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    My 2014 Mazda 3s Grand Touring

    Hey all, I never posted pictures of my new car and Zane putting up pics of his 2014 CX-5 inspired me, so here goes. 2014 Mazda 3s Grand Touring 2.5L I-4 with a 6speed Auto/Manual transmission No GT Tech Package Soul Red Mica with Almond interior. (Sorry the pictures aren't fantastic...
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    Poor sub output on new motherboard?

    Hey all, I recently upgraded from the rig in my signature to an Asus P55D E Pro which uses the VIA VT1828S chipset instead of the Realtek chipset in the Gigabyte I came from. I'm currently using Logitech 5.1 speakers, not sure which pair I can't remember. Anyway, since upgrading from the...
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    Need help with Audio

    Hey all, got a problem that maybe someone can help me with. I have a set of Logitech 5.1 speakers, not sure which set but they're about two years old. Due to space constraints I'm currently only using the 2 front speakers and the sub. The issue is with my Realtek on-board audio I don't have...
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    iTouch or Zune HD?

    Hey all, my fiance is in the market for a new MP3 player for her Birthday in a week. She wants an iTouch, but I've also gotten her interested in a Zune HD. We're looking at the 8 and 16 GB versions respectively. I'm posting to ask what the general opinion is on these two players? She...
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    Anyone know anything about the Asus P5QC?

    http://shop4.frys.com/product/...sr:SEARCH:MAIN_RSLT_PG I've tried the Gigabyte UD3R; DOA. Tried a UD3P, and it too is faulty. My old Gigabyte P965 S3 had data issues which is why I upgraded to the UD3's in the first place. Needless to say, I'm done with Gigabyte at this point. I got the...
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    New build hard locking while gaming

    So I put this together on Wednesday. Fresh windows xp SP3 install. Computer seems to run just fine until I play games. While gaming, the computer will hard lock at random, giving the sound stutter thing, the whole shebang. Have to reset manually to get out of it. It's happened twice while...
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    Anyone with a Gigabyte P45 UD3R or P

    I just put together a new build with the following components: E5200 P45 UD3R G.Skill DDR2 800 Computer wont post. If I populate slots 2 and 4, the computer beeps rapidly for 10-20 seconds and reboots. It will loop until I turn off the PSU. If I populate slots 1 and 3, the same thing...
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    New Build Failure

    Just put this computer together using the following parts: E5200 Gigabyte P45 UD3R 4 GB G.Skill DDR2 800 WD 640 Black AC Freezer 7 Pro Powered it up and it just beeps at me, very rapidly, then reboots itself and does the same thing. The motherboard manual says it's a power issue, but...
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    How to tell if your CPU is in good condition

    This may seem like a silly question, but is there any way to make sure your CPU is in good working condition? Cuz i'm having some odd PC problems, have been for quite a while. Had it overclocked for about a year and took it off to see if it fixed them, and it hasn't. I've done multiple...
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    Anyone with a GIGABYTE GN-WP01GS Wireless Network Adapter?

    If so, I could really use some help. My buddy lost all his install cd's somehow, and I'm in the process of trying to reformat and setup his computer. I've tried downloading the driver directly from Gigabyte's website and have been unable to get it to install properly, and have been entirely...
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    Anyone with a Gigabyte EP35 DS3L?

    I'm trying to reformat my buddies computer, and he's lost all of his driver cd's like a noob. If anyone has this motherboard, and could possibly create a disk image of the install cd I would love you forever, as this project is seriously growing long in the tooth. I've tried manually...
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    Need help choosing a P&S

    I will preface this by saying I'm no photographer. I am however pretty technically minded, and have done a lot of investigative research into this topic over the last couple of weeks. I am looking for a cost effective point and shoot digital camera. I purchased a Nikon S210 just before...
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    Monitor won't go to sleep

    So I just reformatted my GF's computer tonight, a stock Dell E521 with an EVGA Geforce 8600 GT in it. It went to sleep before I reformatted, it won't go to sleep after. I've checked the display settings and everything is set up correctly as far as I can tell, but it won't even hit the...
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    AIM Autohide?

