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    Successful OC of i7 920 but...

    My p6t deluxe v2 wouldn't sleep OC'd until the latest bios update (0504), which fixed the issue. So, if you haven't updated, please do so. It's so much nicer when you come back to your computer and it isn't stuck in "zombie mode" when you wake it.
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    Transfering Data off a MacBook Hard Drive?

    There are no jumpers, it's just a plain jane sata 2.5" hard drive. I put my drive in this enclosure. http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16817347013 It allows me to plug it into other computers with either usb or firewire and is bus powered, so not wall wart is needed. Once you...
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    Upgrading iMac G5 20" Superdrive - anyone done it?

    You could put in a third party drive, like one from MCE if you find the pricing on the Apple drive too salty. The drive is also likely faster. http://mcetech.com/imacg5dvdr8dl.html To open the G5 iSight, you remove the memory bay cover, then take out the four hex screws along the bottom...
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    Replace 939 Board or build new?

    Only 939 I can find in stock...FWIW http://www.geeks.com/details.a...-NP&cat=MBB&cpc=MBBbsc
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    Good notebook HD?

    WD Black 320GB 7200RPM http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16822136280 It looks like all three commonly available 320GB 7200rpm drives (WD, Hitachi, Seagate) are blazing fast and fairly power efficient though. Toms Hardware (I know...blasphemy) has a writeup on it and several other...
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    Can E6300 BSEL work?

    e6300 is already 1066 fsb, so you can't do the e4300 800->1066 fsb bsel mod. A bsel mod to 1333 may be possible, depending on your motherboard (whether it supports bsel modded cpus or not). Since your board looks be be decent, I see no reason to do a bsel mod. Bsel mod is for boards that...
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    GA-G31M-S2L and E7200

    Normally I would say "it should work, but it just might not be fully supported," but on some of the gigabytes, they seem to only work with cpus that the bios recognizes. For example, I have the g31m-s2l and if I bsel mod my e4300 to 1066fsb it will not even post since the specs don't match what...
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    Build your own SSD drive

    I tried a sata to CF adapter in my macbook pro with a 233x card, but performance was abysmal. The card had fast reads (35MB/s), but the write speeds were so terrible that I couldn't stand to use it. On small files I was getting write speeds that measure in KB/s instead of MB/s! Maybe with a...
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    Got my first Mac (Pro) any tips?

    OS X is easy to install, easier than windows IMO, but if you get stuck, there are a lot of guides online that you could read. Apple's guide is pretty good, here's the direct link. http://manuals.info.apple.com/...pard_Install-Setup.pdf You don't need a cd key for the os. :) If you wanted...
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    BSEL Mod Questions

    I used "quick grid" rear window defogger repair paint. It worked well, but was kind of tedious to tape off the area and apply. I think I saw some guy cut a small piece of aluminum foil in a "V" shape and super glued the tip of the v to the empty area beside the pads on the cpu. FWIW
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    site won't load on a mac: can mac people try it out?

    Not sure what it's supposed to look like but it looks normal to me in both safari and firefox.
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    Core 2 Duo (2.2 & 2.4)

    Here's a bench that includes the 2.4 and 2.2 Santa Rosa cpus, from the macbook pro. http://www.barefeats.com/rosa02.html Not that big of a difference IMO.
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    Dell Dimension 2300 questions

    My Dimension 2300's retention clip broke as well. I replaced it with this heatsink. http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16835110013 I like that it does away with the crappy plastic retention bracket completely. The downside is you have to remove the motherboard to install the new...
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    Will Quad Core work on XP SP1?

    Quad works in xp pro sp2 at least. http://img400.imageshack.us/img400/2038/quadpl9.jpg
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    FAST flash drives

    Cosair Flash Voyager Gt What capacity do you need? http://www.newegg.com/Product/...&srchInDesc=voyager+gt
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    Notebook Sata drives

    http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/11/sams...laptop-drive-200gb-at-7200rpm-a-world/
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    Sweet new Latitude XT

    With high speed internet now readily available, optical drives are needed much less. A flash drive+internet should cover most uses. Most software is now available as online downloads, so there's not much need for cd/dvds.
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    Words that can't be rhymed?

    I guess those would be partial rhymes.... Monarchy<>Anarchy would be closest to rhyming of those you list. There are actually lots of words that don't rhyme or don't rhyme well.
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    Words that can't be rhymed?

    anarchy capillary condom engine monitor snorkel testicle uterus zygote I don't think those rhyme.
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    What's the MOST "owned" pic you've got/seen?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCRwKsD6WgM Don't think this has been posted, pretty funny.
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    Mac OSX machine build help

    Actually, you can, for ~$120. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16832110016 But I don't think it would install on anything other than mac hardware, and also, it isn't legal to run mac os on non-mac hardware. I think most people that do this, download(illegally) a modified...
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    Does this exist?

    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817158009 +card reader too!
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    MacBook

    DDR2-667 PC2-5300, 200p SODIMM, 1.8v Many brands do work, a lot of the newegg reviews have comments regarding mac compatibility. The ram isn't too hard to replace, the main thing is to use a proper sized screwdriver so you don't strip the screws when taking the cover off the memory area. I...
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    Any way to use ps3 bluetooth controller as media center remote?

