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    Well here we go again...

    looks like it's only a matter of time now until another addition to the Stumps tribe arrives..
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    Thermaltake Bigwater 745 vs Thermalright Ultra 120

    I currently have a Thermaltake bigwater 745 in my system and it pretty much has been reliable for the last two years, but recently I moved house and well lifting the PC was, well... painful... I'm thing of going back to Air cooling but I'm not sure how the big water 745 rates compared with...
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    E8400 vs Q6600

    I currently have an Overclocked Q6600 B3 ES in my rig (see sig) and I'm looking at replacing it with a E8400 running at 4ghz or better (should be a snack with my board) I only have one question would a E8400@4ghz+ out perform my Q6600 at it's current 3.6ghz?
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    Upgrading from a 3870 crossfire setup

    I'm looking to upgrade my current 3870 crossfire setup and would like some suggestions on what would be a worth while upgrade. My monitor is a 22" Samsung Syncmaster T220 and I normally play at the native 1680 x 1050 res any idea's (rig is in sig)
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    ASUS P5N-T Deluxe and DDR2 800 ram issues

    I'm part through building a PC for a customer (I'm posting from work), and I am having some major issues with getting Vista Ultimate x64 to install while the ram for the system is running at 800Mhz. the system can always begin installing Vista but will bluescreen every time on the first...
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    Stump's little Princess....1 year old now

    Well, It's been awhile since I lasted posted pics of my little princess Emily, so here she, almost a year since I last posted pictures Emily's first chocolate bisket And this is what happened to it.. I'm a little cutie...and I know it! Woah man....what was in that bottle?
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    550W PSU enougth for crossfire?

    I posted this in the Video forums and I have been advised that asking here in the PSU forum would be a wise thing to do. I'm looking to ditch the 2900XT I have in my rig for a Pair of Gigabyte Radeon 3870's, now that I have replaced my old GA-P35-DS3R with a GA-P35-DS3P (I got it real cheap...
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    550W PSU enougth for crossfire?

    I'm looking to ditch the 2900XT I have in my rig for a Pair of Gigabyte Radeon 3870's, now that I have replaced my old GA-P35-DS3R with a GA-P35-DS3P (I got it real cheap at work). Would my trusty Antec TPII 550W PSU be able to cope with a pair of 3870's? It's specs are as follows +12v1...
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    BT878P+ based TV tuner and Vista

    I have an old Prolink PixelView PlayTV PRO (XP edition) BT878P+ TV tuner card that I am trying to get working with Windows Vista Ultimate (32-bit). I have tried the Vista drivers from the prolink website and they don't work at all with any TV tuner software, however I have discovered that...
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    Rivatuner and Windows Vista

    I'm currently running Windows Vista Ultimate on my A64 3000+ with a 7800GS. Due to Nvidia's lack of support for overclocking in the control panel, I have to use Rivatuner 2.01 to overclock my 7800GS. However everytime the computer is restarted Windows Defender blocks Rivatuner from starting...
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    What chipset does the GA-965P-DS3 use for SATA RAID?

    as the title states...I'm looking at upgrading to a GA-965P-DS3 in the near future and I would like to know what chipset does the SATA RAID use? I know it isn't the ICH8R, it is listed as GIGABYTE SATA2 raid, but I would like to know what it really is (eg ITE GIGARAID, Silicon Image...
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    Best fight scene EVAR!

    Funny stuff...really
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    Vista and Nforce 3 SATARAID

    I've been trying for some time to get my Windows Vista Ultimate to install on my GA-K8NS PRO Nforce 3 SATARAID controller with out any luck. Vista can see both of my Maxtor Maxline 3 250GB's as seperate drives but not as a single 500GB Raid 0 array. is there any way to get it to install...
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    Is there any way to intergrate the DOTNETFX stuff and IE7 into the WinXP ISO?

    I've been mucking around with the Ryan intergrator and the Windows update packs that come with it, but I'm wondering if there is any way to intergrate the DOTNETFX setup files and IE7 and a few other optional updates on to the WinXP CD. Is there any other intergrators that can do this?
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    I need a bit of advice of a setup

    I currently looking for more grunt out of my AGP setup, I guess I'm getting greedy now. I recently purchased a Sapphire X1950Pro 512MB AGP and I'm pretty happy with it's performance...but now I'm wondering how much of a bottleneck my A64 is (see sig)... would it be worth getting a C2D...
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    How do I unlock Pipelines using Riva tuner?

    I decided to check out riva tuner today...see what it it could do for my BFG 7800GS OC, now I discovered something interesting, my 7800GS is a G71 core with 2 Quads and 2 VP's disabled...they show up in the low level settings as disabled...how do I get them to enable...do I need to flash the...
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    Ever wonder why Activating WinXP is such a pain in the ass?

    A Microsoft Support centre in India
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    Woot!!!! finaly got me a Sapphire X1950 PRO 512MB AGP

    And all I can say is about time...I should have this puppy buy the end of the week once it arrives...I got it for a good price too only AU$385...so after a bad start to the year things are starting to look up.... I can't wait to get my hands on it :D
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    What temp do skt 478 Prescotts start to clock throttle?

