Recent content by Kraptor

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    Buying Parts in Europe

    You just need a passport that was not issued by an EU country and you are elligible for VAT reclaim. Also this means for all kinds of goods, thoug I think the limit is 100 euro orsomething similar. So you will be able to request VAT reclaim if you buy good(s) that's value more then 100 yuros. I...
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    Buying Parts in Europe

    Hardware is more expensive over here in Europe, cause usually manufacturers set the price as $=? and Euro is cost more then the USD right now. VAT is not really that big of a factor if you are not from an EU country, you can get a refund for VAT when you leave. "You will then have to pay...
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    mushkin limiting overclock??

    Yeah, loose the timings and jacl up the Voltage. I have the non redline rame 2Gb kit also and my max is at 3-4-3-8@2.7 530. The redlines overclock better but dotn forget that these are gig modules and those are not that good as their 512 pairs when comes to OCing. I doubt you will reach 600 with...
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    X2 3800+ (939) vs X2 3800+ (AM2) vs E6300 final decision

    Definetly option C!! MUCH MUCH better eprformance then X2.
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    my parents want me to help digitize about 1000 photos. so there such thing as a high speed scanner?

    Also make sure to get a very good DVD/CD. I tend to favor the old gold Kodak CDs. Dunno if they are make em any more. I have 13 years old Kodak Gold CDs and they are still working flawlessly:):) On the other hand try to steer away from FujiFilm CD/DVDs. I have had couple years old CDs that were...
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    How come my speakers pop when light is turned on?

    The problem is with shielding in your speaker systems. Since the ampifier is "built-in" the speakers and the shilding is quite thin your amplifier in the spekers will pick up any electrical waves. When you switch on a light, etc those things generate electrical waves and your amplifier picks...
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    Please Help Guys.... Buying Tonight!

    I think he meant, that nvidia has worse shadows then ati. I switched from a 7800GTx to a 1900XT and there are some diff between the 2. They are mostly noticable when u look at the shadows and nvidia had worse shadow quality then ati in the following games Ive played. FarCry, BF2, BFME2
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    Who should I be contacting to b*tch about my problem with NVIDIA RAID/SW IDE Driver

    It seems that my problem finally got solved. I had to create a floppy with the 6.53 drivers install the OS with those then just simply install the 6.70 drivers in xp install SW drivers too and everythign seem to work ok now.
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    Who should I be contacting to b*tch about my problem with NVIDIA RAID/SW IDE Driver

    If you using 6.53 then u have to install those SW drives too. You have to copy all the files from this directory to use PATA Raid: C:\NVIDIA\nForceWin2KXP\6.xx\WINXP\IDE\WinXP\pataraid BTW, I have contacted to Epox support all of em and got these responses: From Epox USA: "Dear...
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    Who should I be contacting to b*tch about my problem with NVIDIA RAID/SW IDE Driver

    Ok, then it seems that the problem with with the Raid itself, cuase ive tried with the newest 6.70 nforce driver and got the problem again, so back to the old drivers.
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    Who should I be contacting to b*tch about my problem with NVIDIA RAID/SW IDE Driver

    Hi there! I had the same problem and downgrade solved it. It seems that nforce driver nicely screws up the whole systems. I havent treid the latest drivers(6.70), but for me only 6.53 the one that came with the board worked fine. Try to email Epox Europe. Ive sent emails to Eopx USA, Eu and...
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    My new NF4 Ultra won't boot to SATA

    Did u remove the floppy from ur A drive?:) It seems to me that there is a misconfiguration in ur BIOS.
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    RAM reccomendations

    I would go for the Redline if u want to OC more. It should OC better then teh regular 3-4-3-8 Mushkin modul.
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    Overclocking troubles

    You probably should. I have your cpus little sister, 3500+ Venice and had similar problems. Had to jack up the vcore up to 1.70 so i could run everythign stable at 11x250. I think more vcore will solve your problem, though you need some nice cooling for that vcore.
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    A8n-SLI Deluxe Freeze and Boot problems

    Hehe, sorry about your prob. I was asking cause I am having serious problems with some nforce drivers that is why i asked. I run trouble free with 6.53 ver. Maybe it is a PSU problem if you are having trouble powering up.