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    BSOD after reformatting 30 gb Kingston SSD from Ubuntu to Win 7

    Didn't work unfortunately, I cleaned the disk and converted it to MBR. I'm honestly to the point where I want to go buy another drive. I've been messing with this for two days and getting really frustrated.
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    BSOD after reformatting 30 gb Kingston SSD from Ubuntu to Win 7

    Thanks for the tip. I've give that a try!
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    BSOD after reformatting 30 gb Kingston SSD from Ubuntu to Win 7

    Hi everybody, This is the first time I've had this problem and it's driving me insane. I have a Giada Cube (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16856176001) N3 that I use as an HTPC box. Its run Ubuntu 10.10 for a while, but Ubuntu 11.04 has caused nothing but headaches, so I'm trying...
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    Sandy Bridge design flaw - Intel halted on NASDAQ - updated 2/8/11.

    Looks like I get a new motherboard. Woot.
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    (TPU) AMD Slashes Prices of Radeon HD 6800 and HD 6900 Series Products

    You've gotta be kidding me. I paid $330 for my 6950 at Microcenter less than a week ago. /cry EDIT: Nvm, didn't see that those prices are in euro. I don't feel too bad now.
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    Where are you purchasing your sandybridge?

    Which MC did you go to?
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    Where are you purchasing your sandybridge?

    I bought mine from Micro Center. Just so happens they were having an inventory glitch that day and I got my i5 2500k for $39.99 (it rang up as some .net book). So (to all out there), if you wanna try your luck and see if they haven't fixed the glitch, head to the Micro Center in Rockville...
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    If you bought 2600k over 2500k were your reasons?

    I really agonized over this decision too (except I wound up going 2500k). I figured I never do anything too demanding except for gaming, w hich the 2500k is perfectly fine fore. The fact that I got the CPU for $40 helps too.
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    System Online!

    You could almost fit another motherboard in there! Very nice. Similar to my build that I just put together Monday. I like the P67-UD3 for the price. I was originally going to get a P8P67 Pro, but Microcenter was out and I wanted to leave with everything I needed to build an operting...
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    Gigabyte P67A-UD4 review, anybody using this board? please comment!!

    I know it's not the same, but I have the P67A-UD3 and it works great. I haven't ventured much into overclocking yet, but it's been very stable. I really wanted to get the Asus P8P67 Pro, but micro center was out of it and I wanted to walk out of the store with all the components I needed for a...
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    My I5 2500K, temps a little bad?

    Well you said your load temps dropped 8*C when you reseated your HSF and reapplied thermal compound, which leads me to believe you have load temps around 42*c (since you said in the first post that your load temps were around 50*C). I think 42*C load temps are pretty damn good.
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    2600K @ 5.5Ghz. Super PI 1M in 6.786s

    I think you mean 88 mph.
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    My I5 2500K, temps a little bad?

    Your temps seem to be fine. I just put together a system with an i5 2500k (that I got for $40 D:) and all the cores idle between 22 and 24C and get up to around 50C under load (BC2). I'm using a stock intel HSF and some sort of Antec silver compound (about two rice-blobs worth, probably too...
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    Specs needed for NAS?

    Budget is probably a couple hundred bucks minus the drives. LG has a nice looking one on newegg for like $299. I'd use it for storing movie rips and files. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-001-_-Product http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-009-_-Product would be good too if I put...
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    Specs needed for NAS?

    What's the difference?
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    Specs needed for NAS?

    Yeah I was thinking this myself. No way I'd be able to fit the amount of storage I want inside one. http://www.pacificgeek.com/product.asp?id=856143
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    Specs needed for NAS?

    Hi guys and gals, I'm looking to make some sort of NAS server and found some refurb'd HP blade servers for $99 with dual 3.06 GHz Xeons (Circa 2004-2005). If I wanted to build some sort of NAS with it, would that hardware be up for it (say, with maybe 5tb of storage)? I'd mainly use it to...
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    Best recovery software?

    So I got a 1.5TB Samsung Story external hdd for christmas. I'm a dumbass and dropped it today on my driveway (probably a 3' drop). It still boots up and sounds fine (no weird sounds), the computer recognizes it, but doesn't see the data and insists it needs formatting. I have a ton of high...
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    CPU Upgrade worth the cost?

    Cool. I read online somewhere that the Core i7 is actually already being phased out...so would that be a wise upgrade? Will the LGA1366 become intel's new socket for a while? Maybe I'll just upgrade the CPU and Mobo now and wait for the next gen GPUs later. But it looks like i7's don't...
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    CPU Upgrade worth the cost?

    Thanks for the opinions. I think I'm going to buy a better HSF for the cpu and just overclock the shit out of it. I'm using the Intel OEM one right now. Any HSF suggestions? lol
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    CPU Upgrade worth the cost?

