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    Loud pop, PC shut down.

    Well, Sunday afternoon I was laying on my basement floor trying to get some sleep in the middle of the afternoon with son :D I heard a loud pop, and looked over and saw my PC had shut off!!! OMG, what was that!!! I immediately opened the side door, could not smell anything. Did not see...
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    Sounds like luck of the draw?

    I isolated the board first, just dropped the memory to 100, and the CPU multi to 5. 300x5 booted no problem(I was not loooking for the limit of the board as 300 is more than enough for me) 300x6 booted 300x7 POST but looped back to POST :0 Since my goal was 2.4G with a 3000 I tried 265x9...
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    A64 3000 Winchester Stock HSF

    Hello, That small little pacth of grey stuff on the back of the HSF is the thermal paste? :) Should I wipe it off and use something else, or is that sufficieint? Thank You
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    Gigabyte 6600GT

    Anyone know if this card comes with some sort of software to monitor the temperatures? Just curious, found it for a great price, was leaning towards the Leadtek, but for $30 less, hard to look past this card.
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    Any case other than Sonata with locking front door?

    Hello, Anyone know if there is another case out there with a locking front door. I really need to keep the little fingers from powering off the PC. 17 month old son is getting better, but with another on the way, who knows :) The Sonata looks perfect, but with a 20 pin connector, cant pull...
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    What companies use high quality caps?

    I am just curious what companies use high quality caps on their motherboards now with all the past problems? Also, who makes high quality caps? Any partiular brands? THX :)
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    6600GT AGP vs PCIe

    Can anyone explain to me why this article shows the AGP version of the 6600GT kicking the PCIe butt? I was under the impression they should be the same. I am looking to upgrade my entire PC, and was trying to decide what to do. Having a 9800Pro I was leaning the s754 route and my card for a...
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    Opinions please :)

    Ok, this would not be so difficult if the price was further apart. I do not upgrade to much, I simply want an upgrade from my current KT266a/amd1600+ to be able to play HL2 without grenades causing me to drop to 9 FPS with my 9800 Pro :) I will keep my video card for now. However when the...
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    Can't decide on a s939 mobo ;-)

    Local shop here in Kitchener Ont has the following. Obviously these are in Canadian $'s ABIT AV8-3rd Eye $159 ASUS A8V Deluxe $164 Epox EP-9NDA3+ $152 MSI K8N Neo 2 Platinum $185 Soltek SL-K8TPRO-939 $139 (have seen it for as low as $128) MSI looks like too much money :) I think I...