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Have you tried re-adjusting your resolution and refresh rates?

Nope. You can use one or the other, but not both at the same time.

Use this software available from Western Digital: Acronis True Image WD Edition Software. It will allow you to copy the entire contents of your current drive to the new one.

The new Norton 2010 is getting good reviews and is much less resource intensive than the older versions. As mentioned earlier, there are free anti-virus programs that work just as well, or better than Norton. To completely remove any Norton products from your computer, download the uninstaller...

Check to make sure your mouse and keyboard cables are fully plugged in.

Get the HD 5870. The cheaper one will be fine. The only real difference between the two is the more expensive is overclocked. You can easily overclock the lower priced one if you need.

Don't bother buying heat sinks for the memory. The shouldn't overheat as you wont be overclocking them any. If you're worried about heat issues, you can save a few bucks and grab these: G.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800). They have installed heatspreaders which...

Grab them from here: http://atelier-mil-art.is-a-designer.com/drivers/drivers%20creative/creative.fv.0050_full%20lenguage/creativevf0050.html

You can not mix and match DDR2 and DDR3. They are not compatible and are notched differently so they will not fit in the other's slots.

Moot point. The price difference the OP is working with is only $5 His 800W power supply will be plenty to run two GTX 470's in SLI if the motherboard he has is SLI capable. But I really can't see a need to SLI a high end card such as the GTX 470.

What happens when you click the restore button in the top right corner?

Once you have the drive attached to the adapter and have it plugged into the USB port, go to Disk Management ad see if the drive shows up there. If it does, you can than partition and format the drive. To enter disk management, Windows XP: Click Start > Run and type diskmgmt.msc in the Open...

Really? Hmm. . . HardwareCanucks - GTX 470 Review - Conclusion

The MX518 is a good mouse, but he's looking for a cheap wireless mouse.

I really don't think you'll see much of a difference. The reason the 360 seems to "look like crap" is that it's graphics system in no way competes with your PC's GTX 295. Personally, I'd rather play our 360 on my 42" LG LCD HDTV than on a tiny monitor.

Gaming benchmarks are very useful. Without them, how would you know which is a better performer? :rolleyes: The guy has an 800W power supply, why worry about power consumption? If you're worried about the heat, adjust the fan speed. It only runs at 62% under full load.

I host all my pictures on ImageShack.

Bass is omnidirectional, you can put the sub anywhere you like. Under your desk, behind the couch, in a corner of the room.

The GTX 470 would be the best choice of the three. It holds a slight performance lead over the HD 5850 in most benches.

Windows 7 installed the boot manager on the primary partition of the WD800. You can do a repair to fix the problem. This will show you how: “bootmgr is missing” in Windows 7