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    Removing Afterarket Cooler (Accelero XTREME 5970)

    I'm in a bit of a bind. My 5970 recently stopped responding...the fans power on but no signal is sent to the monitor. I bought it from someone else, and they had installed an Accelero XTREME 5970 aftermarket cooler. He included the original cooler. I'm hoping to attempt to send it in for...
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    good deal?

    Both new in box...Intel DZ68BC + I5-2500k...$325 is it worth it? mobo link: http://www.amazon.com/Single-Pack-DZ68BC-Atx-Z68/dp/B005PBJF6O/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1329799635&sr=1-1
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    Sennheiser CX 380 @ the egg - $17.99 Free Shipping

    I have a pair and just bought another...$18 with free shipping is hot. Can't imagine spending $18 and having better sound...they were worth it @ $60 when I bought my first pair. Retail $74.99 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16826106229
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    640GB WD 2.5" 9.5mm $70 @ the egg (good PS3 Replacement HD)

    Since the PS3 scene is blowing up right now, I was looking for a replacement HD it. I have a feeling a lot of us are doing the same thing, and i saw this deal on newegg. $70 no tax/ free shipping (in my state, at least) for a 9.5mm 640GB drive...
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    Single Core CPU Differences

    I was looking at processors and was trying to figure out the significant differences differences between them. Assumptions: That this Athlon 64 and Opteron have been Oc'd to 2.6ghz I know originally athlon 64's only had a single channel memory controller, but that's no longer the case...
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    4 Part Upgrade - for WoW

    My current Base system is: Athlon64 3000+ at 2.2ghz MSI Neo-2 Platinum 1 gig of Ocz 3500 EB (link in case you don't remember that far back) Leadtek 6600gt (agp) Power supply and other componenets are a non-issue. I know I need to upgrade the video card...but it's an upgrade path issue...
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    Gigabit Network

    Let me explain my setup first, and then i'll ask the question. I currently use a Gigabit Switch, connected to an Older PC (10/100) running m0n0wall as my router/firewall. I'm wanting to create a linux file server with a gigabit connection. If my 2 client PCs and the file server have gigabit...
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    Creative X-FI - Real-time DD ecoding?

    So after readng the toms hardware review of the X-FI (which sounded more like a sales pitch imo) it seems as if a big portion of the X-FI is geared towards upsampling almost everything to a 5.1-7.1 output. The biggest problem with the previous SB cards was that they don't output an encoded...
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    MSI Neo2 Platinum + Athlon 64 3000+ (90nm) problems

    I just installed the Neo2 Platinum and A64 3000+ 90nm last night, and formatted my HD. With normal settings, it runs fine. no hitching or anything. However, when I try to overclock, no matter how small, the board will not even boot up. I have tried increasing the FSB by 1 to 201 (I obviously...