Rhys_Rhaven

Ah, if your buying a new motherboard now, get PCIe. The performance, I dont know what they are talking about, is alot better. Nvidia 6800 series can take advantage of the 16x speed, if not all the bandwith. I would recommend Asus's A8N , 939 socket AMD64, nforce4SLI chipset, which supports PCIe. It is true that the second best is your better buy. 6800gt is the best value:performance ratio there is. Its just the same as the ultra, save for the clock frequencys, which can be OCed. Ultra is just for those people who want to say "Hey, i have the flagship card." and who have a bit more money. :\

Then you are one lucky SOB. I've had 1 fail on me, and 2 of my friends have had them fail. In short, if you don't back your information up, your asking for trouble. I run Syncback every signin, so all of my important documents are mirrored on another networked computer. Its a very good habit to keep in, escspecially if you have a couple gigs of music/games/pictures. As for the best drive, Seagate. Ive got all sorts of brands, and they build them with metal shields on everything, padded foam and heat dissapation measures. One died on me due to a bad PSU, and it took me close to 2 hours with a sledge to break it open to see what was inside. In my experience, WD is good if you dont hurt it too much, Hitachai is exellent when you get into TB size commerical equipment, and Maxtor just sucks. Ive seen more bad maxtor drives and errors on them than anything else. So yea, i finish.