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guys, thank you, all helpful advice. :smile: I ended up creating the SATA driver disk and then reinstalling Xp with installation of SATA driviers on the initial boot up. All drives are properly recognised now. The only downside is using the older IDE drive as my system disk, but I guess i...

Hi eveyone Just built a new Intel Core 2 Duo based system with ASUS P5B Delux mobo. I installed a new Seagate 320G SATA II HDD as a main drive and recycled an old Maxtor 60G IDE for extra storage. Unfortunately the HDD came without a floppy with SATA drivers and I did not make one in...

Thanks again guys, lots of helpful advice I think I will stick with E6300 and go with X1950PRO with 256Mb and once Vista is more mature (say 1 year from now) consider an updgrade for a DX10 card. This very interesting news, and would easily sway me to get E6600 as it would be available at...

Thank you for a warm welcome lads, your advice is much appreciated :grin: There seem to be X1950PRO at the same price point as 7900GT, so ATI that is then. As an aside, there also seem to be a 512Mb version of the same card for £25 more, is it worth considering? In that case I think...

Hello community looking to upgrade my aged PC with smth able to cope with modern games, video editing and encoding, etc. Here is what I have in mind: Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 Asus P5B Deluxe Corsair 2GB DDR2 XMS2-6400C5 TwinX Leadtek GeForce 7900 GS Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250GB...