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    Overclocking Help

    I tried that and it didn't help...then I just left things be for a long time as I got busy with other things. Today though I woke up determined...and I fixed it! Instead of resetting the CMOS with the jumper I pulled the battery out as well for about 30 minutes...threw it back in and works...
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    AHCI & Data Drives

    Thank you kindly. I also did some Googling (prob shoulda done a bit more searching before posting) and it looks like I should be fine.
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    AHCI & Data Drives

    Hey all, Quick question...I just got my 120GB Vertex 2 (woot!) and was looking through various SSD guides. Consensus is to switch from IDE to AHCI, which I read would make your data inaccessible (I'm reinstalling Windows 7 so its all good)...but would it make my other data drives...
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    Multiple Hard Drives - Malware Removal

    Wouldn't the UAC in Windows 7 prevent it from working on the re-installation though? It wouldn't be able to just reactivate without Windows 7 or Norton seeing it though, correct?
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    Multiple Hard Drives - Malware Removal

    Hey all, Quick question, if you got some kind of malware and then did a complete reformatting of the C drive but none of the other drives (which are only for video / music storage; no programs are installed there), would all malware be removed? Or are there sneaky things that go to all...
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    Overclocking Help

    Hey all, I'll start with my specs: Q9450 (cooled by AC7 Pro) GA-P35-DS3R HD5850 4GB OCZ Plantinum Rev 2 (4 1GB sticks) Antec 650W Neopower Blu 4 hard drives HAF 932 (good cooling and cable management, probably not heat) Before this CPU I had an E2200 that I had overclocked to 3 ghz (273X11)...
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    Ocz Vertex 2 60GB or Intel G2 X25 80GB

    When you search specifically for failed drives though of course you are going to find them... It skews the data one way.
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    Lucid Hydra 200 in 30 days

    I take it this thing does nothing for SLI on a stick cards?
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    nVidia newer drivers degrading??

    What do you mean?
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    nVidia newer drivers degrading??

    I'm pretty sure its the video card used...the 9800GX2 is last gen and hence NVDA doesn't care about breaking it as much as say a 260, 275, 280, 285 or 295. Thats my hypothesis anyways. Performance is the same on the drivers I use on the games I play than with the new ones so it isn't a...
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    nVidia newer drivers degrading??

    Ya, the NVDA drivers... If everything is rock solid stable until I change the drivers I think its safe to say its the drivers.
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    nVidia newer drivers degrading??

    For me I don't need to game....I can be at the desktop and still BSOD within a few minutes...yet with the 182.50's I'm rock solid.
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    nVidia newer drivers degrading??

    Anything past 182.50 gives me BSOD on my 9800GX2, so I'm going to agree with you. Me thinks I'll ebay this bad boy once the 5870's come out.
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    HD58xx already out

    How would people who never go on XS know that?
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    New OCZ Vertex Firmware - Garbage Collecting

    PCPer did some testing on it too. http://pcper.com/article.php?aid=760&type=expert&pid=11
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    New OCZ Vertex Firmware - Garbage Collecting

    http://hothardware.com/News/OC...age-Collection-Scheme/ Performance looks pretty good. Would this mean that these drives wouldn't even need TRIM?
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    GTX 295 that hot?

    One thing to keep in mind is that furmark is INSANELY intensive. It makes my 9800GX2 do temps about 20 celsius higher than any other game.
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    What happened to Lucid's Hydra chip?

    I thought the same.
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    What happened to Lucid's Hydra chip?

    I stumbled upon this on PCPer: http://www.pcper.com/comments.php?nid=7372 The first use of the chip with some speculation from the PCPer writer.
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    BFG 8800 GTX OC 768MB vs 4890?

    I dabbled with compiz but didn't use it much. The only apps I ran were FF and Pidgin, lol.
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    BFG 8800 GTX OC 768MB vs 4890?

    My 4850 ran fine with linux, I sold it and got something bigger maybe 7 months ago...did ATI break its linux drivers in later releases?
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    GPUs Will Have 20 Teraflops of Performance by 2015 ? Nvidia Chief Scientist.

    I would hope logical people are in charge of those decisions...not often the case but I would hope they understand. My thinking was once (if?) Larrabee gains significant traction in the mkt an NVDA/AMD merger would be allowed.
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    GPUs Will Have 20 Teraflops of Performance by 2015 ? Nvidia Chief Scientist.

    I can't see either US or Euro regulators letting the #1 and #2 players in GPU merge...even if NVDA could buy them for cash. INTC would need to be seen as a solid competitor in GPUs before antitrust regulators let AMD/NVDA merge.
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    New 7k1000.b Hard Drive Vibrating Like Crazy

    Agreed. I have 3 7k1000.b's spread across 2 machines and they don't vibrate at all.
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    PcPer Analyzes Indilinx Fragmenting

    Seems the Indilinx drives fragment fast and don't bounce back. The x25-m had its performance bounce back to normal after a single write pass...those Intel engineers seem to be so much ahead of the pack. http://pcper.com/article.php?aid=733&type=expert&pid=15
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    Random BSOD's during TV recording...

    By chance are you using a Hauppauge 150 and a 64 bit OS? If so, thats the cause...some Hauppage tv tuners (the 150 for sure and I believe a few others) give BSOD and other weird issues under 64 bit OS' due to the lack of 64 bit drivers.
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    24 Samsung SSD's in RAID

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96dWOEa4Djs Wow, simply WOW, lol.
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    Linux Article/ Linux Coverage

    Hopefully it goes up soon.
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    OCZ Agility Series SSD

    Thanks a bunch.
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    OCZ Agility Series SSD

    With so few writes before failing, what use would they have? Digital cameras would be written often, I guess MP3 players aren't written on too often and might be somewhat useful there. Or do you see room for dramatic improvement in the lifetime with further engineering?
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    Corsair P256 SSD review

    Correct. I tracked down a review (Of the samsung first gen controller) and it doesn't seem too overwhelming performance-wise(the kingston).
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    Intel speaks- Will X25 get TRIM firmware update?

    Oh boy, the temptations. I am 90% sure I'll pull the trigger before the night is out, lol.
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    Mac build of Google Chrome

    Same here...I've gone from chrome/FF/IE to chrome/IE8.
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    Mac build of Google Chrome

    An updated version hit me today. Just a heads up, hopefully it fixes it.
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    Intel speaks- Will X25 get TRIM firmware update?

    Blurg, not newegg.ca :(
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    Corsair P256 SSD review

    I know, I'd really like a mainstream review site to give it a shakedown. Get some performance data and controller confirmation on it.
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    Upgrade to a HD 4890?

    Given that COD6 and SC2 aren't out yet, I would wait. When they come out you'll be able to get more performance for less money.
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    Thermaltake Level 10 case

    TR seems to think its retail price will be $699. http://techreport.com/discussions.x/17032 I think I'll pass on that, lol. Looks neat but it is way too big for my current desk by the looks of it.
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    Fastest non-raptor, non-SSD?

    I've heard nothing but good things about the 640GB WD caviar blacks for speed.
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    Xbit Does In Depth PSU Requirement Article

    http://xbitlabs.com/articles/c...ay/system-wattage.html I haven't had time to go through it but they usually do really good stuff.