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    Puzzling 3770k temp - can you help?

    I'm working with an Asus Maximus V Extreme board and have seen the same problem with (2) different 3770k processors. Both from Microcenter but one in Chicago and one in St. Louis. The problem is at idle for instance, 3 cores will run around 26-30c and 1 core will run around 10c warmer. I've...
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    Hi-def sound device problem on Maximus IV Extreme-Z

    Just installed recently an Asus Maximus IV Extreme -Z with the latest bios and the latest Win 7 install from technet. Also using the last 2 releases of the nvidia drivers and the asus-provided Realtek HD codec files. Getting a yellow ! exception in the system tree under Sound->High definition...
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    Request for thoughts on a sensitive situation.

    As to-the-point as I can be. April of 2010 my Uncle passed away. He had 2 siblings, my Mom and another Uncle of mine (he had 6 kids, although he died in 2007). My Mom is the sole survivor. His estate was probated and she received 50% of the proceeds, a sizeable amount. The 6...
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    GTX580 - Video driver keeps crashing / recovering & video corruption

    Well, this evening I started having some odd problems with my system. The nvidia driver (latest 263.09) started crashing and recovering. Also on the screen I would see video corruption (light pastel areas instead of the normal color and just general video weirdness). I did...
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    Slim PS3 problem with 2 new game discs.. Rather puzzling.

    Got 2 new games for Christmas: Motorstorm Pacific Rift and Gran Turismo 5. Went to try to play them on my 9 month old slim PS3 and they won't start. What they do is they will spin up and down, then a really bad sound from the ps3 and eventually it will just stop trying to read and quit...
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    Problem with new xbox slim and wpa2 security

    Just picked up an xbox slim recently for the daughter and trying to get it to play nice with the engenius 9850 router. It's not working, well kind of. I have a wpa2 preshared passphrase on the network and have mac address filtering set up for the wireless. I went in to the filter and added...
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    What kind of bird is this? UPDATED: CONFIRMED!

    This bird has a nest on the inside of our open porch and laid 3 light blue eggs (very pale blue), they have now hatched and today looks like flight day for the 3 little ones. It doesn't look like a house wren or the like, anyone know for sure what it might be? thanks
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    Just curious - Anyone else here go to Eagles/Dixie Chicks in St Louis?

    Just wondering since there were probably over 40k people there, might have been at least a couple of ATOT'ers? awesome concert BTW.
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    How should we handle this situation?

    Ok, nice sticky situation.. Wife has a sister (divorced, 2 kids, 1 is 18, 1 is 23). We went to a concert last week and they had $10 lawn tickets for Lynyrd Skynyrd/38 Special and Bret Michaels. Wife calls up sister and asks her if she'd like her to get a ticket and then reimburse her...
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    Uncle died this morning.

    Just wanted to vocalize this (as it were). Mom's brother in his 70's died expectedly early this morning. He lived about 2hrs from us but I remember when I was younger he and my aunt would come and visit us quite a bit. He was among other things an Air Force office that served in Saudi...
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    Just a little frustrated (Netgear WNDR3700)

    Hi all, Sorry to drop some troubles in the forum for help hopefully but I'm a bit frustrated now. I got a WNDR3700 last weekend, installed, latest firmware updates. 2 desktops, network printer, xbox360, ps/3, sony bravia link receiver box and a directv hr23. These are wired connections. They...
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    Evga P55 FTW or Asus Maximum III Formula , which for me?

    Building a system for the house for moderate gaming, web surfing, word processing, just sort of a catch-all system. Going to have an ati 5850, 4gb of ddr3, onboard sound, dvd burner, internal card reader, 750w psu. Housing it in an antec p183 case. I'm waffling between the Asus maximus iii...
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    Buying used processor - best way and how to test?

    Buying an i7-870 processor for 275, just the OEM chip. What would be the best way to test it (other than POST in a mobo?) I want to give it the whole 9 yards before I pay for it. I was thinking prime95, unless you folks have a better thought?
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    New mac owner, couple of questions for the pros..

    Just got a macbook recently and sometimes I'm really struggling with trying to learn some of the OS X differences. That being said here are a couple of questions: 1. .dmg, .pkg, .zip (this one I recognize), what's the difference? 2. Why aren't the APPLICATION folder found through FINDER and...
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    Anyone with a google voice invite to spare by chance?

    Just looking to see if anyone still has a google voice invite they'd like to gift perhaps. thanks for reading.
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    Tesla Electric Roadster stopping in St. Louis Mo. on 1/3. (A/T meet?)

    Check this out: In short, the Tesla company is driving an electric car from LA to the Detroit Auto show to prove it can be done. They are making numerous stops along the way and St. Louis on 1/3/2010. They left LA on 12/17 and are doing about 250 average miles per day with a meet-and-greet...
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    Best friend of 20 years died yesterday .. numb

    He was a quadraplegic, 55. We met about 20 years ago when I went to his house to do a service call on a laptop. Became good friends, best friends. He went to bed last night with a sore throat, his caregiver found him this morning. He gave me a lot of sage advice when things in my life...
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    Is Snow Leopard on a late 2009 Macbook 64bit or 32?

    Is Snow leopard on a late 2009 macbook 64bit or 32 bit? Can't seem to locate it yet on my stumblings around the OS..
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    Installing Win 7 on BootCamp - Device drivers missing?

    Snow leopard latest updates - I'm trying to install Windows 7 Ultimate on a MacBook MC207LL/A and when the Win 7 install gets to a certain point, I'm greeted by 'a needed device driver is missing, please insert a CD, DVD or USB flash drive with the needed driver... Well, I also see this...
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    Can a 250gb HD (MW2 edition) be used on a 120gb RE5 360?

