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    DVD Burner Questions

    Which on of these is better? Also, would these work decently aon a p3 550 or p3 733? i got store credit at a place that sells these and want to use it up soon! thanks!
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    Arctic Cooling Silencer series question...

    For those of you who know about turbochargers, the turbo impeller/compressor blades would be a much better design for the arctic cooling silencer series' fans. The center portion is desgined to suck air in, and the outer fins are geared towards compressing and blowing out the air at the one...
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    Some LCD questions

    What is tearing? What is V-Sync? What is the importance of the two?
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    Long pauses when openign certain files

    Lately whenever i go to open a <1kb notepad file, it takes liek a long time, like 7 seconds, i can understand it if my computer has many things running such as unzipping a file or running azureus.... but if i turn on the computer, log on and open the file it takes time to open ( i've waited for...
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    Socket A Sempron temperatures

    i knwo temps vary depending on ambient temp, case fans and what not but what is an average operating temp of a Socket A Sempron at stock speed... a range would be nice... thanks
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    Capturing Streaming Media

    how would i capture streaming media that plays in windows media player? what program would i use? btw the thing i am tryign to capture has a series of ads before it plays.... btw is this illegal? lol i shoulda really asked this first if it is then i guess i will stick to reloading it...
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    native resolution

    what is "native resolution" why does it matter so much? any information would be appreciated, it was just somethign i've come across a few times and would liek to have it explained :D
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    ATI's comparable card to the 6600gt?

    what would compare to a 6600gt? I dont htink ther is any direct product aimed to compete with the 6000gt but i would like to know whats aorudn the same price/performance
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    Some confusion in antec cases

    I dunnoh looking at antec's site they look the same, same psu (the bqe actually has a sl350s pus and the amb has a sl350 psu but they have the same specs) Antec SLK3700AMB Metalic Bronze w/ 350W PSU $89 Antec SLK3700BQE Black Quiet Super Mid Tower w/350W $100 (I am...
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    Why Do People Praise Lian-Li Cases

    looking at the lian-li cases, they are very expensive and dont look too nice.. maybe it is because i havent seen some of the better ones but yeah... the Evercase looks way better imo... and is like 35 bucks.... compared to a 100 dollar lian li case thats pretty.... ugly.... anybody agree? people...
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    Value RAM question

    i know certain ram uses tccd chips for the ram... but what type of chips are in value ram?
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    All fans blowing out of case

    say you blocked all the holes and stuff where air can come up and had 4 of them delta fans all blowing out..... what would be the effects?
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    fx 5700

    are these cards any good?? like comparable to a 6600 or an ati 9600 or what? not much info about them
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    if all the planets aligned....

    would it?
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    Best 939 mobo with locked sata

    title says it all, i hear d good thign about the k8n, but locekd sata ports are by the cpu.... and on the 9nda3 the loced ones are under the video which i hear many peeps have priobelms with
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    Clawhammer (754) vs Winchester (939)

    ok.... the 3200+ comes in a few flavours... what would be better tho? the obvious differences are (clawhammer / winchester) processing techonolgy (130nm / 90 nm) l2 cache (1mb / 512kb) platform (754 / 939) dual channel support (no / yes) which would overclock better? which would...
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    "Don't Be A Stranger"

    what exactly does it mean, i dont really get it.... especially when they say it instead of saying "bye" or "later" or something..... thanks....
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    Overclocking an AMD K6-2 333mhz

    its pretyt nasty i was just wondeirgn if anyone know the fsb/multi of these (stock) cause cpu-z doesnt shwo anything..... and i would like to o/c it
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    Comments on teh Olympus Stylus 410?

    hi, i've bene lookign at this digital camera for a while, i would like to know if anyone has it and what they think of it. I found a store selling it brand new and stuff for 359.99 + tax (Canadian) thanks
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    fan controllers... potentiometers?

    so say i was bored and wanted to try to make a fan controller (just vary the speed of the fan) could i use a pontentionmeter? 3 pins on a standard fan, one black, one red, one something else (tells rpm?) how would i do this, i know a potentiometer has 3 inputs, one for power input, one for...
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    heat pipes...

    alot of the new heat sinks have heat pipes... take teh xp-120, the bas of the heat sink has 5 pipes that bring it up higher.... now wouldnt a heat sink that was the sameas the xp120 without the heat pipes and was one piece be better? transferring heat through chunks of copper/aluminum doesnt...
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    how far will the stock a64 retail hsf go?

    will the sotck a64 hsf go to 2.4 ish?
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    PSU: do they make a difference?

    i've been looking into the prices of power supply units and the brand name ones arent cheap at all, my question if i got some relatively cheap one with good ratings would it be good for ocing a a64 to the average 2.4ghz ? like 80 bucks canadian is not nice to pay for s psu when i can get a...
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    when overclockng fsb/ram dividers?

    i dont understand hwo you do this, like do you set it in the bios or what, i think the part that confuses me is how do you make the ram faster say your fsb is 200 and tthe ram is 200, and then you up the fsb to 210, will the ram automatically go to 210 or do your set it in the bios or do you...
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    What mobo for an a64 3200+ 939?

    which mobo is good for this processor?
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    Using pc3200 rated ram at at say pc 2700

    would one be able to stick ddr400 ram into a computer using a 333mhz bus and then lower the ram to 333 mhz and then tighten up the tiings and get liek cas 1.5-1.5-1.5-1 (with the nice ram samsung tccd chips? ocz platinum rev.2 pc 3200 )
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    htt frequency?

    what is htt frequency? is it the fsb and why does it haev a multiplier.... please redirect me if this has lready been asked thanks
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    Help on processor labelign (p4)

    View Laptop my friend is considering buying this laptop, i would like to know if it really has ht? like it has a 533 fsb and ht? i thought ht was only on 800 fsb P4s
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    sempron 3100+ vs amd 64 2800+

    hands down whats better.... some benchmarks woudl be nice.... (32 bit programs of course)
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    p3 coppermine temps?

    What is the max temp for a coppermine?
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    FSB on athlon 64?

    i never seen anyoen mention the fsb speed of athlon 64? anyone care to tell me?
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    Overclocking a Pentium 3?

    well i have two comps both are p3 ones a dell slot type of processor 550 mhz (5.5x100) others a 733 (5.5x133) its a custom computer (w/e you wanna call it, its not dell or hp or ibm) so i was wondering if there was a way to oc the 550 cause i would like to squeeze some performance out of...
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    Prescott information?

    Hi i have been reading u alot lately on processors and the one thing that ocnfuses me is that they say the prescott completely sucks becuase of long pipelines and everyone says they suck, but isnt this good for multitasking and more like office type use? I know AMD 64 is recommened for games...