    I have no idea if this exists, most likely not. I'm looking for some type of utility that will autohide AIM to the right side of my desktop, like my Windows program bar on the bottom of the screen. That way it's hidden until I need to reference it, at which point I would mouse over the right...
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    Quick Ram Question

    First the link: http://shop1.frys.com/product/5200607 Says it's capable of 5-5-5-12 timings, not amazing I know but I'm currently running a G.Skill 2GB set at 5-5-5-15 so it would still be slightly faster right? Basically I don't know much about Patriot, I've been looking to get different...
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    Raid Question

    I will freely admit that the one thing I know nothing about regarding computers is RAID setups. I had, until recently, two hard drives in my computer, one running windows and general OS type things (firefox, AVG, application type programs) and another HD for my games. I found that switching...
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    Windows Struggling with USB Devices

    My fiance is running a Dell E521 with Windows XP. I don't really understand what the problem is, but it will not install USB devices properly. For instance, her keyboard sucks atm, so I gave her my old Logitech Elite to use. It's a USB keyboard. She plugs it in, and Windows pops up with the...
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    Any way to check a HD to see if it's good?

    I had to stop using my 160 GB HD because I couldn't get Windows to install on it w/o bluescreening constantly, so I'm assuming the drive is in fact junk, but is there any way I can find out for sure? Any test I can run, software I can DL to go over it, etc that will tell me for sure so I dont...
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    Quick Question about a Gigabyte Motherboard

    GIGABYTE GA-EP35-DS3L LGA 775 Intel P35 ATX Intel Motherboard http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16813128337 Does this motherboard have video output capability? I'm building a cheap computer for a friend who's not interested in gaming, and as such he doesn't want to try and...
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    Paging Jonny and other PSU Guru's

    Comparing lower priced PSU's for my fiance's computer. Specs: E6400 2 GB DDR2 800 RAM P965 motherboard 1 SATA HD 1 SATA DVD 8800 GT 512mb It's a dell machine, need to replace the PSU so she can use her new 8800 GT as the current PSU has no PCI-E connector, and only one molex (wtf...
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    SO lost looking for a new Motherboad

    I know there are a million of these posted a day but I truly am overwhelmed with choices, and underwhelmed with customer responses. I will be upgrading to the following soon: Intel C2D E7200 or E8400, not sure AMD ATi Radeon 4850 2x2gb DDR2 Ram, pc800 most likely I do not want to...
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    Asus P45 Question

    What's the difference between: Asus P5Q Asus P5Q Pro There's a 30 dollar difference on Newegg between them and as I've been out of the loop hardware wise lately I'd like to know why. Are they functionally the same guts-wise? Will I get the same performance out of the P5Q as I would the...
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    How to check a PSU to see if it's good

    So my system has been having strange issues lately, and I'd like to double check the PSU and make sure that it's in stable working condition. I feel like I have a solid brand PSU, and it's barely more than a year old, so I don't want to replace it if I don't have to. Is there any way to check...
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    Looking for an inexpensive, reliable PSU

    I'm currently using an Ultra X-Finity 500 watt PSU and have been having some system stability issues and the failure of an SATA HD. I don't know if the PSU is the culprit or not but I feel like before I upgrade other parts of the system, I should make sure instead of blowing them out as well...
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    More Weird Computer Stuff

    I've become a frequent flyer here lately it seems. Previous thread aside, let's focus on the problem most annoying to me currently: Inability of certain programs to access the internet. For example, I can use firefox just fine. I'm using it now. Ditto AIM. Online games seem to work fine...
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    Looking for input on a new motherboard

    So I've come to the conclusion that my current motherboard is schizo and I'm in the market for something new. Guidelines: Cost between 100-150ish dollars. Supports DDR2 RAM (shouldn't be an issue I'm sure) Not a Gigabyte (not too pleased with the issues i've been seeing regarding their...
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    Question about annoying Ads

    So lately I've noticed that many of the articles I read have random bits hyperlinked. I don't mean here click this to read more, or see a picture either. It'll be a hyperlink in the text, and if I mouse over it accidentally it'll pop up a 2inchx2inch or so square box with some type of...
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    Complete System Failure, Please Help

