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My 7200.10 250 GB HDD crashed with bad sectors in 2 months...

Other than 7200.10 using perpendicular recording... any other major issues?

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My friend wants to upgrade his video cards at work. He has a pentium D with 2 GB ram. He will have 3 LCD displays but has only 1 x16 slot. So the 2nd video card has to be PCI. Usage: Email, Spreadsheets, Applications. Gaming: Rarely Multimedia: Watch movies occasionally. His main...

My friend wants to upgrade his video cards at work. He has a pentium D with 2 GB ram. He will have 3 LCD displays but has only 1 x16 slot. So the 2nd video card has to be PCI. Usage: Email, Spreadsheets, Applications. Gaming: Rarely Multimedia: Watch movies occasionally. His main thing...

Trey - The combo worked out good - make sure you get some arctic silver or the CPU gets pretty hot! The free gunk is crapola for this instance. The case is sweet - compliments from everyone all around. The fan was my main concern, but it is actually very quiet. The HD is sometimes louder...

yes I did. HeyGuy - I think i got the dright drivers. Emailed Intel. Will see what they tell. Of course - I dont play games :)

Using the onboard video display in the P5b-VM. Its the x3000 G965 chip.

I got this new monitor - http://www.viewsonic.com/products/desktopdisplays/lcddisplays/xseries/vx2235wm/ and it keeps saying that the optimal resolution is 1680x1050 and I should set it to that. The resolutions my video card allows is 1600x900 and 1400x1050 but not 1680x1050. How do I get...

I opened up the wall jack and presto! The guys had actually instaleld CAT5e wiring and used only 4 wires to establish it as a phone connection! So, all I need to do is get a crimp tool and add the ends. I love the guys who wired my home! Thanks guys!

I never dreamt that I would buy a desktop, so I got only 1 cable and 1 phone connection in my bedroom. Of course assumption is the mother of all Fvckvps and now I have a desktop. Because I have dish network and comcast cable, I can get either TV in my bedroom or hook up the cable modem. The...

I screwed up - sorry! Recently I have been reading/trying to get my PC temps down, so typed temps by mistakes. I meant voltages! The monitors for Everest/SpeedFan display various voltages. There is -+12V, -+5V, 3V, CPU core. They all seem to be fluctuating. Example: +3.3 goes from 3.31 to...

Can someone point me to a guide that will explain what the various temp readings mean and what they should be etc etc? I run stress, the voltages change, and i'm not sure what shouould be made of them. Would be also nice to know HOW to go about stressing the PSU to see if it works for the...

Its a desktop. ASUS P5b-VM + Core 2 Duo 6300.

bumping this up for lack of replies. Will let it die after this...