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    How tight is too tight?

    Just to clarify, I'm talking about CPU coolers ;) I just installed new RAM to discover that two of my four DIMM slots are bad :( Right off the bat I'm thinking bent CPU pins, my fan is too tight, or bad mobo. This got me to thinking, how tight is too tight? I have a coolermaster hyper...
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    GTX 480 going thermal in 2D

    After troubleshooting my PC constantly freezing, I finally determined the cause: my GTX is overheating and crashing while in 2D. Has anyone else had this problem? What's a good way to cool the GTX 480 that doesn't include fitting my rig with a toilet and 2 sinks (i.e. water cooling)...
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    Computer Freezing... during startup?

    I've been doing hardware a long time, but I've never run into this. I'm hoping someone has some insight. My computer started freezing yesterday. I came back to it and it was just 'stuck'. Reboot, whatever, it was probably a really bad crash. Then it kept happening (3 more times that day)...
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    NVIDIA Step-Up: Got 2 used cards!

    UPDATE: EVGA support confirmed that the first card was simply a mistake and the second card arrived recertified because it was logged as an RMA instead of a step-up. I did finally receive a new GTX 480 complete with accessories, and the other two cards are going back to EVGA via UPS which EVGA...
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    Intel Matrix RAID woes

    I had 2 1TB drives in RAID-1. I got two more and wanted to migrate to RAID-5 to triple my redundant capacity. I used the volume migration utility and had problems right off the bat. First, when I rebooted my computer, the POST showed the drives as INCOMPATIBLE in red. Then my volume started...