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    4.4ghz with i7 2600k overclock questions

    I was playing around last night and decided to start overclocking the processor. I figured I'd use that one that utility that comes with the Asus motherboards and that would give a tiny bit of a boost. Well, yeah tiny alright.... it went from 3.4ghz to 4.4ghz. Anyways, after it did that it...
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    Should I get a new power supply?

    Currenly in my system I have the BFG 1000w ps (the company is gone) which I heard from quite a few people on different forums is just a rebranded Ultra 1000w which are horrible. Everything is working great right now but should I be looking for some more reliable brand on my hardware, one that...
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    Upgrade to SATA 3 worth it?

    Currently I have the following drive setup in my i7 sandy system (stats in sig) 60gb OCZ Vertex2 (OS) 1TB Seagate Sata2 7200rpm (storage) 500GB Seagate Sata1 7200 (not being used atm) Since I upgraded the motherboard and processor last week and aquired sata 3 ability on my motherboard I...
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    GTX570 overheating, freezing games

    As of today I purchased a EVGA superclocked GTX570 to replace my Gigabyte GTX460. Got it installed everything looked great, reinstalled the drivers to the latest Nvidia ones. Started up some Crysis first and it locked up after about 10 minutes, whole screen froze (with weird graphical colors)...
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    new i7 2600k install gets warm

    As of 2 days ago I installed a i7 2600k into an Asus p8p67 and now I'm facing a problem where it's getting very warm. At idle now we are looking at around 45C and running something intensive such as Prime95 runs it to 80-90C range, really starting to freak me out. The cooler is the stock one...
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    hardware raid setup

    I have a server I'm working on that has 6 drives 2 setup in raid 1 and 4 in raid 5 (typical server setup) all in hardware raid mode. Question is, I want to add 2 drives do the raid 5 configuration is this possible without wiping the information contained on the drives?
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    anyone not a fan of razer mice?

    I have this old beaten up Logitech Mx518 I use, nice mouse very sensitive and fits my hand perfectly. Well I decided to get a different mouse for my 2nd pc I have at home and I was looking at the G9 but I didn't want to pay that much for one. But I got a good deal on a Razer DeathAdder so I...
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    camcorder suggestions?

    First of all I'm sorry if this isn't in the right section, I figured it might be the right one so bear with me. Okay I have a big family meet & wedding coming up and I was really wanting to make some footage of this and turn it into a nice dvd. I've taken classes on adobe premier so I know...
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    Will I see any noticeable improvement

    I am getting tired of ati's driver support for many of their cards out today even though I've been running them since the 9800pro days so I decided after my last purchase of a 2900xt to go ahead and go nvidia. Another thing was I wanted to OC my 2900xt and there is very very few options for...
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    Anyway to use psd files on a mac mail program?

    Recently one of our exec's came to me with a brand new Macbook Air and wanted me to get it setup on our network. Unfortunately we run a 2003 active directory domain so it wasn't the ideal of enviornments. I'm fine with that I got shared folders to work and printers to share correctly...
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    How many laptops are out there...

    I work exclusively with Dell Latitude laptops at work and I've been kicking around the idea of getting a laptop at home, mostly to play WoW and mess around with Linux stuff on. I already have a desktop that's pretty sweet. Well at work I have the Latitude D830 with the WUXGA screen 1920x1200...
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    Twisted Metal

    Of all of the playstation games I own or have owned in the past the ones that stand out to me most are the twisted metal series, it basically got me into the original playstation and I really enjoyed those games. I used to run home every time a new one came out and bugged my parents to let me...
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    Someone at work bought a new MBA

    Alright, I'm not really too fluent with Macs, the only Apple product I own is an Ipod Video but I do know lots about Windows and Linux, but onto the topic. Basically we have a person at work who bought a new MacBook Air, which btw I think looks pretty neat. But they need to have it on our...
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    ati 650 pro tv tuner and vista x64

    I just bought a ATI 650 pro from a member here, great card good quality video. I wanted to record some stuff from my basic cable coming in and some OTA HD antenna stuff at night. As far as the card goes, works great in Windows Media Center with the analog side, it won't see the digital at all...
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    need HD tv tuner for vista

    I'm new to the whole TV tuner thing, never owned one but I figure I'd love to get one for recording tv or watching tv while I'm on the computer. I've got HD through cable and I also have an OTA antenna so I really want to use those. I have seen both of those PCIEX cards and the PCI, does it...
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    My case drives me nuts

    I have one of those Thermaltake Xaser cases, the huge ones with like 4-5 drive bays, 4 slots for 3.5" hd's and 2 floppy areas. I had wanted one forever because it was just so nice, screwless slideable 3.5" and 5.25" devices (I still like that feature), it's got soo many different places for...
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    Anyone tried that Fury MMO?

