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    How hot/cool is your Phenom II

    guys i am trying to gather some info about the temps of the new Phenom II. any of the chips will do but i am more interested in the X3 720 BE than anything else. if you have one of these chips please post the chip the type of cooling you are using and the overclock and voltages being used...
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    ICH10R problems, and problems, and more problems

    Since getting my DFI P45 JR (ddr2 model) i have had nothing but issues with the ICH10R. i am getting NTFS.sys BSOD, ich driver errors. and a couple of others that are related to either the hard drives or drivers. now first thing is this is vista and for whatever fvcking stupid reason Intel...
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    panasonic TH-42PX80U or Samsung PN42A450

    thanks to the gentleman who posted the BB add starting 8-10 i went into bestbuy to look at tv's. and get a free 60gb 360 and free in home delivery/setup with a TV purchase of 1099 and up. I have been eyeballing the $200 cheaper samsung for about a week now and Beach Camera has it for the same...
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    apologizing is thread crapping!!

    i want to know right here and right now who in this place is the jackass who makes the decisions on posts that determine they are thread crap's. this little punk who is selling a broken 360,, that is "still able to be rma'd" has reported me twice for thread crapping. the original post of...
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    *POLL* should pictures be required when selling/trading?

    Ya know i have been coming here for a long time, and aside from the sloppy layout of the forum i have been utterly appaulled at the lack of anyone posting pictures of their goods when they sell/trade something. from the newbie to the #1 heatware guy. no one posts pictures of their goods. and a...
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    LanParty LT X38-T2R

    motherboardpro.com has the LanParty LT X38-T2R for a nice $249 +$7.99 ground shipping. 30 pcs currently available as of 5:03pm CST i had the X35 version, was a pretty killer board. this also has 8 sata ports instead of the typical 6.
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    Media Files making PC hard lock

    ok i am totally baffled by this. ever since installing my eVGA 8800 GTX any and all video files make my system hard lock. hell even YouTube will lock the system. mpeg, avi, divx, xvid, mkv, wmv, low res, high res and hd resolutions. all the same, the system just comes to a wall and stops...
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    converting a DVD to HD Mpeg or AVI

    well i got a few of my favorite movies i want to turn into HD i dont care about the codec or size.. ok well id rather not have a 10gig movie lol.. is there a tool somewhere that can do this for me. i knwo there is but what..? i've searched around and cant find what i need. can someone...
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    Outlook and "Out of Office" auto replies

    ok why cant i get the outlook out of office auto reply to work. according to M$ Technet and everything i find its telling me to go to Tools then Out of Office Assistant and set up my auto replies for when im out of the office. well there is no out of office reply. i have office 2003 at...
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    installing windows on a USB hd

    ok so here is the question. How can i install, successfully, mind you. Windows onto a USB hard drive. 1) my hard drive is bootable 2) windows setup sees the hard drive, formats it and installs the files. 3) When the system reboot windows will boot up and go to the windows loading...
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    laptop sata drive on a desktop

    because laptop drives use a different power rating i am curious. i have a brand new TravelStar 100gig 7200rpm Sata drive. all the connectors look the same as a desktop drive but i dont want to plug it in if the power off a desktop psu is going to instantly fry the drive. the drive will only...
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    PCMCIA or USB TV tuner

    ok fellas so im gunna take my laptop up a notch and go for either a pcmcia or usb TV Tuner but i really cant tell which is best. so many have the same feature or total crap chipset that only allows for mediocre recording or watching. i was looking at one of the pcmcia card w/ the Philips...
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    Visio like program

    anyone know of a windows based opensource or other free Visio stype program ? I saw DIA which is a Gnu based program but there is no windows version that i can find. anyone got any ideas ?
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    cancer treatments for someone with no money and poop insurance

    just found out that a good friend of mine has been diagnoxed with pre cancerous groths in his throat. very horrible experience for him to be in. good guy but he lives by the seat of his pants financially. and his insurance at work dont start for another month and a half. with probably the...
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    dvd/cd packet writing

    years ago when roxio wasnt roxio, the cd burning software that it was did packet writing. meaning the cdrw you used was like a fully rewritable drive. it would on the fly write rewrite and erase any data you thru on it. well im in need of that again, well not me, the g/f needs something like...
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    upgrade for laptop video card

    ok fellas i currently have a G'Way 680XT 2.13 Dothan Laptop... it has the X700 ATI PCI-Express video CARD not embedded video. so that means i can upgrade !! lol so anyone see anywhere to buy a new PCI-E card for the laptop. right now this little X700 video card kicks some hardcore...
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    Making XP Home work with Pro

    ok fellas, her eat work the goofballs ordered a new pc but it has XP home on it and not home. I set it up with my username and password and made sure it was on the same workgroup. i rebooted and all that logged it and it still wont let me see any of the other pc's on the network. i went...
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    looking for curved 90deg elbows

    anyone know where i could get some curved 90deg 1/2'' OD elbows. i have some hardcut 90deg elbows that i use in my water setup but i figured i would help relieve the push pull stress in the link by changing to curved 90deg elbows. water will flow thru a curve better than a straight 90deg angle...
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    reciept of purchase for rma and i dont have one

    ok so i got a DFI Ultra-D a month ago from a guy on XS , well the board was junk from the start which is odd cuz it was the Rev A02. anywho its come to the rma point and i need a reciept of purchase for the rma. 1) the guy isnt responding to my emails or pm's for a copy of the reciept...
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    Dell 2005FPW and HDTV modes

