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[Rook]

When I installed over my windows 7 beta with the full it was a fresh install yes, but it kept the files in a windows.old folder you could sort through later. I assumed it was the same for vista to 7.

[Warsaw]

So if I want to do some 24/7 OC and have a stable/cool system with a reliable company and get maximum performance out of the the tight budget, which would you go with: the Evga P55 LE or the Gigabyte GA-P55M-UD2? I'm pretty sure I will have a dual-slot video card and that I will get a PCI network card/adapter.

Definitely the Gigabyte board; they've been in the game much longer than eVGA has and I trust them to make a solid board more than I trust eVGA to make one that works. I don't have any experience with eVGA motherboards, but I have owned Gigabyte ones.

[FRain]

RAM in the "you don't have money but i still love you" is "deactivated"

[Limited]

Well when I went to order my parts, 3 items were out of stock and 2 were discontinued, bugger. But luckily one became 'un-discontinued', the other was substituted.

Hopefully order will be here in like 2 weeks, then I can attempt to put it together

Can you guys help me out, finding which DVD disks are compatible with this drive?
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/170014...roduct_reviews
I've had issues in past, where its not the right kind/right speed etc etc.

[CrAsHOvErRide]

Only DVDs from Walmart.




No seriously the new DVDs drives support almost all types of DVD types, speeds etc. The stuff it says like RW etc are just things they just additionally support.

At the beginning when DVDs were first introduced you just had to pay attention that your drive had not a higher speed set than the DVD supported. Shrapnel...cannot happen anymore today :P

[Limited]

Only DVDs from Walmart.

No seriously the new DVDs drives support almost all types of DVD types, speeds etc. The stuff it says like RW etc are just things they just additionally support.

At the beginning when DVDs were first introduced you just had to pay attention that your drive had not a higher speed set than the DVD supported. Shrapnel...cannot happen anymore today :P

Ah right, because with my dads laptop I bought some DVD disks, that had same write speed, was same type (RW) and they didnt work at all.

[Warsaw]

Protip:

DVD+RW =/= DVD-RW

[CrAsHOvErRide]

Who wants RWs anyway :P

Either you burn the movie or you don't. Temporary storage can be achieved nowadays with a $5 8GB memory stick or exHDD.

[AAA]

Temporary storage can be achieved nowadays with a $20 8GB memory stick or exHDD.

ftfy.

[Warsaw]

Who wants RWs anyway :P

Either you burn the movie or you don't. Temporary storage can be achieved nowadays with a $5 8GB memory stick or exHDD.

Some of us burn Linux .iso files onto a disc and then find out that the md5 checksum doesn't check out, so we want to delete and try again with a fresh download without wasting another disc.