I understand your problem edi. u mean the pins which connect to the front panel power button is broken. if u have good soldering skill u can repair it.

just add a case fan to lower the temp, if still running very high, u gotta use some aftermarket cooler.

DDR3 will drop likely next year or the year after.

shouldnt be any proble, 9600gt has a lower tdp.

low level format is the slow format (i think), the first time formatting hdd it is best to use low level format, it doesn't increase performance or anything it is just a simplest format way that takes much longer time.

no no no, GPU is the chip it self graphic card is the card with pcb and the chip and all those memory stuff etc. just like CPU is the chip only, motherboard is not included.
overclock is set something to run faster than the original speed, it produce more speed and heat and voids warranty in most case.

happy to be able to help

This post has been edited by hiroki04030: Mar 10 2009, 11:40 PM

he aint comparing hd lcd tv and tv, he is comparing lcd tv and lcd monitor. LCD TV is big but the supported resolution compare to the size of it is small. however the price is cheap compared to the size of it. So in concluding, if u have the budget, get a lcd monitor instead of a tv, but if your budget disallow it then get a tv.

almost the same actually. i suggest choose the cheapest one and overclock it yourself

running two or four ram in different channel so that they can run with more bandwidth instead of 64 they get 128 bandwidth.
With new processors and motherboards, triple channel also possible using i7 or i5

nop, even my cheapo wireless kb and mouse no lag at all. Even with 1.1V my mouse is still running fine. I am using prolink.

i think is driver issue not the processor bottlenecking. update to latest driver and try again. about the 4pin issue, if your graphic card power mainly is not depend on the motherboard then no nid really plug in 8 EPS. if possible update your motherboard driver also.

got function, provides more ampere to the board. 24 pin more stable than 20pin. but normally 20pin will work fine unless u oc.