Getting onto what I did today. I started building the new PC that I am upgrading my Dell 8300. Well upgrading isn't exactly what you'd call it.   Everything will be new except the hard drive, optical drive and floppy drive. Maybe even the floppy drive will be new. I was having second thoughts about how I installed the front panel connectors. You know the small connectors that you have to push down onto to those small row of pins on the mobo, that you can barely see. The ones on the outside I pointed outware towards the ends of the mobo, and the ones on the inside of the mobo I pointed inward towards the middle of the mobo. In other words, the labels that you can read what the connector says are pointed inwards on the inside pins and the connectors on the outside closest to the edge of the mobo, those labels are pointing towards outer most edge. Well, there are only two options, inside pins and outside pins, I think you get my drift. Do you think that is the correct arrangment? The diagram in the manual is pretty clear. The PANEL header has two rows of pins. Each 1x2 connector with twisted pair of wires, goes to pins in the same row (horizontal). The LEDs are polarized. If the LED doesn't light up when you run the system, simply rotate the connector 180 degrees and try again. The SPKR cable has two wires, fitted into pins 1 and 4 of the 1x4 plastic shroud. The speaker, reset and power switches are not polarized, and it doesn't matter which way they're turned (+ and -). The LEDs matter, and the + and - are significant, but no damage done it they're plugged in backwards. Just rotate them and plug them in the other way, and they'll light up. There should be a total of five twisted pair cables to connect. The only one that is essential, is the PWR switch, to turn the computer on and off. The computer would work without the rest of that stuff connected.           1x2           1x2                               1x4           PWR           PWR                               CASE       <

I want to change the fan on my model ATI FireGL X2 AGP Pro graphics card, and I want know if it's possible to take off the existing fan cooler and sticking another cooler fan on it? I thinking about buying the Zalman VF900-Cu VGA Cooler, or the VF700-Cu VGA Cooler made by Zalman. If anyone knows what that ATI FireGL X2 is like, it seems a bit hard or impossible to take off the cooler? I'm not sure, I never looked at it in that way to study to take off the cooler. I'm about to soon. I asked this question in a hardware group especially for this question and didn't get a response. I get better replies here, by much more.                                                    Thanks, attilathehun1 Sigh..... Why ask HERE, dickhead?  You know perfectly well this is NOT related to the OS and as such does NOT belong here. Ask elsewhere. He asks here because this is a generally accepted place to ask questions about hardware (see hardware is in the _title_).  Since he has got answers then he is not a dickhead because he got what he wanted.  However, you are a fuckwit because you continually post the same repetitive boring post that no one else is the slightest bit interested in and have never contributed one jot of useful material. Your repetitive posts are not welcome.  Now fuck off and don't bother posting any more. Look at who's posting boring, repetitive posts.  It's easy, just look in the mirror.  Further, you criticize me of netcopping but by telling me to stop YOU are netcopping. I was wrong.  You are NOT a Dip.  Well, you are, but you also something far worse:  you are a HYPOCRIT.  That's your new name, go ahead and change it in your newsreading program. Once again you have to respond to your usual childish responses to try to make it look as though you are right and everyone else wrong.  The hallmark of the true 13 year old mentally ill fuckwit. If you look at the various posts that I have made you will note that majority are designed to solve other people's problems.  I have chosen to make an exception in your case (though I look upon it as a public service to show you up for what you are - a complete fuckwit).  Whereas you have neve made a single useful contribution.  None whatsover. But as you are completely mentally retarded, you won't see the point and will come back with another childish response. You are the one who does NOT get it.  Just because you and most others don't care that OFF TOPIC CRAP is posted here does not make it RIGHT. You are in fact WRONG, you just won't admit it as the possibility of you being wrong can't enter your narrow little nerve ganglia (not enough nervous tissue there to call a brain). Hypocrite. The fact that every other user of this newsgroup is happy with it makes it right. The fact that you alone do not and keep repetitiously saying so, makes you a fuckwit.

