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    Partition vanished... (sick feeling)

    I have a 250GB HDD and a 500GB HDD. My 250 has 2 partitions, one is 210GB and its where i keep my vista installation with all my data etc. The 40GB partition has an XP installation on it but nothing else. I wanted to put OS X X86 on the 40GB partition and dual boot with vista. I booted from the...
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    Used SIM card question

    I sold my iPhone (SIM card included) off ebay just barely to take advantage of high prices and the new 3G iPhone coming out. I found a cheap used phone on craigslist for 10 bucks that has a sim card in it already. Now this sim card has obviously been used with someones account before (and most...
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    Weird no post ram issue, IP35-E

    alright this is a strange issue. I've been running 4x1gb for about a month with no problems. Yesterday I got an arctic freezer pro 7 and realized it didnt fit. I unplugged everything and took the motherboard out and took the northbridge heatsink off and sawed off the top blade. The freezer pro 7...
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    Weird power on/off problem

    Just pieced together my new computer and I encountered a really weird problem... When I turn it on the fans and everything spin up for about 5 seconds then it powers off, and about 4 seconds later it powers back on by itself and posts and everythings fine. I unplug the power cable and plug it...
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    Strange power issues

    I turn my computer off during the night when i go to sleep. About 2 weeks ago when i wakeup and turn it on, the LED's on my keyboard flicker on for about 1 second and then no power. I have to manually flip the power switch on the back of the PSU, wait about 5 seconds, then flip it back and then...
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    LCD or CRT better picture quality?

    Title says it all.
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    DPI Question

    On the logitech G5, the middle setting is the 800dpi, but is the bottom one the 2000 or the 400? I would assume the bottom one would be 2000 because its slower, more DPI means slower movement speed correct?
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    "No ATI graphics driver is installed"

    I removed my 6.1's and booted safe mode driver cleaner etc etc the usual and install 6.2's and i got this message, so i uninstall those and try to go back to my 6.1's and same message, so i tried to system restore and whenever i right click the desktop it tries to install the CCC ?_? no matter...
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    Monitor supports 2048x1536, but shows less

    I have a Dell P1130, the max resolution is 2048*1536 @ 75hz. I can go into the CCC and i can pick 2048*1536 @ 75hz and it runs that fine on my desktop. However in any game the highest the game menu shows is 1800*1440, even when i change the launch options in steam to 2048*1536 @60hz it just...
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    New to NVIDIA, terrible dual monitor performance

    When I have dual monitor enabled, so one monitor is gaming and one has like msn on it etc, I get terrible performance in my game. Sometimes half the frames as I would normally get with single monitor. When I was using ATI the performance difference was like 1%, whats the deal? I'm using the...
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    Does PS3 have Anti Aliasing?

    Can anyone tell me, and provide link if possible.
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    FX-55 @ 4ghz!!

    http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=58642
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    MSN Messenger down?

    Hey I can't sign onto msn, and i couldnt last night either, is it just me or do someone know whats going on? Is it down for anyone else?
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    x800 stock cooler 100% vs ATI Silencer 4

    Just letting you know on my vmodded card, I was getting 93C after 400 seconds of artifact scanning with the stock cooler @ 100%. With the ATI Silencer 4 I got 62C, and i let it run for a long time just to see, and the highest it gets is 63C, Thats 30C less!!! I never expected results like this...
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    6,034 3DMark05 X800 Pro 12 Pipe

    Finally hit 6,000 completly stock cooled running in a AMD64 s754 3200+ @2.5ghz on a ASUS K8N-e Did the VCORE/VDDQ/VDD volt mods using a #2 pencil. X800 Pro is clocked @ 612/635 Volts are... VCORE = 1.5v VDDQ = 2.17v VDD = 2.09 I soldered a copper tube (2" wide by 14" long) thats rdy to go...
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    NVIDIA has canned NV50

    The chip to be competing against the R520 next year has apparently been canned. I guess they figured they couldn't compete against ATI's next flagship card? I guess we won't be seeing a new NVIDIA card til end of 2005 at the earliest seeing how they have also canned the NV48 to compete against...
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    ATI Catalyst 4.12 beta is out!!!

    http://www.ati.com/support/infobase/4701.html
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    Need good power supply for this rig, HELP!

    Ok, I've had bad experiences with getting cheap PSU's. I'm getting about 11.2V on my 12+ and about 3.2 on my 3+ its refusing to boot everyonce in a while and just giving me all kinds of problems. I need a good PSU thats not TOO $$$ but anywhere around 50 is good. That will be able to power a...
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    Half Life or Halo, which has sold more copies?

    Having an argument with my friend, which has sold more copies worldwide up til now? Half Life or Halo, and if you can get a link that'd be even better.
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    Anyway to tweak a CRT to be darker?

