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    Heat Gun Power?

    I'm looking to buy a heat gun to assist me with getting into hardware that is glued together, i.e. mobile tablets, touchscreen laptop screens (the lcd is often glued to the digitizer glass) and other similar I.T. things. I've no idea of the required power needed as I've never owned one. On the...
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    Asus Z87 External Temp Display?

    I'm looking at buying one of the Asus Z87 motherboards for my new setup. I know you can see the temps in the BIOS or via AI Suite (?) but it would be much nicer if I could attach something to the motherboard that could sit externally to give me accurate up to date internal temps? :confused:
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    Weird Laptop Motherboard charging query

    I've been given a laptop to try and repair for a friend. Water was spilled onto the laptop (it was left to totally dry for a couple of days) but now it appears to be totally dead (no lights at all). I realise that the easy answer is to assume its the motherboard, but I was wondering if it...
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    Replacement LCD "changing colours" on startup!

    I've just installed a replacement 17" LCD for my Sony Vaio laptop as the previous one got cracked (you could only see the working edges of the screen, but everything outputted perfectly to a external monitor) and have a strange problem! I simply installed the existing ribbon cable into the rear...
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    Soldering Query

    I know my way around a motherboard, but have never used a soldering iron (nor do I currently possess one). I need to (re-)solder a loose power jack to a motherboard and was hoping for some advice on what type/power/type of tip of soldering iron I should purchase for the job? Also, do I need...
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    D-Link DIR-100

    I'm about to get a cheapish broadband router for my 20Mbps cable. I only have one PC and don't need wireless, but want a quality branded router with a sensible firewall. I've had good experience with D-Link in the past and am seriously looking at their DIR-100 router, but I've read in the...
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    Cat 6 cables required?

    I'm about to buy a gigabit router as all 3 of my home PCs support gigabit and I only have a standard 10/100 router at the moment. Do I require cat 6 cables to get the best from my network? I suppose I'm using cat 5 (or maybe cat 5e) at the moment.
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    Win XP Home with Pro Key!

    A client has Win XP Home installed and it must have been originally installed with a pirate key as it is now going on about not being able to receive updates because of the key. I'm trying to help her, but I only have genuine Win XP Pro keys available. She doesn't want to re-install etc...
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    Geforce 8800GTX HDCP crypto?

    I'm considering buying one of the 8800GTXs, but need to be 100% sure that it has the crypto HDCP chip built in and it is not clear from any review/press release if it is standard across all 8800GTXs to have this crypto chip built-in?
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    Nvidia Color Profile Query

    I'm using driver 84.21 and have been experimenting with the color profile option. If you use the custom option to create a new color profile (in addition to the standard one) does anyone know how/where this profile is saved on the hard drive? E.G. there is an import option which looks for...
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    PSU Power Query

    I'm about to build a high-end system from scratch, i.e. Athlon X2 5000, GeForce 7900GTX, 150GB Raptor, 2GB x DDR2-6400 etc.. I want a quality (branded) PSU and was thinking about getting something in the region of 500W. 1) Is this rating going to be powerful enough to easily cope with my...
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    Nvidia HDCP Support

    I've just been reading about the HDCP Fiasco on current graphics cards. I'm now in the market for a high-end graphics card from Nvidia (I'm not a fan of ATI) and was wondering if anyone knows if ANY of the Geforce range (or even due shortly cards, i.e. Geforce 7950X2) has the full HDCP...
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    Specific Graphics card question

    I won't go into details, but my question is: Which is the BEST AGP graphics card out of just the following two cards: 1) Nvidia Geforce FX 5900 128MB 2) ATI Radeon 9550 256MB The computer is pretty high spec running WinXP, albeit without PCI-X, and I'll be just using standard apps and...
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    IDE to SATA Converter

    I'm about to upgrade my old system to one of the new Nforce590 SLI mobos with Raptor 150GB etc... My question relates to the fact that I've got a Western Digital 250GB IDE PATA drive full of purely data files that I want to connect to the new mobo, which only has one IDE connector (I'm going...
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    RPC - interface not registered

    I'm having a nightmare with my PC, and I now think that all my problems are down to the fact that when I go to the "remote procedure call" service and click on dependencies, I get the error "class: interface not registered" I also get the same error on lots of other services that are...
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    Fastest AGP card?

    My mobo only supports AGP, and I want to upgrade my graphics card to the fastest available without doing upgrading else. Can you please give me some suggestions as to the fastest couple of Nvidia cards available in this format?
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    nforce5

    Does anyone have any news on when the nforce5 series is going to be announced as it's been over a year since the nforce4 series came out.
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    Dual-Channel

    I've got a stick of Crucial branded double-sided PC3200 in my system and now want to make it into a dual-channel system (mobo supports this). I was going to buy a stick of single-sided Crucial PC3200, but was told that it has to be of the double-sided variety to work properly in dual-channel...