    I'm not sure if this is the right subforum, I guess bluetooth remotes are hardware... So, I"m just wondering if there's any way to pair a ps3 bluetooth remote(the bluray remote) with a media center pc and use it to control the media center functions in vista media center. It'd make it more...
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    What is that upbeat song in the latest iPod comercials?

    http://www.apple.com/itunes/ads/partyanimated/small.html "Featuring Flathead by The Fratellis"
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    pin mod for e4300

    I did the e4300 800fsb to 1066fsb mod today, so I thought I'd share some more information for anybody wanting to pin(pad) mod their e4300 using the bsel pins.. It worked for me (so far :)). I used the permatex rear window defogger repair kit I bought at the local auto parts store to jump the...
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    "Future-ready systems" from Dell

    You all seem to think vista is really hard to run. It runs fine on my older system with a 1.8ghz p4, 512mb pc133, 80gb hd, pci 6200 video for basic tasks (what 95% of computers are used for). Yeah, it's a ram hog, but I'm surprised that it works as well as it does with 512mb.
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    Samsung 940MW lcd developed dead pixels, 7 months old.

    Ok, so I was looking more, and it really did look like dirt or something due to the color/shape/depth, so I thought to myself "what if I try to get it to move by tapping the lcd lightly." So I tapped the lcd with my figernail, and lo and behold, the "dead pixel" fell down, and now cannot be...
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    Samsung 940MW lcd developed dead pixels, 7 months old.

    Yeah, I tried massaging the pixels. I saw on another forum that rubbing in a figure 8 could help, but it didn't help, and I've done it for a while. Thanks though. I guess I'll have to dig out the manual, to find the fine print.
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    Samsung 940MW lcd developed dead pixels, 7 months old.

    Ok, so I have a 940mw lcd (19" widescreen 1440x900) that I've had for about 7 months and today it developed a few dead/bad pixels. There are three(I believe) that are all touching each other. I also noticed two or three other smaller irregularities on other parts of the screen(I think it could...
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    ewiz has 8800gtx in stock?

    Just a note, if you find the card with froogle, the price is lower, currently $625, instead of $643.75.
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    Dual DVI-D on a AGP?

    http://www.leadtek.com/3d_graphic/winfast_a7600_gttdh_1.html The leadtek 7600gt agp has dual link dvi. I believe the 'egg is carrying this card for ~$175. Edit: linky http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814122009
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    mac / pc

    It isn't a mac g4, it's a mac pro's specs. The mac pro has dual dual core xeons(4 processing cores), so it is very fast. I don't think it's priced badly at $2499, considering how much just one of those dual core 2.66 xeons costs. Edit: Also, with boot camp or parallels, you can install...
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    Get excited all Gigabyte 965p-s3 owners or soon to be owners... This board overclocks like mad!!!!

    That is so strange. If I find ewiz through froogle, it gives me a price of $118, if I find it on their site without referral then it's $121.54, and if I find it through pricegrabber on ewiz, then the price is $127.99. Pricegrabber prices are even worse than finding it on the site manually...
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    Certain devices not working with Windows on an Intel based Mac?

    Using boot camp or parallels? If boot camp, then it should work as it normally would on a pc, especially with the new bootcamp update 1.1. Not 100% sure about parallels.
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    I need some help with suggestions

    You could try super pi, and if you have a decent graphics card, you could try 3dmark05 and 3dmark06. http://www.xtremesystems.com/pi/ http://www.futuremark.com/ Cpu-z is another nice program to have if you're oc'ing. http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php
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    Best PCI graphics card available?

    I got the pci 6200 off newegg. It isn't too bad. I can run farcry on medium at 800x600 with an average fps of 43. Aquamark 3 around 15,000, and 3dmark05 of 620. It's a great bargain at $28.
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    Best Rugged / Semi-Rugged Laptops

    I think a ibm/lenovo thinkpad Z series would be ok. They have a shock mounted hard drive, a magnesium alloy frame, and the active protection sytem, which stops the hd if it detects that it's dropped. You might check this out. http://www.pc.ibm.com/us/thinkpad/community/legends/index.html
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    URGENT. BUILD HAS TO BE DONE TONIGHT. 24 PIN CONNECTOR ON PSU 20 PIN MOTHERBOARD. CAN I DO THIS WITHOUT AN ADAPTOR???

    I think the 20 pins that fit in the socket are the same voltages as if it was just a regular 20 pin connector, someone else might be able to verify this though. Edit: checked a 20 pin psu's connector and all the wires colors are in the same positions as they are in the 20 used pins of a...
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    URGENT. BUILD HAS TO BE DONE TONIGHT. 24 PIN CONNECTOR ON PSU 20 PIN MOTHERBOARD. CAN I DO THIS WITHOUT AN ADAPTOR???

    I think so, here's a pic. http://img505.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dscf00993ri.jpg It might not stay in well, since the lactch doesn't line up, but friction will probably keep it in... It works the other way too on at least some boards, (you can use a 20 in a 24 socket w/o adapter).