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    Building a computer for the first time

    I am sorry if I came down a bit harsh, Gamingphreek ... I was typing that message when I saw your original RAID 0 comment :D No hard feelings? And by "inefficient" I meant from a storage capacity, as you're basically "throwing half of your storage away" with RAID 1, and less so with RAID 5 (due...
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    Building a computer for the first time

    Gamingphreek, it doesn't seem like you know very much about RAID ("RAID.edu" Link) ... RAID5 is basically RAID1's redundancy (give or take ... it's a bit more difficult to repair a failure) with the speed of RAID0, and without the drawbacks of ineffeciency associated with RAID1 ... if there's...
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    Help! Finally get power supply in, and I think it's messed.

    Well, that could be a possibility, but you'd still be limited by the resistance at the actual plug in that case (depending upon how nice of a plug it is, of course). That, and the fact that there's numerous +5V lines coming into the plug ... it just makes little sense that that particular plug...
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    Building a computer for the first time

    Overclocking depends upon a lot of different variables, especially when your talking about the K8 architecture. Generally speaking, though, with solid cooling and decent RAM, you should be able to expect roughly 25% overclocking using nTune on a compatible and relatively high quality motherboard...
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    "Official" DFI nF4 Ultra-D / SLI-DR Thread

    TTGI (AKA SuperFlower AKA Athena AKA Link Depot) is a solid manufacturer of quality inexpensive powersupplies. If I needed to rate powersupplies based off of quality, it'd go something like this: PC Power & Cooling Specifications (they don't make their own anymore, AFAIK, do they?) OCZ...
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    Dropped hard drive onto floor.

    AHAHAHAHAHA! :laugh: That's awesome! Someone should do it ... :D
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    Building a computer for the first time

    For instance, reference this pic (happens to be of the SLK800, but the concept applies equally well). See that little nubby on the clip, which is where you're supposed to put the flat-head screwdriver and then push down? Instead, slip a nut driver, or one of those 8-in-1 screwdrivers with the...
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    500 Dollar PC

    If she's going to be word processing, surfing, aiming, and doing some CD stuff ... no offense, but what's wrong with the PII she's on now? If you really are looking for a good budget system, I think Chinoman hit the nail pretty much on the head. Swap in Mushkin or Crucial for the RAM if its...
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    Help! Finally get power supply in, and I think it's messed.

    Just to absolutely put your mind to ease: NeoPower Manual ... on the very last page they have a pinout ... your empty slot is referring to pin 20, likr NesuD remarked, which is reserved (ie, nothing). It is a little curious why there's two +5v leads headed to the same pin, though, but that's not...
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    Help! Finally get power supply in, and I think it's messed.

    Thegonangle's got it right ... I think it was a couple years ago that the -5V line was phased out ... For more information than you could possibly ever want on this: ATX Form Factors
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    Building a computer for the first time

    Negatory on that ... use a socket-driver, hex-head, something along those lines ... slip the nubby on the HSF into the driver and use that ... MUCH less chance of slippage! (not that this is directly applicable at all to the current thread, but thought I'd point it out)
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    How would I completely wipe my hard drive clean?

    After you've backed up all your important data, either 1) Use a Windows boot floppy/cd, load it up, type format C: 2) During the install, choose to erase all data on the hard drive (this works, AFAIK ... been a while since I reinstalled Windows on a used drive) 3) Use a Linux tiny-distro...
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    Dropped hard drive onto floor.

    So ... what's the results of the hucking-the-hard-drive-across-the-street? :D
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    "Official" DFI nF4 Ultra-D / SLI-DR Thread

    Just updated the first post with a few more reviews I found around the web.
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    "Official" DFI nF4 Ultra-D / SLI-DR Thread

    Yes, the video card needs to be in the slot closer to the CPU, as that's your x16 slot if you're running single-card video (p66 of the online manual). There might be some way to change this in the BIOS (I mean, there's plenty of other things in the BIOS you can change), but if there is I haven't...
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    20 pin ATX power into 24 pin motherboard?

    Not too good ... I'd rate them above Powmax, for sure, but below ThermalTake for sure as well. Mediocre entry-level PSUs, I'd say.
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    20 pin ATX power into 24 pin motherboard?

    Extra resistance (more plugs = more resistance) Harder strain on the cord coming out of the PSU (it's now supplying 2x12V pins instead of just one) Adds another possible point of failure Mobo thinks it has an ATX2.0 PSU when it actually doesn't (differen't specifications) ...
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    Need help setting up a Multi-monitor display

    Matrox Parhelia with TripleHead </thread>
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    80mm x 80mm x 15mm fan?

