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a friend of mine read a few months ago that HP(he thought) was working on an $800 dvd-r(not dvd-ram) burner... I cant find it anywhere. Is it made? Does another company make it? I dont want a $5000 dvd-r burner from pioneer!

Hi, Im upgrading my parents computer. Its an old Gateway Pentium II - 266. Im trying to be as cheap as possible. The unit only has a 200 watt power supply, will this power a celeron 533 or a Duron 650? Thanks.

Everytime I play a video clip larger than 160 x120 with Real Player or Windows Media Player my computer locks up about 3 or 4 seconds into the clip. I think the clips are 320 x 240. I dont have any trouble with smaller clips that are 160 x 120. Whats going on? I have this trouble on more...

Hi, I currently use easy cd creator 4. Anyone know if I could stick a cd in my computer and copy it to 2 cd-recorders at the same time?

Anyone know where you can download the "Transfomers" cartoons? I hear you can download in Realvideo format... I've been trying to buy them for years but cant find them. I recently saw a few episodes at the video store but nearly 100 aired! I find them on e- bay but they are just...

Can anyone tell me what temperature the Athlon 800 should be running at? According to my gigabyte software, my cpu is running at 44 degrees Celcius.... however, the temp gauge in my bios says 51 degress C! Which one is right?? Doesnt make sense because the software should retrieve the info...

Hi, I understand for alot of us that overclocking is a hobby.. but for others that just want a faster pc for cheap, does it really make sense? Think about, by the time you spend extra money for a larger case, extra fans, and an expensive cpu cooler, you could have probably bought a 100mhz(or...

Can anyone tell me the normal operating temperature in Celcius(and fehrenheit) for the AMD Athlon 800mhz? Thanks

Hi, Just stared using Lost & Found to recover files on a drive I formatted. Problem is it will only let me select my floppy as a destination. I have two other empty hard drives, why wont it let me back up the files to there? Am I doing something wrong? They are ultra dma 66 drives.

I think most of us in this forum build our own systems and dont have a bezel(the square on your computer case where a company sticks there logo) to put on our case. I think Anand should look into getting some nice color "Anandtech.com" case bezels made.. they are cheap in mass...

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Is there anyway to recover a file after a hard drive has been re-partitioned and formatted??? Im screwed! or am I?

Anyone know the decibael rating on the powersupply? Im debating between the Enermax 350 or the Silencer 275 ATX which is 36 db. I really dont want to buy the silencer because I dont know if it will have enough power for my system, but I work in an audio/video editing environment and cant have...

No to mention vibration from the powersupply to delicate cpu chips.

You have to remember that any type of sound insulation will also add heat to the inside of your case. I tried dynamat with no luck about 2 years ago. Its also very important to understand how Dynmat works... it converts sound to heat! You can probably read that on their web site.