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You are probably looking for a new AMD card, as stated above, similar to the AMD Radeon 6850. You can go with something like the ATI 5770 as state above to give you eyefinity for a little lower cost as well. Sapphire Radeon 5770 with Eyefinity ASUS Radeon 6850 with Eyefinity Here's the...

IZArc gets my vote. I've used this for every computer I work with, and started using it working at the University of Kansas doing computer administration. It will work with many more file types than winzip and it is completely free. You'll never run out of a "trial period" where you have to...

I think Casey put it very well here. It does depend upon your situation and circumstances. When I am doing a system for a customer, the biggest reason why I would chose an AMD system over an Intel system is going to probably be related to cost. With a limited budget, AMD will offer a better...

I believe a GT 240, GT 430, or a GT 520 from nVidia (these are all about the same performance, just different generations) would be able to run in your system without having to upgrade the power supply. They are low-end cards, but still more powerful than the integrated graphics. For an AMD...

Anything that runs on an Intel processor will be compatible with an AMD processor for design software. Period. There's no worries about "cohesiveness" or "compatibility" with software with design software on one or the other. And even though I did myself mention that Intel has higher...

There are so many factors in the Intel vs. AMD debate that it's really almost impossible to answer. I've assembled several systems lately of both and it's pretty much impossible to tell one from the other. Here is what I have gathered, though. This is based on my personal experience as a...

That could very well be. Every piece of software out there will have some kind of little compatibility issue with something eventually, so I must have just lucked out! Either way I really am glad to see that Microsoft has gone to this level of included backup software. Backups used to be a...

Yeah that's the big reason why I like backup programs like Cobian is it's really taking and doing a mass "copy/paste" so all the data is just as it was before, it's not compressed together into some specific file type that you have to use a specific program to open and restore all your computer...

I've used the built-in backup utility with Windows 7 before, but unfortunately the one time that my system really did crash (failed hard drive) is when the software failed me. I had created a backup to an image file using the Windows 7 backup utility onto an external hard drive only a week...

Yeah, it's hard to tell sometimes. For most homes being able to minimize the downtime in the event of a system failure isn't as critical. However, if you've got a RIP computer or a server that runs every day and makes your business run on a daily basis, having as small of downtime as possible...

I just took a look again at the latest version of Acronis that I have (TrueImage 2010) and found that it actually does not support a copy from one location to another without compressing as a specific file when running the automatic backups within Windows. I'm quite confused about that...

There are two different ways of running Acronis. First, you can install and run the software on your computer just like any other application. In this case, you can set it up to back up specific files (which will be copying from one folder to another, similar to Cobian), there is the option to...

Sorry, the Boot CD is part of Acronis. When you get the software, it has an option in the software to make a Rescue Boot CD (there should also just be an ISO file with the program to make this boot CD.) I almost never use the Acronis software within Windows (though it is a good software to...

Phototec, if you're wanting to use JUST Cobian Backup to basically make a complete clone of your primary OS hard drive, there are some limitations. Cobian Backup (and any software out there for that matter) cannot copy, move, or modify certain system files such as USER.DAT located in your user...

Chris, you can use Cobian to perform off-site backups as well just like you are describing. The only thing I have a concern with when using an off-site backup system for a large amount of data is the amount of time it takes to back everything up and the reliability of the connection from point...

You can set the backup type on both Cobian Backup and Backup Magic to be either a full backup or incremental. In Backup Magic it is named something a little different, the incremental backup is called "Mirrored" where it basically copies over any files that have been changed since the last...

If you don't have the hardware to go with a full RAID system, I would suggest taking at look at Cobian Backup. It's a free program that will also install a scheduled service. You can configure what files will be copied and to where, set a schedule, and it does it all automatically. It can be...

If you're wanting to destroy the hard drive for security reasons, that's fine, but I wouldn't recommend doing it for at least a month. If there's one file that didn't get backed up somehow, and you find out a week down the road it will be too late. It never hurts to let a hard drive just sit...

I would suggest before completely pulling it out of your computer to just unplug it from power. If your XP installation is wanting to come up to do a disk check I would recommend that after you have unplugged the hard drive and booted into Windows XP that you still perform a full disk check on...

It's not really a matter of whether it's Windows XP or Windows 7 that you can only recognize less than 4 GB if you have more installed, it's a matter of if it is a 64-bit version of that operating system or not. More than 99% of the Windows XP systems out there are 32-bit meaning no more than...