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    Upgrade Suggestions

    I am selling off my current system (http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2193975) and have lost track of what is good these days. > Intel E8400 > Gigabyte EP45-UD3R > NVidia GTX 260 > Some good name brand 600 watt power supply > 8GB > 2x 256GB SSD (Boot) > 2 x 2TB WD Black (Storage) >...
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    Name change?

    Can I get 'imported_Stan' converted back to 'Stan' ?
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    XBMC Died. I need a new HTPC Solution

    All right boys and girls. My 2 XBMC machine died, and new xbox's are harder and harder to come by, not to mention many of the 720p TV rips I have been downloading dont play on it. I want a new home theater solution! It needs to pass the wife test with flying colors. It needs to be fast...
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    $20 to whomever can fix this!

    So heres the deal -- help me figure out what the hell my issue is, and I'll toss a $20 via paypal your way. I have three harddrives, all newish in this machine. Two 120GB Maxtors on seperate IDE channels, and a 400GB Western Digi on the SATA bus, all onboard. The machine is running...
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    Celeron M 1.6 v. Centrino M 1.7

    I just bought my GF a Inspiron B130 after I killed her old laptop. It came off ebay with a Celeron 1.6ghz M cpu, which seems fine for all intents (she had a 1.3ghz P4 in her Inspiron 4150 its replacing, so its two fold faster). I have a Centrino M 1.7ghz from another laptop that died that I...
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    Slow Windows Performance (UI Draws)

    I have a AMD 64 3700+, 1GB Ram, Nvidia 5200fx video card. I am a bit clueless as to what my issue is with this machine. It seems to take forever to do Windows 2d windows drawing. Switching between firefox tabs takes about a second as it draws the elements in (as apposed to just BAM everything...
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    Help diagnose my problem!

    So I find this free computer on the side of the road (im serious). JetWay K8M8MS Motherboard 1GB Crucial DDR2 single dimm (by DDR2, I mean DDR-400) AMD 64 3700+ Generic 450 watt power supply. PCI Ati Radion 9250 The machine wont even post, but I remove the front USB ports from their...
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    Computer for an older coworker

    An older secretary at my company came up to me today and asked.. "What do I replace my 8 year old Word 98 computer with? We got a new printer, and it doesnt work with the windows we have". All joking aside, we are an all Dell shop at work, and in my private consulting I almost always go...
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    HP 4050 TN Printer -- Can I stack trays?

    I have a HP Laserjet 4050 TN with an extra tray. Can I get another similar addon tray like I have on Tray #3, to give it 4 trays overall?
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    Email/RSS PM's?

    Is it possible to get an email alert on a new PM, or any way to pull an RSS feed of PM's? Stan
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    Whats wrong w/ my pc?

    I picked up a Compaq desktop.. the staples variety.. 1.7gig p4. It boots up, installs Windows, but after the first reboot, it randomly blue screens with no module/error code faulted. After this, every time it boots I get the "select if you want to boot in safe or normal mode" screen...
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    PCI Slot Help!

    My Dell Poweredge 1600SC has three kinds of PCI slots.. 2*32bit standard pci slots (take all pci cards) two white pci slots & two green pci slots.. they look like they are 64bit (alot longer).. and have a notch near the beginning of the card. I have put a promise ultra100tx2 in the green...
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    PC vs MAC (Numbers only, no zeliotry)

    Friend of mine pulled the.. Macs are cheaper than PC's for workstations game (pricing a top of the line Apple vs a matching spec Dell Precision). I can't seen to find a comparison of the Dual core 2.5 gig cpu's vs an intel CPU. Does anyone have one?
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    Anyone got a saved Office Workstation spec from the Egg?

    I need a new workstation for work.. P4 or A64/1024mb/80gig/2*17" lcds Want quality (reliable workstation) over high preformance.
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    Is this CPU dead?

    http://brinkerhoff.org/amd.jpg Burned? or fine.
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    Help me with my dead compy!!

    I picked up a free computer from a company that was ditching it. It looked to be a decent Athlon 1400+ machine.. which isnt great.. but for free, with an ATI video card that has TV out .. etc.. would make a nice DVD player/MythTV front end. So I plug it in.. no video.. hd is dead...
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    Maxtor one touch HD replacement

    I have an original Maxtor One Touch 250g backup drive that has a dead 250 internal HD. Right now it has a maxline plus two 250g. Given that this is a sealed, vented but not actively cooled case, what drive should I replace it with? I am thinking a 300gig 5400 RPM WD or Seagate.. comments?
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    How would I find out of this is legal or not: DVD ripping...

    So heres my question... how do I find out of this is legal or not: Lets say I run an institution of some kind with a network at a school (college). Currently every dorm has movies that people can check out. What if instead all the dvd's were ripped.. and some kind of software was...
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    Why are Macs/Linux so slow to load apps?

    Not to start a flamewar, but why are Macintosh computers, as well as Linux so slow to open programs compared to Windows? Example: iCal on a mac mini takes 12 seconds to load. System preferences takes like 20. etc. It just seems like apps load so much faster in Windows. I have Windows...