Recent content by Sk8Joe01

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    So what do you carry for self defense?

    i drive this sweeet hummer with this .50cal minigun on the top.... does that count?
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    overclock help for a beginner....

    and wut is a "CPU ratio"????
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    overclock help for a beginner....

    anyone want to link me over to a good page, or spend some time telling me here, explaining everything about overclocking the processor... i get confused by voltage, voltage locks, frequency, clock speed, multipliers, etc etc... i really want to kno, well, everything about it.... like, how can...
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    Half Life question...

    vYktYm: patch? wut is this patch of which you speak?
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    Half Life question...

    hey, this is a prety dumd q i guess, but i'm just gettin into gaming and computers here... will HalfLife: Platnum Edition run on my XP home system, even though the requirements are for 95/98/and NT 4.0? thanks for the help, oh, and let me know wut you think of the comp i'm gonna put...
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    MotherBoard Help

    my understanding of RAID is this, (tho i get raid 1 and 0 mixed up), riad 0 is where you take two HDDs and make the computer think they are one, which doubles your read/write rate and capacity. RAID 1 is where you take two HDDs and make exact mirrors of eachother, ie: super safty mode. RAID...
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    Hey, if ya kno anything bout video cards, gimmie a hand

    yeah, good advice, sept the difference between the pro and the se rite now is $54, not $7.
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    Hey, if ya kno anything bout video cards, gimmie a hand

    yeah, i found em for about 200, but i think i'm gonna go with the 9800se, its a 256 bit, its only $150, and i have a chance of being able to unlock the 4 extra (whatever they are called thingers) and essentially make it pro. here is the link to it-...
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    Hey, if ya kno anything bout video cards, gimmie a hand

    oh, and i herd something somewhere about the nvidia cards integrating realy well with the nvidia chipset..??
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    Hey, if ya kno anything bout video cards, gimmie a hand

    GeneralGrievous- where can i get a pro for $200, they were all more when i looked Mattias- i have an Xbox, i just said Halo2 cuz its a high graphic intensive game that poped into my mind, i havn't been into games for a looong time so i dont' know much of wut is out there yet, and while i'm off...
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    Hey, if ya kno anything bout video cards, gimmie a hand

    Okay, as the title states, i'm a bit lost rite now. You can read my setup below in my profile. My friend found me a PowerColor ATI Radeon 9800se for $152 at newegg, and said something about uping it using omega drivers.... So just now i went over to do some searching for cards and wutnot and...
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    Good setup w/ little $$$

    one comp is plugged into modem, dont' kno how to set up a router or anything
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    Aspire dreamer 2 case doesn't come with a pc speaker?

    i'm thinkin of buying that case, pros/cons?
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    Good setup w/ little $$$

    and who thinks the GA K8NS PRO mobo is sweet, and who thinks i should wait for the K8N NEO? wut are the advantages of that board, other than being the first to use the nf3 250gb and not just nf3 250
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    Good setup w/ little $$$

    in order: minendo- just two computers rite now, up to four in the future nanaki333- arent those the hammer cores though? i thought all of the newcastle cores had only 512K cashe... Cheetah8799- i will get another power supply eventually, and yeah, i think i'm gonna start out with a cheap...