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    Looking for a footswitch for PowerPoint

    I think if you could find an old iMac hockey puck mouse it would be the cheapest solution. http://www.applegazette.com/wp.../2007/11/puckmouse.jpg
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    GTX 512 non-availability

    Product sold out a day after it was launched? So does that mean the Xbox 360 was a paper launch too and is utter vaporware? Looks like the Ferrari F430 was a paper launch too cause there is over a 1 year wait for that. What makes you so special that any product you want should be available the...
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    4 raptors in a raid?

    Mr. Bob sorry to burst your bubble, but if you noticed, I replied earlier with my real thoughts and you got dfensive and shot them down. I was just showing you what you WANTED to hear. Just get what you want and be happy
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    4 raptors in a raid?

    "The raptors put off a lot of heat, and I will need adequate cooling and power for them. I was thinking about using the Thermaltake Kandolf Aluminum case and using this PSU: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817101205" -yes they do, that case looks like the best one on the...
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    4 raptors in a raid?

    I think mirrored raid is more for if a drive fails, your computer will keep running, very important for a server, but is downtime that catastophic for your home desktop? I have a UPS, but I definately don't need redundant power supplies. You say you need data security. Is this data so...
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    fresh install, backup drive won't assign a drive letter

    reinstalling goback solved the problem, i was able to get teh fiels off the drive, i reformatted it of course and will never touch goback with a ten foot pole
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    fresh install, backup drive won't assign a drive letter

    I just did a fresh Win Xp reinstall on a computer, I put all the backup files on a second hard drive. After the install, the backup drive won't get a drive letter assigned. The drive is detected just fine, shows up in computer management as healthy, there just isn't a drive letter assigned, and...
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    Need suggestions on shuttle system/ overclocking a celeron D

    get her an iBook, i got my gf one and she loves it. It does come with a productivity suite, just not office. You could alwys "find" it online anyways :) But i did add an extra 256mb of ram its a must. The mac mini looks intersting to me too, and everyone keeps hyping it, but for 900 bucks...
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    I want to part out my pc for a laptop

    I don't do much gaming at all anymore, and after buying a bunch of stuff for my computer I have decided to maybe sell the parts and buy a laptop. Here is what i have, give some ideas for what i can sell them for. Athlon 64 3000+ socket 754 ~ 5 months old Thermalright XP-120 with panaflo M1...
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    What Fan for XP-120

    I just installed an xp-120 with that panaflo fan. I dont have any vibration issues at all. I have my fan at blow, and the only time there was any type of vibration was when i put my hand in fron of the fan, there was a little buffeting noise, so maybe it has to do with limited airflow is...
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    Don't let my coworker buy a MiniMac - Recommend a sub-$1000 PC!

    as far as ram goes, with 256 having safari open and then trying to open word as well takes forever. it can run one program at a time pretty well, but 512 just makes it way smoother, and makes the system feel a lot faster. As for expensive software, it really comes with all the productivity...
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    Intermittent no optical USB mouse on boot, Logitech MX510 on Shuttle SN95G5

    just a random thought, you could try in the device manager under properties of the mouse see if "allow computer to turn off device to save power" is unchecked. It's greyed out with my intellimouse but who knows. It under the propeties for mouse, not HID. edit. nm just read it was a cold boot.
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    Which goop to use on NV5 & later a new northbridge cooler?

    I just replaced the northbridge hs with a vantec iceberq. I used As3 no problems so far. I wanted to go passive, but none of the zalman hs would fit with a dual pci graphics cooler. I use speedfan to turn down the fan and i can't hear it at all over my other fans. And my nb temps are 17-25...
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    installed an xp-120 and panaflo FBA12G12M, power from molex or mb?

    well plugged it into the motherboard, so far so good. i aslo installed speedfan, what a great tool. My computer is a lot quieter now.
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    Got a 6800 ultra, other than HL2, Doom3, Farcry what will show it off??

    yeah i got this on the $350 outpost deal. My friend got his yesterday, but he had some stuttering issues, he called bfg and they said to turn off fastwrites. I did realize overnight shipping was only 2 dollars more, so i ordered 2nd day, oh well.
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    installed an xp-120 and panaflo FBA12G12M, power from molex or mb?

    I just installed an xp-120 with the panaflo FBA12G12M from svc.com. My q is should i power it fromteh mb or a molex? The fan is a littel louder than i though it would be, awesome temps thouhg. Any recomendatios on a fan controller? How are the vantec ones? I canpick one of those up at fry's...
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    Don't let my coworker buy a MiniMac - Recommend a sub-$1000 PC!

    get the mac mini. I just bought my gf an 12" iBook, and it is perfect for her needs. Especially the no spyware/worms/trojans/virus thing. Honestly, I plugged in a fresh install of xp stragiht into comcast and the computer got loaded with crap, it was insane. You can't expect a regular person to...
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    Got a 6800 ultra, other than HL2, Doom3, Farcry what will show it off??

    thanks for the tips, i'm gonna go ahead and downloa... i mean buy some of those games to check out the graphics.
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    Got a 6800 ultra, other than HL2, Doom3, Farcry what will show it off??

