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    Recommendations for a beginning programming project

    I was reading up on things to do to help get into selective colleges(MIT, Caltech, Stanford) and its recommended if you go for computer science to have some programming projects that are supervised by a teacher or school staff member. At my high school we don't have a teacher or someone in tech...
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    Most of my families chickens were killed

    So this weekend when I was at a basketball camp some dogs broke into our chicken coops and killed 5 ducks, 2 rabbits and 30 chickens. By brother was home alone on friday and went to check on them and he found all the cages ripped open and all the animals were torn apart, none eaten. He then...
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    Got some mem related errors on OCZ dd2 800 in Windows

    I have been recieving memory related errors recently when shutting down windows and also problems installing games (UT3 wouldn't install said it was missing a cab that was right on the DVD and DoW: Soulstorm installed but said a couple of files did not match those on the DVD and now some...
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    Question about HS foreign language credits

    I am looking to go to a private college after graduating high school(stanford maybe) or a large state univerity like the UW (I live in Washington state) for either computer science or business major and then a masters after I get my bachelor degree. I just finished my sophmore year of high...
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    Looking for a pair of gaming quality 5.1 headphones

    I am looking for a pair of 5.1 headphones for my gaming rig and have been looking at the Turtle Beach EarForce HPA 1 and 2. I know that 5.1 headphones aren't as good as the real thing but I don't have the money or time to set up a 5.1 setup and the room my computer is in wouldn't work anyway...
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    My school biology project

    This was my high school biology project for my sophmore biology class. The teacher gave us one week to put it together and I ended up using windows movie maker for the editing. Part 1: http://youtube.com/watch?v=tkhVfaBnhJk Part 2: http://youtube.com/watch?v=uhP8hbg7WIg Blooper real...
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    error 1935 when installing vcredist_x64

    When installing crysis the installer tried to install the vcredist package but would stall causing an error 1935 popup to appear. I figured no biggy and just tried to install it off the exe on the disk. It stalled at the same point. I then downloaded the newest version and it still stalled. I...
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    Most awesome High School class ever

    For my first period class this semester I got to be a tech aid for the head of the tech department for my school district. The class freaking rocks, I get to work on and fix computers all period, get to try out the new stuff he wants to roll out, get free candy if I ride in his van(not really I...
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    CD drive won't respond

    I am running PCLOS 2007 and have been trying install UT2004 to have something familiar to play when I get bored when using linux. However when I run the linux installer from the command prompt I can get to installing the first disc but when I try ejecting the cd to put in disc 2 the drive won't...
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    ecs kn3 sli2 cold boot problem

    Sometimes after an occasional cold boot when i power on my computer all the fans and stuff turn on but the hard drives don't spool up and the system won't post. To get it to work I have to unplug it several times and when it boots again the cmos is whiped out destroying my oc(while not a lot...
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    1080i vs 1080p

    I was wondering how big of a difference between the two resolutions there is if you don't compare them side by side? Thank you for participating in our forums, but this topic is ongoing here. -Schadenfroh
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    Q6600 problems

    I just got a q6600 from fry's in the combo deal and am having some problems with coretemp and speedfan I when I run coretemp I can get it open but it refuses to display any temps all other info is good and speed fan just freezes when I open it. When I run tat I can get it to display 2 cores...
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    How to install drivers on Linux

    I have been trying to understand how to install drivers on openSuse10.2(windows vet since DOS, but a Linux noob) but when I use the make command after extracting but it says the makefile is not present (I am in shell and used cd to get to the folder)it has something to do with a missing lib. and...
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    kn3 sli2 question

    I was wondering if ECS was planning to release a bios update for phenom in the future for a quad upgrade. It uses the nvidia 590 chipset. Also if not would it be possible to upgrade without one?
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    Ozzy and Zombie

    Went to the rob zombie and Ozzy show at key arena in seattle last night. I've been to a lot of concerts but this one was the best except for Ozzfest 2005 w/ Black Sabbath, Maiden, BLS and Zombie. Zombie did a whole bunch of his new stuff and finished with some old white zombie( and his dancers...
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    E2xxx and E4xxx overclock thread

    I thought that while its cool to see what people have managed to do with a q6600 I think the best overclockers are these cheap cpus. We can all trust each other so I don't think we need screens of orthos/prime blend and cpu-z. I think a good orthos time is 3 hours because most errors will...
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    usb problem on evga 680i T1

    Just built a computer for my brother and have gotten everything working except for the usb 2.0 drivers. I have installed both the drivers that came with the board and new ones for the 680i chipset. With both when I insert a flash drive I get an error saying this device could perform faster.. if...
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    Noob question on orthos/tat

    Sorry if this is a noob question but I have a e4500 oc'd to 3.3ghz and have about 25C abients. With the blend test I get about 45-47C but in the small FFTs and TAT get about 10C higher. I was wondering If this is normal, I have a tuniq tower 120 for cooling.
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    Help overclocking e4500

    I have reached a stable 3ghz at 266mhzx11 with memory running in unlocked with temps that average out to about 45C orthos load according to cpuz. this is on "stock voltages". Since the Vdroop on this board is pretty bad (at 1.46v it is about 1.4v load) so in the bios the voltage is at 1.3125 and...
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    e6x50 vs. e4x00

    I am building a rig for my brother (upgrading from a xp 2600+) and will be overclocking it. The rig will end up looking like this Centurion 5 case artic freezer 7 evga 680i nf63 tr (not retail package) 2gb ocz gold ddr2 800 444 7900gs I can spend upto $200 on a processor shipped so my...
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    Laptop overclock results

    I have a toshiba l25-s1196(with a 1.7 pentium m I put in) laptop with 768mb of ddr2 533. the northbridge according to cpu z is rs400 rc400 rc410 and the southbridge is sb 400. it has integrated radeon xpress 200m graphics with 128mb of ram alloted to it. I used clockgen with the ics 951416 pll...
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    Laptop overclock results

    I have a toshiba l25-s1196(with a 1.7 pentium m I put in) laptop with 768mb of ddr2 533. the northbridge according to cpu z is rs400 rc400 rc410 and the southbridge is sb 400. it has integrated radeon xpress 200m graphics with 128mb of ram alloted to it. I used clockgen with the ics 951416 pll...
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    toshiba l25 upgrade

    I was wondering if I could upgrade my cpu to a Intel Core Duo T2300E Yonah 1.667GHz 2 x 1MB L2 Cache Socket M Processor. the motherboard in my laptop accepts upto a 533mhz fsb and is socket m any help is greatly appreciated.
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    Please review this gaming "upgrade"

    I am upgrading my brothers gaming/ light multimedia machine(mp3 ripping, occasional dvd). It will be overclocked and it would help if people would leave feedback. This is a low budget rig. cpu/gpu will be upgraded every 9-12mo e6750 EVGA 680i (the $154 dollar one from newegg) EVGA 7900 GS...
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    overclocking amd x2 5600+

    I have a kn3 sli2 mobo and 5600+ overclocked to 3.2ghz and was wondering if it is resonable to get into the 3.3ghz range with my mobo. my ram is running at ~600 mhz with 6-6-6-18 timings. I have a zalmann cnps 9700 and generic ram. I have not been able to find many users who have used my board.
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    budget gaming upgrade

    I am upgrading my brother's gaming/multimedia rig for him. this will be a pretty extensive overhaul because he is still running an athlon xp. i will probably keep the optical drives and maybe the case although i might get something like an antec 900 (which i have and love) this will be...