    I was at EBGames the other day and being a big MMO fan, particulary a WoW player I took a look at this box on the counter called Fury and it said it was free obviously after paying for the actual game itself it had no monthly fee. Has anyone played this game and is it good? Free makes me think...
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    aftermarket cooling for 2900xt

    I'm looking to get some kind of aftermarket cooling for my 2900xt I want to overclock my entire rig but the thing just gets too hot when I overclock it very far. I was just wondering if anyone knew of any aftermarket cooling available for these things, I see lots for the nvidia 8 series and the...
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    Powerline Networking

    I've been using your basic run of the mill wireless G router and adapter for the last 5 years. Unfortunately was a requirement in a new house I'm living in not to have to drill holes through the wall to run LAN connections, my loss. The entire time using wireless I get maybe 1 bar of signal...
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    2 dead boards in 2 weeks, great...

    So my MSI p6n sli platinum went out a week after I got it, usb controller stopped working so all usb devices wouldn't work at all. So frustrated but I just kept working with my ps/2 devices. I decided to RMA my board for a refund and order another board. I ordered the abit i35 pro overnight...
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    swapping motherboards

    Well I decided to swap my DOA msi p6n sli platinum for an abit ip35 pro but I already have XP pro and Vista x64 ultimate on my hd is Vista gonna throw a fit when I put my new board in because of the different northbridge and southbridge? In other words am I going to have to totally reload my OS...
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    suggestion on core2duo board

    I recently bought the MSI p6n sli platinum board and I ended up having to contact newegg back about RMA because the USB controller on board was DOA. After much testing I came to the conclusion I have to return it or use PS/2 everything. I was reading up and seems lots have problems with DOA...
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    msi motherboard usb problems

    I just upgraded my entire rig and I ended up with a conroe 2.66ghz 4mb intel 1333fsb processor, msi p6n platinum sli motherboard, and 4gb of patriot ddr2 800 ram matched sticks. But I have XP and Vista x64 ultimate loaded on seperate drives on the thing, in both OS's the usb keyboard and...
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    video runs kind of choppy

    Just loaded up my brand new 2900xt newest 7.10 drivers. First I tried Unreal Tournament 3 demo, ran very smooth I could tell the fps was almost maxed out. However it feels kind choppy in ceirtian games, take for instance I was playing HL:Lost Coast and like when you walk around a corner it...
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    vista gaming in dx10

    Hey everyone I'm new to vista x64 and would like to see the dx10 effects when my video card gets here. Anyone have any good suggestions on games to try that have noticeable dx10 effects that are worth playing?
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    runs at correct clock speed in bios but not in windows

    I just bought this e6750 with msi p6n sli platinum board. However for the life of me I can't figure out why in windows it shows this. http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc.php?id=261634 why would fsb be forcing 333mhz when I have 400mhz ram and it shows up at the correct 2.68ghz speed in...
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    what do you do with your old cases?

    I have like 2 cases now and 1 I don't want to use because it doesnt have but 2 80mm fan slots and the one I'm using is one of those huge ThermalTake server cases, nice case but the stupid power and reset buttons keep falling out, can't get them to stay in, wires came out of the power button so...
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    Socket 939 board just burned out

    I was just upgrading my video card and my northbridge chipset failed on my Asus a8n-e board, loved the board too overclocked very well. Only problem is I can't find anything to replace it with, newegg barely has anything in stock and I really want something with a nForce northbridge and...
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    2900xt dead already

    So I just opened up my Radeon 2900XT out of the package popped it in after I installed my new power supply, I got an Antec TruePower 650w. I hooked up everything including the 2 pci-express adapters and the extra 2 prongs that the pci-ex adapter needs for this card and the thing won't boot. My...
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    Socket 939 upgrading

    So I took the plunge recently and got myself a AMD 2900XT, even though I probably don't have a big enough power supply for it (OCZ 520w), I decided to buy a OCZ 700w just in case. Well the problem comes in that I really want more than 2gb of ram for my system, planning on running Vista for DX10...
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    How to get rid of old HDTV

    I have a few years old Sony XBR 34" widescreen CRT HDTV, the thing is a massive beast I think it weighs 180lbs or so. Anyways, the picture quality is outstanding, I would say the best CRT HDTV picture quality, actually I would say better than some LCDs by far. But somehow, no matter how hard I...
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    amd and ddr2

    Is there any amd processors that can use DDR2 besides the FX and whatever other socket AM2 processors. Im running a Opty 939 with asus a8n-e and I would love to run DDR2 would rather not have to go out and get another board, processor and ram. I'm running DDR533 right now. Would it be best to...