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    Question about tires mounted with a sticker between the tire and the rim

    Hey everyone, This is my first post in the garage section! I recently just ordered some new rims and tires, and the place where I got them from mounted the tires without cost for me. I just received the rims and tires today and noticed that on one of the tires, they did not remove the...
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    PS3 HDMI output to Displayport input monitor

    Is it possible? Have the 160GB slim. Thanks in advance.
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    "RPC Server is Unavailable" Message appears when I resume from sleep

    I am having a bit of an issue with sleep mode on my system, it doesn't happen all the time but when I try to resume my computer from sleep mode, I get the message "RPC Server is Unavailable" and I can't log back into windows nor even switch users or anything; I have to reboot the computer which...
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    Am I just having terrible luck or is this something to be expected?

    I don't know where to start... I've been having a horrible experience with my MacBook (late 2009 model). Basically I'm on my 3rd machine, the first one's lid/hinge was misaligned by quite a bit, with a noticeable gap when closed and also the right area of the lower body above the volume keys on...
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    Need New Monitor

    My Viewsonic monitor just died after only about 2.5 years of use so I'm currently looking for a replacement, ideally a non TN panel for ~300CAD or less. I was looking at the Dell UltraSharp U2311H (IPS) and the Samsung F2380 (cPVA) and they are just under 300CAD. Does anyone have any...
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    Mac Warranty

    I think I may have read somewhere that if you didn't have OS X installed on your mac (ie just Windows or Linux) that your warranty is no good? Is that true? Thanks.
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    MacBook no horizontal scrolling in bootcamp

    Is there anyway for me to enable the two finger horizontal scrolling in bootcamp 3.1? Also, when I am scrolling vertically, it is pretty jerky, nothing like in OS X. My MacBook is running the 2.26GHz Core 2 Duo, 2GB RAM, and 9400M and using Windows 7 Professional x64 btw. Thanks.
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    Fluctuating RAM Voltage

    According to HWMonitor, my RAM voltage is reported to be fluctuating between 1.82V to 1.84V every few seconds. It's set to be 1.82V in BIOS. Should this be of any concern to me? Thanks in advance.
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    Help me pick a boot SSD

    I'm thinking of finally getting a small SSD for a boot drive as having one in my macbook has really really made my desktop's raid 0 feel slow. I am currently considering one of these SSDs: Intel X25-M 80GB ~$220 CDN Intel X25-V 40GB ~$130 CDN OCZ Agility 60GB ~$170 CDN OCZ Vertex 30GB ~$115...
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    10.6.3 Slow Boot

    Has anyone noticed that since the 10.6.3 update that their boot times have increased (slowed down)? I tried installing 10.6.3 v1.1 too but it doesn't seem to help. Would there be anything I could try other than reinstalling OS X and then updating to just 10.6.2? Thanks. Edit: This is on my...
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    Last Gen Velociraptor

    Newegg has the last gen Velociraptor 150GB on sale for $139 CDN, is it even worth considering? Seems like a relatively low price for the amount of relatively quick storage.
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    Macbook not remembering headphone volume

    For some reason everytime I plug in headphones the volume automatically defaults to halfway and it is way too loud and possibly dangerous to my hearing if I ever forget to turn it back down and just start playing music. If i never shut down the macbook, i.e. only use sleep mode instead of...
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    Dirt 2 Water Rendering

    For some reason the water, well puddles to be more exact, in dirt 2 at times seems to flicker? just very briefly once in a while when i am in maps with it but nothing else seems to be affected (and no other games too). I was just wondering if anyone else has experienced this too...
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    Scratches on Macbook

    What do you guys/girls do to deal with scratches on your macbooks? Unfortunately the other day I let my friend use my macbook but he had his watch on while using it and left ~30 little scratches on the palmrest :( I ordered some iDrops earlier today since it seems to have rave reviews but is...
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    Snow Leopard and SSDs

    In Snow Leopard do you have to do anything for a SSD like you would have to in Windows (disable indexing, auto defrag, etc)? Thanks
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    RAID 0 Volume Capacity Expansion on ICH10R

    I currently have two Seagate 7200.12 500gb drives in RAID 0 with a 150gb array and I would like to increase the size of the array to ~300gb but not to 100% of the usable space. I can't seem to find the option in the matrix storage manager though, there is only an option to use 100% of the...
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    NBA 2K10

    I just want to know if the retail version will require steam activation like 2K9 did last year. Thanks.
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    8800 Ultra

    Thanks in advance :)
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    Weird Screen Flicker/Shaking with 4870

    Usually if i play a video clip like in .wmv and .mpg format, right before the video plays, there is a really weird like screen shaking/flickering before the video loads, and then it plays back fine. It's happened to me for every driver release too (using 9.3 right now). This does not occur...
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    System Extremely Sluggish Right After Vista x64 Boots

    Basically whenever I boot up my pc, the first couple of minutes right after it starts loading, trying to load anything is just very painfully slow, even though all of my startup apps are loaded; I assume this is when vista is "superfetching" as the task manager (whenever it decides to open)...
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    Silent Fan Suggestions

