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Friday 11th May 2012,

Today I went and got myself a DS PCI-E to USB3.0 I/Face Card 2 x USB 3.0 ports (http://dicksmith.com.au/product/XH1232/ds-pci-e-to-usb3-0-i-face-card-2-...) and I'm just wondering if I should have got something that is a little better than this. My understanding of this thing is that the bandwidth is shared between both of the USB ports. Is that true?

Hi people I have just realized after 8 minutes this place is out of my league, Cheers B

Sir,I'm looking at a general desktop with excellent gaming and for general use I know you have recommendations and experience .I'm looking at 2.5K I would like to know what you would recommend .I have grandchildren and I'm hoping to keep up to them, Cheers Barry

I have an Asus P5Q Pro Mother Board with an Intel Core2 Duo E8500 LGA775, 3.16 Ghz CPU and was about to add a PCIe USB 3.0 Adaptor Card. Will this work OK please. The reason I am asking is the short reference on Page 89 PC-User May 2012 by Ross Vines --"but be cautious when trying to retrofit USB 3.0 ports on a pre-Ivy Bridge computer"
James Beech.

I'm looking to build a budget pc for internet, email, some media playing and general use(no heavy duty gaming)and Im looking for some advice on the following parts list I've put together:
J & W JW-A61PM-D3 AM3 M/Board $45
AMD Athlon II X2 260 3200Mhz with Fan $72
Gigabyte 360W "Gigabyte" PSU $30
Seagate Barracuda 500GB 7200RPM SATAIII Hard Drive $75
2x4gb A-ram $36
using an old ATX case I already have.
Any suggestions?

I installed Windows 7 Professional (as a dual boot) on a Windows XP Professional system . Windows XP is on one hard drive (C:) while the Windows 7 is installed on a separate physical drive (H:). The Windows XP hard disk drive is unstable (too many bad sectors to fix) and I don't need XP any more. I can't just remove the C: drive because the boot system files for both XP and Windows 7 are on the XP (C:) drive. How do I configure my system so that I can boot from the Windows 7 drive(H:) so that I can remove the physical XP drive altogether?

Just wondering if anyone knows when Ivy Bridge going to be released? Also would there be any delay from the USA getting Ivy Bridge and Australia getting the chip?

Thanks Computer-User

Hello, I have a W7 32bit desktop and I wonder if there is a conversion process available to convert from my SATA HDD to a SSD for my system disk?
Thank you

I built my current system in March 09 and it is still performing up to my expectations.