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    Seriously, I must be retarded

    I just bought another seta drive so now I have two 750gig drives. This is my first time running two seta drives so either I'm doing something wrong or this thing is dead on arrival. I'm running these on an Asus P5K-E wifi board with vista 64 The new drive does not show up in my...
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    Built My System, help me tweak it

    I want to squeeze the most out of my setup, here is what I use it for Gaming (Crysis, COD4, Unreal Tournament 3, almost everything on Steam) Occasional Video editing of high def media Using almost everything in Adobe Master Collection CS3 Also running Flashget just about 24/7 Here are...
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    Please vote for my friend

    I don't really have to many posts on this forum, it's hard enough to keep up with the dozen or so forums that I'm active in, either way if you could be so kind as to honor my request, one of my friends is in a Calender girl competition for a Spanish radio station. She is the nicest girl in the...
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    I spent $1100 today and it wont turn on!

    So I seem to be suffering from the same blank screen at boot that a lot of other people are experiencing. I ended up buying a whole rig today, here is what I got. Intel core 2 quad 6600 775 Asus p5k-e evga nvidia 8800 gts 640mb sli 3 gigs 6600 ram seagate sata 750 gig hd seta cd/dvd...
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    Critique my list

    So this is a fresh build with the intention of high performance without wasting any money. Please let me know if you see anywhere where I can save money or spend a little more for some real performance gains. Also let me know if I'm forgetting anything, besides the obvious fans and thermal...
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    Video Card debate

    Going for best gaming performance, ie Crysis. Which would be a better choice. One of these? http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16814130082 Or two of these? http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16814129089 Both are the same price. I know the 8800 is supposed to be...
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    Help me build my tower

    So I've been out of the game a little while, I bought a gaming laptop a year so ago and it has become outdated and I'm tired of not being able to upgrade, I'm going back to desktops. I don't think I'm going to get any money for my laptop so I want to do this somewhat inexpensively but still the...
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    List of XP Keyboard shortcuts?

    I find these helpful and would like to know more. The ones I currently know and use are... alt + F4 = close open window windowsbutton + D = shrink or bring up all windows windowsbutton + L = lock computer, go to password screen windowsbutton + E = opens up windows explorer Post...
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    Stealth CD Drive Covers

    I did the mod on my cd drives where I removed the face of the drive and attached a drive cover that came on the case to the front of it, then I wired the button to the reset button on the computer (and disconnected the reset from mo/bo) . That has not been working as smoothly as I would like...
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    Can I have a dollar?

    So how about it? I just had my great dad take my entire college fund, take the car that I paid for that was in his name and sell it, and kick me out of his house leaving me with no car or college money and $16,000 in debt... can I have a dollar? come on how many 20 minute phone calls could you...
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    Holy Mother of God

    So I get home this afternoon to find that I didn't close my door all the way. I walk in and the cat had knocked a water glass right onto the tower. This is a very bad thing since I have a 120mm fan on top of the tower. What little water was in the cup poured through the fan grill, dripped down...