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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

    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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    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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    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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    24 Samsung SSD's in RAID

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96dWOEa4Djs Wow, simply WOW, lol.
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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.
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    Virtualization and SSD's

    Hi all, Has anyone with an SSD used either VMware or virtualbox? Given that most guest OS's are I/O limited performance wise from what I have read (unless you are doing something very CPU intensive I suppose) wouldn't having a good SSD like an Intel or Vertex make the guest OS run at near...
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    Anand has Lynnfield Preview Up

    http://anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=3570 Enjoy;)
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    Windows 7 SSD Performance Overview

    From hothardware, I've just glanced at it a bit so can't give any cliffs yet. http://hothardware.com/Article...-Performance-Analyzed/
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    New Jmicron Controller to be released soon

    http://www.dailytech.com/SSD+P...Flash/article14176.htm Interesting read, I definitely wouldn't mind a proper Jmicron controller putting some extra pressure on the Intel and Indilinx camps. Edit: Little more info on it http://www.bit-tech.net/news/h...ler-to-feature-cache/1
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    Anandtech Bench

    Just like the Toms charts...but I prefer Anandtech website to Toms by several orders of magnitude. Just CPUs for now but they were eventually have hard drive and GPU and power consumption data as well. http://www.anandtech.com/bench/default.aspx?b=2
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    OS X updates

    With AAPL seemingly abandoning the previous OS X for "service packs" would that mean that the earlier versions of OS X have a good chance of being less secure? I checked wikipedia and there were no additional 10.4.X after 10.5.1 was released. So either 10.4.11 is bullet proof or it is...
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    New Intel Ads

    I got a kick out of the first one, second one not so much. http://techreport.com/discussions.x/16879
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    Hitachi 7k1000.b Clicking

    Hi all, I bought a Hitachi 7k1000.b 3 platter drive maybe 4 weeks ago and I've noticed a clicking once every so often. Its a single click maybe once every two hours. I've never heard this sound on my 320 GB seagate or my 160 GB WD from what I recall. Its just a storage drive for videos...
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    Clarkdale 10% faster than C2D clock-for-clock

    So says Nordic http://www.nordichardware.com/news,9099.html
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    OpenCL/CUDA and SLI

    I did a quick GOOG search but couldn't find anything conclusive. Does anyone here know how well CUDA apps scale on SLI? From what I found it would be somewhat easy to get decent scaling as CUDA offers good control of the GPUs. Also, it looks like Badaboom works fast on a 9800GX2 but I'm...
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    Windows Firewall

    Hi all, The Windows Firewall thats used in Windows XP (SP3 if that matters), I hear some people bash it, others say its fine but I haven't seemed to be able to get a definite answer. If a computer never installs a new app and has avast, and only browses the web to say 30 websites is the...
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    "scariest, stealthiest, and most dangerous exploit"

    Kinda spooky, what do ya'll think about this? http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/39825?t51hb
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    Outlet Without Ground

    Currently I work with an iMac plugged into a power bar with an adapter that allows it to go into an outlet without a ground (2 prongs). I was worried about hurting the iMac but talked to an electrician a bit when I first set it up and he said the ground was to protect me if the device were to...
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    Boosting CPU Voltage, how much does it strees mobo?

    I know raising CPU voltage shortens the life of the CPU and pulls more power, but how much would a CPU voltage of roughly 1.5V on a C2D stress the motherboard MOSFETs and all that crap? I'm thinking of bumping my OC back to my old 3.3 ghz up from 3 ghz on my e4500 till it goes kapoot, then go...
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    Virus with WINE

    Forgive me if this is a dumb question (it probably is), but if I got a virus using WINE, all the windows based programs / files would be vulnerable to the virus correct? However, since a Windows virus would be absolutely lost in a Linux environment it could do zero harm to linux apps / files...
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    Gizmodo Saying Steve Jobs' health is "declining rapidly"

