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Hi, I have recently just started my first pc build, after many hours research and head scratching I have purchased the following items. Motherboard - Asus M487AT-E PSU - Thermaltake Evo Blue 750w Case - Coolermaster Storm Sniper black edition ( window ) CPU - AMD Phenom ii x4 955 ( black edition ) HDDS - 2 x WD Caviar Blues 500 gigs DVD RW - Samsung 22x lightscribe Fan Controller - Sentry LX PSU Heatsink Fan - Xigmatek Dark Knight GPU - Radeon HD 4870 Can anybody please tell me which RAM will be best for this system for gaming, also I'll be running Windows 7 Ultimate so should I go for 4 or 8 gigs of RAM? Your help is very much appreciated Thanks Siggy

How to get rid of old HDD Hi , ok first off thanks to everybody that replyed to my last post. I just purchased a 4 port PCI adapterand connected it to my MOBO, then i connected my 2 new 500 gog sata drives and when I ran windows 7 it recognised the controller and installed drivers. I then went to disk management and I can now see my new drives as disk 1 and disk 2. So, my operating system is running on my 160 gig maxter IDE drive and what I want to do is run the 2 500 gig hdds in raid 0 but get rid of the 160 gig drive, a bit of a catch 22 cus the controller runs in windows and when i take out the 160 gig hdd the other 2 drives are not recognised wen i power up. So can i somehow move my operating system over to my 500 gig drives without turnin off pc then get rid of the 160 gig drive, lol my heads battered with it all but i really want to run raid 0 in windows 7 but with just those 2 disks. any help would be much appreciated. Thanks Siggy

hi thanks, I purchased the 2 drives from amazon, they are western digital caviar blue 500gig OEM. I just connected them straight out of box Also I cant see a raid card ( keeping in mind I have no idea what a raid card looks like lol ) all my slots under my graphics card is empty. My mother board is a MS - 6741 ver 1. I have a AMD 64 3400+ processer and sapphire HD 3850 graphics card installed. In the 1st IDE slot I have the maxtor 160 gig hdd that has my windows on it. In the second IDE slot I have a IDE to SATA converter that has a new samsung SATA RW - Drive installed which works fine. Then I put the 2 SATA hdds into the only 2 onboard sata connections ( lower right hand side of board and coloured orange ) and started up. Yes I have all power and data cables fully connected. I hope this helps a bit . Thanks Siggy

Ok, maybe I never put enough information. My pc currently has a 160 gig IDE drive inside. Im trying toi add 2 500 gig sata hdds. I have found the only 2 sata connections on my mobo in bottom right hand corner. I can hear the disks firing up but pc does not recognise them. I went into bios and enabled the SATA controller, it doesnt show drives there either. When the controller is enables it shows a screen on bootup that says something like raid setup and then says no devices found. When i log in to windows , under disk management there is nothing just C and D on 160 gig ide drive. Please can u help me. Thanks siggy.

Hi, thanks for the reply, the problem is , they dont show up there. I can hear the drives spinning but thats it.

Ps. I have found 2 sata connections at bottom right of my motherboard and have connected to these, i can hear both drives spinning but im in windows and it cant see them.

Hi all, I have a problem, I am trying to put 2 500 gig sata hdds on my pc. My pc already has a maxtor 160 gig hdd which is IDE/ATA ( i think ). I am running windows 7 ultimate x64 on a 2003 tiny pc, 2 gig of ram, 64 3400 processor. Thanks

Hi, Thanks folks, well after trying to bend the little pins back into shape I lost it lol and smashed all the pins up. I put another CPU in and now back in action. Im now looking into building my own PC. I ve been looking at Novatech site for motherboard bundles but haven't really got a clue which one to go for. I think the likes of the I5 is too expensive but I would like to find one that can play games is somewhat future proof and not too expensive. If anybody has any ideas I would be very grateful. Also is Novatech best place to get these sort of things? Thanks Siggy

Should have left things alone! Hi all, back again. Ive done it this time, toook pc apart and fitted new arctic cooler fan onto my PCU. When I took old heatsink off the pcu came out with it so i twisted it off and cleaned both new heatsink and CPU with arctic 1 and 2 then applied arctic 5 silver to surface. I then re-attached it and when I tried to fire it up the fans work and drive lights but fan on graphics card wont work. I can tell by the sound that its not even attempting to load windows but I have lost connection to monitor. To make sure I removed ram and started again but no beeps. I then removed heatsink again and the CPU popped out with it, I noticed that on 3 of the tiny pins on back had some of that arctic silver stuff on them, could this be the problem? Anyways to cut a long story short Im wondering if theres a way to find out if its the mobo or CPU thats gave up the ghost before spendin any more beer tokens. Thanks Siggy.

Thats the same board as mine , Its not easy tryin to find somewhere that sells the athlon 64 3700+ though. I see what you mean about the amount of ram though but if I upgraded to a 64 bit system then im sure I can use all 4 gigs...maybe not. LOL! Iagree on the "mess with it and break it" ...dont know much about cores but I hear the PS3 has a 9 core processor, I got a 60 gig PS3 in living room upgraded to 320 gig hdd, mainly use it with Play TV so can pause and record live tv ( too tight to get sky ) but sometimes play the odd game. But, if its true...PS3 really does have a 9 core processor, then how come a PS3/blueray is so cheap? I bet you will pay more for the 6 core processor. Thanks Siggy

Ok Sho-Dan, yeah you are right my mobo is ms-6741 version : 1, I am gonna look where to get it now , thanks alot. Oh by the way I am running 2 gigs of ram, when I look inside my case I see 2 slots ( which I have ram in ) but when I run a SIW or crucial scan it says I have 2 slots spare and that I can have up to 4 gigs of ram . I cant find other 2 slots and I think I can only go to 4 gigs if I am runnin 64 bit operating system...its got me baffled. Thanks Siggy

Lol Match! I got one of those in other room too, look at it this way, no cooker, u eat cold food, no pc.....means u eat hot food together. Personally I would prefer the cold food sittin on my own at the pc haha! Thanks for the link btw. Hi Randy, yeah I was thinking that but to be honest I really like xp. I have a laptop thats vista and had no probs but I only use that to play poker and show clients plans. Would just like to see what it could do if it was 64 bit as I dont really know much about it . Probably nothing wrong with my pc its just im one of those people thats never content, always wantin bigger better faster lol, I just get bored and like buildin stuff. Hi Sho-dan, that sounds good I'll check it right now thanks. Siggy

Thanks for the speedy responces peeps, do you think if I install windows 7 64 bit rather than 32 that it might help? that would mean I'd be able to install 4 gig of ram too. Also my CPU fan is very noisy, you guys have a link to a quiet one? Thanks again Siggy

Hi, I have just upgraded my graphics card to a sapphire hd3850 (AGP), my PSU to colours 550 watt and ram up to 2 gig. My current mobo is a microstar international , model pt-2200 , version 1.0 and my CPU is a AMD athlon 64 processor 3000+. Can you please show me some links to best ( and most powerful i can run ) CPU as after runin some tests have found that my CPU is holdin my system back. Thanks Siggy. :)