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    Sick of SSD life questions? Lets squash this rumor.

    I'm sick of seeing "I'm afraid if I put my 'browser cache / virtual memory' on my SSD, it will eat up all my erase cycles!" Lets put an end to this rumor. I have an old Kingston 40gb SSD, it was used in a raid 0 (with no trim), for 1 year and then decommissioned to my wife's computer as a...
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    Hitachi RMA Process

    Has anyone ever dealt with Hitachi's RMA process. I have a 3tb xl3000 drive that just went bad. Problem is it's an external drive, and I took it out of it's case, breaking the warranty seal. Should I just send the bare drive in, like it has been an internal drive the entire time, or put it...
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    A6 X3 3500 and ECC ram

    My home server mb went bad, and it's time to replace it anyways. Looking at the AMD A6 3500, but I can't tell if it uses ECC ram. I have tried to search but couldn't come up with anything. Anyone have any experience with the new AMD APUs and ECC ram?
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    So is this the p67 motherboard or my hard drive going bad.

    Just found out about the intel sata problem and thought I would check the hard drives out to see how they were doing. I haven't checked them out in a while. Uploaded with ImageShack.us Should my raw read error rate be that high? It is still under warranty.
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    1900xt ??? for ut3

    I just upgraded my computer for the first time in 5 years. I was running a Barton 3200+ with 1 gig of ram and a bfg 5600 ultra. I now have a q6600 with 4 gigs of ram. You could say I am exponentiating my performance... and I love it. Here is my question how will the 1900xt handel ut3 and...
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    Xbox question

    Long time computer fps gamer, and my last console was a super nintendo. I bought Halo for the pc last year and loved it. Unfortunatly I really want to play Halo 2, but don't own an Xbox. Im thinking about buying one, but I have one concern. Can you hook up a keyboard and mouse to an Xbox for...
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    Bios for a Soyo Dragon kt400 ultra

    I have a Kt400 ultra and a Barton 2500. I know I can take the barton up higher (from 333 to 400fsb) I have done it on a friends computer. But this stupid via chipset doesnt support 400mhz fsb. I have to bump up my agp and pci bus WAY up. Does anyone know of a bios flash that would support...
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    Hard drive Inner or Outer tracks???

    What part of the hard drive is faster the inner or outer tracks? I was into computers a long time ago and the inner tracks used to be much faster. Now my friend is telling me that the outer tracks are faster??? Is this true? Im asking because I want to make a seperate partition for my swap file...
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    New btx cases are NOT efficient

    I've been studing Heating and cooling at school for a few semesters now, and noticed a flaw in the new btx design. If you look into the history of furnaces, you will see they used to make them with the hottest point making contact with the coldest air. After years of research they realized it...
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    Mobile Radeon 3d2001 marks?

    Im about to buy a 1.5 ghz centrino laptop with a mobile radeon video card, and was wondering if anyone knew what kind of 3dmarks I would be getting? Its a sony VAIO PCG-Z1RA, and it has an Integrated 4x ATI Mobility RADEON Video Chipset with 16mb of dedicated ddr. Any input would be greatly...
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    Quick question about pipelines

    Ok, all these talks about pipelines have me confused... When the prescott has 31 piplines, does it take 31 clock cycles to get 1 thread through? Or is it just 1 clock cycle broken into 31 stages? I have heard both, but I think that it takes 31 clock cycles. This would explain why AMD gets so...