Recent content by sleepkyng

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    cookie host offering $5 dollars a year...

    not to thread crap but i took up a similar offer from cookie host two years back and i had really bad experience with them. slow servers, odd downtimes, and really crummy support - you pay for what you get.
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    HDD woes - old maxtor drive

    ok, thanks guys - looks like that's how it's gotta be - i can't bring her back to life :*(
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    MCE error help

    update, i ran Memtest - passed 3 times no problems i only get a machine check exception when I play games - so maybe it's my gpu? how can i test?
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    MCE error help

    i get a machine check exception error.
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    Internal HDD troubleshooting...

    did you assign it a letter? depending on your flavor of windows, sometimes the drive letter needs to be manually assigned in device manager.
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    HDD woes - old maxtor drive

    I've got an old Maxtor drive (80gb) from 2003. as far as I can tell it's working but it's only showing me 7.9gb of space. I've filled the thing with zeroes and all i get with partition magic is a 7.9gb unformatted chunk. is this thing caput? or is there something else i can do?
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    MCE error help

    e2180 - OC'd to 3.0, AC7 cooling 2 gigs of ram stock antec earthwatts 380 gigabyte p35 dsl motherboard evga 8800gs playing TF2 and Company of Heroes, occasionally I get an MCE blue screen of death. Everything was bought new - any ideas where I should start to figure out where the...
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    ultra budget PC (minor gaming)

    woah, i guess i shoulda just gone with the tom's hardware rig...
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    ultra budget PC (minor gaming)

    you guys keep mentioning these inspirion dells, but i'm not seeing anything even close for less than $600 - am I missing something? here's from dell's website PROCESSOR Intel®Pentium® dual-core processor E2180 MEMORY 2GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHz- 2DIMMs...
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    ultra budget PC (minor gaming)

    i thought that was a good deal on the ram? or is it not worth it to have 800 ram on my setup?
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    ultra budget PC (minor gaming)

    yeah, I'd love to try out OS X, and these parts work according to insanelymac ok i'm gonna bump my budget up a bit, so i've tried again, lemme know what you think, and thanks for the help keep in mind the most hardcore game i'd want to run would be Bioshock as long as I can run Orange...
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    ultra budget PC (minor gaming)

    I do want to build my own - i'm thinking of going with the hackintosh that lifehacker posted and just using a better video card http://lifehacker.com/software...r-under-800-321913.php cheers
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    Can external hard drive be readable by a mac and pc?

    there's a program called macdrive http://www.mediafour.com/products/macdrive/ it lets pcs use mac formated hdds.
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    ultra budget PC (minor gaming)

    Hi, I'm going to be building a computer for the first time and would like to try something that could be used as a hackintosh. I'm not totally computer illiterate and have fumbled around with laptops and pcs before. I was wondering if you could tell me what you think about this projected...
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    chosing an external HDD - couple of questions

    so i should get a NAS then... but they're so expensive!