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The ATI HD4670 is about as much as you can get indeed, HIS and XFX make them...

Hmmm, yes, you are right about the google pictures, however, when I benchmark most drives it shows a different story. But when I look at the benchmarks I made and also when I look at yours, I see a 5-10MB/s drop for each drive at the beginning.

If you partition the rest of the drives, then the drive heads will leave the outer region of the platter and the overall effect will no longer be short stroked, hence giving up its advantage. You know that the first part of a drive has lower transfer speed compared with let's say at 5% of the drive. I don't know if there are tools to not use that part, but I'm for sure you could do some tricks to leave the first 10GB aside and start from there. I never tried it (so kick me if I'm wrong ) but with Windows 7 you have already the 100MB partition, and you could set that to 10GB with some disc managers. Just a thought...

Good, time to close this one then...

Nice to read that, but you could help some people out by writing how you solved it . Welcome to the forum by the way.

All same to me, all North Americans. Nice setup, but would it really hurt that much to use the other space of the hard disks? Or are you afraid you will loose your data again, or you have just a data-server some where else near that PC?

Or just post both. It is allowed to place a post in another language WITH a translation to English. @ Zenskas and jcarle; I am sure he already used a translator .

Indeed, those are simple and not to bad coolers, I would like to add the Foxconn NBT-CMI77516B3-C, also a cooler without PWM.

Imposible in that setup as it's a single port, single drive SATA and not PATA.

You have seen nothing yet! How about warranty stickers on top of the CPU and the cooler applied on top of them? *caug* - VIVA Mexico - *caug*

Ow G... and that public in the 98 section!

I would expect the Harddisk too, but test it in another system too. Also, if not already done, try the latest BIOS update. If your BIOS is older than 0802, I would for sure blame the BIOS first...

Okay, so it doesn't show F2, but you still can push it to enter the BIOS I presume, did you try that? If you can enter the BIOS do a BIOS reset or "reset to defaults" as they call it too. If you can enter the BIOS you can enable F10 and F2 to show up in the bootup screen too. Somehow it doesn't seem to see the DVDs and after that it goes to the harddisk (well, at least that is what I believe it does)...

Yes you are right, I should have known that it was a CU and not a TU based CPU, but as I didn't see the number 8 in his post I preferred to ask what the CPU type/speed was...

No one will really stop you to move to your own farm and grow the vegetables to stay alive and pump water out of the ground your self. One investment you make and you can live from it your whole life IF you know how to handle it . This can be done at age 4 and up...

With room temperature at some 28oC So, with a FSB of over 2000MT/s (500MHz BIOS setting) your temperatures are normal . Also, I have a CPU cooler that blows over all components as most motherboard are designed that way.

Or get a bigger case as well to fit something with more ports. Personally I like the new AMD CPUs and their chipsets and would give the best performance for the cash.The ICH7 used on your motherboard now isn't bad at all, sure it's not as fast as a ICH9 or 10 but most of the time you will not even "feel" the difference. I sell systems with the ICH7 in combination with a blu-tay reader and a ATI HD4350 and all works as it should be (sure with a Vista OS).

That's very true indeed, and to straighten out the problems will take months; Sony simply doesn't make their drives them selves, this is why I recommend to stay away from Sony as far as you can get. I sell LiteON and LGE drives here, both brands work very well but I've never used them to burn off a blu-ray disk so I can't say much about that.By the way, the 945 chipset needs a PCI-E 16x video card, something like the ATI HD4350 (or above), to get blu-ray displayed well, the onboard GMA 950 just doesn't cut it.

It's good to know that they work fine, I must say that I had problems before with optical drives on SI but that could be the motherboard BIOS also as most were embedded on the motherboard.

My bad, didn't read the blu-ray part. But is the rest of the hardware up to reproduce? Besides that, I would check the compatibility with for example Silicon Image chips, I know that VIA might be dead with their mainboard chipsets but they are more compatible I have found out.

Stick with the PATA/IDE drives, no need to change, you will also need some extra SATA power connectors. You will save a PCI-E slot, teh extra SATA power connects and teh cost of the PCI-E SATA card .

You need to add a graphics card to your computer, you are now using an older chipset with onboard video as they call it. Place a topic about your question in the hardware section; we will be able to help you out there to get the right AGP video card IF the motherboard has an AGP slot.

I've never seen a scanner be shared on a network but I presume there must be some that can but not by software. When you read the sales talk for that machine this is what pops up: "Incorporating A3 local TWAIN scanning"... I'll better move this to the network section .

Indeed, or wait till it burns out, in most countries you have 2 to 3 years warranty any way.