    So I reformatted my computer a couple of weeks ago and finally got around to getting WoW working again. Played some tonight, noticed my FPS was literally about 25% of where it was before I formatted. We're talking 15 FPS instead of 60+ in crowded areas. So I start messing with settings...
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    G15 Software Causing Windows to Hang, HALP

    Alright folks, I've beaten my head enough on this. A few months ago I started having troubles with the logitech software for my G15. Basically what was happening is the LCD clock was freezing. It would stick at say, 4:12 am and wouldn't change. I could not close the program in ANY fashion, even...
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    Program that monitors network use?

    I'm having some interesting lag spike issues and its eerily similar to a hijack virus I had years ago. I've run Kaspersky and AVG both, along with Spybot and Adaware and can't seem to find anything out of the ordinary however. Looking at my router though, the link that says WAN is constantly...
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    *Fixed* Mic issues on GF's computer

    I got my GF a Dell E520 (I think 520, the Intel C2D version) for Christmas of 06 (14 months old roughly). I've added nothing to it hardware wise except for a EVGA 7600 GT video card, everything else is stock (onboard audio, 1 gb ram, etc). While we lived in our old apartment, her mic worked...
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    Looking to upgrade from a 7600 GT

    I realize there's probably been a million of these posts, but I looked through quite a few and none really answered my questions, so here goes. First off, I game at 1680x1050. The game I play most is WoW, however I do plan on picking up Age of Conan and Warhammer online as well. I am not...
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    Having problems using DVD burner

    Alright, I'm going to say it up front. I am a burning noob. I knew just enough about my old CD burner to drag stuff into it and make CD's. Recently I bought a Samsung DVD burner with lightscribe, as I torrent occasionally and having the extra disc space is pretty much a requirement for many...
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    Mouse Acting Up

    The night before last I had a marathon session of WoW like I normally do on the weekends. I never turn my computer off, so I let it go to sleep, and I went to sleep. I logged back on the next afternoon, and lo! My mouse cursor is lagging all over the screen. The best way I can describe it is...
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    Computer failing during memory initialization

    I just build a new computer and gave my father my old "guts", consisting of an AMD Athlon 3000+ (venice), an MSI K8N-Neo4 Nforce 4 motherboard, and 1 gig of Corsair Value Select ram. I used the computer for almost exactly one year, and it had always had this wierd issue with the motherboard...
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    Need experts opinion on a new monitor

    I am finally going to upgrade from my 17 inch Viewsonic CRT to an LCD. Unfortunately, I can't decide if going widescreen is worth it for me. I don't watch movies on my PC, and as I understand it, very few games take advantage of wide screen right now. However, World of Warcraft DOES make use...
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    Wierd "stutter" type problem on my new E6400 build

    So I've had nothing but wierd issues with this thing since I put it together Thursday night. System specs as follows: Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 stock speed Gigabyte P965-S3 motherboard G.Skill 1 gb 800 mhz DDR2 (2 sticks in dual channel mode) EVGA Nvidia 7600 GT 256 (PCI-E) 480 watt power...
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    Concerns regarding Zalman 9700 weight on my E6400

    I want to overclock my 6400 c2d/gigabyte p965 s3 system, but frankly I'm a bit worried about the weight this heatsink is going to put on the motherboard. I realize that they wouldn't design a fan that would overstress a system component, but the fact is that the motherboard will sag in on...
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    Newly build PC is turning off at random, won't go into Bios

    I just bought an intel e6400 c2d, a gigabyte p965 S3 motherboard, and 2 gb of G.Skill DDR2 800 memory. Put it into my old case with my WD 160 gb SATA HD, a floppy drive, my old HP Cdwriter, and a evga 7600 GT video card. When I turn the computer on it posts, gives me the beep, shows the...
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    Need Advice on a P965 Motherboad for my E6300

    I've done as much research as I can, and I still can't figure out what to buy. I have a budget on the motherboard of 160.00 max. I want a motherboard that overclocks at least moderately well, doesn't have the glut of stability problems that seems to be plaguing the 680's, and that generally...