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I am considering a Dell Dimension 4600 right now for my upgrade. It is spec'd with Intel 3.2E processor, and I am very concerned about heat issues. I REALLY would prefer a Northwood core, but I can't find any online vendors that allow that. I checked Sony, HP, Compaq, and Dell. Is there someone I am missing, or a way to get the preferred Northwood processor? I just don't want to buy the Dell and have it fry in their inadequately cooled box. Thanks for your help!

So the little 4 pin white connector is needed plus the usual 2 row-20 pin power connector? Because I believe my power supply does have them both. But it has been in an AMD system, so I wanted to double check. I believe the power supply came from Newegg, here is the link. http://www.newegg.com/app/viewproductdesc....-154-013&DEPA=0 Right under the connector labeled P6 is the 4 pin one that I have. It looks the same to me. Thanks for the help!

Ok, first off, I am considering a MSI board for my next purchase. I was curious how their tech/driver support was. Do they release drivers fairly often, or have good tech support if something does go wrong? And second, I was looking at an Intel 3.2 Ghz processor for the MSI Neo2-PFS. My problem is, I thought I read somewhere that Intel boards/processors require special power connections. Is this true, and if so what do they look like? I have a Allied AL-A400ATX (400 watt) power supply, would that work? I am sure some people here have plenty experience that could help. Thank you very much for your expertise. Oh P.S., I am new to the Intel scene. Iis that a decent board? I want reliability with good drivers, and reasonably priced. Sounds like a fairy tale, but I have had issues in the past with cheap motherboards that have opened my eyes. I just want to be sure before purchasing. Thanks!

Hey Unreal, I saw you successfully got the Nforce to work on your slipstream CD. Could you share how you did that? I also have the ATI - Nforce setup, but I could never get them to work right. I too have crappy dialup, and my slipstream CD was lost on my last hard drive failure. So before I download things and try, I want a sure-fire solution to do it right. I too would like to have the newest ATI and Nvidia drivers be installed *only* if the computer needs it. Thanks!

I just need the silent switches for PowerArc, and a mirror of the winamp 5.03a MSi? I know the other page has it, but the link is dead. And doing searches isn't effective when it brings up 12 pages, and I have no idea what page it might be on. Thanks in advance!

RemoveSunJavaUpdateCheck.reg \Install\ZoneAlarmPro\ZoneAlarm.reg I would like to set these in my unattended CD, but I can't find the reg files. The zone alarm would probably be an edited one, as each user would have a different CD key. All I need is locations for the Zone Alarm, I can fill in the info. Thanks!

I am having trouble with Ati with smart gart and CP installed. I can't seem to find one post that mentions how-to correctly do this. I used the install off CD method, but haven't tested it yet. I am not sure if just sticking the Ati folder in my $OEM$\Drivers directory is enough (I have the updated .iss in it). I want it to be able to use these drivers only if needed, but when they are needed it installs everything. Similarly, I have tried making the updated .iss file for the new Nforce 4.24, but it auto restarts after install. I use setup.exe -R. Again, I dont know what will all be installed if I do it this way. I would like the NVmixer installed, but I have read several posts that couldnt do it correctly. I would like it if this didn't install on every machine, since I do reformat my old PC a lot too, and that doesn't use Nforce. Is there a relatively easy way to set this up? I currently use the RunOnceEx.cmd way of installing. Here is a snippet of my RunOnce cmd file. OH! Does pskill.exe go into $OEM$\$$\System32? Thanks, I know this a lot for one post. SET KEY=HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnceEx REG ADD %KEY% /V TITLE /D "Installing Applications" /f REG ADD %KEY%\001 /VE /D "Preparing Installation..." /f REG ADD %KEY%\001 /V 1 /D "%CDROM%\Software\Commands\prepare.cmd" /f REG ADD %KEY%\010 /VE /D "Spybot S&D 1.3" /f REG ADD %KEY%\010 /V 1 /D "%CDROM%\Software\Spybot\sbot13.exe /VERYSILENT /SP-" /f REG ADD %KEY%\015 /VE /D "Adobe Acrobat Reader 6.0.1" /f REG ADD %KEY%\015 /V 1 /D "%CDROM%\Software\Adobe\acrobat601.exe -p\"-s /v\\\"/qn\\\" /f REG ADD %KEY%\015 /VE /D "Daemon Tools 3.46" /f REG ADD %KEY%\015 /V 1 /D "%CDROM%\Software\DTools\daemon.msi REBOOT=SUPPRESS /qn" /f REG ADD %KEY%\020 /VE /D "Ad-Aware 6.181" /f REG ADD %KEY%\020 /V 1 /D "%CDROM%\Software\Lavasoft\AdAware6181.exe /VERYSILENT" /f REG ADD %KEY%\025 /VE /D "Google Toolbar" /f REG ADD %KEY%\025 /V 1 /D "%CDROM%\Software\Google\toolbar.exe /q /d" /f REG ADD %KEY%\026 /VE /D "Shockwave - Flash Players " /f REG ADD %KEY%\026 /V 1 /D "%CDROM%\Software\Flash\flash6.exe /s" /f REG ADD %KEY%\030 /VE /D "Nero Burning ROM 6.3.0.3" /f REG ADD %KEY%\030 /V 1 /D "%CDROM%\Software\Nero\Nero6303.exe /silent /sn=xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx/write_sn /no_ui /nocancel /noreboot /AutoFinishApp" /f REG ADD %KEY%\040 /VE /D "Java 1.4.2 build 5" /f REG ADD %KEY%\040 /V 1 /D "%CDROM%\Software\Java\java142.exe /s /v/qn" /f REG ADD %KEY%\045 /VE /D "WinISO 5.3" /f REG ADD %KEY%\045 /V 1 /D "%CDROM%\Software\WinIso\winiso53.exe /VERYSILENT /SP-" /f REG ADD %KEY%\045 /V 2 /D "pskill WinISO" /f REG ADD %KEY%\050 /VE /D "ZoneAlarm Pro 4.5.594" /f REG ADD %KEY%\050 /V 1 /D "%CDROM%\Software\ZoneAlarmPro\zap4594.exe /s /noreboot" /f REG ADD %KEY%\050 /V 2 /D "pskill zclient" /f REG ADD %KEY%\055 /VE /D "Importing Registry Tweaks" /f REG ADD %KEY%\055 /V 1 /D "REGEDIT /S %CDROM%\Software\Commands\tweaks.cmd" /f REG ADD %KEY%\060 /VE /D "Cleaning Up and Rebooting" /f REG ADD %KEY%\060 /V 1 /D "%CDROM%\Software\Commands\cleanup.cmd" /f EXIT