Thanks for the interesting comments and suggestions. I'm not a master techie so peace to you if I sound like a rookie... Okay, so basically it doesn't matter if one has one big or two medium sized drives, but that there's some advantage in the second option. I've already purchased a Seagate 750g SATA 7200rpm.  So my question now is if it's ...

Hello. Is it better to have one 750 gigabite hard drive or two 400s? I'm just asking while fixing my rig...

bigrock:ATI 38XX Untested, highly suspect no go at this time. Can someone try these cards out? They're in stock here by the end of the week. 

salexander:That's not my question. My question is, if you're willing to do without GPU effects, can you get away with nVidia 8xxx cards. There are a couple of users at the moment who are experiencing problems with their nVidia 8xxx cards and we've suggested that they stop using GPU effects for the time being (while waiting on new (older) ...

With the 8k series out of the question, which is better? Switch to the 7s or to Radeons?

From I've read from these guys, there's no fix with all the Nvidia 8000 series cards.  With the 8500 as one of them, you have to switch to the 7000 series or to the ATI 1000 - 1950s...

is this recoverable with sharpening effects?

Hi. I'm purchasing a replacement for my 8500 GT Video card.  It seems that when using editors the video on the 2900 gets blurry or something...  So, what should I get? 2900 or 1950?