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    Dell hard drive options

    A friend of mine wanted to get a Dell and was asking my opinion of what to get. He doesn't really do anything that needs much power (he's using AOL over his DSL connection -- that kind of guy), but he tends to keep computers for a very long time (he's upgrading from a P3-550). I was...
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    Anybody use the LinkSys WMP54GX 3-antenna "SRX" card?

    I've got an apt that's pretty close to my university, but not quite close enough to pick up their wireless (my laptop's Orinoco card has about 65% of the range I need, even without an external antenna). I'm looking to get a good PCI wireless card. I know I could just get anything cheap and...
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    DSL without paying for a land line?

    I use my cellphone for everything, so I don't have any reason to pay for a land line. I can get DSL for $20/mo, though, so I was just wondering if it was possible to get DSL without actually paying for the land line. Like, say I had my land line activated and then got DSL, then told them I...
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    Getting my school's free Wi-Fi instead of paying for broadband.

    I live pretty close to the main campus at my school. I can get a decent signal with my ancient laptop's Orinoco card just about 150 ft. from my apartment. In my apartment, all I get is a spotty connection to some of my neighbors' networks. If I could boost my reception just a little bit, I...
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    DDR2 533 vs. 667 in a Core Duo

    Looking at getting an E1705, and I was just wondering if there's any reason to get DDR2 667. I know that memory speed is supposed to matter more on P4 systems than A64 systems, but I haven't really seen anything showing memory performance on a Core (or Pentium M) CPU. In general, it's my...
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    use a Wacom tablet like a laptop touch pad?

    I was just wondering if there were drivers that let you use a Wacom tablet instead of your mouse, just like a laptop touch pad. I don't want to use the pen or the mouse with the Wacom tablet. It just seems like when you have several monitors, you're putting so much mileage on the mouse. I...
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    SLI with 2 cards and 3 monitors

    I was just wondering if this is possible. I've never hooked up SLI before. If I had two cards and hook them up for SLI to my primary monitor, can I use the secondary outputs for each of the cards for my two additional monitors? I currently have 3 monitors, and the two on the side are just...
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    upgrading to 3X DVI-D monitors

    I'm upgrading my system to 3X 1600x1200 DVI-D screens. I've had 3 screens for many years, and I found that the only solution that didn't give me headaches was having a single primary AGP card for the primary screen and then a secondary dual-head PCI card for the side screens. As far as games...
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    How often does Gateway change their prices?

    Well, I finally got the money together and I was going to get the M250X this week, but it just went from $900 up to $1000. How often do they change their pricing? Are there any other 14" widescreens out there that are thinner than the HP DV1000? The ASUS W3V is nice, but I'm not going to...
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    Got my new Sempron 2800+ today

    I just got my Sempron 2800+ from ZZF (1.6 GHz Palermo SDA2800AI03BX). It shows up on POST and in Windows as "AMD Hammer Family processor - Model Unknown" on my DFI LanParty UT 250Gb. It doesn't seem to OC quite as well as the original 90nm one (Oakville SDA2800AI03BA, which people called a...
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    fluxbox & xfce for a linux noob

    I used to have to use UNIX a lot, and a few years ago I messed around with Mandrake/Debian/SUSE a little, but I never really got into the whole Linux thing. I just never liked the feel of Gnome or KDE. Now I've been looking around and fluxbox & xfce both look like window managers I'd like to...
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    Vista and GMA 900

    I'm getting a laptop in the next couple weeks, and the ones I like most are some thin light Sonomas that are only available with integrated graphics. I'm really not concerned with gaming performance, but I'll be keeping the laptop for a few years, and I'll probably want to upgrade to Vista...
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    Does 533 FSB hurt battery life?

    I've seen quite a few things saying that DDR2 533 really isn't any faster than DDR2 400 because DDR2 533 has higher latency which usually evens out the performance. I also really don't think that a Pentium M 730 (1.6 GHz, 533 FSB) would really be noticably faster than a Pentium M 725A (1.6...
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    Can you upgrade your notebook HDD w/o voiding your warranty?

