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    3 displays on Eyefinity, but only 2 active at a time. Do I need an adapater?

    Greetings all, Here's my setup: I have two DVI monitors on my desk, and an HDTV in the adjacent room. I want all three displays powered by the same video card, so I'm looking into an Eyefinity card. I know the Eyefinity cards can only power 2 non-DisplayPort displays, so I'll need an active...
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    Stock AMD 7850 BE running at 58C while idle!

    Greetings all. I just finished putting together a new PC. CPU is an AMD Athlon X2 7850 Black Edition, motherboard is an ASUS M3A78-EM. When I powered on for the first time and went to the BIOS, I discovered to my horror that the hardware monitor was reporting a CPU temp of 53C already. After...
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    Check SMART status of RAID drives?

    I'm using the Asus Formula Maximus, and I have two drives in RAID 0. This seems like a question a billion people must have asked, but how do you check the SMART status these drives?
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    Watercooling the 9600GT

    Hello all, among the many things I'm buying in the coming weeks, I'm upgrading my graphics card to a 9600GT. I have a watercooling setup I'd like to continue using, but I don't know what I need, especially when it comes to ramsinks. I'm doing this more for silence than for performance, so...
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    Minimize RAID5 failure odds by buying from different stores?

    Greetings all. I've another question about the fileserver I'm building. I'm going to be running this thing in RAID5. I've heard many people say that buying 4 drives at once can be dangerous, seeing as if one of the drives fails, the others may be right behind it since all 4 would be part of...
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    Looking for more file server advice

    Hello again all. I posted about this a month ago, but now that the time is near, I'd like a little more advice. I'm looking to build a file server. I've already secured myself a lovely Areca ARC-1220 RAID card, but as far as everything else goes, I'm still researching what I want. I plan on...
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    Looking for advice for a fileserver on the cheap

    Greetings all. I'm looking to build a fileserver. Currently, my plan is to wait until early March to actually start buying stuff, and get it set up over spring break. But I'd like to do some preliminary research. My goal is to spend less than $200 on the non-harddrive parts. Firstly, I've...
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    Is a separate card really worth it for RAID5?

    Greetings all. I'm planning on putting together a file server for my five-computers-and-counting household. Having suffered the agony of hard drive failure once, I tend to be somewhat paranoid when it comes to data security, so I would like the server's hard drives to be in RAID 5. Now, I...
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    Will watercooling interfere with newer motherboard's heatsinks?

    Greetings all. I'm planning on upgrading around March of next year when I have the cash and can get that sexy, sexy Q9450. I'm looking at all these newer motherboards, and I see a lot of them have the heatsinks carefully positioned around the CPU, expecting the air from the CPU's fan...
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    What's the cheapest way to capture Component video on my computer?

    Greetings all, and apologies if this is the wrong category for this question. I'm looking for the cheapest method of getting Component video (red/green/blue jacks) to my computer so it can be recorded. I'm browsing around looking for video capture cards, but they all seem so expensive and...
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    Looking for a good Java tutorial site for C++ coders

    Greetings all. Next month college starts up for me again and one of my courses requires a basic knowledge of Java. Unfortunately I've never coded in Java in my life. (Yes, I'm a horrible procrastinator.) However, I've been coding in C++ for years. Now, not to brag, but I like to think of...
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    Panning and zoom detection algorithm

    Greetings. There's a programming problem that I've been puzzling over for some time now, and I'm hoping to get some advice. Here's what I'm trying to do. Many times in video files, especially in anime, the camera zooms or pans along a still image. What I need to accomplish is to write a...
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    TV capture card for playing a PS2 on?

    Greetings all. I have a friend who has a PS2, but no TV to play it on. He has a computer though, so I recommended using the monitor for the PS2. But VGA adapters are so expensive. So then a thought occurred to me: would a TV capture card be cheaper? Is there such a card that takes composite...
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    Looking for the best wired gigabit 8-port router

    Greetings all. It seems like everyone in my house has their own computer now, and our current 4-port router isn't cutting it anymore. I'd like to upgrade to an 8-port, and since I plan on building a file server eventually, I'd like it to be gigabit. We already have cat5 cable running...
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    Plain old resistors an alternative to fan controllers?

    Greetings all. I've been looking for a nice way of under-volt the multitude of fans in my system. I'm looking all all these pricey fan controllers, but the more I look at them the more I question how useful they would be to me. I not going to be constantly changing my fan speeds, I just want...