    Was looking at getting one of the 250gb MW2 hard drives off ebay for my 120gb RE5 limited edition 360. Does MS actually match each HD serial to the console serial and thus how they banned a couple of weeks ago? (for incorrect HD units?) Hate to drop the $$ only to have it work a short...
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    Anyone else on Amtrak #316 from KCMO to STL right now?

    On Amtrak #316 from KC MO back to STL after a weekend away, just curious if anyone else here was on it at the moment. Just getting ready to pull into Jefferson City in about 15 minutes perhaps. I highly recommend KC as a weekend getaway, especially Union Station and the Crown Center...
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    Need advice OC'ng D0 Ci7 920 - must be doing something wrong.

    Ok here's the background.. Asus Rampage II Extreme with a D0 920 aboard, Xigmatek 3 heatpipe direct touch cooler w/ PWM fan w/ max of 2200rpm. I'm showing 1.144v, 160 BCLKx21.0, 3.369 Voltage: 1.36 QPI/DRAM 1.81 CPU PLL 1.14 IOH 1.63 DRAM bus HT is on. Realtemp is showing...
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    Woke up this morning to something dead in my driveway..

    Looks like the poor guy got squashed and made it a few steps into my driveway from the road. Was definitely a WTF moment as I never dreamed there were any within 500 miles of here. According to migration maps the southern 1/3 of Illinois is just starting to see them. Kind of cute ...
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    RANT (weak): Hungry-Man Mexican Style Fiesta..

    Had a Hungry-Man Mexican style fiesta microwave dinner today for my short lunch. Beef enchiladas in chili sauce w/ mexican style rice and refried beans. Bonus of cocada pudding. :disgust: Experience in email to customer service below: ---- Hello Customer Service: I've had several...
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    Windows 7 b7229 RAID f6 driver install error.

    I have 2 drives (1tb WD) installed RAID 0 on a Rampage II Extreme motherboard, needed to reinstall the 7229 build. Booted from the DVD, have the latest intel matrix 64bit on a thumb drive , W7 install prompts for drivers, I direct it towards the 64bit dir on the drive, it finds the proper...
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    1079 W. Taylor St. Chicago.. (Al's Italian Beef rest.)

    I see it is in what is called 'Little Italy', good hardworking immigrant type area, or stay out after dark or on the weekends? We're thinking about stopping there for one of the italian beef sandwiches that the guy from Man vs/ Food had there recently when we're in town.
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    Question crossed my mind last night..

    We opted for some very nice lawn seats at a Cheap Trick/Poison/Def Leppard concert last night in St. Louis. Every so often you would get a nice cloud of pot smoke floating by. After we had left and stopped at a convenience store to get something to eat on the way home, my wife posed a...
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    takin' my toys and going home. boo.
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    As CNN asks... How are you honoring Michael Jackson today?

    Personally avoiding TV, radio and news websites the rest of the day, waxing the car when I get home after lunch. Just curious about the population here.
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    Best CD/DVD burning program you've found?

    I see that Nero is gettin to be huge and the reviews aren't so good, Roxio, well meh. Just wanting a general-use CD/DVD burning program, would be nice if it does blu-ray and hd-dvd as my drive supports it. I just tried cyberlink power 2 go, but it complains my drive isn't hd-dvd and then...
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    anyone here go see Aerosmith in St Louis last night?

    Just curious. They had a storm/rain delay and finally started, still kept raining lightly, but wife and I happily rocked out.
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    What a load of crap.

    A few weeks ago here in Southern Illinois we had a pretty bad windstorm (106+ straightline winds). Neighbors 100-125y/o oak tree blown over at the roots. From their yard, across ours and into a 3rd yard as well, also out into the alley behind our house. Since it didn't fall on any covered...
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    HAHA They'll never catch me!

    I'll give them the slip, that's what I'll do!
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    Tried to do something myself to save $$, now goes to the mechanic.

    Thought I'd save a few $$ and replace the non-functioning door lock actuator on the wife's 2003 Ford Taurus. Get the inside panel off, put all the screws in a little cup, feelin' pretty good, unhooking lock rods, release rods, cables, power connectors... until - I get to a point I think...
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    LAVA HOT DDR3 Memory for your Core i7 system!

    Was just on newegg trying to decide between the g.skill for 135 or the corsair equivalent for 159, and refreshed the page and saw the G.SKILL dropped in price to $119 !! 6GB! G.SKILL 6gb set Triple channel 1600 Core i7 DDR3 $119
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    Potential Hot Deals to come: Circuit City to close all stores by 3/31

    Circuit City to close all stores by 3/31 Possible hot deals to come in the next months, perhaps. Bet BB is jumping for joy on this one. If you see any deals there, please post them. Otherwise this has already been posted in Off Topic. moderator allisolm
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    Updates on timetable for VB move?

    Last update I saw was back in September, just wondering.
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    Need to convert 320gb external drive BACK to FAT32 from NTFS..

    ok computer guys and gals - I'm running Vista SP1 (ultimate flavor). I have an external HD, 320gb (WD Passport). It originally came formatted FAT32, I for whatever reason reformatted to NTFS. NOW, I'd like to sell it and revert it back to FAT32. Is there a way or no? 1...
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    Needing some help w/ XP and IE7 not browsing..

    Been asked to look at my wife's boss's mothers computer. 2004 Dell Dimension 2350 w/ XP on it. Not pro, just home. Problem started about 4 months ago that when she loads IE7, it will say 'Connecting' on the tab, but no activity ever comes of it. No 'waiting... looking up...' or anything...