    I'll be getting a new laptop pretty soon, and I will probably be getting a 3-year on-site warranty with it. I plan on getting the cheapest hard drive I can and then upgrading to a 7200 RPM drive myself. I will also no doubt upgrade the RAM before the 3-year warranty runs out. So, how do...
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    Gateway M250X vs. HP DV1000

    I think I've settled on the idea that a thin 14" widescreen is the perfect size for me. Dell doesn't appear to offer anything in this size, and 12" is just a little too small (mostly the keyboard). I'm not totally against the Latitude X1 or Inspirion 700M, but the X1 takes a 1.8" hard drive...
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    Gateway.com laptops vs. Best Buy's Gateway laptops

    I was in Best Buy today and I was looking at the Gateway 370. It's a pretty thin 14" widescreen with a good-sized keyboard and room for a 9-cell battery without sticking out past the back of the laptop. Of course, they seem to only have a Celeron version (although a not-so-bright employee...
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    Latitude X1 has room for 2 hard drives?

    If you go to Customize: What's that all about? The primary hard drive is 8mm (so is that a 1.8" drive?) but this makes it sound like it comes with room for a 2nd hard drive that is bigger than the primary one. That can't be right. If it actually did have room for a 9.5mm hard drive, I...
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    any lightweight laptops to consider besides Inspirion 700M and Latitude X1?

    I can't decide if I want to pay $1000 for the 700M or $1500 for the X1, but I can't find anything by anyone else that comes close to those. My current laptop is 14" and weighs a ton. I'd like something light. I don't really care that the X1 has no optical drive. I'm thinking of getting a...
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    OSX for PCs

    It's my understanding that OSX is based off of BSD. Since BSD is available for PC, why isn't there a relatively simple port of OSX for the PC? I'm pretty amazed that everybody doesn't have OSX for their PC. Given that Apple will now be using Intel CPUs, I would think this would very soon be...
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    Why are NVidia cards faster when ATI cards have better specs?

    I was looking at this thread: What ATI PCI-E card would be at least as good as the 9800 Pro? ...and it made me wonder what exactly is going on. Why are NVidia cards faster than ATI cards that have more pixel pipes and more bandwidth? Specifically, the thread is talking about a Radeon...
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    cheap MS optical mouse troubles

    I got the following cheap MS mouse/keyboard combo for a machine I just built: http://www2.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=23-109-132 It's a combo I've got several times before, but I guess I've never actually put it on an NF3 250Gb board before. The mouse works fine almost all the...
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    How old does the Raptor 74 have to get?

    I mean, honestly. I thought things were going in the right direction. I figured we'd have 15K SATA drives from multiple manufacturers by now. It's not that hard when the mechanical side has been taken care of for years. It wouldn't be difficult for Fujitsu/Seagate/Maxtor to all make SATA...
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    1.4GB mini DVD+/-RW

    I've been looking for 1.4GB 8cm DVD+RW or DVD-RW discs, but these are all I can find: Verbatim 1.4GB 2X mini DVD-RW http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817130990 Optodisc 1.4GB 2X mini DVD-RW...
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    Best PSU for under $75

    I've got a 5-year-old Enermax 360W PSU and I think it might be holding me back. I used to have it running a Palomino with 10K SCSI drives, and when I added a third 10K drive sometimes one drive would fail to spin up. My current system is a Sempron 2800 on a DFI LanParty UT NF3 250Gb with two...
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    DFI LanParty UT -- did I get a bad one?

    Well, I've never had a problem getting refurb stuff from NewEgg before, but I think I may have now. They'll let me RMA it, so I just want to make sure I'm not missing something. I've got the LanParty UT NF3 250Gb board and a Sempron 2800 90nm, and this board gets totally unstable as soon as...
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    15.4" WSXGA+ laptops (1680x1050)

    I was looking at getting a new laptop, and I don't want a huge 17" display. The Inspirion 6000 with a 15.4" screen seems like a good size. I'd like a display that's 1600 pixels wide, which gives me the options of: WSXGA+ = 1680x1050 WUXGA = 1920x1200 I'm thinking 1920x1200 would just be...
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    Which drive manufacturers won't cross-ship replacement drives?

