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Western Digital are very good so are Seagate Barricuda's and they generally tend to have a 60-70mb/s read and write speed.

Hi, first of all I would try slaving your hard drive in a spare machine and deleting pagefile.sys, I think windows automatically creates a new pagefile.sys. Once you've done that try the disk in your machine and see if it boots if it doesn't it will most likely be a hard drive issue could be a...

Hi, that motherboard will work no problem with your cpu or ram and doesn't require a different bios revision. I would recommend investing in 2x 1gb ddr 400mhz ram in dual channel configuration. Dual channel basically means the cpu can request twice the amount of data so therfore more bandwidth...

your ram is the bottleneck in your setup. as your systme bus is set at over 1600mhz =12.8GB/s and your memory bus frequency is set at just over 8GB/s. so your best getting 2x 800mhz memory modules in dual channel configuration so it matches the frequency of your system bus. It's best to go for...

Hi just checked your motherboard and the third pci-express x16 slot runs at x4 mode so (1GB/s bus) Personally I wouldn't bother going 3 way sli with that bus cap because you won't notice much difference at all because these Nvidia gtx 260's are Pci-express x16 2.0 cards and they will perform...

Hi sounds like you've got a corrupt partition. Have you tried running a chkdsk? or even running a program called Spinrite for any bad sectors it works very well at recovering data, but can take hours or days. You could of had a virus on the disk that corrupted the partition. Another good program...

There is not much difference between the Asrock and the Asus motherboard they both similar in spec. Me personally I stay clear of Asus because of the amount of problems I've had with their hardware but everybody has their own opinions.

Hi you motherboard has two memory controllers intergrated in the northbridge chipset (MCH) the blue slots are for DDR1 modules only. The yellow slots are for DDR2 only. The motherboard supports dual channel. Dual channel means the cpu can request twice the amount of data than single channel...

Hi, I would send the disk back and get it replaced, I doubt it's your IDE controller or data cables. I think it's a problem with the hard drive cache memory. The kernel error is basically your system not page filing, swopping data in and out of RAM, the kernel deals with all that by allocating...

Hi I've just checked your motherboard specs and it has a PCI-Expresss x16 2.0 (4GB/s) bus. So you can get the full potential out of PCI-Express x16 2.o graphics cards. My recommendations are: Nvidia GTX 260, GTX 275, GTX 285 ATI 4850, 4870x2, 4890 (Direct x10 range) ATI 5850, 5870...

What motherboard have you got? what OS are you using? Post your motherboards make and model and we will suggest if there's any upgrades available before you go out and buy a new motherboard.

why what drives are you going to be using on the sata 6gbit bus? just the caviar blacks and the Barricuda? or you also doing it because it's future proof? for SSD's etc

lol sorry about that had the wrong link from a pervious post. My personal experience with Asus they are utter rubbish since they moved their production to china. I've had a few motherboard of their's which are just instant failures alot of the time they refuse to post and a reset cmos is needed...

Hi go for a core I7 not core I5, if it's gaming and perfomance you want core I7 is the way to go. Stay away from Asus nothing but trouble. Evga are pretty much ontop at the moment. Other than that everythin looks good.

processor is good choice but it's bit expensive $167.99? for a core 2 duo. Video card probably get a Nvidia 8800GT for around $80 Ram need's upgrading to around 2GB but find out the maximum memory bus frequency of your motherboard before buying it, dual channel perfferably if your motherboard...

The motherboard I recommened has onboard raid controller (ICH10R) Intergrated into the southbridge chipset on the motherboard. I would recommned using it for a Raid 0. A raid 0 combines the speeds of the disks. So if you have two hard drives in a raid 0 array and each disk is capable of 50MB/s...

What OS are you using? Here's my recommendation GIGABYTE - Product - Motherboard - Overview - GA-EP45-UD3R (rev. 1.1) cost around £90 to £100 definatly worth the money. BTW: make use of the onboard raid as well with a Raid 0 with some WD caviar blacks or some seagate baricudas.

Hi you chose a mid range Intel system personally I would scrap the core i5 it's not going anywhere not future proof. You want to invest in a core i7 socket 1366 with a good EVGA or Gigabyte motherboard with around 12 phase powers (count the ferrite core chokes), lower rds-on mosfet voltage...

That motherboard is a rip off $80 is way to much, it's very limited doesn't have anything going for it, 2 phase powers lol, no lower rdson mosfets, no raid controller. no dual bios. systme bus is pretty low 1333mhz and doesn't state wether the pci-express x16 slot is 2.0 (4gb/s) bus frequency...

Hi yes in some cases the OS disk can be a problem. The problem could also be the hard drive cache memory. Try installing windows xp on a different machine with the same OS disk and the same hard disk and same opticle drive and same data cables. see if you get the same error. then you can...