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    Fan no longer working on video card

    The fan on my video card no longer spins. After I installed The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion several days ago, I was getting weird slowdowns so I stopped playing and checked the card. The temperature was scorching (90C) where it had been only about 50C previously. The system is a Dell Dimension...
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    Wow the Tigers are handling the Yankees

    Goooo Tigers!
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    Russia Slides Back

    Text This is disturbing, to say the least. Free speech in Russia is dying a painful death it appears.
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    Bad DSL connection

    I recently decided to spring for a DSL connection, as dialup was simply becoming too slow. I got the DSL installed, and decided to play some Counter Strike: Source. To my dismay, there was unbearable lag, making it impossible to play (even worse than dialup). I have a 512/512 DSL connection from...
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    Has anyone else seen Thank You For Smoking?

    I thought it was great. The acting was good, and it was downright hilarious at parts.
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    Ban designit

    User designit is flaming other AT members in this thread. Please take care of him.
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    Any info on the OCZ phase-change unit?

    I was excited when I found out about this affordable (relatively ;)) phase-change unit in January via Anand's coverage of CES. Does anyone have any more info on it?
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    What's Requiem for a Dream about?

    All I know is that it involves the use of lots of drugs.
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    So how's the availability of the Xbox 360 nowadays?

    Have any new shipments come in after the initial launch?
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    Venice E4 Stepping

    From the Anandtech Article: The E4 stepping has generally been reserved for San Diego, Venus, and Troy cores in the past, but the new stepping may steal some of the limelight away from AMD's exceptional Opteron 939 Venus since only the cache sizes are different now. Does this mean that the...
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    Monitor Woes

    So, after buying a 17 in. Dell E173FP, I changed the monitor to its native resolution (1280 x 1024). Unfortunately, the middle of the screen seems to get very blurry. It seems to take place in a 2 in. vertical strip in the middle of the screen. I have no problems in other resolutions. Any advice...
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    More budget cuts coming at ya!

    Link Why is it that these sorts of vital programs get cut? Why not cut pork or raise taxes? What sucks is that it's us that get shafted by these sorts of things.
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    X1800XT breaks 1 GHz speed barrier. Overclocking record!

    Link Wowza. Looks like I'll have to be picking up one of those liquid nitrogen cooling solutions. :P