puntoMX

Welcome to the forum. I'm sorry to say that I have no solution for this but I would blame the game for it. Moving this topic to the XP section as it's not a hardware fault.

Most 15" will only do 60Hz on 1024*768, you will get tired eyes from that. I know you said you won't be buying another screen soon, but there are lots of 17" screen used for just 200 to 300 pesos (16 to 24 USD, Samsung, LG) that would work well with 1024*768 at 75Hz. A new 15.6" LCD with a resolution of 1366*768 would cost 1100-1200 Pesos (about 95USD, Acer, 3 years warranty).

So, you are using IE6 as some apps you have only work on IE6? Check out the blog to see if you could use the "emulation" of IE6 in IE8 and soon IE9 they say: UniBrows™ from Browsium Inc. enables IE6 line of business applications to run natively on Windows 7 at a fraction of the cost and complexity of the alternatives.

Anti-theft! Is that a 8cm back-fan mounted?

I know I'm late but, check out the 4GB memory strips, 40USD, so you would save some extra cash there. Timings are a bit less tight but it leaves you more upgrade space for the future . The 64bit vs. 128bit addressing isn't making much difference these days especially on AMD systems. Onboard video like the 880G chipset has, HD4250, will be plenty for Unreal 2004 and H.264 @ 1080p and Bluray it does without problems. Most of those boards come with a HDMI/DVI-D output and you can use another screen on the VGA out. That said, -X-, what case is that you have? Does it have a 8cm+ ventilator at the back? If not, I would check out a case from Coolermaster that has a 12cm fan at the back.

You know, would be helpful for others if you still post the brand and model please.

Big chance that the plastic front cover can be swapped as well, most just clip on. Moving this to the appropriated forum part.

I bought both of them and now I'm unsure if I should return or keep them because I'll only get a full refund if I leave the components untouched. The E5700 seems to be problematic: The GA-P41-ES3G doesn't support it either. I would return it, both so to say and get something that isn't that much outdated, but I don't know how much you spend on it. There are better options when you want to go cheap and we can help you out with that, so, on Monday you can exchange the parts you bought (Or something must have changed and they open now also on Sundays in your country).CPU: http://tweakers.net/pricewatch/263404/amd-athlon-ii-x2-255.html MOBO: http://tweakers.net/pricewatch/232185/asrock-a790gxh-128m.html or something like this (mATX/uATX) http://tweakers.net/pricewatch/246210/asus-m4a785g-htpc.html Those are just examples, note that the mobo is full-atx and works with DDR2. I presume you have DDR2 RAM laying around that you are going to use? If this is a build up from scratch it's better to say so course DDR3 is now the way to go. Please forget Socket 775, it's just not worth it any more. ps. If you really want that S775 CPU than look at http://tweakers.net/pricewatch/252891/asus-p5g41c-m.html with BIOS 0506, also doesn't show that CPU in it's list BUT Foxconn is just lousy with updates for its BIOS. Now, I'm almost sure it will work any way, but it could be just showing "unknown CPU" and you have to set the multi in the BIOS.

woodpusher, why would you like to know this? Do you have one of those components and like to add the other?

Check out openDNS for example.

Interesting, so Dell does the same as HP. You know this fix will work for only some time do you?

Must be a HP am I right? If so it's the push-pull transistors or the coils of the backlight(s)...

Hold on, a mobo with a 945G(V) chipset could be limited to the voltage regulator, thus only supporting the 65nm CPUs and not the 45nm, so, opening the housing and look what is printed on the board with bigger characters would be the only way for now to know what and how. I'm sure a a 65nm CPU will work but best bang for the buck E3300 or E3400 at 45nm could not be supported by the VRM. And than we have the BIOS indeed...

Gigabyte uses them for example.I would stick to the CPU (Athlon XP 2600+) you have and pop in 1GB of DDR1 400 or 333 (3200 or 2700) RAM, think about 31USD and take the 128MB out. That would give you enough boost in XP, if that is what you are running, especially with an Anti Malware/Virus program running in the background.

