Recent content by Mascarpone

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    Getting a legit copy of windows

    Hello guys, I've a little problem: i have a legit OEM key (shipped with my notebook) but i don't have a legit copy of windows xp, since I purged windows from all my computer 6 years ago, and on this there was no recovery cd, but just a 4 gb recovery partition. How could I get a legit...
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    [Emergency Room] My computer is dead

    thank you guys! So out of 4 memory bank 3 were faulty. I'm going to change ram, but a new problem appeared: the fourth memory bank seems to work fine, memory test doesn't report anything and Ubuntu live Cd boots fine. But when i try to install it doesn't work. The installation freeze. I...
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    [Emergency Room] My computer is dead

    Hello, I'm now facing the single biggest technical difficulty since I bought my first IBM machine in 1995. I'm a student low on budget, and my productive pc totally stopped working. I need your help guys, because I've never been good at HW problems, my solution has always been to format :D...
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    CPU too hot

    i think it is a push and click... my mistake was that i mounted the MB first and the HSF second.... i think i'll just have to unscrew the MB and place the HSF better...
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    CPU too hot

    Hi guys... I just build a PC with a Q6600 and a Infinity heatsink. I have 60 °C in idle, and it easly go to 75 °C under load. I also use Ubuntu instead of win. So what do you think? it isn't normal, is it? Maybe I just put too much heat paste on the cpu? should i remove a bit of it...
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    Is this PSU defected?

    yeah thank you guys... also i noted that if you look at the photos on the review of the DA 700 on the site you'll see that even there the PSU miss a connector.... Anyhow i have a doubt. Here's the spec from the site: 1 x 24-pin motherboard connector (550mm) 1 x 8-pin EPS12V connector...
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    Is this PSU defected?

    Hello. after a bit of surf on the web, i decided (mostly basing my choice on this site summer roundup of PSUs) to buy a silverstone DA 750. Unfortunately, when i opened the box, i saw that the EPS port has just 23 pin on the plug.... is this normal or is it a defect? Since it's modular...
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    remote CUDA server

    Hello everybody, i'm a student who need to have access to a mobile CUDA developing platform. Since a notebook with CUDA capable hardware don't fit my needs, i decided to go for a remote CUDA server. The idea is to have this server on a 10 mb/s line, behind a nat, to be reached using IPv6...