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    990fx motherboard decision

    For reasons unexplainable I find myself wanting a new 990FX board for an FX6300 setup. I'm looking at ~$130. Right now on newegg, there's the ASRock Extreme4 ($130), the ASUS M5A99FX Pro R2.0($130 AR), and the Gigabyte UD3($140 AR). Heavily leaning toward the ASRock + Phase 8+2 (gigabyte...
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    Rotator cuff injury?

    I recently decided to combine power cleans with overhead press instead of doing them separately to save time using up the power rack at my gym. I'm new to cleans and I was getting very tired near the end and the last two reps I ended up pressing with my hands much wider on the bar than normal...
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    PWM with no tach feedback

    I have a few arctic cooling PWM fans, they all use a clever setup to allow daisy chaining. Too clever for their crappy instruction manual. Long story short, I accidentally ruined the fan's tach signal. What happens to a PWM fan when there is no feedback? Judging by noise/feeling the...
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    Looking for Medium-profile Heatsink Suggestions

    Hey all, basically I have a Lian Li PC-C33B case and I need a heatsink for it. I tried a xigmatek hdt-s1283 but it's too tall, by about an inch. The xigmatek is list as 6.25" tall, so to be safe I will say that the max height is 5". I found some threads about low profile heatsinks and the...
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    Broken DVI port on GTX460? [solved]

    Before I decided to RMA this I wanted to get some more info on it to make sure I'm not doing something wrong. I got a galaxy 460 1gb GC that has some problem with the secondary DVI port. I have both a zr24w and a vx2025wm. -If I plug a single monitor into the primary port, everything...
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    P180B

    So after endless searching I found my dream case... the P180B. I like the black way more than the P182 Grey. But no one is selling them. Is there any place still selling these things at reasonable prices (<$150 shipped)?
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    help with X800 pro

    I bought a used X800pro modded to X800XT a few years ago and it can't run at the XT speeds anymore... I get artifacts in games/tests at those speeds, however if I knock down the clocks it becomes stable. I had to lower the clocks more and more as time went on and it got more damaged. I was...
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    9800GT SPDIF Passthrough

    Hey, I'm looking for some advice. I setup an HTPC to game on, and I have it connected to my 42" through HDMI. Now my surround sound is connected directly to the TV, not through a receiver. Right now I don't want a receiver, because I can't afford it or a good universal remote to control...
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    Need help finding MMORPG

    I've been posting all over trying to find the name of this game that I played during highschool study halls for a year. I completely forgot the name. Anyway, it was from 2004/2005 I think and I'm pretty sure it was an open beta. It was korean based, or at least asian based, with one of...
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    onboard sound bleeding

    Have you guys heard of normally high SNR getting much lower when CPU load is high on older motherboards with AC'97 chips?
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    Why do spaceships have a top speed?

    I have a number of questions about physics that bother me. I mainly want to understand the limits of accelerating; why you can't just start throwing crap out the back of a vehicle and never stop going faster. I have a pretty good idea of each one, but I don't have the math to back up my...
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    Language support in XP?

    I want to know if there is a way to change .my computer to Chinese entirely. Right now I have all the settings in "Regional" set to Simplified Chinese (East Asian languages are installed), yet I still see a big english "Start" and english text under all of my icons. I have another computer...
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    Every install of WinXP eventually fails

    A little while back I installed an Opteron 165 in the rig in my sig. I got it to boot up fine without problems right away at 2.2ghz. It was Prime stable. But I noticed that WinXP didn't recognize that it was two cores. I upgraded from a Venice 3000+, so I went to AMD's site and installed...
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    Choice between 2 older motherboards

    I have a Biostar m7vkg and the ECS k7sem. Does anyone know offhand which one would be better? THey seem to be equally crappy, althought I don't see anything about 133 FSB support for the ECS board. I think this basically comes down to which chipset is better, the VIA KLE133 or the SiS...
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    real quick question

    I'm going to be installing a dual core Opty 165 later today and I'm wondering if there's anything I have to do in WinXP. I remember a bunch of problems with load balancing and an AMD-released patch a while back. Do I have to do anything special for WinXP? What about tweaks/known issues...
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    PSU to Motherboard ATX plug fell out.

    Hi. My test bed thing includes a space fortron PSU and a rigged up On/Off Switch. My ATX Plugin thing from the PSU to Mobo wouldn't fit in all the way (click into place), but I've had this problem before so I just inserted it as far as it would go and left it. I plugged in the PSU. The...
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    Lack of options at $300?

    I've been holding on to $300 for quite some time now... and I've noticed that the most I can get is a 7800GT or x1800xl. And the x1800xl isn't really much of an improvement over the 6 month old 7800gt. What's up with the price-points? The $200 segment has seen the 6800nu, x800gto2 and...
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    X800GTO2 or 6800GS

    I did some research, but I want to know how things stand right now at this moment in time. What's the best PCIe deal for ~$200? I was thinking x800gto2 -> x850xtpe mod. Or is there a diamond-in-the-rough 6800GS card out there? The motherboard isn't SLi or Xfire so no dual-card...
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    Palomino or Applebred?