    I'm getting my 6800 utlra tomorrow, now I'm looking for games to see really nice graphics. I have HL2, Doom3, and Far Cry. Is there anythign else? Maybe just tech demo's to see the power :) Let me know!
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    My friend is in the market for a PC for college.

    At Oregon State University we get a good discount on HP laptops which are really nice. The new sonoma dells look nice too, and there are some good deals right now, check www.notebookreview.com I'm a college senior, and a laptop is the way to go in college nowadays, you can take to the library...
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    raid 0 on single IDE channel, move to both channels

    I currently have 2 200gb maxtors in a raid 0 array on my primary ide channel. If i were to move one disk to secondary master, could i do it while still keeping my array? or would all my data be lost?
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    Laptop vs Desktop?

    If you want to play games dont get a laptop. If you want to do anythign other than play games get a laptop. I dont care about the new mobile graphics chips, having it paired with a P4 you could probably play for like an hour on battery. My buddy has an XPS and it is freaking huge. The ac...
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    LoL at Alienware

    I got a newegg towel with my cpu purchase!! eat that alienware!!
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    RANT: I'm sick of Lance Armstrong

    I was trying to be sarcastic lol. Guess it didn't work. I am actual cycling fan, even before lance had cancer. In fact I've been wearing a livestrong band for a logn time now. Nike headquarters is really close to my house, so I heard about them a long time ago when I had lunch with a buddy...
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    RANT: I'm sick of Lance Armstrong

    yea right on man, just like all those idiots with the "support our troops" stickers on their cars, i mean wtf how is a stikcer supporting troops, you aren't supplying them armor for they're humvees. totally faux-hip and those dumbasses that wear red ribbons to support aids reserach, those...
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    6800GT won't fit in correctly... HELP!! =(

    When the motherboard is secured in correctly, make sure the bottom tab on the back of the pci card goes into that little slot in the case, sometimes that doesnt line up and is what makes it seem like it doesnt fit
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    Are Macs *THAT* much better for editing over the PC?

    All of my multimedia professors at school have both macs and pcs. They all do or have done professional work as well and recommend to all of us that both have their pros and cons. I guess anybody that is really serious would understand that each platform has good and bad things about it. I...
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    I need some advice on a mid-range NForce 4 rig I'm planning....

    Well i think a lot of your problems with system responsiveness on your old system stem from having only 256 megs of ram. A stock athlon 3500 with a gig of pc3200 value ram will be way more than enough for any of the things you are using your computer for. If you aren't gogin to use the 200 gig...
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    Problems with pictures

    I can save the image as a jpeg with IE by default. If yours is bmp just click the save as type to jpeg.
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    Attention Canon Printer Owners

    My parents bought the refill kit from costco, i was skeptical at first, but they work really well and are easy to fill. The only thing is you don't use some of the ink bottles, some bottles are labeled photo, and the instructions say the photo ink isn't compatible with canon.
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    xp-120 + fan thoughts pls

    I was referring to the factory fan/sink combo, if the panaflo and xp-120 would be loudert or quieter. I am not too worried aobut noise, as the stock fan is quiet enough for me, just want better performance, but I must say having a freezing ass room has helped my temps a lot of the sotck sink/fan.
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    xp-120 + fan thoughts pls

    Would you say that panaflo would be quieter than the stock fan? Or should i get a fan controller?
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    One step closer to the final draft, what do you think about this system?

    If you mainly do video editing, I would get as much hard drive and monitor you can afford, I don't think the 200gb seagates are much more expensive. If you aren't going to overclock, I know people seem pretty happy with the Antec 3700bqe or the even quieter Sonata. I was able to get a 21"...
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    2001FP People. Are you blind? This screen SUCKS!

    I have a 21" Sony E540 FD Trinitron CRT, you wanna trade :)
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    Need replacement fan for NF7-S northbridge.

    yeah my nb fan sounds like crap on my nf7-s too, if i just unplug the fan you think that will be really bad? the machine is just used to sruf the web check email, but I put an overclocked barton 2500, to 3200+ in it just for kicks.
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    Some problems with my new computer

    to set your nic to DHCP Control panel --> Network Connections --> right click your NIC, select properties --> click internet protocol(TCP/IP) --> click properties ---> and make sure obtain an IP address automatically is selected. DHCP is when you router is in charge of giving each computer...
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    Some problems with my new computer

    make sure your nic is set to DHCP, because even if its not getting an ip from the router, if a nic is set to dhcp, windows will put it on a 169.x.x.x network For the raid thing, it is just the setup menu for the raid controller, it's not asking you to set one up for the first time, its just...
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    Some problems with my new computer

    #4 I had this problem with my MSI K8N neo platinum, maybe my solution will help you. My board has headers for front audio ports. If you are not going to use front audio ports and want to use the ones on the i/o panel, I had to put a 2 jumpers on the headers on the MB. Maybe chek your manual...
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    Nforce3 250gb Raid

    bump for revised question
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    Nforce3 250gb Raid

    Right now I have a 200gig Maxtor IDE drive. I want to setup a raid 0 array, and the 89.99 outpost.com deal on maxtors is making me think about getting one. I would really like to go SATA fro both drives but I can't afford it right now. Can I get a 200gig SATA Seagate and raid it with the Maxtor...