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Indeed, I forgot to add the cooling part too...

Is there no way to take it to the shop so hey could test the 2GB stick for you? Or no return policy? Just buy PC2 5300 667MHz sticks, it's just your CPU that works at 533MHZ / MT/s FSB.

Okay, listen, no need for DDR3 as the chipset controls the RAM, if it was for a i7 I would say yes with triple RAM groups. Keep it with a DDR2 P35 if they are cheap or if they are the same price as a P45 board go with the P45 of course.

ATI has it's UVD, it should perform a bit better than nVidia´s PureVideo but that could be a bit of personal taste. The TDP says nothing about real life power consumption, this is why it's called Thermal Design power and not Typical Power Consumption (Min., Max., and Avg.), so please don't get mixed up on those terms . Although the 8400GS has a TDP of 40W, most video card producers use cheap cooling solutions to ship the card as cheap as possible. I must say that both ATI and nVidia stock coolers are not quiet at all, no matter the model number. It's not surprising that most people still use ore nVidia cards today as they didn't upgrade the last year or so, when you look at real sales numbers you will see that ATI and nVidia don't differ much, besides that, most video card producers now also ship ATI based cards while before ATI was left for dead by many brands. Those benchmarks are from 2007 when I must say ATI wasn't top notch when it came to drivers. Today it's a complete different story and if I had a 2400pro lying around I would have made the benchmarks in DX9 (XP/Vista) and DX10 (Vista) just to show you that in DX10 ATI for sure slaps nvidia around, and in DX9 games it will look more even than the 20% difference in performance (nVidia over ATI) that shows in 2007.

How much is the price compared with an Ultra Durable Board from Gigabyte (P45)?

Why not buy a complete laptop with a quad core to avoid problems with the BIOS? Physically it would fit but the BIOS must have the microcode to work with the quad core plus the power section of the laptop, e.g. the voltage regulator on the motherboard and the PSU, needs to support the load.

They just didn't border with 64bit drivers, it seems to work with 32bit Vista for example. - Moving this topic to the XP 64bit section, it could be that the 32bit drivers could be forced to work on 64bit.

I have to read that but I can't believe it; ATI makes better drivers than nVidia does and lot's of us will confirm that. The 8400GS can't pull HD content either. Either way, any pick he will made between a 2400pro or 8400GS would be a huge improvement over the GMA900 he has now . EDIT: That guy is clearly still green behind the ears when it comes to computer technology although he is buying parts for 10 years now. Believe me, nVidia isn't even coming close to ATI when it´s about stability of drivers. The noise that a card makes does not depend on the maker of the GPU but on how cheap a video card builder wants' to ship his product and there can be found a lot of flavors of video cards with way better coolers than the stock ATI design, also the nVidia stock cooler is noisy as hell. I would not care less if it's noisy or not when I'm playing a game with my speakers dusting off or with my headphones on. By the way, ATI cards use less juice then nVidia cards, that as a side note.

In this case it's the chipset that is the limited factor, plus the BIOS isn't giving any real OC options either. The Intel 945 chip set is made for 800MT/s FSB, so by setting the quad pumped bus to 235 you get 940MT/s. Although ASUS says it's a board that supports natively 1066MT/s and OCed 1333MT/s, it's clear that it can't. That CPU can hit at 1.35V over the 3.2GHz and the RAM for sure can pull more than 667MHz as well.

Bigger isn´t better, especially if the rest of the PC can't even bring up enough power to use that card at full size, I mean speed. It's all between your ears .

nVidia 8400GS/512MB isn't bad indeed, but if someone spends that much on a PCI card than I would go for an ATI 2400pro 256MB; better video features and performance although 1080/720 it will not play smoothly. Indeed.

Depends what a person sees under "classic", if it's games from before 2004/2005 he can still use his PC with 512MB of RAM or so. If he plays newer games he will end up with something that can't pull it for sure. For DVD and other home/office apps that machine will work as it is although the integrated video isn't playing MPEG/XViD/DiVX/H.264 smooth, better forget HD movies . Not for MPEG/XViD/DiVX/H.264 .PS. Why would any one swing "The Hammer"? I don't see any insulting words here...

Yes okay, those memories are cheap. Why? They just don't work on normal boards (that's the 5UAD one (ECC, buffered), and the 10AUD one is High-Density so it might see only half of the 512MB or not even boot up. The last 8x 256MB one is nice by the way, those should work. Still waiting for the anwer why a add-on video card is needed .

I would get a 2GB SODIMM 667MHz and try it with the 512MB SODIMM; There is a big chance it works!

They should click back in place, any pictures?

That means i can not install any graphic card available in market? Now, as always, we have a very important question; what are you going to do with the PC that you need a video card?In most cases it´s better to sell what you have now and get a complete new one.

Firmware.

Well, I hope he already checked that as I posted that 3 weeks ago.

I would also scan the drive for malware, looks more like some script that is executed on hookup.

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=130003

Nice, I hope that this helps out some people!

Buy a new computer?

, don't forget to slam it with the hammer to keep it in place . * * MSFN is not responsible for any damages, directly or indirectly.

Well, it can be smaller, microSD readers like the Kingston and Transcends microSD USB reader. You can remove the protector from the reader so it will stick out 12mm or so from the USB port plus it's strong build (perfect for car-stereos). ADATA had a very small one, but I can't find it any more on their webpage, but it looked like this, it sticks out like 7mm or so:

PCI-E you mean, but it doesn´t matter what you put into the PCI-E slots at all. I would contact the card producer and ask them with what motherboards that RAID-card could/would work, for sure they will give you a list of server boards and they will tell you that it should work on any 16x form PCI-E sloth, connected to the Northbridge or not...