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    Old A8N-SLI Premium Overclock

    Lost my overclock when replacing CMOS battery, doh, having trouble getting the ram back up to speed. Per my signature, I am currently running a mem value of 133 to bring down the 300 FSB to stock DDR400. Any attempt to raise the voltage (2.9-3) and raise the mem value to 166 fails miserably...
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    Connect Hotmail in Outlook Through a Proxy?

    Has anyone found a way to successfully do this? I have been struggling with it for quite a while now.
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    Speaker feedback from MB...

    I have recently upgraded my mobo and am not getting a good bit of feedback from my computer on my speakers even when nothing else is playing. It seems to mirror the cpu usage. I.E. I can hear it "thinking" Anyone have a suggestion on how to troubleshoot?
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    Control and/or restrict bandwidth.

    I live in a townhome with 2 roomates and I am curious if there is a way to control bandwidth usage of our cable modem. More specifically, say the three of us were all downloading something where our cable speed was the only limiting factor. Is it possible to divide the signal perfectly in three...
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    A8N SLI Delux BIOS 1016 Resource Error

    As mentioned I upgraded my bios on my A8N SLI Delux motherboard and whammo! my NVTV Dual tuner card stopped working right before the season fianale of How I Met Your Mother. The only sign of trouble in the hardware manager is a PCI standard PCI-to-PCI Bridge that says it could not find enough...
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    FTP Server Setup

    So i have spent the last 3 hours or so researching on my own and am stuck... I have installed filezilla server I have registered with dynDNS I have forwarded ports 20 and 21 to what I though was the ftp server address (the default for filezilla) and now i am help confused on the next step...
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    Gamepads from the past!?!?

    Does anyone know if a company ever made gamepads for the computer modeled after some of our all time classic fav game consols? I find many resembling the PStation... but are there others?
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    Nvidia Drivers 77.79 for Media Center or 81.85...

    I am running Media Center and am currently using the 77.79 MC specific driver for my 6800GT and feel like I am sacraficing the latest driver updates for my graphics card that keep comming out. i.e. the 81.95... What are the advantages/disadvantages of using the 77 one vs. this new one on media...
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    Excel only uses 50% of processing power???

    While running a lengthy calculation in Excel today at work, I realized through task manager, that Excel.exe was only utilizing 50% of my processor and the other 50% was System Idle. I Tried setting priority Higher and saw no change in calculation/processor useage. Can someone help??? Is there a...
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    Looking for a Laptop Deal...

    more than a ghz, dvd rom, cd rw, min 256 ram, maybe more, wireless capable, etc... Any suggestions?
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    *#!@$% ASUS DONT EVER BUY!!!!!!!!!!!

    Yes, that is right, $#*$&# asus!!!! I will never buy one of your products again!!!!! I came home to my chip set fan "taking flight" for the last time. It sounds like a freaking plane is landing in my bedroom. Being a computer engineer myself, I can't see (or spel) how you can design products...
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    5.1 Headphones?

    Was thinking about getting a nice pair of surround sound headphones, and realized that all posts are rather old. Has anyone found any new pairs or gotten to know their old pair a little better? Would appreciate any feedbacy/reccomendations. Thanks!
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    6800 gt temp

    anyone come across a great way to get accurate reading of temp on your 6800 gt? I've noticed, through using temp probes that there is a big difference between different placements on the card...?
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    Thermal Tape?

    Was wondering what I should use to tape my temp probes in different locations throughout my case? i.e.) cpu heatsync vid card etc There has to be something that i can buy at a hardware store that will work, its not like we are talking about drastic tempatures here anyone have any suggestions?
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    520w is not enough... Zippy 700w psa-6701p?

    Hello all! New to posting at fourm, but have been a really good listener. First off I would like to thank all of you for your indirect/wonderful help in designing my first new rig. I've successfully built my first new computer and it is, well was, running great. I'm using the A8N sli delux...