For years, my system was stable but in the last month it crashes under specific cases.

I have an i-5 2500K overclocked to 105x 4 (4.2Ghz). O/C never had a problem until now.
1) I opened chrome +...

The i5-2500k was on the 'special' over up in the north of the border at $189 so i decided not to wait for IB. I hope to get a 4ghz oc but all i use is adobe flash/surfing and photoshop 1/month!

Did you build this system?

MSE, for virus, malwarebytes for other.

I like the HW leaderboard line-up. All intel! The i3-2100 suits me, but I would prefer not to go with ASRock. What is another m/b selection that incorporates USB 3.0 and has the new bios (UEFI)?

I've got an e6750 and am in the same boat. Games run well on the 8800gt but cod4 and civ v show minimal but noticable lag (esp with video sequence). Your 8gb and some minor tweaking will keep you...

the pricing for amd is far lower...

I am looking for a similar-sized build, but looked at the amd x4 840. How did you decide between the AMD line and the Intel line? Is it because the 2500k can go...

Are the recommendations still valid given some of the additional nvidia gpu releases like the Ti series?

I originally had OCZ Platinum 4-4-4-12 1x1 = 2gb DDR2

I added OCZ Gold XTC PC2-6400 4GB 2X2GB DDR2-800 CL5-5-5-18 DDR2.

I started getting BSOD in Windows 7 x64 after about a month. Setting was...

For the advice posted about getting the Amd phenom, what is the advantage of the dual core versus the amd quad core x4 645 or 635?

Do you think you should consider the amd ii x4 for $25 more? It's quad core instead of dual core

Try Dell's XPS models. The higher-end GPU may push you past your budget.

Shanghai, China. Took this while taking an evening boat cruise to see the city at night. The city turns the city building lights on for 3 hours every night.
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Bump :)
I ordered the Kindle. I've tried it and the page refresh is amazingly fast. Search, annotate, and keyboard are a plus. Wireless wi-fi a plus.

And there is no sluggishness or lag when running win app in a VM?
How does performance compare to actually being in XP?

/I'd suggest dual boot in XP if one wishes to play windows games....

Users complained nouveau performed poorly on NV. I had NV drivers from the start but running upgrade 10.04 -->10.10 was a mistake.

I'll give Gentoo...and Free BSD a try. As long as I can install...

In case you are not aware, 10.10 came out last week. It's faster and cleaner, BUT if you have an old NVIDIa card like I do, it messes up the entire desktop. The nv drivers will not load and you are...

ratboy,
ATi lost its name yesterday. It's now called AMD. So it's a green-logo card vs a green-logo nvidia!

I have the 8800GT. Ryan, any general comments on what kind of performance increase I...

I think the statement is incorrect. I installed wine after 10.04 was installed, from www.winehq.com

Unfortunately winamp doesn't work that well in ubuntu. Any suggestion for a good mp3 player in...

is this 10.04? By default, when i installed, my security settings did not allow me to access sound! also, it was muted be default. Check that.

Your best bet is to do a search for your equipment on the ubuntu forums. alternatively you can run wubi in windows and then install ubuntu. If you don't like it you can easily get rid of ubuntu.

Installed 10.04 on a AMD 1.4GHz-level 2GB machine. It runs very, very smooth. Nvidia drivers work, and even a wireless comstar 802.11N usb adapter was detected. D-link DWL-G132 works too.

Dual...

With 350MB you just need either
1. DVD Burner and a bunch of re-writeable DVD's
2. USB Flash drive. 8GB drive is just $20.

Once you start to need more backup space, get an external HDD.

Sony 50mm f/1.8 mm prime lens.

I have yet to try Ubuntu 10.04...I plan to try this on a VM before installing this...is 64bit as trouble-free as the 32bit version?