 This is a question I want answered that has just started bothering me when I read the box, unopened with plastic still wrapped, on the VisionTek, Radeon HD 3870. I went to newegg.com and tried to get some reviews on it, but they aren't offering the card. Now I bought it from Best Buy and I had to go all the way to Mission Viejo to get it, well 2 of them, I bought the last 2. It was on sale from $249.99 to $129.99, $120 dollars off. Even if I went to newegg, I don't think I could get it that cheap. What do you think about installing this card in my new PC. Or do you think I should upgrade to a better more expensive card? Another thing about the card is the compatibility with Intel. I'm reading more AMD on the box then Intel Pentium 4. It is ATI Radeon Graphics though. Yeah and looking through the plastic, I can see the ATI label.                                                      Thanks, attilahthehun1 That is a pretty nice card, better than the 8400 you were talking about getting. You can see here, the HD 3870 is 7x faster than the 8400 GS. http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/desktop-vga-charts/prey,575.html?p... The HD3870 uses 81.1 watts of power when gaming. So your power supply should be big enough for that kind of load. It gets some power through the PCI Express slot (flows through the main power cable), while the rest of the power is through the extra connector on the end of the card. Between the two of them, it uses 12V @ 6.62 amps and a little 3.3V. This probably isn't a big deal, but as part of your training, you have to be aware of power consumption. If you put too much hardware on a tiny power supply, it could shut off or die in a puff of smoke. http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/display/gigabyte-radeonhd3870-... Your power supply also needs a power cable of the right type, to plug into the connector on the card. You can see the black connector in the upper right hand end of the card, here. That card has what looks like a VF900 cooler, but you'll notice they used a copper heat spreader, rather than the tiny taped-on RAM heat sinks http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814129100 For your ECS GF6100-M754 with S754 3200+ processor, there are at least four different models of 3200+ processor. Three have 89W power consumption, and the fourth has 59W. The 59W one is shown here. Your processor draws power from the 12V rail also, and the processor and video card are the major users. You'd want to look at the label on the side of the supply, and get a rough idea of how many amps are available on the +12V rail(s), for the load you plan on putting in the box. http://products.amd.com/en-us/DesktopCPUDetail.aspx?id=127 If you install the motherboard drivers from the motherboard CD, and the Catalyst drivers from the Visiontek CD, you should be in good shape.     Paul

I want to change the fan on my model ATI FireGL X2 AGP Pro graphics card, and I want know if it's possible to take off the existing fan cooler and sticking another cooler fan on it? I thinking about buying the Zalman VF900-Cu VGA Cooler, or the VF700-Cu VGA Cooler made by Zalman. If anyone knows what that ATI FireGL X2 is like, it seems a bit hard or impossible to take off the cooler? I'm not sure, I never looked at it in that way to study to take off the cooler. I'm about to soon. I asked this question in a hardware group especially for this question and didn't get a response. I get better replies here, by much more.                                                    Thanks, attilathehun1 Sigh..... Why ask HERE, dickhead?  You know perfectly well this is NOT related to the OS and as such does NOT belong here. Ask elsewhere. He asks here because this is a generally accepted place to ask questions about hardware (see hardware is in the _title_).  Since he has got answers then he is not a dickhead because he got what he wanted.  However, you are a fuckwit because you continually post the same repetitive boring post that no one else is the slightest bit interested in and have never contributed one jot of useful material. Your repetitive posts are not welcome.  Now fuck off and don't bother posting any more. Look at who's posting boring, repetitive posts.  It's easy, just look in the mirror.  Further, you criticize me of netcopping but by telling me to stop YOU are netcopping. I was wrong.  You are NOT a Dip.  Well, you are, but you also something far worse:  you are a HYPOCRIT.  That's your new name, go ahead and change it in your newsreading program. Once again you have to respond to your usual childish responses to try to make it look as though you are right and everyone else wrong.  The hallmark of the true 13 year old mentally ill fuckwit. If you look at the various posts that I have made you will note that majority are designed to solve other people's problems.  I have chosen to make an exception in your case (though I look upon it as a public service to show you up for what you are - a complete fuckwit).  Whereas you have neve made a single useful contribution.  None whatsover. But as you are completely mentally retarded, you won't see the point and will come back with another childish response. You are the one who does NOT get it.  Just because you and most others don't care that OFF TOPIC CRAP is posted here does not make it RIGHT. You are in fact WRONG, you just won't admit it as the possibility of you being wrong can't enter your narrow little nerve ganglia (not enough nervous tissue there to call a brain). Hypocrite. The fact that every other user of this newsgroup is happy with it makes it right. The fact that you alone do not and keep repetitiously saying so, makes you a fuckwit. But not a hypocrite like you.