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    Cleaning Arctic MX-4 with what?

    Suppose you get some MX-4 on some clothing -- or just cleaning it for reapplication. What can be used to clean this stuff? I've tried acetone, Spiced Rum (yup … its got ethanol alcohol in it … :)), windshield washer fluid (methyl alcohol) and no luck so far dissolving this stuff. I've read...
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    How many items can be stored on a HDD or a USB flash drive?

    In other words, what is the maximum number of items that a storage medium like a HDD will hold? Suppose I was putting internet shortcuts on my 500GB HDD (in sig). These shortcuts are 300 bytes in size, but properties shows the shortcut as taking 4.0KB (4096 bytes). When I scan my 500GB HDD...
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    Kingston ValueRam DDR3 1333

    I'm looking to build an i3-530 and need some ram (2x2GB). Has anyone used this ram? How far will these modules overclock at the standard settings at CL9 and 1.5v? The factory spec's are CL9 (9-9-9-24), 1.5v, at 1333.
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    SED ? finally a technology that will replace LCD and CRT.

    SED (Surface-conduction Electron-emitter Display) is the best of both worlds -- LCD and CRT. A flat CRT technology ? I was optimistic about OLED technology about 2 years ago, and hoped it would replace the CRT and LCD, but large OLED panels are still no where to be seen (they?re used in some...
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    ATI's Radeon X800 series can do Transparency AA too..!

    Apparently ATI?s new drivers have an adaptive-AA (works on alpha textures like NV?s transparency AA) that works on the X800?s ?bit-tech Thread about it at beyond3d Good news for X800 users. And this works on the R300?s too as they have the same programmable AA patterns as the R420?s. :D
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    R520 ? ?clearly dominates the fastest competitive hardware?

    Some better news ... Things should get interesting in a few weeks. :beer:
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    NV 7800 benches? Q vs HQ

    I don?t know if this has already been posted, but someone ran a few HQ vs Q benches with the 78.03 drivers on a 7800 ... ... pdf From this thread at ? beyond3d A mixed bag, from a few % drop to as high as 29%. These benches only compare HQ/Q on the 78.03?s. If you are using older...
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    LOL? bad technical advice?

    hexus ... pretty well says it all.:D
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    NV 7800 GTX, lowering the bar for IQ again?

    3dcenter... Edit: English version ... 3dcenter I was going to wait until this (German) article was out in english, but since all the discussions are going on now I?ll post it. Basically, NV has lowered the IQ on the 7800 in both Q and HQ settings so it is lower than the 6800, which...
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    Digitlife X700 XT review.

    X700XT rocks, rated it faster than a 6600GT -- and "relative parity" with a 6800LE. On the downside, they had problems with the control panel and drivers. Not a very smooth product release by ATI. The card didn't overclock well either -- the GPU was an engineering sample. Must be the most...
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    Xbit -- Farcry 1.2 and NV SM3.0 = pile of beans.

    NV?s manipulation of benchmarks and hardware sites never ceases to amaze me. I posed the question at Beyond3d a couple of weeks ago in a thread, basically it was -- How do we know whether the speed improvements in Farcry 1.2 are from SM3.0 and not from just some other general shader...
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    Proof : ATI?s X800 Tri is much better than NV?s 6800 Bri.

    This shot pretty well says it all ?. extremetech mipmaps on nv 6800 Bri It?s easy to spot the Brilinear on the 6800. It?s amazing hardware sites are benchmarking the NV 6800 with this type of lowered IQ garbage. ATI's adative-Trlinear is much better. From someone that has both a X800 and 6800...
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    What?s the better format -- DVD-R or DVD+R?

    I?m getting a DVD-RW/+RW multi-drive and was wondering what media is better to use, DVD-R or DVD+R? Leaning towards +RW right now from what I?ve read.
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    Pre-game show info on X800pro ...

    This link was posted at beyond3d -- has some info on the X800 pro ? allstarshop :D Not full ps3.0 but ps2.0+++ ...just missing branching. Can handle very long shaders.
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    New top end cards are going to need a new psu?

    link :D
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    More IQ hacks from nvidia ?Farcry..

