i'd get one from here http://www.cyberpowersystem.com/home_notebook.asp
  9. I'm running a generic psu. my specs are: Athlon 64 3400+ MSI K8NGM2-L 2x 512 PC3200 Dual Channel 1x Seagate 80GB PATA 1x Seagate 200GB PATA 1x Samsung DVD-RW Creative SB Audigy PCI Everythings running good. the fan on the PSU blows almost cool air just slightly warm at full load.
  10. I'm currently looking to upgrade my video from onboard geforce 6100 graphics ( pretty solid for being intergrated) to either a pci express 6600 Gt or 6800 GS. My problem is that i only have the money for the card and cant afford to buy an expensive power supply. I currently have a 300W and from looking around at the 6800's i see most require a min of 450W. So am i stuck with just the 6600Gt or does it require heavy power useage as well? I don't play quake 4 and newer games like that. Only new game I'm playing would be sims 2 + expansions and mostly older games like nfsu2 and bf1942/vietnam. If i could just get by with the 6600gt then that'd be great but I'd like to have the best i can get for the price without having to do a major case/psu overhaul.
  11. I almost started to buy that the other day. Picked up zoo tycoon the complete collection instead for the same price. Glad i didnt get prison
  12. EA keeps finding more ways to make me mad. I already bought the first 2 complete collections they made. First being C&C with expansion and the Redalert + expansions. Next was the one in the long box with tiberian sun and ra2 + yuri and now they do this. They should give me a free upgrade
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