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    New Smartphone on Verizon

    I'm eligible for a new phone on Verizon, and want to make it my first smartphone. Unfortunately, I'd like to get it in the next week or two so that I'll have a smartphone before I drive/camp across the country and start grad school. Unfortunately, it looks like now is the worst time to be...
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    international edition textbook?

    So it's the time of year where I have to spend $$$ on textbooks but I'm thinking of buying international editions to save a decent amount of money. Has anyone had any experiences with them? Specifically, do they have the same problems? Thanks!
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    Multimeter?

    I need to check out the alternator on my car so I figured this would be a good excuse to finally buy a multimeter. I'm going to school for engineering so I'll probably be using it for school projects, computer stuff, and working on my car. Ideally I'd like to spend less than $50. I'd love...
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    mp3 player / cell phone

    I need to get a new cell phone and I've been looking into getting a mp3 player for a while, so I've been thinking of just trying to combine the two. I don't need much in the way of storage capacity for an mp3 player as I don't think I'll use it too much, I have about 2gb of music I regularly...
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    7900 driver

    I just bought a 7900gs off a friend of mine. I switched from an ATI card, so I'm not used to the whole nvidia driver scene. What are the best drivers to use for the card? I want performance, but not if it comes at the sake of a lot of stability (ie, I'm fine with using beta or non-whql...
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    getting a new mp3 player

    I'm in the market for my first MP3 player, and I'm basically trying to get the best thing I can for the money. I'm assuming there are better alternatives out there to ipods. Specifically, I have been looking at the Sandisk Sansa e280 (8gb flash memory), the Cowon iAudio X5 (20 or 30 gb HD)...
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    optimized seti@home client for Linux

    I recently switched full time over to Linux, and so I've been looking for an optimized client I can use for seti@home. I'm running 32 bit linux on an Athlon 64. Do any exist? The only one I found finished most WUs in <10 seconds, which certainly isn't good. And while we're at it, I also...
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    s939 X2 3800 and Opteron 165 overclockability

    I have a 939 system running with a DFI Lanparty UT nF4 Ultra-D. Currently I have a winchester 3000+ @ 2.45ghz, cooled with an XP-90. I have 2gb of ram, but it's in 4x512 sticks of value ram. I have a good opportunity to upgrade my processor (someone's going to buy it off me), so I'm looking...
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    X800xl and 7900gt

    I have a made by ATI X800xl and am considering buying my friend's factory overclocked EVGA 7900gt off of him when he upgrades. I don't game an especially large amount, but my monitor is 1680x1050, so I'd like to be able to game at that res when I do play something. Do you think a 7900gt will...
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    Dell LCDs

    Sorry if this is a repost, but I searched for it and couldn't find anything (unless the search is dead again). Anyways, I'm looking into getting a new LCD, and want something that is 1680x1050, will work for gaming, has an 8-bit panel, and is around $300 preferably. It seems that Dell has...
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    Physically bad HD

    To make a long story short, I have a hard drive with a lot of valuable data on it that's physically dying; it will spin up for a few seconds and then makes a noise as if something's hitting the platters (I don't think that's it, but it's hard to explain) and then it slows down and stops...
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    iTunes Alternative

    Does anyone know of a simple, free, preferably open-source itunes alternative? I just need something with the capability to do playlists and doesn't have the bugs or bloat of iTunes 7. I've found plenty for Linux, but none for Windows (and for anyone who says I should switch, I've got both...
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    Calling all guitar players

    I'm trying to learn the guitar (started Saturday), but cant' seem to get the B chord to work. I've been using a book of my dad's for chords, but it shoes a fingering that I havent' found anywhere else, so I'm trying to do the normal fingering, but I can't seem to get my 1st finger to cover the...
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    mac -> sound system

    My parents have a Mac as their main computer, and they want to attempt to hook that to a pair of speakers in a separate room, replacing a cd player / audio system with the mac (by burning all the cds to the computer and playing them from it onto the speakers). Is it possible to do this? I...
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    YACT: replacing antenna

    So my antenna decided to snap off a few days ago while I was driving somewhere, and now I need to get a new one. The problem is I'm having trouble finding what antenna to get ... a few local stores said to get a universal one but I've also seen specific antennas for a 1990 prizm listed online...
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    can't link to chiefvalue

    I tried to link to some ram on chiefvalue and got censored out. "www.chiefvalue.com" gets turned into "******", but using just "chiefvalue.com" works. with www without www
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    S@H BOINC

    I can't seem to transfer my classic account over. I click on the "for SETI@home Classic participants" link on the front page, enter my email, and it says it there is no seti@home account registered to my email. I've checked the S@H classic site and I can pull up my info using the same email...
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    bsod on bootup

    For the second day in a row, my computer has given me a bsod right after I log in and while its still loading programs. the error report thing says I believe the error in the event viewer that corresponds to the bsod is this one there's also this right next to it I've been getting a few...
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    Played COD2 on an xbox 360 today at BB

    Isn't every single xbox 360 game supposed to have 4x aa turned on? Because this definately had no aa on. wtf?
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    Lines on screen

    Occasionally, I get these brownish lines that stem from the right side of my screen and stretch for the left, and somewhat follow my mouse around. Sometimes its just a few lines, but other times its a block that fills up most of my screen. They normally just last for a few seconds, but sometime...
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    EA's site is down

