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Glad to hear you got the problem under control and good luck with the rest.

Without knowing what the primary purpose of this rigg is how do you expect us to say whether it is good or not. All I can say off the bat is there is no need of an ethernet card since it has 1 built into the mobo, second the PSU is not that great. Add to that the case has 4 5.25'' slots which will be full with the 2 slot fan controllor, the card ...

I can answer some of your questions but only guessing on the last. First off a lot of your programs are automaticially set to run at startup which will cause a lot of your increase in both CPU and Ram usage. If you wish to see just how many and which ones use your RUN option and type in msconfig then hit enter and select startup all the ones with ...

The slight improvement in overall performance is not really worth the money when you could just buy a single larger SSD and then wipe your HDDs and use them as storage for music, videos and such. I use 1 128gig SSD with a 120gig HDD for backup and storage and have found that using a hot swap dock allows me to run different OSs for different ...

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Who knows maybe they are just fedup with service packs and giving them away free.

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Your temps are ok since the CPU's max is 70*C to 71*C max for short term use and the GPU/VC is about 95*C to 100*C max although those temps are never really good for the CPU or GPU. If you had listed your case and CPU cooler along with the number of fans in the case we could make recomendations for lowering the temps since there are several tricks ...

That all depends on what type of price drop it is, IE: Eblast can run 2hours to 12 hours depending on whether its a weekend or weekday, then there is the specials 24 hours to 72 hours, then holiday sales and finally just clearance sales to get rid of products that have been on the shelves to long and that is just till they sell them all or get ...

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I have had both of these speaker sets and they work very ...

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The normal setup for fans is top and rear are exhaust while front and side are intake. The main point for setting up your cooling is either negative or positive airflow which can get into a lot of arguements amongst builders so I will just point out the pros and cons for each. Negative airflow more air being exhausted than sucked in causes every ...

The build is ok for a general purpose build but if your mom wants to do some video editting down the road you would be better off with a low level quad core CPU rather than a dual core. Since you plan on an after market HSK&F (EVO212) you will need the low profile ram to clear the EVO for slot A0/A1, as for the PSU Rosewill does not have a ...

If this is truly a general purpose build then you don't need the 3770K the 3570K would work better and you don't need 16gigs of ram 8gigs is more than you will ever need. OCZ is not that reliable of an SSD so I would recomend either the Crucial or Intel and as for that case it only comes with 1 fan for exhaust so you will need at least 2 more as ...