If you had enough money for a P183 and a new PSU, you have enough for a replacement (used) motherboard - I'm quite sure that getting such an old one would set you back five quid or so.

How strange...

Check the PCI(-E) cards once again and maybe clean the contacts.

Don't do that, it destroys colour accuracy.

Have you connected the dedicated +12V to the motherboard?

If you have an ATI card, you can lower the saturation in CCC... But that screws up everything a bit.

Windows 7 can supposedly do gamut transformations with certain monitors if you have a newer ATI card. It might work, or it might not

Excellent You had me worried there for a moment

It's wide gamut, unfortunately, so not a good option for people who value colour reproduction.

If you are building a PC for photo editing, then the monitor is the most important thing. Think about the rest of the hardware later.

Or you could use your keyboard to turn on the PC.

All of this is secondary to your monitor.

You don't need EAX, you have a simple stereo setup.

The only way your current audio problems can happen is if you've somehow told the game to use 3D audio or the card to somehow emulate it.

Ah, I remember when I was as young as him... The Drama!

Posted what?

A 4670 is more than fine, unless you want übermaximumMOARdetail and 4xAA.

Cassettes were only good for ZX Spectrum games.

Never heard of him, but I thought it might be this guy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGooQ8yYC0c

Turns out that I was wrong. But at least I could post the link

spookmineer wrote:You like bulging eyes, then...?

Nothing like a good pair of unnatural plastic eyes!

Damn

The Q9550 in either variant seems like a great CPU - it's a shame that it's well beyond my price reach at $360 (the S variant is $560)... My E4300 is itching for an upgrade

What? Why? Your 8800GT runs Q3 with hundreds of frames per second.

Well, placing those on Acceleros would be nice.

Ugh, I haven't even thought of that... That would even lower the amount of memory Photoshop can use to 3 GB.

She says she has trouble animating within photoshop, and that when she has photoshop and flash open at the same time the computer sometimes lags. Women say a lot of things ;) Go there, see what happens. This looks like a RAM issue. Photoshop defaults to 55% memory usage IIRC (so it won't use more t...

Where's the bottleneck? Is the CPU pegged at 100%? Is it using 10 gigs of memory? Lots of HDD access? Need better GPU acceleration somewhere? Building a new computer for the sake of building a new computer is rather silly. Identify the bottleneck and see if something can be done about it... And it p...

It's there, you just can't see it. Every TN panel has dithering, because they are 6-bit.

Don't use TN garbage, and you won't have issues with temporal dithering

I have a wall clock in my room. If I concentrate on hearing it tick when I go to bed, there's no chance in hell that I can get some sleep. Impossible. Once I've even removed the battery from it, but could still "hear" it tick. By the way, the clocks don't really go tic-tac-tic-tac. It's all in our i...

Kaizen wrote:They are running email and MS Office applications.

My parents are perfectly happy with an old Tualatin with 512 MB of RAM. What do you need 4 gigs for?!

Seen this? http://techno.org/electronic-music-guide/