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    My friend bought the machine from woot yesterday.

    As title says, my friend sent me a message saying he got this machine from the woot deal and if it's any good (below are specs, I bolded the more important components). He is not much of a PC gamer but loves his iphone and music. I told him for what he will be doing with it, it should be fine...
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    Using my TV as a Second Monitor

    Watching a movie last night with the girl made me think of how I could hook my computer up to the 56" 1080p TV we have. If successful I'd like to stream video, audio and input to my TV from the office. Watching utube, browsing sites and streaming music would be the sole purpose. My question...
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    9800GTX+ Crashing

    Hello all, I have an evga 9800gtx+ (2nd revision = 1 6-pin) that crashes the desktop to those awesome pink pixels. It never happens in game and has only happened a few times since january. My question is what could be the determining factor? I've read in the evga forums that the PSU can be at...
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    EVGA Loaner Program

    Evga's new "ELP" program lets you test their new X58 for two weeks if selected: link Or you can apply to test the 3D stuff out.. not really my bag though. Kind of a cool program but two weeks isnt long enough IMO. EDIT: Just noticed AmberClad put this topic up in Video and Graphics...
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    i7 920 Clock speeds

    So I'm new to the i7 racket as of the beginning of this month considering I upgraded from an AMD 3200+... I don't don't know the absolute specifics of the i7 tech. So I turned on CPU-Z and noticed the Core speed is 2800-2900mhz. Also, coretemp is registering my 920 as an ES? Is this normal or...
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    Antec 300

    I've been cruising these boards looking for a good solution for keeping my case clean (antec 300). I found this thread Text and went to home depot and got some Filtrete Filters by 3M. The 300 already has a mesh screen in the front but the side only has a grill incapable of preventing dust from...
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    Intel DX58SO

    THis may sound very noobish but my X58 has a molex connector right above the pci-e slot near the rear of the board. What exactly is it there for?
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    Worth Keeping an 80gb SATA 1gb/s

    Hey all, I was very fortunate to pick up an i7 920 system on craigslist and my current rig is an AMD 3200+ agp system (feel free to laugh.. i did) The kit i purchased included: i7 920 intel x58mobo 6gb crucial ram antec 300 case 550w (i am putting my PC power and cooling 750 in place of...
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    File inventory Software / Program

    I work for a architectural firm that has a deadline coming up. Our drawing package is over 450 sheets, per our client, the package will need an electronic version of individual PDF files. I now have a directory with all of these sheets and I need to check the file names against an excel list...
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    COH Issues

    I've had CoH for a while now, had it updated to the 1.71 patch. After Realizing the 1.7gb patch wasnt a joke from THQ I proceeded to DL it. When installing it, the patch errored with a "game content not on computer blah blah" window. So i try to run the game and it errors again with "cannot...