    Well, I know Zalman makes an 80x80x15mm fan, manufactured for their gigantic passive graphics-card heatsink to give it just a bit better cooling ... found one over at CaseCooler -- Text for $8.95 + s/h Also happened to find an Evercool 80x80x15mm fan over at Nexfan -- Text for $3.99 + s/h (if...
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    What LCD monitor out there currently has the best pixel pitch?

    For LCDs it's a lot easier to figure out -- take the dimensions in each direction and divide by the number of pixels the laptop supports natively in that direction. For example, my MAG LCD is a 19" diagonal, with 1280x1024 native resolution. It's 377mm wide x 300mm tall, so that yields a pitch...
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    SIGH NEWBIE NEEDS HELP ON BUILD , HELP~!!!!

    :thumbsup: :D Glad we could help.
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    SIGH NEWBIE NEEDS HELP ON BUILD , HELP~!!!!

    Ah ... good call ... didn't see that. You'll want a stick in each of the ORANGE slots (leave the yellow slots empty), not how you've got it configured there.
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    SIGH NEWBIE NEEDS HELP ON BUILD , HELP~!!!!

    Put the video card in the slot closer to the CPU and you should be good to go :D
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    Dropped hard drive onto floor.

    DO IT! DO IT! DO IT! </peer pressure>
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    Any thing I need to put my computer together?

    PSU = Power Supply Unit :D
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    SIGH NEWBIE NEEDS HELP ON BUILD , HELP~!!!!

    What video card are you using that the Ultra-D's chipset HSF is hitting it? There's an XFX 6600GT in my fiancee's and while it does sit extremely close, it's not hitting it ... :camera:'s?
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    Thinking of building this system, tell me if I am doing the right thing!

    AnandTech just had an introduction to the new 600-series P4's -- Text -- showed very little performance improvement compared to the 500 series ... if you're looking at the 64-bit extensions, then I could see going with the 600-series, but otherwise not really.
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    Wire

    Ah ... "uplink" yes ... thank-you, I couldn't remember the correct word ... closest I could come up with is "auto-sensing" but that's for full/half-duplex negotiation, now that I remember correctly. EDIT -- 500th post! :D
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    Any thing I need to put my computer together?

    A 4-pin-molex-to-SATA power connection, mayhaps? I don't know if the MSI has one of those included ... what about a 4-pin-molex-to-PCIe power connection? You didn't specify what your video card would be, or what your PSU is, that's why I'm asking.
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    What LCD monitor out there currently has the best pixel pitch?

    For a CRT monitor? The smallest that I can think of are from Samsung or Hitachi at 0.20mm (horizontal), which is like 0.24 or 0.25mm diagonal ... I think Viewsonic's got a 0.21mm horizontal as well ... maybe there are others out there, as I haven't paid much attention to CRT monitors in quite...
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    Wire

    No, not quite ... a "crossover" cable switches two wires from one end to the other (ie, they plug in different pins) which allows two computers to connect to each other without the need for having a hub/switch/router/etc in between. A regular "patch cable" (ie, not a crossover) will not work to...
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    What is the

    Well, the only place I could even find any mention of a "Premium" A8N-E is over at Overclockers UK Text ... there's no mention of a "Premium" version on ASUS's website (in fact, the USA one doesn't even list an A8N other than the SLI ones ...), just the regular A8N-E That being said, here's...
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    "Official" DFI nF4 Ultra-D / SLI-DR Thread

    Updated the first post with a link to the thread about these boards arriving damaged due to (possibly) the placement of the Karajan module in the packaging. Found the SLI-D for sale in North America -- Monarch has an ETA of March 2nd for it
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    Laptop sees 64meg memory module as 192meg?!

    The MT8LSDT864HG-10E module you've got listed there is indeed a 64MB SODIMM, chips come from Micron http://www.micron.com/products/modules/sdram/part.aspx?part=MT8LSDT864HG-10E The other one, are you sure it's using Toshiba chips? Generally Toshiba RAM start with TC ... Is that the only...
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    Hello, and New system

    Low-latency high-speed RAM has very little impact on the K8 architecture ... go with a cheaper memory (don't like the Corsair? How about Mushkin instead? http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=20-146-299&depa=1 <$130 shipped) and simply use a divider to crank the CPU while...
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    Fortron PSU

    How about something like this? http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=17-104-123&depa=0 One of the best inexpensive PSU's you can find out there, and is actually cheaper than the one you linked to in your original.
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    Modular Power Supplies

    http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=17-101-613&depa=0 :thumbsup:
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    Faulty Motherboard - What are some signs?

    I'm gonna put forward a PSU problem ... have you tried a different PSU to see if that would make a difference? Usually if you're having problems all over the place it's either your motherboard or your PSU ... I highly doubt that it's your video card if you're having problems with Windows, for...