Recent content by adaboy

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    How hard is the A+ Test

    The way I studied for this exam is via practice exams then use a book if you need to understand a specific concept.
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    Unable to go to several sites

    I have been pulling my hair out on this on. I have 3 computers at home on one computer I am unable to go to most sites (cnn.com,Intel.com) but I can go to google and yahoo.com. I have checked the following There is no spyware or viruses on the computer I reformated the entire Harddrive and...
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    Unable to go to several sites

    All port filtering is turned off.
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    Unable to go to several sites

    I have been pulling my hair out on this on. I have 3 computers at home on one computer I am unable to go to most sites (cnn.com,Intel.com) but I can go to google and yahoo.com. I have checked the following There is no spyware or viruses on the computer I reformated the entire Harddrive and...
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    Suggestions for DVD slideshow making apps?

    Last night I loaded up ProShow to compair with Memories on TV. Just a few thoughts. Proshow Gernerally the program gives you more options on just about everything. It gives you transistion previews The way that you can set panning across pictures The Title effects that you can do...
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    Suggestions for DVD slideshow making apps?

    I use Memories on TV. I use Premier and if i am just doing a picture sequence I will often use Memories on TV then will have the program export it to MPEG2 then import it into Premier. There website is http://www.picturetotv.com . Proshow sounds feature wise sound similar to Memories on TV...
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    Problems with my Radeon 9700 and my dual opti

    Turns out it was Via AGP drivers. Did a clean install since there was no way to remove the AGP drivers and the video card drivers installed great without the AGP drivers. So the big question is why even install that driver?
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    Problems with my Radeon 9700 and my dual opti

    I am putting my new box togethter and am having problems. Here are the spec's K8T Master2-FAR dual opteron's 240 512MB of pc2700 registered memory Powercolor ATI 9700 standard When i try and load Windows XP (32bit edition) I get the computer all up and running and installed the VIA 4 in 1...
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    Running dual Opti's 144 no longer works

    I used the MSI K8T Master2-FAR motherboad. I tried putting the 144's back in before i shipped them back after I had the 240's running and still no luck. Appears to me that this no longer works.
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    Running dual Opti's 144 no longer works

    I was able to return the 144's though I had to pay neweggs 15 percent restocking fee. It was a gamble and even though it did not work It was worth a shot.
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    Running dual Opti's 144 no longer works

    Thanks to all your help here I orderd 2 x 144 opti's based on the info from anandtech articles and from info here in the forms. "You know you can run 2 1XX chips. Unless AMD has changed them, which I doubt, the 1XX series chips are the same as the 2XX chips. So get a couple OEM 144's and run...
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    Is Dual Opti 240's the best bang for the buck?

    So for my budget you think the Dual Xeon 2.4 would outperform the dual Opti 240
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    Is Dual Opti 240's the best bang for the buck?

    So back to my orginal question.....Would the dual opti be the best overal choice for performance. Mainly for when i do Mpeg2 ecoding for my budget?
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    Best stick of 3200 for overclocking?

    If youf systems supports a dual memory artecteture for example Nvida nforce2 or Intel 865PE then you can get a bit more performance if you use at least 2 sticks of memory. Thats why you will see some memory manufactures selling memory in pairs.
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    Is Dual Opti 240's the best bang for the buck?

    Here is what Im looking at if I go the opti path Opti 240 2x$219 MSI K8T Master2-FAR $207 Total $648 My ram budget is seperate so i was looking at 1GB of memory. If i get the opti I was...