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    Determining the type of Heatware feedback

    I did verify voltages, which I should have mentioned. I cannot test temperature other than putting my hands on them to say they are warm to the touch during memtest which is highly subjective. However, I considered this and there is a case intake fan blowing almost directly on them alone with...
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    Determining the type of Heatware feedback

    Thanks, that's the kind of information I was looking for. I agree with you, and think it is somewhere between neutral and positive. Lacking that, I suppose I'll "round up" and give him the positive.
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    Determining the type of Heatware feedback

    Why bother posting? I wouldn't be able to get any meaningful responses without providing necessary information. If I did cut out a lot of it, I would imagine people would either give uninformed responses or end up asking questions which would have already been answered had I not cut it out...
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    Determining the type of Heatware feedback

    Hello, I'm not sure this should be in Off Topic, but I saw similar questions of this nature in this forum, so I put it here. I recently bought some RAM on the FS/FT board. It's this RAM: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820231145 Here's a summary: I asked the seller if...
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    Is the Corsair GS600 a suitable replacement for my VX450?

    This is true. It would be very hard to determine a definite answer as to why a series of failures happened. At the very least, I do not believe the PSU is in perfect working order, but that belief is all I can have in this situation; and I doubt any "free" failure analysis could be in depth...
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    Is the Corsair GS600 a suitable replacement for my VX450?

    @BoomerD: Both the links you provided describe the GS as being above the CX and below the VX/TX/HX. RedBeard (the Corsair rep) describes the VX, TX, and HX as all being high-end PSUs. I believe the HX is the best and most efficient they make. The GS is regarded as a balance between cost and...
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    wrist straps ... anyone use em?

    I haven't posted a regular post in forever. My advice as a former personal trainer and someone who has both injured his wrists and generally had wrist issues for a while is to limit usage of wrist wraps. You're right to use them only for specific exercises as using them for every exercise can...
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    Multiple file storage

    Zip files are extremely inefficient for reading and writing, even uncompressed -- this I know. I was just tossing out some examples. CFS seems more interesting but again I'd probably have to contact the makers to find out anything in detail. If my idea seemed "completely out there", then...
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    Multiple file storage

    Well, your remark seemed to be snide in nature. Something like "Is there any proof that many small files in the MFT causes degraded performance?" would have been a little more appropriate. From what I've read in the past, ext3, reiser, xfs, etc are not nearly as susceptible to degradation...
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    Multiple file storage

    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/174619 http://technet.microsoft.com/e.../library/bb742585.aspx No, and I don't even need to go find proof for it since I never made that claim. If you read what I said you would know that the purpose is to avoid MFT fragmentation without having to increase...
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    Multiple file storage

    Remember, this is in windows. The purpose is to avoid MFT fragmentation without having to increase the size of the MFT for partitions storing many small files. As I mentioned, I could just do this with dtools, but that's not the point. Unless PowerISO allows writing to a mounted ISO, then...
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    Multiple file storage

    Well, I googled some more, this time trying to find a way of mapping a local net share to a drive folder and discovered winbolic link (which solves the second part of the problem), and then discovered Pismo File Mount. This might allow for reading, but I'm not about writing yet. If not, then...
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    Multiple file storage

    I didn't know where to put this, and I guess this is the closest match. Is there anyway to collect files into one file (before you start typing, I'm not talking about zip/rar/etc compression) so that all of the files can still be accessed by programs as if all the files were not within a...
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    Windows 2000 crash

    I just read a post in here of someone having a crash in every game and a reply directing the user to look for "Squeal of death." I am looking into this now, because, as I mentioned the sounds scrambles (squeals sometimes) or repeats. I never had this problem before with this card, but I am...
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    best HD recovery software?

    Once I found GDB and GDBNT (runtime link John posted), I never went looking for anything else.
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    Windows 2000 crash

    Complete crash requiring hard reboot. I have a few hard drives (all NTFS), and run a dual boot with XP and 2k. However, when running just 2k (before I reinstalled XP after not using it for years) it still had the same problem sometimes. The crash does not happen in orthos or video card...
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    Forget it

    Oh yeah, AllGamer, I forgot about the overpriced SB X-Fi pro or whatever it is.
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    DVD Burner

    If you look over on the CDF or AD forums (am I allowed to link? or just leave it an acronym?) you would find a lot of advice regarding burners. For the most part it depends on whether you have a specific task that the burners will be doing and especially what kind of media you will be using...
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    Forget it

    He can get a QX6700, 4GB of OCZ flex or the new dominator line, sli 8800GTX, 4 150GB raptors, a wytron dvd399 (hey, why not?), 9 burners (not sure what the best ones are now), a stacker STC-t01, the new pc p&c single rail 1kw psu, hmmmm, so much. There's a name for the those keyboards with true...
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    What would be faster?

