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Last night, over about 4 hours, I extensively tested the optical drives. Here's what I've figured out. The SATA drive when connected with the IDE drive or if just the SATA drive is connected on its own, errors occur. If the IDE drive only is attached, no problems occurred. So, it was a...

Ok, so here's the deal. I build a brand new computer with about $1800 in components and software and it runs like it is 12 years old. The problem? It sporatically freezes for 10 seconds or so and then resumes functioning only to freeze about 10 seconds a few minutes later. Here's what I do...

Thanks, that event viewer really helped. There were several applications that had a red X by them and several system errors that had the same thing. It appears that one of my CD drives seems to be malfunctioning as well as a couple of application errors. There are a ton of "cdrom" errors in...

As soon as I get a chance I'll try what you suggested. I have a brand new nVidia 8800 GTS graphics card and Direct X 9 installed. The only reason why I think it was the CPU is because there were 100% CPU spikes on the scrolling graph whenever the computer froze. By the way, I didn't...

Recently, I built a brand new computer and installed Windows Pro XP SP2 and every few minutes my computer freezes, it pauses, and then resumes processing normally. I opened task manager to see if the CPU usage and processes running had anything to do with it. What I found out is that whenever...

In regards to my second question, I wanted to clarify. I would not be using the 2 7200 rpm 300 GB drives that I purchased. Rather, I was asking if whether two new 7200 rpm drives would be more cost effective than the two new 10000 rpm drives.

I recently just bought the components for a new computer (got some good advice on the forums too) and a peer suggested that I add two additional striped 10000 rpm drives in addition to my two 300 GB 7200 rpm HDs (the second is simply going to mirror the first). He suggested I put my programs...

Regarding the GIGABYTE GA-965P-DS3 Motherboard and only 1 IDE channel...I'm having trouble finding DVD/CD drives that are not IDE for the interface. Does this mean that I'm limited to only one internal DVD/CD drive? Please advise!

Thanks for all of the advice. I've taken everyone's input and modified my configuration. When all is said and done, the new system would cost $1419 minus shipping. Any thoughts on these components? DVD-ROM/CD-RW - SOHC-5232K DVD/CD-RW Writer (16x DVD-ROM, 52x/32x/52x CD-RW) Lite-On...

If I get the 8800 GTS card, do I need to worry about building an SLI machine? Or is the value of building an SLI compliant machine only marginal?

I do plan on overclocking. Also, for development work, I will be using mainly Visual Studio .Net and SQL Server and Oracle for databases. I've gotten some really good advice and I think I'll probably go fro the E6600 and 8800 GTS with initially starting out with XP and eventually upgrading to...

Thanks for all of the great feedback. I'm going to probably get the E6600 processor and a the 8800 card now. I'm not sure I can wait until March for the new releases because I am at a standstill with my development work until I upgrade, but maybe I can hold out :) . No pain, no gain, right?

Thanks for the feedback SkyGuy. Any recommendations on a power supply?

I was looking at the GeForce 8800 cards and they seemed to perform just about as well on the benchmark tests (as listed on Tom's Hardware) and they appear to be going about $20 - $50 higher than the ATI card. I am seriously considering the E6600 or E6700 CPU because it'd save me $400 - $500...

I am a first time computer builder and new member to the forums. My occupation is a web developer and my laptop computer is just not cutting it for freelance development work or gaming anymore. I am planning on building a high-end computer for primarily development and gaming purposes. I have...