The PS3 has dedicated and proprietary hardware for every function that it does, in a PC the processor does most of the work. Not just that but the PS3 has a 3.2ghz Cell processor in it, which is used in supercomputers.

But this is standard for consoles, for example, an SNES (1990) total processing power is equivalent to a Pentium II 233 (1997), in emulation terms.

16-bit installers are like before the win95 days. Which was 13 years ago. I beleive you are good to go.

Yes those games will work, no problem.

127.0.0.1 is the loopback address. So when you go to any of those ports, it goes directly back to your computer.

What are these ports for? where have you opened them?

DO NOT get the GeForce FX 5500. If you are not building a gaming machine then buy a motherboard with onboard video. And why would you buy a mobo with SLI if you aren't building a gaming rig?

SLI = Dual video cards = PC Gaming enthusiast

Oh, and Geforce 5* series = poo on a stick

And just what the poster said above me too, make sure that the mobo you get supports the type of ram you want to buy, most motherboards nowadays are DDR2.

Well, GDDR3 isn't a higher speed GDDR2. GDDR3 actually fixes a couple issues with GDDR2, like adding graphical instructions, simplified cooling, as well as a higher speed cap.

You could lower your clock speeds, but it won't be exactly the performance of the pro.

GDDR2 = FAIL

Okay, I got it to work by going to Add/Remove Programs, removing the Nvidia Ethernet Connector, and uninstalling it. It immediatly reinstalled and now everything is back to normal. Now I'm just wondering if I should install BitDefender or if its just going to cause the same problem.SolidKeevo

You should reinstall it, but I'm certain it will stop working again. You will have to add your network card to the trusted connections in the Bitdefender firewall, and make sure that windows firewall is not running, two firewalls can cause serious conflicts. Once you setup Bitdefender's firewall to trust your network card, then it should immediately start working.

Check this forum for some more information.

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Post complete computer specs, especially PC make/model or motherboard make/model.

Look at your device manager, is there a red X over your ethernet card? If so, go to the properties of it and post why it says it's not working or disabled.

If there is no red X, then go to a command prompt (START - RUN - "CMD" - Enter), type IPCONFIG /ALL and post what it says.

Try uninstalling the network card completely, reboot and let windows reinstall it.

SolidKeevo

I have a Nvidia nForce 680i motherboard.

I went into my device manager and there was no red X over the ethernet card. Although, there were three things there from BitDefender, so I uninstalled them. They all had the yellow caution triangle over them, saying the weren't working properly, but my Nvidia Networking Controller is working fine though.

Did you run the IPCONFIG command and try Uninstalling and reinstalling the network device competely?

Post complete computer specs, especially PC make/model or motherboard make/model.

Look at your device manager, is there a red X over your ethernet card? If so, go to the properties of it and post why it says it's not working or disabled.

If there is no red X, then go to a command prompt (START - RUN - "CMD" - Enter), type IPCONFIG /ALL and post what it says.

Try uninstalling the network card completely, reboot and let windows reinstall it.

Ok, for some reason, about 60% perscent of time I boot my computer I get the blue screen about 3 minutes after it starts. It says its a driver error with nventfd.sys or something... and ideas?logiccosmic

Do you have an nForce board? I think that file has to do with your NIC. Try updating the nForce drivers if you can, or roll-back if you just recently upgraded.