    In the interest of HD and wanting to learn about it, although the 2005FPW isnt a good start but a start none the less, What modes does a Dell 2005FPW support for HD ? 480p 480i 720p 720i 1080i 572p ? of course dells website doesnt say anything. And infact it says max resolution is...
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    Old vs New

    ok here is the thing. my old system got way better benching and so far gaming scores, sometimes. and for the life of me i cant figure out why.. Old Config AMD64 3200+ CG Clawhammer skt754 1meg L2 @ 2.5ghz DFI LP UT 250GB 1gig OCZ pc4000 2.5-4-3-10 @ 260 SINGLE channel BFG 6800 GT...
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    7800 GTX with an NV47 core

    ok the G70 aka 7800 series was once called the NV47 so tell me how someone can have a card and sell it as legit menaing a legitimate 7800 GTX and say it has an NV47 core i mean i know how they got it.. its a test model and it is FREE where some of these cards actually released with...
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    App that creates Custom XP CD's

    Ok im going nuts cuz i ran across a program yesterday that allows you to create custom Windows XP CD's It allows you to totally strip XP to the bone, it also slipstreams service packs. It also allows you to slipstream your most current and stable Drivers for your hardware. now i swear i...
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    quick HTT question

    this will sound silly but i guess i never really needed to ask. Is HTT technically your motherboard or your CPU. i guess i know htt is just FSB. but when you talk HTT and you raise HTT is it actually your mobo your messing with. which inturn adjusts the cpu ? or is it a direct kick to the...
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    MPEG4 H264 conversions

    just for the heck of it i figured i'd try out the MPEG4 H264 codec/conversion. and wow what a total waste. MAJOR MAJOR pixelation when using the defualt h264 conversion method which is supposedly high definition standards. after nearly 10 hours of a 1hr27min movie i had only encoded 33...
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    smart guardian for nforce 3 boards ?

    i found an NForce 4 version at DFI's taiwan site but does anyone have an Nforce 3 version ? i see tons of people using this application and think its rather nifty if anyone has it let me know we can set up an aim or icq or msn transfer. and no its not illegal to ask that, if its...
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    trying to achieve a blend of Stability/Performance

    ok i am trying to figure out whats up with my system 3500+ Newcastle (she will do up to 2.7ghz but not stable the sweet spot of 100% stable is inbetween 2.55ghz and 2.6ghz but usually i dont have issues with 2.6ghz althought Pi dont like it) 1 gig OCZ PC4000 EL Gold Rev 2 MSI NEO2 Plat OCZ...
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    2U 3U 4U Servers

    Can someone throw me a bone here. What is the U in 2U 3U 4U servers Ive also seen PSU's Labelled at 5U what is the purpose and/or meaning of the U is it Unit ? is it Unexplanable ? lol is it Universal ? Is there a standard that follows the 'U' series of servers and products Ive...
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    *good* credit card company.

    well i got approved for the first time since my bankruptcy in 1999 for a Capital One Platinum card. yeah big deal anyone can can get one lol. funny platinum used to be a sign of the highest credit possible but now it means nothing. but my g/f says capital one is a junk CC company with...
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    voting, just some thoughts

    Myself and one of the gal's at work were talking politics, when we started talking about voting. she's going on 40 and im going on 34, neither one of us are registered voters. why ? let this sit in your brain and boil over for a bit before you go all gung-ho on me and bash my brains in...
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    another paypal scam

    got this in my hotmail just minutes ago, i have also changed the email and password i have on the account here is the message source, notice the bullshit paypal addresses.
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    desktop shortcuts that dont have rights to use ?...

    ok for some time now, my g/f system if either she or I create a shortcut on the desktop when you go to click it it says that you dont have permision blah blah you all know the error. BUT if a program makes the icon most of the time the link works fine. but not always. nothing else does this...
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    HD Cable not even HD!!! ??

    ok so i got my 2005FP yesterday and this morning i hooked her to my xbox and the Cable box via the DVI conenctor. The DVI conenctor gave me a picture and then quickly flashed HDCP Authenticaion failed. (or something close to that) i thought maybe i had to call Mediacom and have them enable...
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    2005FP display settings

    ok so i got my 2005FP today and WOW lets jsut get that out of the way. ok now the 1 and only resolution that actually scales to fit the entire screen is 1680x1050 which is awesome but , maybe i jsut need to get used to it but its bothering my eyes. there is another but it looks so...
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    dead

    nm i found what i needed
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    pre-sale thread looking for some advice.

    I'm listing this here cuz i want your thoughts on my prices and such before i go crazy with selling everything. If the mod's want to move it to the FS/FT forum thats cool just let me know. Ok fellas,, for the current time in my life i do believe i am pretty much done with Desktop PC's, too...
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    Samsung x427m cant upload ringtones and such

    finally got my usb cable and grabbed the samsung GPRS software. the Wizard does not detect the phone but the tool program will see it and download the phone book but it wont see anything else. when i try to upload a ringtone,, it wont see the phone all it says is [ADD] in the phone area but...
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    cell phone antenna boosters

    so me and the ol lady switched to Cingular and we get our phones charged up and we are inside of the apartment and bam,, total crap up and down reception. not bad but the reception meter bounces all over the place and i can here that underwater gargling sound i hate so much. also getting calls...
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    adding the 2nd power plug to a 6800 GT

    my 6800 GT fried the other night, not from overclocking but because BFG makes their power plug LARGE enough that you can actually connect the power plug to the card backwards and you dont even realise it. yes yes i know that sounds like the most stupid thing a person could ever do, and i agree...
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    touch decision to make

    im finding myself in a dillema, aside from my horrible spelling. lol. for the past year im finding myself becoming more and more bored with PC's. Its not a lack of learning, or a lack of hardware, its just plain boredom. but maybe i find a new program, or a game and i play it for a short...