    :shocked: has the world just come to an end? Edit: sorta up now.
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    Overclocking A64 with 4 sticks of ram

    I'm thinking of getting another two sticks of 512mb ram to give me 2gb for my winny @ 2457mhz. The ram's only at 205mhz with a 3/4 divider. I got a chance to test two of my friend's sticks along with mine to see how the CPU would handle it. It was error free in over 8 hours of memtest...
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    More BSOD problems

    My computer is: Athlon 64 3000+ @ 2.45ghz (9x273) (prime stable) DFI nF4 Lanparty UT Ultra-d 6/23 bios 2x512mb pc3200 Corsair Value Select @ 204.75mhz (3/4 divider) @ 2.7v ATI Radeon X800XL 160gb Maxtor PATA (primary boot drive) 6gb really old pata drive OCZ Powerstream 420w Nec 3520a...
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    Any way to force on aa/af just for certain games?

    Running an X800XL and I'd like to have the drive force on 4xaa and 8xaf for older games that don't list those settings, but I can't seem to figure out how. Is there some way to do it using the ati driver? (I'm using the 5.8 with CCC but will gladly switch to the normal control pannel if that...
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    Seti with a Laptop

    I had a very old laptop handed down to me (celeron 500mhz), and I'd like to run seti on it. The problem is, this thing has terrible battery life, and I dont' want to hurt it any more. Is there any program to make seti@home (classic) run only when the computer is using the plug? Or does...
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    Are these fans any good?

    I'm tired of my Antec fans that occasionally make this high-ish pitched noise, so I'm in the market for some new fans. I don't mind the noise as long as its a low-pitched "woosh" of air. My friend has some of these speeze (or masscool?) fans sitting around, and is willing to sell me four...
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    Can you connect to the BF2 account server?

    WHen I try to connect to it (by logging in) the mouse turns into the spinning "2" and the game freezes. I just bought the game and I want to play it :|
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    Eclipse help

    I'm trying to configure Eclipse as a C/C++ programing environment, so right now I have CDT installed along with Cygwin and MinGW (I have been trying to get both to work, unsuccessfully). Right now, I believe I have Cygwin configured correctly, except for every project I start in Eclipse, I get...
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    Temp fluctuations/high temps with new XP-90

    I just installed an XP-90 on my Athlon 64 3000 @ 2.412ghz with 1.52v (default 1.8ghz, 1.4v) on my DFI nF4 UT Ultra-d. My case is an antec and I have three 80mm fans blowing in (two on the front, one on the side) and one blowign out (at the back) plus the power supply (and OCZ Powerstream) blows...
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    Arcticlean?

    Has anyone used arcticlean (its a product to remove old TIM) or know if its any good? Do you think its worth getting instead of just cleaning of my old TIM manually? It costs $5.
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    X800XL Temps

    I was just playing the BF2 demo, and got a warning from MBM5 that my X800XL had passed 70C. I just installed MBM5 the other day, so I'm sure the GPU has reached these temps before while playing HL2 and Farcry, I just wasn't allerted about the temps so I didn't knwo about them. This seems very...
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    What codec should I use for iTunes?

    For the best sound quality without having to use too much hard drive space?
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    Bios resets, now OC hangs

    My friend has this computer: A64 3500+ Winchester (stock cooling) Gigabyte GA-K8N-Ultra9 (nforce 4 ultra chipset) 2x512 Kingston HyperX (PC3200, 2-3-2-x) BFG 6800GT OC 420w OCZ Powerstream 250gb maxtor sata 80gb maxtor pata He had his computer OC'd to 2475mhz (225*11 @ 1.55v, ram at...
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    Windows XP on multiple comps?

    Is it legal to install Windows XP Home (not the upgrade one) on multiple computers at the same time?
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    printer error and HD problem

    I've got a DFI ultra-d and a PCI parallel port card, cause my mobo doesnt' have a parallel port and I'm using a really old printer. After I installed the drivers for the parellel port card, it came up with the windows saying it has detected my printer, etc, but then it would give me an error...
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    Newer Winchester OC thread

    I think someone did one of these threads a while back, but its been a while, so I thought we should have a new one and see if we can draw any conclusions from it. It seems almost all Winchesters from week 51 of '04 on have topped out at right around 2.4ghz, so I thought I'd make a thread to...
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    Just finished band of brothers

    :cookie: to the producers of it.
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    Wireless with linux?

    I'm going to get a new wireless card and give my current one to my brother, but I'm looking for one that supports linux or is relatively easy to get working with linux. It has to be a 802.11g card, I'm not going to downgrade for linux support. ;) Does anyone know of any wireless g cards that...
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    quick question about the new napster..

    Does anyone know if you can burn the tracks you download with it onto a CD? And if there's any way to get them into iTunes? ... I got a free subscription for 4 months and I'm trying to decide if its worth the hassle to set it up.
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    Finished my OC

    I've got a winchester 3000+ with the stock cooler, DFI Lanparty UT nF4 Ultra-d, and corsair value ram. I was able to reach 268*9=2412mhz on 1.56 volts (shows up as 1.52 in the bios, and 1.504 in CPUZ). Memory is at 3:4 ratio which equals 201mhz. It primed for 11 hours before I stopped it...