    Hi all. I was originally going to upgrade my video card but I've decided to wait until this fall when the new cards come out. In the mean time, is it worth upgrading my CPU, and to what? My motherboard can run the 45nm processors (if only it had DDR3....). I was thinking maybe a Q9550 or...
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    Worth upgrading my video card?

    Man that's tempting....
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    Worth upgrading my video card?

    A 4890 is a good chunk quicker than my 8800 :). I guess I'll see how the 8800 does and upgrade accordingly.
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    Worth upgrading my video card?

    Probably this one: http://www.bestbuy.com/site/ol...oduct&id=1218071904233 I also 3dmark06'd my system last night and it did 11,449. If I can get it to 13-14k I'd be content.
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    Worth upgrading my video card?

    Sorry, I should have specified which games. Mostly WoW and steam games. I liked Crysis but I'm finished playing it, haha. I'm gonna run some benchmarks when I get home and see what my computer can do.
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    Worth upgrading my video card?

    Hi all, I just pruchased a 1080p LCD TV...would you all think it's worth upgrading the video card in my sig for playing games at 1080p (1920x1080)? The little 8800GTS (g92) has run everything I've thrown at it at 1600x1050 just fine, but I dunno if it'll have the grunt to play the games I...
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    Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3P sitting at motherboard screen

    Hi all. This morning I went to boot up my new PC and it just sat the motherboard graphic screen which says "Gigabyte Ultra Durable yada yada..." and it wouldn't go past it. I reset the CMOS and it fixed the problem, asking me to choose a boot method and I selected "The last known good...
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    BFG 8800GTS 512MB OC @ 73 degrees on load ?

    That's normal. My eVGA 8800GTS g92 runs at 75 load.
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    A wide screen LCD for under $400?

    I really like my Acer AL2016W. 20" widescreen, 1600x1050 native resolution, 5ms response time...I paid $200 from newegg for it. Great for gaming.
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    I returned a broken 8800GTS to frys and they put it back on the shelf

    I ran my 8800GTS with an Antec 550W with 30A on the +12V and it lasted about a day before it crapped out on me, couldn't keep up with the video card. I think that may have been your problem with the performance, other than that, I'm clueless about the temps. My eVGA 8800GTS G92 idles at 54*C...
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    Attention 8800GTS 512 G92 owners

    I'm using the 169.28 drivers. I play Crysis at 35fps on a mix of medium and high at 1600x1050 (only play it that high cause it's my LCD's native resolutions and others look like crap). Your PC should kill Doom 3...try some different drivers :).
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    New build not running nearly how it should...

    Okay this damn computer has me baffled again. I got it running great, so I started playing around with CPU overclocking, scored an 11,900..bump my CPU to 2.85 from 2.8GHz to see if that'll break 12k...and it starts performing choppy like it did last night. I reset everything in the bios, HPET is...
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    G92 8800 GTS OC RESULTS LISTED

    I'd really like to know your results as well. I've got a nearly identical system. Right now, with my cpu at 2.8 GHz and my video card stock I'm seeing 12,000 flat in 3D Mark 06. My GPU idles around 50C and gets up between 70-80 load. What's your see with those numbers? On a side note...
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    New build not running nearly how it should...

    Ya. I actually just figured out the problem...I had "HPET" or whatever the hell that is set to 32 bit in the bios, switched it over and 64 bit and all was well. Got 11,636 in 3dmark06. Time for some overclocking :). Thanks!
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    New build not running nearly how it should...

    I ran 3dmark06 but didn't get through, no application went over 5fps. Thanks for any help guys. EDIT: I'm also using the latest drivers from evga, 169.28.
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    New build not running nearly how it should...

    Hi all. I just assembled my new computer today consisting of: E6750 C2D Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3P Motherboard 4 gigs XMS2 ram eVGA Geforce 8800GTS G92 core 250gig SATA hard drive 550 watt Antec PSU wit 30A on the +12v rail Windows Vista Ultimate x64 Long story short, it's not doing...
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    I bought my first new car :-)

    Congrats! I guess you didn't watch the Top Gear review of the new SI? ;)
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    Names of the Dead

    I just want to bump this and say RIP to all who have been killed in action. I knew Chad Vollmer....great guy and it was the first anniversary of his death a few days ago. RIP
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    Do you prefer a V8 in your car?

    Depending on the age of the Monte...it may have the L67 Supercharged 3800 Buick V6. I think only the newer ones you can get with the 5.3 V8. My little 302 (5.0L if you want to talk in metric measurements) in my Mustang gets me around just find and I can manage 25mpg if I can follow the speed...