    I am planning to replace the crappy (and loud) stock coolermaster fans in my cosmos 1000 with one of the following fans: Scythe Gentle Typhoon 120mm fan; 500rpm, 5dBA Scythe S-Flex S-FDB 120mm fan (SFF21D); 800rpm, 8.7dBA Scythe Slip Stream (Kaze-Jyuni) 120mm; 500rpm, 7.5dBA I am leaning...
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    Age of Empires 3 Poor Performance

    I am having poor performance with one of my favourite games Age of Empires 3, especially when there are a lot of units (50+) on screen or gunpowder units start shooting. The fps counter from fraps tells me that the fps drops to 8-15fps when I have 40+ gunpowder units shooting. This makes it...
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    Hard Drive temperatures

    I have the WD640 SE16 drive and hwmonitor reports that it is running @ 48-50c after about an hour of usage. Is that too high? I am using the cosmos 1000 case btw.
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    Power Supply Advice

    I am looking for a super silent power supply with at least 550-600 watts of power, so far I am looking at the Enermax MODU82+ 625w and the OCZ 600W ModXstream Pro, has anyone used them before, or have a better suggestion? I am in Canada, and would like to spend under 150CAD. Right now I am...
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    Hard drive no longer detected in windows nor bios

    I have a seagate 7200.10 hard drive with 500gb capacity and it is no longer detected in windows, or the motherboard bios. I have tried multiple sata cables and motherboards but with no luck. The hard drive does spin up (i have put it up to my ears and can hear it/feel it vibrating in my...
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    can someone identify what is causing my poor game performance

    I am experiencing lots of drops in fps with games, most notably unreal tournament 3 and dungeon siege 2 (old rpg game from 2002). This is my setup: e6600 @3ghz asus p5q vanilla 4gb mushkin hp2 ddr2 ram sapphire 4870 1gb with 8.10 catalysts ocz 600w gamexstream vista 64bit I do not...
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    q6600 overclocking

    How are the later q6600's from 2008 overclocking, anyone here with one with a newer pack date willing to share how far they have been able to go and with what voltages? Thanks.
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    subjective performance of velociraptor

    Would a velociraptor have a more "snappy" feel when compared to another drive such as the recent wd 640gb caviar hard drive? Thanks
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    Power cycling

    When overclocking and tweaking to find the ideal (lowest) voltages and timings for a good overclock, it seems that I have to do lots of trial and error, which means a ton of rebooting. Is there a big effect on power cycling on the lifespan of your components, particularly the motherboard...
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    Urgent Please Help

    So I was using my computer and everything was fine for a few hours and all of a sudden I get a lockup. There was nothing I could do to gain responsiveness so i did a reboot by hitting the reset button on the case. My setup is as follows: core 2 duo e6600 (dual core) xfx 680i LT motherboard...
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    help me with choosing a new computer case

    Right now i have the cooler master elite 330 case, and i find that it is a bit noisy due to the front being completely mesh, so i can hear everything. I was looking at the antec p180, antec p182, as well as the cooler master cosmos 1000. Which case do you guys think would be the most silent...
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    cpu fsb voltage question

    theres a setting called "fsb voltage" and i am wondering what is a maximum safe setting for this for 65nm cpu's. My system is in my sig. Default is 1.2v i believe for my cpu. thanks in advance.
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    45nm quad on 680i?

    Strange one, they have a q9300 on the evga 680i lt board apparently http://hothardware.com/Article...9300_Processor/?page=3 any comments?
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    cheap headphones question / recommendations

    well right now i have a pair of sony mdr-xd100's, and i find them to be a bit lacking in quality, but i am not prepared to spend much for the time being. I use the headphones mainly for gaming right now (usually fps games only). I was looking at the sony mdr-xd200's, they look pretty...
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    another hdd partition question

    Well right now I will only putting windows/installed programs on the WD6400AAKS drive since its my fastest drive, with my 500gb drives for storage. I have the entire 640gb drive partitioned atm, but I am able to shrink the partition (somewhere i read that short stroking a hdd will reduce access...
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    Auzen X-Fi HomeTheater 7.1

    http://www.auzentech.com/site/company/press.php
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    soundcard question

    I was looking at the auzentech x-fi prelude as it recently has dropped in price in canada, (~150 after 20cad MIR) but it is still on pci, and I've read a lot about how pci creative x-fi cards have issues called "crack, snapple, pop" with nforce motherboards, does anyone here have any experience...
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    question about 2x2gb ddr2 kits

    Can 2x2gb ddr2 kits usually hit slightly loosened CL 3 timings (~3-4-4-12/15 ish) timings @ ~800mhz?
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    Question about Crucial ram

    Do all of the ballistix lineup use micron d9 chips? Specifically the ballistix / ballistix tracers 2x2gb kits. Thanks in advance.
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    can't get new memory stable

    Hi, I recently purchased some new Patriot Extreme Performance Viper Series ram: http://www.patriotmem.com/prod...oupid=75&id=710&type=1 Its the rev. 2 with the 2.1v, and i can't get it stable at all. I got the memory to pass 24hrs of memtest @ stock settings of 5-5-5-15-2T 1066mhz, but it...