this is a good question for JigglyWiggly :)

i would try a 850 name brand Power supply and call it good...

you could set up a fiber channel raid array, those things are dirt cheap nowadays, and as long as you have to buy a card anyways, it might be worth looking into...

I would revise it to Mint or Vista?

then I would suggest fluxbox mint, and if you are gaming, be sure to download and use the latest version of wine...

GL,

--Slayerpker

I would suggest backing up all your files, and then do a clean reinstall, its a pain, but theres a chance something got corrupted.

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Rivatuner works, however you might have to alter the log for it to recognize your card.... Which card do you have???

MuddVader

If your using an ATI card then it already has a program for showing GPU heat. Not sure if the same is for NVDIA cards. I recommend HWMONITOR. Its free

Gamerz1569

Nice. I have the 4650 in my laptop, runs pretty well.

To get Rivatuner to work with a mobile card, you have to do a couple things,

1.download and install rivatuner, but don't run

2.download and run GPU-Z

3.go to the folder where you installed rivatuner, and copy the file "rivatuner.cfg" and paste it on your desktop.

4.in GPU-Z, note the Device ID (will be 1002-xxxx)

5.open Rivatuner.cfg with notepad and scroll to RV730. under this, start a new line and insert the device ID, following the pattern of the other entries.

6.paste the cfg file into the rivatuner folder, overwriting the previous one. now, if you run rivatuner, it should run properly and give you OC options, along with heat, clocks and other information.

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[QUOTE="polarwrath11"]Win 98 - success Win 2000 - fail Win xp - success Win vista - fail Win 7 - success Win 8 - fail? (Ignoring Windows NT)JigglyWiggly_

haha, this is so true

I agree... I currently run it on 3 of my machines, 1 being a server. I have never had too many issues with it, however it lacks in the area of networking. But then again if you need a machine for networking, why not just use linux??

Rivatuner works, however you might have to alter the log for it to recognize your card.... Which card do you have???

It all depends on what you build. I just built a mid-line computer for a client running a 4670 and Athlon II 215 for about $415USD...

WTH???? Um, I guess celerons are OCable?? I just tried on my old Cel 1.8 and OC'd to 3.2 and its running??!?!??!? No BSD yet... WTH intel??!?!?!? I'll continue to test, but im slightly shocked right now...