You pay for this: Not sure if it's worth those 60 bucks, but you get something ULTRA SUPER MEGA (as in bad-a**). Most of those universal mobile computer power-adapters don't have the exact voltage, say your notebook will need 18.5V and you can only set 18 or 19V on the power-adapter, but that 2.5% over-voltage when set to 19V isn't doing any damage (normally).

I think you'll better do trail and error and buy at a shop where you can return the product; some cable work, some don't but I can't tell you what model does, and what model doesn't. Hard to say as you won't know what communication chip is used . By the way, I didn't see the "MAX" placed in your first post, my bad.

You could also add a PCI card to your PC with that port, unless you have a notebook. That program is old, I stopped using it 18 years ago but learned the 3D part with it as ACAD 12/13 had such a crap 3D interface. (edit: my bad, we are talking about MAX and not about 3D studio 3.x / 4.x without the MAX and not made for DOS).

All are affected when you use the SATA 300 ports, but some boards have them just not enabled/used. Intel is going to release their new version of that chipset, S-spec-numbers SLJ4x (was SLHxx), so you only need to check that S-spec-number.

Plus one on what the others said, graphics will be a bit slow with a WEI score of 2.9 or 3.0 but that is still good enough to run aero (glass). Just, go for Windows Seven Home Premium, I don't think you will run all those extra features on that computer .

Those are nice screens indeed with a IPS panel in it. Set the screen as much in height as you can, try to get used to it. I see that you have it set low on your pictures.

indeed, nothing wrong until now with the CPU (APU? ). The problem has to be found for the SATA 300 ports, they can go AWOL, seems that one transistor in the whole package is getting too much voltage and is messing up the whole system. Now, the SATA 600 ports seem to be fine. They think that 10 to 15% of the boards will get problems with the SATA ports in the next 3 to 5 years. So, I see it as a small risk. A lot of web-shops say that the boards are out of stock but are still stocking them and waiting for Intel's response. I would personally give a rats behind about the SATA 300 ports as the 600 ports are just fine, and if you have a huge storage you would go for an additional RAID setup any way.--- AMD is a cheaper solution and you get what you pay for. If you go for the best CPU performance than Intel will do best, if you go for best price/performance than AMD would be better, read AMD CPU+Mobo+GPU for the price of intel CPU+Mobo. Just my 2 cents.

Well, kids today, my first one was a ZX-80 which you had to solder components yourself.... ...why, in my day ..... http://reboot.pro/1908/ .... and we LIKED it! jaclaz What? You are talking about that enormous 1Kilobyte expansion? Darn thing didn't even have color . Darn was I happy to see the MSX released, nights of just plain Boulderdash !

Both brands bring indeed perfect boards, however I like to add, the Gigabyte has some pros over the ASUS; CPU voltage section uses a more expensive design and is superior to the ASUS (cheap motherboards (think about the G31/G41 S775 chipsets) use the same setup as the ASUS board), Gigabyte brings Dual BIOS (virtually impossible to kill it by flashing it wrong) and the ASUS has 2 USB ports less at the back. Other brands lack the support of socket 1155 at the moment.

Hello Mike, there will be a margenal improment when you use DVI over a good VGA cable, however, in most cases the image looks clearer with DVI indeed. There is no need to go directly to an add-on video card, you can try first a HDMI to DVI cable (should work with 95% of the portables and desktop PCs). Take a look at this cable. EDIT: I see that the one I linked to earlier is 3m in length so here is one of 1.8m.

Indeed, cheap *ss ASUS version made for HP, those headers are active.Jorge, USB version 2.0 has a standard header pinlayout, never seen anything strange on that, however, back in the days that version 1.1 came out there were like 3 versions. Just get something from ebay like this, 1USD plus less than 4USD shipping, 4 ports so you can use all your headers . Never seen those indeed, and we both know this stuff from when USB came out (darn we must be old ).