    I've had to RMA tons of drives. As I recall, Quantum, IBM, Western Digital and Seagate all had no problem cross-shipping. They'll usually just ask for a credit card and bill you the price of the drive if you don't get them the defective one in a few weeks. I think Maxtor has changed their...
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    Corsair PC3200 failing at 333MHz in KT333 board

    I've got an old KT333 board running an Athlon XP 1600. Nothing is being overclocked. I had some old PC2100 memory in it that I gave away and I replaced it temporarily with two new 512MB Corsair Value Select PC3200 CL2.5 sticks. I ran MemTest and the memory failed. Here are the memory...
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    4x512MB CL2.5 or 2x1024MB CL3

    I've seen a couple posts referring to problems on dual-channel boards running 4 sticks of memory, but I haven't really seen many specifics. Is this just an NF4 issue? If this has been covered in depth before, feel free to tell me I'm an idiot who can't figure out the search function and point...
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    external firewire drive vs. GB ethernet server

    My friend's wife works with DV on her PowerBook. She stores a lot of footage on an external firewire drive. He wants me to upgrade his machine so that she can use cheaper internal drives in his machine across the LAN for storage. Video editing on a laptop just seems like a bad idea to me...
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    Celeron D 2.8 GHz

    I've always heard that the Celeron D was a decent cheap processor (at least compared to older P4-based Celerons). I really have very little experience with them, though, since I always built Athlon XP systems (and now Socket 754 Semprons) when someone wanted a cheaper system. My GF's cousin...
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    suggestions for a 15.4" 1680x1050 Centrino?

    I'm looking for a new laptop. Unfortunately I can't consider Apple because I need to use software which is only available for PC (not to mention that even the 17" PowerBook only has a 1440x900 display). Also, there is software which I use constantly which I have tailored for a 1600-pixel-wide...
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    bluetooth laptop + bluetooth mouse

    I don't really know much about bluetooth. If I get a laptop with built-in bluetooth, then I go get a bluetooth mouse like the MX900, will I be able to just charge up the mouse and throw it in the bag with the laptop without any problems? I mean, the MX900 comes with its own USB cradle...
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    printing thermal printable DVD/CD with inkjet printer

    I just got an Epson R200 (great deal, $94 delivered at Newegg) because my old HP 880C died, and I like the idea of printing on DVDs. I'm not looking to print huge full-color images on every DVD. I just think it'd be nice to have something instead of blank silver DVDs so I could tell the...
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    NF3 250Gb boards w/o 1394

    It seems really strange to me that so many good NF3 250Gb boards don't have 1394. I really like the $99 Epox board, but no 1394. The Soltek 250Gb board is a great deal -- $99 for a board with 4X SATA, Promise controller, NV GBLAN, and a free round ATA cable, but no 1394. The cheaper version...
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    No spreader, add-on spreader, or factory spreader

    You can still get decent CL 2.5 RAM for $79, but good CL 2 modules are continuing to skyrocket. Generic CL 2 is $115. Corsair XMS 2-3-3-6 is $121. OCZ EL Platinum 2-3-2-5 is $122. HyperX 2-3-2-6 is $143. Mushkin Level One 2-3-2 is $143. Given the prices I simply can't justify spending more...
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    NewEgg's prices getting worse?

    I like to keep track of the best system I can build (without monitor/keyboard/mouse/software) at various price points. The cheapest good system is a $400 office machine, but just for fun I also have a $250 bottom-of-the-barrel system. I am very strict about getting all parts needed -- cabling...
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    Political signatures suck

    People should be warned and then banned for having political comments in their siguatures. If it's not something you'd post outside of the Politics forum, it shouldn't be in your sig while you're posting in the hardware forum. I see political stuff all day. Part of the reason I browse these...
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    buy.com free monitor shipping ends today (Dec 31)

    I haven't shopped at buy.com in quite awhile -- since I stopped getting free DVD's with those $20 coupons with $20 minimum purchase :) But I was looking for some monitors and they really do have some good deals there right now on some very highly rated monitors, and most of their monitors have...