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    AMD Phenom II x4 955BE to AMD FX 8350 Worth it?

    Current Specs: CPU: AMD Phenom II x4 955 BE 3.2Ghz (watercooled) MOBO: Gigabyte MA770T UD3P rev 1.0 RAM: 12GB DDR3 HDD: 240GB SSD 1 TB HDD GFX: EVGA GTX 970 SSC Sound: Soundblaster Z I was interested in upgrading my system, a REAL upgrade would be going to Ryzen or Intel 7th/8th gen for sure...
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    Advice on how far I can OC my hardware please?

    Hey everyone, had this computer now for a little while, I have previous OC experience but I'm reaching out to the experts for general advice on how far I can overclock the current hardware that I have so I can get a little bit more juice out of what I own. The only thing I've ever overclocked...
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    EVGA GTX 275 1792MB Overclock

    Hello All, Happy New Year!!!! Looking to sort of step it up a bit in the new year and tinker around with overclocking. I'm familiar with overclocking and have had the chance to play around with EVGA's precision tool, and stressing it with FurMark. I tried to step up my clocks to the FTW...
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    Will this powersupply be good enough?

    Would this power supply be able to handle (2) EVGA Geforce GTX 275's in SLI? Right now I'm running just one with my CPU being an AMD Phenom II x4 955. I have one hard drive, one cd-rom drive, nothing else really gulping up power. Brand Thermaltake Model W0319RU Series Black Widow...
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    8600GT XXX Edition Issue

    I seem to be having a problem with a new system build. Downloaded latest nTune. nTun currently shows my XFX 8600GT XXX Edition Card as: Core Clock : 620 Mhz Memory Clock : 800 Mhz Question is : Why is nTune registering only 800mhz? My card is suppose to have a 1600mhz memory...
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    Windows 98 and 2000

    Ive been trying to get Windows 2000, to run on an old box that I put together with random parts. The ram was pc100, and kept causing the pc to crash, so I put in 256mb of pc133. Windows 2000 install, has been giving me a bunch of stop messages like IRQ_ADDRESS_NOT_EQUAL_TO_OR_EQUAL, which I...
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    Problems With an Found PC

    I found a pc-case on the side of the road with everything harvested out of it, except the motherboard (socket-pga370) and an intel celeron 1ghz cpu, with heatsink and fan. I went and asked all of my friends for some hardware to build the pc, virtually for free, all of the equipment I had...
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    Games Now Lagging

    Hello all. Ive been experiencing harsh lag on some but not all games that I play. For example Quake3 Arena Demo, my cpu usage shoots up to 100% while I play on nowhere near the maximum settings. I used to play the game with no problems at all until I upgraded my ram from 2x256mb to 1x1GB...
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    Upgrade from 4,200 to 7,200 rpm

    My specific notebook model (Compaq Presario R3370us) . Currently has a 40gb 4,200 rpm ATA/100 hard drive in it. I want to upgrade to xxgb 7,200 rpm but... Newegg only has ATA-6 Models, and SATA-150 Could ATA-6, or SATA-150 be backwards compatible to fit my EIDE ATA100 Drive Standards...
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    CableModem / ISP Question

    Hello all, thanks for takin a look at my post. I decided to go into my modem administration for the first time and took a look at the event log. This is what I see (can someone sort of decipher what this stuff means) and if any of this is bad? Event Description First Time Last Time Counts...
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    Neat Story About Battlefield 2

    I dont really consider myself "hardcore" into gaming. Been stuck on CS 1.6 / CS:S for awhile now. Decided to break out of that, time to buy BF2 (looks hot.) So I waltz into my local Target store. Go over to the games section. Theres Battlefield 2. $53.98 dollars more in debt. I walk...
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    ActiveX Security In Windows

    Im trying to repair my friends computer. When i start it up it gives me a message dialog windows that says "your current security settings prevent you from running activex scripts on this page" and when this happens , i cant see nortons active menus and so on and so forth in order to do a...
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    Packet Loss

    I live in an apartment with two roomates. One has a desktop with a Realtek 802.11b Wireless NIC Card. The other has a Netgear 802.11g Wireless PCMCIA Card in his laptop. My Wireless network description is : Utilizing a D-Link 802.11g - 2.4Ghz Wirless Router Model : DI-524 Using Latest...
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    Wireless Piggybacking / Bridging

    Hey all, Im trying to get my D-Link 802.11g AirPlus Xtreme G Wireless Router Model: DI-624 (router A) To connect to a Linksys 802.11 (b I think) Model BEFSW11S4 v2/v3. (router B) What im essentially trying to do, is have router A connect to router b (which has the a LAN connection...
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    Way to decrease the size of windows

    Hey everybody, whats going on, hopefully there is an answer to my question ive always been wondering about: here goes Im using 15" Widescreen Monitor @ 1280 x 800 On my laptop. The look and feel im trying to get is like really sleek and realllly small windows and text Ive been trying...
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    Cable Modem Help

    Cable Signal Details Forward Path: Return Path: Signal Acquired at 561.000 MHz Connection: Acquired SNR: 38.3 dB F requency: 26.5 MHz...
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    Running OS X over Windows

    Would like to try emulating os x tiger over my windows xp pro machine through emulation software. Apprently (softmac) only emulates as far as os 8. Not sure about os x. Anyone know any other emulation program that I may run os x over windows xp with? I think I remember "vmware" but im not sure...
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    Windows XP PRO 64bit - Audio Driver Help

    Hey everyone, I forgot where my post went a few months ago about drivers that werent availible for my specific hardware, and was wondering if there is anything going around nowadays ? I have a Compaq Presario R3000 (AMD)64 Notebook Computer When I Had Windows XP PRO 32-Bit I used The...
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    Need Help With Wireless Storage Networking

    Hello everyone, Im trying to hook this whole setup, up for a friend. And this is what we have Sonos Music Player He has a 160GB NAS Box He wants to use to hold his music for his sonos. This is what it is 160GB NAS He went and bought this Wireless Router and this Wireless...
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    Using a Toshiba 27" Television For a Monitor

    Hey guys, recently took the pc downstairs and hooked it up to the television through s-video out;. And the moximum resolution I can get is 800 x 600. It looks like it can go up more only to 1024 x 768. But the slider wonnt move. And even at this current resolution the screen on the television...
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    A64 Laptop Overclocking

    I have a Compaq Presario R3370US model Laptop. CPU = A64 3000+ 1.8ghz I cant oc through bios, is there another way ?
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    winXPx64 - sound driver question.

    Hello, thank you for taking the time to view my post :) . Installed (Build 3790 Service Pack 1, v,1433) Last night. On a compaq R3370US Laptop. Under the manufacturers specifications it says "Digital Audio" my soundcard. "real descriptive" I know.. I popped in my driver recovery cd (hoping)...
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    Hey thanks for the quick reply

    Hes running the MAC side, and hes googling stuff now, What would he have to do on his side to make sure that permissions are enabled. I mean I get on his regular hard drive
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    Network Issue : PC to Mac. Cant access 250gb Firewire

    Hello all, Network issue, many thanks in advance, you all rule. Ok. Running windows xp home, Trying to access my friends 250gb Lacie Firewire Drive over my network. I can see the hard drive on his computer, but not the external storage. What between the both of us , can we do so that I may...
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    AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Problem

    Yesterday I purchased a Compaq Presario R3370US Model containing The Athlon64 3000+ CPU. Its operating system is Windows XP : Home Edition. I went into system to see the system statistics, pretty much a happy geek. When I noticed it said. "AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+ 797MHz, 512mb of RAM...