Recent content by jot027

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    The ultimate quiet computer?

    i remember seeing a guy who had submerged the various components of his PC in an old enamel sink, stuck in the coil off of the back of his fridge and covered the whole lot in a fine grade mineral oil, it was pretty silent if i remember. (if a little bulky)
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    no filters in wmp. to read the data streams for vcd

    got a vcd, and the wmp won't read it. The system warning about having no filters to read streams comes up, previous vcd worked fine, but don't know what to try to sort problem. anybody any ideas??
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    can't burn a file over 700mb .

    thanks to you both, where is the best place to find the 4.02d version? I have got 80 min discs specially for this issue but they looked like being wasted.
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    can't burn a file over 700mb .

    got easy cd4 and can't burn a 702mb file to cd, any ideas??
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    overclocking the geforce 2 pro

    got a asus geforce2 pro 64mb, and can't get the memory above 401mhz in the asus tweak utility, any ideas?? downloaded asus's latest drivers but it seems to do no good, and although the memory won't overclock the core happily sits at 220mhz.
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    video card overclocking issue

    i recently purchased the gf2 64 mb pro by asus, when i enable the overclocking tweak i find that no matter what i overclock to, my card always defaults back to the factory settings for memory. the core will reach 220 mhz but no matter what i set the memory to, it always resets back to the...
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    screen locks

    i have a p3 733 (@825mhz), pc133 ram, a soyo mobo, and a asus geforce 2pro. When i try to use the asus tweak it never seems to lock the 'new' memory frequency and it always defaults to 400mhz. As well, i replaced my mx with the pro and since then i seem to suffer screen lockups when running...
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    celeron 700 to PIII 1GHz

    why not overclock the celeron and get a p3
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    to upgrade or not?

    i'm trying to decide if i should upgrade my overclocked cretive labs geforce 2mx for a asus geforce2 64mb pro, i'm getting the pro for about for a fair price, but should i consider another graphics card/card manufacturer as i don't want to limit my choices, as the overclock potential of the card...
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    When should i see a chip hit 2 ghz????

    slapping it in the kitchen sink might help more, with some chilled mineral oil:D:)
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    When should i see a chip hit 2 ghz????

    stock t-birds are getting to hot just now, so to quickly increase the core speed would generate greater heat inefficiently when compared to the actual speed increase, which means greater cooling which is a trade off that few companies that sell 'off the shelf' pcs(you know the ones) are prepared...
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    OT: Engineer in New York, New York!!!

    never been to ny. but still all the best for the anniversary, ten years is something to look back on with pride.:D
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    not many good deals 2morrow :( heres 1!

    cheap price, but any self respecting floyd fan would already have it in his collection:cool:
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    mobo id.

    it always been a soyo SY-6VBA133 as far as i was concerned.
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    mobo id.

    i have a soyo mobo, but when i run prime95, the boards id apparently changes to a apollo pro, any ideas why??