    What's faster? A palomino 2100+ AXP(1.73mhz) or an applebred Duron at 2.24ghz?
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    A8N-SLi Premium memory divider issues

    Does anyone know how the memory dividers actually work on the Premium? Forever, I've been running like this: 300x9=2700 with 1x1GB memory at 2.5-3-3-5 1T@247mhz. The divider I was using was 333mhz, which is 5/6, right? Well 5/6 of 300 is 250mhz, not 247. In fact, ALL of the dividers...
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    Question about Duron Applebreds

    Any oldies out there? I have an old 1.8 Applebred lying around that I feel like messing with. Firstly, since it's a Tbred core, it should go from 133x13.5 now to 166x13.5 (2.24ghz) no problem, right? I'll have a VF7000Cul HSF on it so heat shouldn't matter. The real question is the L2...
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    Crackpot 7800GT Step-Up theory

    OK, so I want a 7900GT and I just thought of a round-about way to save some money. Say I buy this card (the 518): http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814130238 I get the eVGA SLi board for free, right? Then I have $359 invested in my video card. I sell the...
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    Questions regarding my x800xtpe.

    Hey fellas, kind of a funny story: About a month ago I bought a x800pro --> x800xtpe w/ VF700CU from a very reputable seller in FS/FT. I threw the card in my case, and appreciated that it was instantly recognized as a xtpe. 540/560 autodetected. I noticed that the temps were quite high...
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    Computer eats PSUs?

    Thanks in advance... This particular machine was running for a year or more with an Abit AN7, 9800 pro, 1gb DDR400, AXP2800+, 2 Opticals, a SATA drive and an IDE drive. One day, it just died out. The AN7 has a diagnostics LED panel, and the code reported a power issue. Figured the PSU...
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    Would you call Rommel "one of the conspirators,"

    As far as I knew, he was approached by them but declined. However he failed to inform Hitler. Sources seem to conflict on this part.
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    6800nu

    Thanks in advance. I bought a used 6800nu that I'm having some trouble with. I replaced the GF4Ti that was in my AGP slot with this 6800nu and right away I got crazy artifacts during post/startup. Most of it clears away when I get to Windows, but the second I try to install the nV drivers...
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    What's with this guy?

    Link I wanted to grab that CPU, but then I noticed that the seller had a ton of "DOA" feedbacks. Like almost half of them said "Item was DOA, but refund was little hassle" Is he scamming people by charging $12 shipping? That seems kind of a waste of time. Or are lots of buyers just...
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    Looking for a good AGP card.

    What's my best bet for an AGP card? Retail, FS/FT, Ebay, anything, I'm looking for value above anything. Willing to spend up to ~$215. I found an x800pro flashed to x800XT card for $215 in FS. I thought that looked like a good deal. It's been a long time since I've looked at AGP cards...
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    Instantaneous communication over light-year+ distances.

    This is kind of a tangent from the "artifical gravity" thread. I was reading this part of Chuck's post: when I realized that not everyone is using the same definition for gravity. Correct me if I'm wrong, please. From what I've read, Chuck is right. Gravity is not really a direct...
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    Dual Core Optimized Drivers

    I posted this on some other forum: Now, I may not be 100% correct here, so feel free to correct me. This is the response I've received. I just want to put this up for open debate. So my question is: How does this dual core optimization work, exactly? Is it really just a graph...
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    Is there a program called Steam Down?

    Before I start to get really mad, I want to know if this is true. I just bought a retail copy of HalfLife2 GotYE for $55. When some guy saw it, he said to me why didn't you just use "SteamDown"? After he explained what it was, I called shens. I said how could Valve, the inventors of...
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    The Anandtech X800GT review

    I checked all over to see if this is a repost... but I could have sworn that two or three days ago I saw and READ the X800GT review.... which seems to have disappeared.
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    TV Tuner

    The TV tuner in my 24" died on me, making the entire coax connector useless. I don't feel like repairing an older TV, but I would still like to use it. Fortunately, the TV does have A/V inputs, so I can still use it right now for DVDs/Console gaming. I would like to buy some sort of tuner...
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    GeForce2 Ti troubles

    I've got an old Xtasy GeForce2Ti I use in one of my older machines that won't take to any drivers. It's in the same machine it's always been in, I've just decided to re-install WinXP. WinXP SP2 fresh install detected it correctly, and I'm using it right now and it's fine even for Max Payne...
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    How does a softmodem work?

    How does a softmodem work? I mean, what's the rules for most "winmodems". I want to understand them better because they're giving me problems. Apparently, they don't use the RAM/CPU cycles in the same way a game or onboard sound does. A more specific question is, then, what is unique...
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    Machine Check Exception

    A8n-SLi Premium. Venice 3000+ PDP 1GB Performance RAM Leadtek 6600gt This machine is overclocked, prime95 stable, but to settle this problem I've been running it stock and I get the same errors. Whenever I use my modem to dialup, within 5 minutes of establishing a connection, I get a...
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    DualBoot Linux/Windows

    I know there are a million guides out there, yet none of them cover what I want to do. Here's my dilemma. I have two drives, an IDE drive and a SATA drive. My plan is to split my SATA drive amongst multiple OS's. I want all OS's on the SATA because it vastly outperforms my IDE drive, and...
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    A8n-SLI Premium boot troubles

    This is driving me nuts >_< I have two disks, an IDE 120GB and a SATA 250GB. I installed WinXP x64 onto the SATA, and I had the 120GB purely as a storage drive with NTFS. After the install went fine, I couldn't boot off the SATA to reach my installed OS (invalid system disk bla bla), so I...
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    Guild Wars accounts

    I did a quick google search and couldn't find out, and I don't have my manual with me. Can I give out a character on my account to a relative and have him play at the same time as me?
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    Activating NCQ

    Have a question for yas. If I have an NCQ drive and an NCQ-supporting SATA controller, do I have to turn NCQ on by myself, or does the controller say "Oh, it's NCQ. Cool, let's use that." (ie automatic) ?