new graphics card

[sparksy]

yeah all pci cards..... not pci-express.. only got two pci-express ports on this board.... sli board..asus a8-sli

[skeletor]

...Most people use the onboard ones. Onboard sound is actually pretty damn good nowadays although not as good as something like Creative X-Fi but thats an extra £60+. Onboard ethernet, again, very good and reliable. Most motherboards come with at least 4 USB ports on the back with the ability to have 2 more from the motherboard for the case, so potentially 6+. Really surprised you have PCI cards for them.

[sparksy]

i do use a shed loads of usb ports.. mouse.. keyboard..printer..2x external hd..1x external caddy hd...web cam..digital micropscope... ect

the ethernet that came with the motherboard... never worked i dont think..so i bought a card... and the sound card was because i wanted some new speakers.. that got broke and im now back to 2.1 grrrrrrrrrr

[skeletor]

Onboard sound should of been fine and the onboard ethernet was probably down to drivers.

[sparksy]

ok were now looking at this... let me know what you think....

i have the motherboard andcoolermaster case.... thanks to bonerbrad

XFX GeForce GTX 260 Black Edition 896MB GDDR3 PCI-Express Graphics Card [GX-260X-AHBF]

intel Core 2 Quad Q9400 Socket 775 2.66GHz 1333FSB 6MB Cache Retail Boxed Processor

asus striker 2 socket lga 775 motherboard

coolermaster wave case

600 watts power supply

[skeletor]

All fine. It would be best to do a clean install of Windows rather than using the old one as you will have less issues with drivers etc.

[sparksy]

i may just bite the bullet and get windows 7.... im convinced that xp homw is bieng wrecked buy updates on purpose.

what was a really easy to use thing seems to go funky after a few months... i think ive re-installed windows twice or tree in the last year because it started to play up...

[skeletor]

It is a problem with all versions of Windows, they slow down and play up more as time goes on. Reinstall and everything is fine for a few months.

No reason not to upgrade to Windows 7, get it off rapid.org, been cracked for a while. If you like it you can buy it.

[sparksy]

oo never saw that... is it easy to install the cracked version ???? got any linkys

[skeletor]

Same as you would a normal version. Download, burn and install with no serial number with a blank partition. So you have to delete the old by completely wiping the partition so that Windows will reformat.