    This is getting old. People are talking about the big speed boost with the 5900?s in Farcry with the new 56.64 drivers and 1.1 patch, but it looks more like big degrade in IQ to boost speed ~ 30% ? link This is just pure NV crap. Most sites aren?t going to check IQ so they?ll bench and...
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    Painkiller benches?

    Interesting Portuguese review with Painkiller benches?. oc-zone Even though it?s a DX8 class game it apparently uses a lot of shaders, so the strong DX9 shader engine on the 9600 comes in handy even on DX8 games.
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    My BB ATI 9600XT has a HYPRO bearing fan? !!!

    I was wondering what type of fan was on my retail 9600XT -- ie. ? sleeve or ball bearing (I like to put a drop of oil in sleeve bearing fans to make them last), so I pulled the fan off and checked it. It had a label on the back and it turns out it?s neither a sleeve or a ball bearing! A company...
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    Whole lotta user error ?

    I was browsing ATI?s warranty info and ran into this ? Now that cracked me up. I bet the Postal service doesn?t mind.
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    Are graphic cards fans 5v or 12v?

    I have a Sapphire 7500 and a 9100 and both have the same 5v fan. What are the voltages of the fans they put on the newer cards like 5700U?s 9600pros? etc?
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    Streaming/watching TV/video over a LAN?

    I am thinking of setting up a server with some sort of TV card (like a Leadtek Winfast TV2000 Deluxe) --- plugging it into my Linksys 10/100 4 port router and using it to record movies/shows in MPEG4. I could then transfer the shows over the network and watch them on my computer or any other...
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    Where Nvidia and Futuremark (3Dmark 2003) are going ?

    Interesting discussion ? here (Home page link ?)
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    9600XT replacing the 9600pro?

    Is the 9600pro going to be discontinued and replaced by the 9600XT, or are both 9600XT/pro going to continue to sell at the same time with the XT being just another speed/price bump?
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    HardOCP 5700U review is up.

    http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=NTQwLDE= I like the use of newer games and custom demos. The 5700U sure is huge compared to the 9600XT. Along with that very fast 450Mhz memory it?s hard to see how the 5700U will be competitive cost wise with the 9600XT. The 9600XT should head towards...
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    New video on the Nvidia 5800U graphics card launch ?

    Quicktime video ? ? Linky.
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    Something wrong with Anands 9600 pro HL2 benchmarks?

    This was Originally posted by: KnightBreed in the other HL2 bechmark thread: I agree with this. At higher resolutions the GPU has more work and frame rates should be decreasing on the 9600pro, particularly since the 9800pro shows a decrease and it has a lot more resources at its disposal than...
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    5900 benchmarks with antidetector.

    Digilife has published an article using their antidetector (they only used it on the 5900 non-ultra and half the benchmarks).
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    More Nvidia cheating ? 3Dmark2001 now!

    Well, the rabbit hole is getting deeper almost every day. It looks like Nvidia has been dipping in the cheat pot with 3Dmark2001 also -- to the tune of about 11%. See ? beyond3D ? Basically the GF4 4600 scores dropped from 12,257 to 11,014, not near as much as the 24% in 3Dmark2003 but I guess...
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    WARNING ***? Do NOT buy Sapphire 9100 ?s ? they?ve been neutered .. BIGTIME!!!

    I just bought a Sapphire 9100 64MB (OEM) card and did some testing. It is clocked 250/230 with ?4ns DDR memory. The 3Dmark2001 scores are way down from where I expected them to be -- in fact about 20 - 25% lower. This was first noticed in a thread here where ledfortr?s .. 9100 128MB card was...
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    Retail ATI 8500LE 128MB ? what clock rate?

    Future shop (Canada) has some retail 8500LE 128MB?s, anyone know what they?re clocked at?
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    Anandtech?s ... BOGUS P3 ... gaming benchmarks ?

    This is my piece of investigative journalism for the month. After following a link to Anands Dec 21/2000 article on the KT133 vs the KT133A platforms and reading it, I was struck by the huge difference in the gaming benchmarks in that article (1.0Ghz P3 vs Athlon) - as opposed to P4 1.7 review...