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    Steam Installation Question.

    Good day to this amazing community. Look at this case. I have a PC with 2 hard drives and each ones houses an OS, in one of them i have my Steam account installed. For space issues i want to have Steam in the other hard drive an OS also. Now i heard you can use junctions to install games on...
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    Open Office.

    Good day to all the members: Of course this is a free productivity software with Linux origins. But i wanted to know if it works for Win7 OS and if it does it properly. Or are there any other free alternatives to MS office that get the job done as well as open office? Hope to get some...
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    Closest thing to photoshop for free?

    Well Gimp is the popular guy in the block. Thanks for your reply man :D
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    Closest thing to photoshop for free?

    Hello Anadtech duelers: Title says it all. Is there something like that in a place like sourceforge or something. Some time ago heard og Gimp, but thats for linux. Im running windows 7. Bonus question. Any similar software to aftereffects? Hope anyone knows about this. Good rest of the day.
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    Best Catalyst Suit for HD 5000 series.

    Very insightful answers, very pleased :) Well the thing some times there are some regresions with a new set of drivers. Instances when it does more harm than good, I.E. maybe say... in 2 games you got performance improvements and maybe in 10 you lost some frames. Or your PC became more...
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    Best Catalyst Suit for HD 5000 series.

    Hi Anandtech community: Please share your knowledge here. The card is a Radeon 5850, and well ATI is focusing on the 6000 series, which means that probably the 5000 series wont get much improvements from Catalyst drivers from now on. So with this in mind i ask, what are the best catalyst...
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    Changing HD´s (Boot Question)

    Super indepth and with no wastes explanation. Couldn't be happier. :) Although i see im quiet a bit of trouble here. From now on when i install multiple OS's would do so by installing each one independently in each disk.
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    Changing HD´s (Boot Question)

    Thanks for the links Robl777. But what would happen if the bootloader is in the old drive that i want to replace? What proces should i execute to use the 1 TB with the 2 Win7 after removing the old drive as my boot disk.
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    Changing HD´s (Boot Question)

    Hi RobL777. Ok, lets see... Yes, 3 OS's. XP on the old 160GB drive. 2 Win7 in the 1 TB HDD. The boot manager most be the Win7 one and it resides in the 160GB drive because BIOS is set to boot from that drive. What i need. Replace the 160GB HDD, keep the 1 TB as it is right now. Then with...
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    Changing HD´s (Boot Question)

    Hello Anandtech experts: Have a multi boot pc with 2 HDs. One of the drives is an old 160GB Maxtor and the other is a 1 TB HD. The 160 GB has Windows XP and the other has 2 Windows7 partitions. Want to replace the 160 GB one, but its the one that has the boot thingy for the multi boot. So...
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    Mysterious performance drop.

    Like expected, the PCIe bus speed was the culprit. Operating at 4x, it translates into a performance lost of 15 fps in Dirty 2. Yet the problem is not entirely solved. When I reseat the card it was operating at 16x, but I soon as I screwed to the chassis, it moved so its operating now at...
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    Mysterious performance drop.

    Did a quick check with GPUz, it says the PCIe adapter its working at 4x. Any ideas how could i set it to 16x?
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    Mysterious performance drop.

    Sadly i haven´t been able to make any correlations. Not specific days either, right now the drop in performance has stayed close to a week.
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    Mysterious performance drop.

    First i thought it was the RAM, but then it started working even better than with the previous RAM. As for memory diagnostic, just used the default windows memory test. I would say its on certain days, so far it hasnt happen in game. For example if i get good performance in Dirt it stays like...
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    Mysterious performance drop.

    Good day Anandtech community. Specs: Phenom II X3 705e MB A9K2GM-FIH 4GB Kingstone DDR2 Radeon HD 5850 Multi boot with Windows 64 bit. I have this strange behavior with the PC. Some times I get performance drops in games for no apparent reason. For example, I get a frame rate drop in...