    I just picked up a free 20" CRT from my office and I set the lowest brightness to 0 and it is still insanely bright. Black's look like greys and doom 3 looks like absolute crap. Is there any way to somehow either hardmod it or some way to fix that?
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    Will there be PCI-E Socket 754 mobo's

    Will there eventually be PCI-E mobo's for the socket 754, and will there eventually be a dual slot solution for SLI etc for socket 754?
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    PSU hurting my overclock?

    This is a screenshot taken at full load on my cpu, is it hurting my OC? http://img89.exs.cx/img89/6208/psu.jpg
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    Cheapo PCI card for 1800*1440

    My dad just got a 20" monitor, its on a really old mobo with a crappy onboard video that only supports to 1280*1024, it has no AGP so I need a PCI card, Any suggestions on a really cheap card thatl support up to that res? It won't even be used for web browsing, just for uploading and...
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    HL2 GOLD!

    Wrong forum but... WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT http://www.steampowered.com/fo...s=&threadid=160136
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    Volcano 12 fit socket 754?

    http://www.newegg.com/app/View...=35-106-035&depa=0 Will it?
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    Common 3DMark ettiquette?

    I was wondering, what is the common practice for settings in 3dmark03? Just run it? Or to turn all your driver settings to high performance? What do the main users do and what is "allowed", also the #1 highest scores, do they turn it down to high performance? Or do they just run it? I've always...
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    ATITool 0.0.21 released!

    http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=297 I must say this is a GREAT program. Apparently the x800 pro fan is only at 31% idle and only 50% when over 75C. I set it to 100% and my full load while scanning for artifacts went from 84C to 65C, and my idle went from 52C to 38C, not bad. It...
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    Driver Heaven CSS benchmarks

    One word that comes to mind. Raped... The x800 series is obviously the better performer when it comes to the source engine by quite a fair margine. http://www.driverheaven.net/showthread.php?p=423812#post423812 At 1600*1200 6xAA/16xAF the x800 xt is performing more then 65% higher then the 6800...
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    New Arctic Cooler VGA silencers available @ newegg

    http://www.newegg.com/app/SearchProductResult.asp?DEPA=0 Looks like www.newegg.com is charging about twice the msrp currently... as usual =/ At least they are finally out in the U.S. tho and we should see prices fall pretty soon.
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    Counter Strike Source Beta BEGINS!

    Right off the front page of www.steampowered.com "The first phase of the Counter-Strike: Source beta has begun at all cyber cafés that subscribe to the Valve Cyber Café Program. Click here to find an Official Valve Cyber Café in your area. In preparation for the next phase of the beta, we...
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    ATI/NVIDIA Silencers coming August 20th!

    Looks like they are finally coming August 20th http://scythe-usa.com/cooler/atinv.htm
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    AMD vs INTEL in DOOM 3!

    http://anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2149&p=7 Interesting how a $174 Athlon 64 3000+ matches the $995 3.4ghz EE in performance of DOOM 3. AMD > Intel in gaming? I think so =O
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    Overriding refresh rate in games?

    Well my monitor supports 60hz at 1280*1024, however i can go to 180hz at 1280*1024 fine on the desktop but in games it defaults to 60hz. The problem is I would like to put the threshold for vsync higher then 60hz, but everytime i play UT2004 with temporal AA it caps it at 60, and temporal AA...
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    3dmark03 doesn't work

    I just setup my new system, and everytime I try to run 3dmark03 it unexpectibly quits after i click it and gives me a send error report EVERYTIME. I've reinstalled, ive done everything and I can't seem to get into it. It worked fine on my old system. Any suggestions?
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    Catalyst 4.8 beta's out!

    Catalyst 4.8 beta's are out to the public, I haven't had the chance to use them yet but curious as to what other people think of them. http://guru3d.com/newsitem.php?id=1723
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    Could a video card make your computer reboot?

    Well, ive been randomly rebooting for a while now. Seems to happen on the desktop, or in games, just about anywhere actually. It makes a quick buzz sound then reboots. I've swapped ram, thats not it. I've swapped PSU's, thats not it. I put my new x800 pro in my friends comptuer and it didnt have...
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    Computer crashing, not cpu or video card?

    I'm wondering what is causing my computer to crash. It happens all the time at different times. For example it just crashed right as i entered into windows. It makes a buzz sound then reboots. Sometimes im in a game of onslaught and itl do the same thing. Seems to happen about 6 times a day. I...
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    Stripped screw on x800 pro heatsink?

    I did the pipe mod and i had to scrape the thermal goo off the core. It's hardly got ANY on it right now. And i was trying to screw it back on and one of the very small screws has become stripped. It's VERY ez to do actually with the screws they use. I need to get an arctic cooler and some...
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    Linux or Mac OS X more stable?

    We've been arguing about which is more stable. Can anyone clear this up? Any links?
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    Serious boot problem after trying to OC RAM

    Ok i just changed my frequencies from 3-3-3-8 to 2-2-2-6 and raised the voltage from 2.6 to 2.7 and my computer is just beeping. I know that its not able to run that fast but i turn it on, i restart, i hit del i do everything and nothing comes up it just keeps beeping. How do i boot into it so i...