[KleptoKlown]

This is a PM you sent me like 100000000 years ago Love how the hardware changes so much...

Originally Posted by Y2Ant [color=#9900FF][font=Trebuchet MS]I need some advice on some hardware shit, and since you are the man (and since I can't find you elsewhere ), I thought I would pester you I think I need a new motherboard, that video card you said to get ended up being too good to be true, my system seems to have slowed down now http://www.giga-byte.com/MotherBoard...GA-8SR533P.htm That's my mobo, just wondering if I really should upgrade it, I was advised to, since (apparently) it shouldn't even run the 6600GT. Anyway, I am just wondering what is a good name and chipset to go with, i've looked around and most of the stuff on a few boards i've seen is what I want, socket 478 so I can put my P4 on, PCI slots for my sound card, an AGP 8x for the Geforce. A couple of things though, my hard drive(s) are UltraATA100 (or 133 I forget) as opposed to SATA, and the boards i've looked at can accomodate 4 IDE devices like mine can now, but also the 2 SATA ones, when I buy a second HD should I get it as a SATA or an ATA100/133? Can you have one of each? And what difference does it make etc. The other thing is the dual channel RAM, not really sure how that works, but i'm thinking that if I get a new motherboard with 4 ram slots, I can keep my current 256's, and add in 2 more, rather than replace them with 2 x 512's. I'm not sure if it's just the mobo slowing down my comp, might be the power supply, or both. Can one or both of these do that? I'm only running a 300W PSU right now, gonna get a better one. Oh and last question, can I swap the mobo over without reformatting ? I love you ({)