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Thanks for all the input! I'm going to go ahead with the quad processor. Especially as I've been itchin' to play Crysis.

Alas, my choice is only between these 2 processors. It's a pre-built system I'm getting from my company at a price I just can't refuse.

The question I'm wondering about is whether the dual core E6850 which is clocked at 3.0Ghz would have any real world performance advantage over the quad Q6600 running at 2.4Ghz? Will mainly be using the system for gaming and media encoding. I know the quad should be the prime choice for the...

In case anyone reads this post in the future, it was the nvidia firewall causing the noise from the port, I removed it and it was gone! Yeah!!!

veddy interesting, I wonder if this is common or not? Love your sig btw

yeah, that's just what it's like, really irritating. Off to RMA, at least I have my Athlon 2500 system to keep me going til the new board gets in.

I posted earlier thinking my new hard drive was making a squeaking noise, it isn't the drive, it's coming from the LAN port from an Asus Crosshair mobo, I was already going to RMA the thing because the first lan port didn't work at all. I've just NEVER heard of a LAN port making noise. What's...

I just had a Seagate 320 GB 7200.10 drive come in from Newegg yesterday and it has an irritating squeaky sound coming from it. Not loud but highly annoying, what makes it worse is that as long as the LAN is connected, it constantly makes the noise, if I disable the LAN it quits doing it...

I'm in the process of building a new system and am trying to find that right balance of performance between the cpu and vid card, I'm going with AMD on this one and am trying to decide between an A64 5000+ with an ATI x1950xt or an A64 4400+ with an nVidia 8800 GTS 320MB card. Either way the...

Thanks for the input everybody, believe it or not, it was fixed by the latest Microsoft update that came out today. Now who would've thought that??? :)

I've read about this exploit from other forums, basically the first 3 searches get redirected then all others go the page that was intended, until you start a new browser session. There appears to be variants of the same issue, and any that I've read of that fixed others with the same problem...

No, I haven't posted the log file yet, I really don't see anything suspicious from it either. But I may have to have someone else look at it who has more insight into these types of issues than I do.

The system has Norton AV on it, but it's not detecting anything. Then again, it usually doesn't :) I'll give Antivir a try. I'll let you know if it works. and it found nothing... I'm going to have to do some research on this.

I had the exact same problem my issue was the xvid codec as well, even when videos weren't thumbnailed and you just clicked on the file name explorer would crash. To remove codecs you need to go in the control panel, go into audio devices and click on the hardware tab, scroll down to video...

Trying to fix an IE issue where google search results are hijacked and displaying pages that are not the ones that should have displayed. I've already used hijack this!, a coolwebsearch remover software and ad-aware, so far none of them has fixed this particular issue. Host file is clean...