Recent content by siroutbak

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    Monitor Recommendation Request

    i also, am in the market for a monitor, and even though your biased Gosharkss, the monitor guide helped me out alot, sorry to say though, i dont think i'd buy it from monitorsdirect being that the price inc ground shipping is with $1 of outpost.com which includes overnight shipping and also with...
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    How to copy wave files from a normal music CD-R.

    the 'files' you see when looking is just placeholders for the cdda audio tracks, it must be converted from the form its in to .wav. lots of popular programs can do this for you, if your looking for freeware, its available (download.com), but i recomend using audiograbber...
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    Maxtrox G400... good or bad?

    i suppose i'll try throwing in a 128mb stick and see what that does. maybe we'll try a vid card if that doesnt work. but, yes of course, i have both the latest via drivers and matrox drivers. on the other hand, dropping $200 on a k6-2 500? well, gaming is fun ;)
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    Maxtrox G400... good or bad?

    amoung my systems, i have a k6-2 500MHz pc with 64mb ram and a G400. i manly use it for a second pc for people to come over and play lan games (if they dont have a better machine to bring). it has worked perfectly fine in the past for such games like civ2 (best game in existance) age of...
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    KT7 Raid and Hard Drives

    << Am I crazy mixing IBM and Maxtor drives? >> Yes, you do not want to mix brand/model number when creating a raid array or the performance could be severly hurt.
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    Please help with cooling dual P3

    i have the tyan tiger 133 dual p3 motherboard with (2) 700MHz SLOT 1 P3s and the primary CPU is around 75C. i have somewhat standard dual fans on each processor, but the way the board is laid out, the primary processor's heatsink touches the back of the secondary so no air can blow onto the cpu...
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    Let's hear about some KT7 Raid Success Stories!

    My system works great, only video performance isnt excellent (v3 3k), everyone seems to have problems with PCI #1, but anyways... T-bird 900MHz, 256MB pc133 (hst clk + pci), v3 3k in agp, SB Live! in pci #1, linksys nic in pci #3, 2 maxtor 20.4gb ata 100 7200 rpm drives in raid 0 on ide 3 &amp...
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    problems with latest 4-in-1 drivers

    I had the same problem with my system, try booting into safe mode (hit F8 before it starts to load windows) and do this... http://www.apushardware.com/faqs/kt7faq/faqboot.html I get a blue screen with a green line at the top after restarting. Tape detection seems to cause this problem...
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    What is a safe temp range for T-Birds?

    I have a T-Bird 900MHz (not o/c'd) on a KT7-RAID and the CPU temp when running all day is about 59-61C. What is a safe range? Should I improve my cooling?
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    Good Memory (256 MB) for ABIT KT7-Raid?

    Mushkin and Crucial are the best, and stay away from Atlas ''Precision'' Memory. I bought a stick of 256MB PC133 and tried to run it on Turbo CAS2 on my KT7-RAID and all it did was crash. Ack!
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    KT7 raid--no boot

    &quot;Right now I have a KT7 installed only with 1.1tbird and hs/f, case fans, ATX power, and power button. &quot; just to cover all bases... you have ram installed too, right?
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    KT7 (non raid) or 8KTA+ ??

    &quot;1. it is cheaper...( everyone knows I am cheap )&quot; makes sense, but you get what you pay for &quot;2. Abit's CPU socket is way too close to PS. ( I have mid-tower ) 3. Abit has this sudden reboot problem....EVEN at default speed. 4. What's w/ this green line on top of window w/ my...