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    New Build for a friend

    Hey guys, My friend asked me about this build but I was wondering what you guys think and what your thoughts were. Here's what he said: im looking at http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...4&Sku=I69-0950 for the processor http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...&Sku=A455-2869 for...
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    2.1 Computer Audio System

    Hey guys, I've done a little research of my own on here and some other sites and have come to the conclusion that for my computer speaker upgrade, I am going to make it from "scratch" with a receiver, two satellite speakers, and a separate sub woofer. As I said earlier, I intend to use this...
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    New Computer Hard Drive Configuration

    Hey Guys, I'm working on putting together a new computer with an eVGA 8800GT, Intel 2.4ghz 6600 Quad Core, and an ASUS P5E LGA 775 motherboard. The computer is going to have 6 SATA hard drives, and I was wondering if anyone had any input as to whether I should buy a raptor/small fast hard...
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    Problems with 6.11 Catalyst Driver Suite ATi Radeon 9200 Installation

    Hey Guys, I reformatted my Aunts computer, and everything installed fine (drivers, windows, updates, etc.) except the videocard drivers. When I install the videocard drivers, I go to the ATi website, and select the proper windows installation and videocard to get the right driver (Catalyst...
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    Laptop Advice ($1500 Price Limit)

    Hey guys, I'm looking to buy a laptop to use for word, music playback, internet surfing, etc. in the price range of $1500 dollars. I haven't been keeping up on the latest deals, or the latest technologies related to laptops so I'm looking for any and all recommendations. The only thing that...
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    what APC UPS to get?

    anyone have any recommendations on what a good budget level UPS would be? I'm not familiar with them at all, and have been thinking of purchasing one for quite some time, any and all comments welcome! It will be used for my computer (and monitor(s)) only. i'm thinking about going APC but i'm...
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    Computer for a friend

    hey guys, a friend of mine wants me to build him a computer that will be used for those three things, and i know what i'd need/should get him as far as for the gaming and school use, but i really know nothing about video editing, as far as what hardware I should look for for that. anyone...
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    which LCD's to do Dual Monitors (dual dvi) with?

    I'm looking for a 19" monitor that I will buy 2 of and plug both into the dvi ports of my videocard and run them at the same time. I'm a casual gamer (play CS:S sometimes) but mostly I surf the web and do other things. Anyone have any recommendations of some cheaper 19" LCD's that have a...
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    wireless networking for large/wide 3-story house w/ 30 to 35 residents

    there's a house that's wired with ethernet jacks in every room(I think) with about 20 rooms in all of the house, with 30 to 35 residents. what would be the best way to get wireless connectivity available to all of the residents? i'm not sure where the main router is located in the house, but i...
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    what hard drive error is this?

    I've got a WD3200JD hard drive in my system that has this error next to it in the disk management section of the administrative tools section of the control panel: Disk2: Online (Errors) - and then further to the right it says this: Healthy (At Risk) Anyone know what this might mean...
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    raid-5 hardware card question

    most raid-5 cards are pci-x/64bit, now will these work in my regular old pci slots in my computer? I can't figure that out and i don't want to shell out the money for one if it's not gonna work or cause problems or kill my motherboard, thanks in advance.
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    Raid-5 (Hardware, 8Port, SATA150) Questions

    I'm looking at these two cards, and I am wondering which one I should get. I'm looking to put together a Windows XP based hardware Raid-5 with 6 WD3200JD (SATA150) hard drives, and am looking for the best bargain I guess you could say, I don't need the fastest speeds, but I want something...
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    building a NAS (network attatched storage) server

    I'd like to build a server that I can map to my own computer as a network attatched storage hard drive. I'm thinking of raiding maybe 4 - 6 320gb WD SATA150 hard drives, but here are my questions. Which raid should I do? I'd like the most cost effective one, but also if one drive fails i'd...
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    File Server - Windows/Linux

    I've been trying to learn linux and for the life of me I do not feel comfortable using it. The terminal/console/konsole gives me the most trouble just becuase i don't know all of the various commands I need/will need to know. This leads me to my next question, which is that i'd like to build a...
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    Computer randomly reboots... but passes P95 and Memtest86+??

    Well I'm thoroughly stumped. To sum it up... I've been having issues with my new computer, and have now gotten it to the point where it is P95 Stress Test (max heat) stable after 13+ hours (no errors, so I stopped the test) and is Memtest86+ stable (13+ hours and 28 passes, stopped test because...
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    BSOD Log - Help me read it

    Hey guys, I've been experiencing some pretty random reboots (temps and everything are fine, and it happens at random places at random times) and I changed the settings in windows to not reboot when errors happen, so I would get the BSOD and try to get information from the stop code. Here's...
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    Random reboots, help please.

    Hey guys, Through a recent upgrade, I now have the following system. Here's the specs. Seasonic S12 430W PSU AMD A64 3200+ Venice Core Gigabyte K8N NF4 Ultra-939 w/ F3 Bios 2x512mB of PQi Turbo eVGA 6600GT w/ AC Silencer 2x Maxtor Diamondmax 10 300GiB 1x Western Digital Caviar SE...