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    System76 Gazelle/Serval worthy options for my needs?

    So, my nearly 4 year old Thinkpad T61p finally bit the dust outside of its warranty. It's been repaired one before in-warranty but now it's finally officially dead. So, I need a replacement. I've been eyeballing the W520 since they've been announced, but it turns out that the System76 machines...
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    A8N-E will not boot over 245Mhz?

    No matter what I do, my A8N-E will not boot at FSB's over 245. I set the CPU multiplier to 4x to test to see what the max FSB the board will boot at is and the highest I can go is 245Mhz. I've tried setting the HT bus to 4x as well (keeping it under 1000) and still won't work. PCI-E is set at...
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    Sound card with digital out & good sound quality?

    Basically I'm looking to upgrade from the realtek ALC850 onboard sound to something discrete. It doesn't necessarily have to be top of the line, but it does need to have either coax or optical (preferred) digital out. I was looking at the X-fi but in order to get digital out you have to get the...
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    Anyone with a Week5 '05 Venice 3200+?

    pcper reviewed the 3200+ but it was a week4 and got 280x10 out of it on stock cooling @ stock voltage. Pretty impressive if you ask me. I've not bothered to overclock mine as of yet but I'm going to try at some point. I'm kinda worried my RAM is going to be the limiting factor (most likely have...
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    windows + scsi + ide = headaches?

    I have a Tekram SCSI card with an 18GB Seagate Cheetah 36LP hard drive as my boot drive and two regular IDE devices. I've found that the only way to get my SCSI drive to become the C drive is to disconnect my two IDE drives when I go to install windows. Is this normal or am I really doing...
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    No center channel on mp3's?

    I have an Abit NF7-S with the Soundstorm audio... I have an Onkyo home theater system connected via optical-digital out. The only time I actually get a center channel is when I'm playing DVD's in Power DVD! My guess is that this is normal since mp3's are stereo (2 channels only) but oddly, I get...
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    how to get gemstar guide plus?

    I have a TV Wonder Pro Remote Control Edition that I bought used, but did not get a CD with it. Hence, I did not get the Gemstar guide+ app. Is there any easy way to get it? I've managed to download the drivers and MMC app from ATI, but neither of them come with the gemstar app. Also, the KB on...
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    floppy required to install XP on SCSI drive?

    Just curious... I have a Tekram Ultra SCSI card and a SCSI drive onto which I'm going to install XP. Am I going to need a floppy to do so? I think I remember seeing XP setup scrolling through some scsi drivers when you install, but it's been forever since I've gone through XP setup. I know XP...
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    macmall, pcmall, onsale, ecost all the same?

    What's up with these 4 companies? Their websites are basically all identical and their prices are basically the same. Amusingly, all 4 websites are down and all 4 of their phone numbers get you just a busy signal. They worked fine last night, dead now. Bet their connection went down and their...
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    SCSI drive runs wicked hot, where to mount it?

    Ok, so I have an older Cheetah X15-36LP 18 GB drive on the way that I purchased from a forum member here. Doing some research on storagereview.com, I gleaned some temperature information from the drive. Apparently that sucker runs @ 57.1 Celsius vs only 42.7 and 40.3C for my other two drives...
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    400w PSU enough?

    OK, so as of right now I'm running a WD800JB, WD1200JB for my HD's... a 52/32/52x burner, 16x DVD/CDRW combo, Radeon 9700, 1GB Corsair 3200LL, AXP 2500+ Mobile and 8 case fans on an Antec SmartPower 400w PSU. I've not had any power related issues as of yet. However, this week sometime I'll be...