    I recently got a P4 3E (3.0ghz SL7E4) Prescott skt 478 cpu to replace an older Northwood 2.66ghz CPU that I had in a rig of mine. I used to run the 2.66ghz at a reasonable 3.06ghz (20x153) no worries on my GA-8S648FX-L (SIS648FX) but I figured that the board supported Prescott CPU's so I went...
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    So...I failed my family today

    Well where do I start with this one? I am a complete failure...I was unable to help my Fiancee and my little princess Emily. After struggling the past few weeks to get my Fiancee help for her rapidly declining mental health now she has been commited for Psychiatric evaluation with a...
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    Merry Christmas from the future

    it's 9:22am December 25th, I'm getting in a quick christmas nef before Michelle and Emily wake up...yay for me. MERRY CHRISTMAS ATOT
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    Please lock this thread

    http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=31&threadid=1960210&enterthread=y This thread is starting to get out of hand ond will probably become a flamefest again...as all of Akshayt's threads do. It dissappeared for awhile but now the OP has started it up again. the OP isn't using...
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    what is a good core temp for a 6800GT?

    I have an ASUS V9999GT 128mb 6800GT, it's completly stock, no overclocking and has the tiny standard HSF unit. I get 55-58c at idle and 65ish at full load on a 30c+ day. My case is an Antec Sonata and I have a pair of 120mm fans inside, one exhaust and one setup right in front of the Video...
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    I need an Anti Virus program better than NAV2005

    As the title states, I need to replace my irritating Norton Antivirus 2005, I have used NAV for pretty much forever and never really had any issues with it until 6 months ago when I upgraded from 2003 to 2005. Since then I have nothing but performance issues with it ranging from slow bootup...
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    Is a 6800GT worth upgrading to a 7800GT?

    I'm currently using a good ole 6800GT AGP on my A64 3000+@2.87Ghz rig and now I'm looking for an upgrade to PCI-E I already have the mobo I want to use, an EPOX 8NPA SLI but I need to get a video card. I can get hold of a Leadtek 7800GT extreme for AU$330, (rrp au$450) Is the 7800GT a...
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    Reccomend me an upgrade

    I'm thinking of replacing my trusty AGP 6800GT with either of the following 7800GS or 7600GT I only have a 380W PSU so which on would be worth my hard earned dollars. my rig is as follows Athlon 64 3000+@2.87ghz SKT 754 GA-K8NS PRO 1GB DDR400 2 x 250gb Maxtor SATA2 LiteON...
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    Damn it's hot here

    42c bloody hot!
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    Please kill me..............NOW!

    I don't feel like dancing, by the Scissors Sisters It won't leave me alone....no matter how hard I try...it's more irratating than an inflamed haemorrhoid. Kill me........Please! :(
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    A must read for American's

    the Australian dictonary. http://www.koalanet.com.au/australian-slang.html#U
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    Anybody a wiz with photoshop?

    I have a photo that seems to have come out all blurry, stupid sony DSC couldn't take a nice pic to save itself. I was wondering if anybody could fix it. the pic is of my little Emily Kate and our Doctor, Auturo Jeri. I would be much appreciative if somebody could fix it. PM me and I...
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    ATOT, meet Emily Kate, Stump's little princess

    Currently she is only in early labour, however she has had high blood pressure for the last few days and the Doctor was talking about inducing her to speed things up...she is expected to give birth sometime tomorrow. well here goes...not long now before I become a father. *UPDATE*...
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    So close...yet so far

    A lot of American's might not know that the number one selling car in the large family sedan market (read, Australian performance market) is the Ford Falcon/Fairmont. We've had them since 1960 and after we ditched the American built versions from 1960 to 1963 they became really nice...
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    Worth a quick laugh...EMO Patrol

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4Jf8qbocY8 not sure if it's a repost...but it's pretty funny
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    Only a week to go!

    Things are starting to get exciting now that my Fiancee only has a week to go before giving birth to our first child....I can't wait to meet my baby daughter.
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    Dang...psycho kittie

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRsw72FJ7Kk&NR DANG!
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    What have I missed?

    anything interesting?
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    Is there such thing as a "Fallen" Mod?

    has there been any occurance of a moderator that has abused their power and gone on a crazy rampage through the AT forums and then has been banished by the other wiser mods? discuss Disclaimer : this thread is not intended to cause any harm, it is just a simple question. However I can...
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    Any Airplane Buffs on ATOT?

    I'm a huge Airplane Buff and I like to build R/C airplanes in my spare time, I'm currently looking for a new project and I looking for any info on the Macchi M33 Floatplane from 1925, it was the Italian enterant in the Schneider Cup floatplane races of the 1920's. does anybody have a...
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    Almighty Mods can you wave your mighty Ban stick at Link19

    I am sick and tired of seeing perfectly legitimate threads in the ATOS forum being ruin by the thread crapper known as Link19, his 900 or so posts have offered nothing but the same "WIN98 IS A POS" crap. come on mods can he be given a one way trip to Permaban Island...
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    hmmm I'm not sure if anybody can help me

    I have been playing a lot of Microsoft Combat Flight simulator 3 lately and I like it quite a lot. Recently I downloaded the "DogPatch Crew" Korean War addon for it and got it working pretty good. However one thing I have noticed is it is lacking a few of the planes from the era(mainly...