    One of my news services picked this up, thought you guys might find it interesting / have input. Gizmodo reports according to a solid source, Apple misrepresented the reasons behind MacWorld and Steve Jobs' keynote cancellation. The real cause is his rapidly declining health. In fact, it may...
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    Xbit Has Interview with Intel Graphics Guys

    http://xbitlabs.com/articles/v...arrabee-interview.html A few tidbits on larrabee near the end.
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    Xbit Does a Very Thorough Thermal Paste Roundup

    http://xbitlabs.com/articles/c...interface-roundup.html Enjoy;)
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    180 series drivers bring massive performance boost to gtx 280. Up to 43%

    Interesting if true. http://www.xtremesystems.org/f...howthread.php?t=207992 He references this site http://pctuning.tyden.cz/index...4&limit=1&limitstart=4 And someone did some testing a few posts down. Repost -ViRGE
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    Overclock in BIOS but not Windows

    I've got a GA-P35-DS3R, 4 GB of OCZ platinum and an e4500. I've been running it at 3157 ghz and 3003 mhz for about a year now fully stable, but I've always had cold boot issues when running the mobo above 266 mhz FSB. I give 1.39375 V to the CPU and an extra .2 V to the ram (OCZ needs lots of...
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    PC Games 1080p support

    Anyone know how well current PC games support 1920 X 1080? Reason being that new Dell S2409W is a nice deal, and I read I think on DT that manufacturers were going to be shifting all their production to 1080P instead of 1920X1200 in the next year or 2 for computer monitors. Can't find the...
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    Steam PC rentals?

    From what I understand Steam has a pretty solid DRM system, correct me if I'm wrong. What would stop them from offering PC game rentals that expire after say 4 or 5 days? I'm guessing most of the Steam users buy lots of their games already so it might decrease revs a bit but if you offer up...
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    Nvidia still using old solder that caused GPU failures

    According to TG http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/39337/135/
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    GTX 260 - 216 SP Review

    I did a quick search and didn't see any major site review of this so here you guys go http://hothardware.com/Article...0-Core-216-EVGA-Zotac/ For those interested in second opinions FS has this http://firingsquad.com/hardwar...rce_gtx_260_216shader/ *edit* added FS article.
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    IGN UK Clear Sky Review

    http://pc.ign.com/articles/906/906864p1.html
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    Mozilla Ubiquity - Amazing?

    http://labs.mozilla.com/2008/08/introducing-ubiquity/ I didn't have time to read through the entire page but I checked out the video, looks pretty good. I'm a recent switcher from IE to FF and with this I think Mozilla will get many more devotees.
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    FS has really in depth PhysX Article

    http://firingsquad.com/hardwar...sx_performance_update/ Enjoy:)
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    Xbitlabs on 4850 CF

    So I've always felt Xbitlabs to be one of the best and most thorough review sites, although their reviews do take longer then the other major sites. Yesterday I was going through their 4850 CF article and it shows something WAAY different than everyone else. The worst example being CoD 4...
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    Time to RMA my 4850?

    So I played Crysis, Half Life 2 Ep 2, Portal and TF2 with my 4850 with zero problems, even with the fan at stock. WiC seems to kill it, the screen turns sort of a checkered grey and the machine freezes, I need to hit the restart button on my puter case. I thought it might be heat so I used...
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    External HD Problems

    So about a year ago I took an IDE HD out of my system, bought an enclosure and set it up as an external drive. The problem is, Windows sometimes doesnt see it.I'll plug it in via USB, windows will "ba bong" and the safely remove hardware icon shows up in the tray....but then about 10-15...
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    Laptops with 1920 X 1200 Resolution

    Anyone have experience with a 17" laptop with a 1920 X 1200 resolution? I was looking at the Dell Inspiron and seen the option for the high resolution which intrigued me. For those that have one or have used one, is the text *very* small? Also, any other useful info anyone can pass on...
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    Easy to damage 4850 when overclocking?

    So last night I decided to let CCC do the auto overclock on my 4850, it took it to 690 / 1088, exactly what legitreviews got. Then I decided to check for artifacts using ATI Tool. After 30 seconds I went to brush my teeth, I came back and the entire screen looked like a grey and green...
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    Let the laughs fly

    So I bought The Orange Box on Steam today cause after trying the Portal:First Slice I've been itching to finish it off. This will be the first time I've played Half Life 2, LOL....I remember playing the demo for the first one a long, long time ago but I never picked that one up either. I've...