    That is a good question, why is it you are looking to get an x2 4200 or e6300 when you already have an x2 4400?
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    Computer shuts off after 5 seconds of powering on... help!

    Yeah, can you go into BIOS? As jackschmitt said, this sounds more like a HSF problem at first, so see if it is that first. Hopefully it is, because the other problems that could be causing this probably mean RMA.
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    Most Popular HSF For Opty 165?

    Noctua NH-U12 Gigabyte G-Power Pro Tuniq Tower Scythe Ninja Ultra 120 TT Sonic Tower and now the Zalman 9700 All of these are great HSF
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    Opteron 165 or 175 Poll - HELP ME DECIDE!!!!

    Yes, and as far as guaranteed overclock; I'd say you have a 99% chance of at least getting 2.2 even if you get the absolute worst stepping (I got that, and it will do 2.4 stock, anything over that requires big bumps in vcore for every 100mhz) Edit: Maybe I will revise that statement and just...
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    Any way to tell what process is using a certain file??

    did you try deleting it in safe mode?
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    What type of programs should I run after building a PC to test it?

    How does it create a problem? Using tests that stress the PC expose problems you might otherwise not detect. An instability is an instability, regardless of whether you notice it in normal day-to-day stuff.
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    Folder not accessible, access denied....

    You'd format and lose those files? You can look into those data recovery things that I mentioned as well.
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    Folder not accessible, access denied....

    I could get into it with you if you want. It is a short sig that attempts to point to an infinite paradox. The sig only points to the logical fallacy of logic, that is, that one cannot assume anything in order to prove something, yet the first assumption is that of the logical rules. If...
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    What type of programs should I run after building a PC to test it?

    And then this. No malice intended, just kidding.
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    Maybe I should just stop using antivirus software?

    Well I had to reply to this. I have never been one to use anti-virus programs and pretty much have never had a problem. The one problem I remember was about 4 years ago when I was doing a fresh install on another hard drive. It was my mistake to open up outlook, which I had already copied my...
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    Raid array question

    He set up a RAID array with one computer or one hard drive? If somehow he was able to trick a controller into setting up one drive as a RAID 0, it wouldn't improve performance at all. If he somehow set it up over multiple partitions on the same disk, it would probably decrease performance...
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    Folder not accessible, access denied....

    Did you try accessing them from another OS? There are programs like get data back (I think that's the name of it) that can recover lost files (hopefully). After WinXP ran chkdsk the files were inaccessible? I've had this happen before where an OS in a multiboot environment corrupts the file...
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    When is ATI going to have a DX10 card?

    So which is it?
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    AMD/IBM 65nm SiGe

    I believe this is something destined for K8L
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    AMD/IBM 65nm SiGe

    Well, I am fairly sure that Brisbane is not using the process described in that article. It is simply the die shrink.
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    Opty 165 temp help!

    Try searching for aerocool zerodba or aerocool 620W; there are more than several reviews for it.
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    Opty 165 temp help!

    Hmm, well did you try putting a little more volts on the CPU? I think that might void warranty, though. And these have been tried in two different mobos? I honeslty think the first pair you got were fine. I'd be willing to test them for you, lol, because I bet they are fine and there is just...
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    Opty 165 temp help!

    I didn't see that. Well, you don't know anyone with a 939 system that is decent, do you? If so, see if you can pop em in there for a sec and see if you get the same result. I don't know what else to think of, since just googling around that aerocool seems to be fine.
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    Opty 165 temp help!

    Well, I just don't think it is the processor. Do you have another power suppy that you can use? Other than that raidmax and athena?
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    found a new love

    I've got an opty 165 CCBWE 0604TPMW (about as poor as they come). I can get 2.4 on stock volts, but have to go to 1.4-1.425 for 2.5, 1.475-1.5 for 2.6, and 1.55 for 2.7 :( I won't even test the 2.7, since at 2.6@1.5v the coretemp temps go to 57/65c during load. One core is significantly...
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    AMD/IBM 65nm SiGe

    I was looking around and noticed that I missed this. I checked DT and didn't see that they posted any articles or news about it. Anyway, good to see that they are finally getting somewhere with that; it was such a long time ago that they had mentioned it.