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    Memory rant

    XBOX 360 has 512MB of ram. My computer has twice that amount. I run Vista, the newest operating system on the market. Thus, you would expect it to have the most intelligent memory management. However, as most of you know, this is far from the case. Any new game on Vista takes at least 2GB...
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    Grub Missed XP Installation

    I recently had Ubuntu and Windows installed on a partitioned HD, but it was time for a fresh start and resized partitions, and I thought I would give my Vista RC1 a try first. Didn't care for it too much, so I wiped the HD again completely, and installed XP MCE. Then today I installed...
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    E-MU Abilities

    So reading over at DIYAudio as well as some other very respected audio sites, the consensus seems to be that the E-Mu is the best bang for the buck if you are looking for really good quality sound from the PC with onboard DACs. Now the question is: can it play games with surround sound and...
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    Dual 12vdc rails to +/-12v?

    Title pretty much says it. Is it possible to say get +/- 12vdc (with near full and equal power on +/-) from the rails on a dual rail ATX PSU? Im pretty new to EE, (CS major), and would like to learn more about how to manipulate power, so if anyone would rather point me to a good source than...
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    Calling all 9300/9400/E1705/M170 Owners

    Im pretty bummed out little information there is out there about laptop LCD display quality. Firstly, there are no specs, just marketing hype names(truelife, xbrite, etc.). So Im looking for some subjective opinions on the quality of these 17" WUXGA monitors. A few specific inquiries...
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    4G

    I dont really follow cell phones much. After I lost my k750i, I pretty much became bitter about the idea of tiny expensive things in general. Just poking around at stuff got me this though, which has rekindled my interest: Future Bandwidth 2.5gb/s over large wireless areas with the...
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    Parallel LED array.

    This seemed a bit above the level of the usual questions in General Hardware, so I figure this would be a better place to ask. I have some very basic knowledge about OHMs law, and DC circuitry in general, and am planning on building an LED array and want to clear one worry I have first...
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    Router throughput.

    I am planning a home network with a basic FTP and Gaming server, as well as mostly just general usage. I plan on getting FIOS as soon as it gets to my area, and overheard a brief conversation about home routers not being able to take advantage of the full 15mb/s. The only solution...
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    NVidia Linux Ethernet Woes

    So as the title makes clear, I am new at Linux. I have the most recent Fedora release (I think kernel 2.6.*?) Anyways, I have a Gigabyte Geforce6100 board, with onboard Gigabit Ethernet. At first while looking through the driver CD I thought the ethernet controller was the RealTec 8139, so...
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    Forcing RAM Divider

    Im not sure if this should go in the Motherboard section, but I really need to set a divider for my ram so that I can OC my proc on my Gigabyte 6100 board. The FSB goes up to 300, but my two sticks of crap dont go past 210 or so. I was thinking if there was some way to trick the BIOS into...
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    New Category Suggestions

    I hope this is the right place for this type of thread, but after being on some other forums, and thinking about what kind of site Anand is, I feel that maybe a couple more categories would be nice to have in the forums. Edit: Let it be made clear first of all that I really like the forums as...
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    The value of ram.

    I have used my rig in sig for about a year and a half now, and I just came to Singapore, where I built myself a temporary rig for about 200 american. It is a great rig for the price, but one FATAL flaw. At the moment, I have 128mb of RAM. Honestly, I never really gave much thought to my old...
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    Low Resource Linux

    I have an old laptop that I want to install linux on to learn my way around Linux, eventually I hope to move more and more to Linux. For this laptop, I think there are only like 32 megs of ram, and a 4gb HD or something rediculous like that. I just want web-browsing capabilities...
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    6200 unlocks questionable

    So basically title says it all. Got a 6200 128mb 128bit, unlocked the 4 pipes in rivatuner, and restarted. When I opened rivatuner it said the 4 pipes had been opened, but when OCed to 400/600, I only got about 6k in 03. Any thoughts or suggetions? Thanks
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    Gateway 21" Widescreen

    Linky This looks like an AWESOME LCD for the price. 8ms g-g, 21" 1680x1050. FINALLY somc competition for Dells monopoly on the "affordable" high end lcd world. (said affordable because comparing to Apple screens). Basically this has me almost regretting buying my 2005fpw, but not...
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    x1600xt Performance

    Is anyone else as dissapointed in the x1600xt results as I am? According to the Anandtech benches, it is outperformed most of the time by a lower clocked, 8 pipeline card: the famous 6600gt. The 6600gt is how old?? and costs how much??? I feel that although ATI came out with a competitive...
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    Budget Rig Topic Deleted?

    I posted a new thread in General Hardware last night, asking for input on a rig that I built for my brother. I was very polite and thorough, but now it isnt there anymore. I have searched and it is gone. Any reason why it might get deleted? I wouldnt bother asking but it took me a while...
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    Budget Rig

    Ok, so my brother's laptop finally died, and he asked me to build him a computer. His budget was under 800, preferrably closer to 700. He is a gamer/general useage user. As a disclaimer, I realize that I will get flamed for my choice of video card, but before you flame, listen to my...
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    Leadtek 7800gtx 420 shipped

    For those who live on the edge: Text
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    Yahoo Domain Sale

    Domain registration 50 percent off, for those of us who missed out on the 1.99/yr sale. Text
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    Sound Card for gaming

    I have onboard sound right now, and like playing games like CS source, that are fairly cpu intensive, and my frames seem a little below par, so I would like to find out how much of a performance hit I am taking for using onboard sound. If anyone has an educated estimate or a link to a good...
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    X800XT vs X800XL

    If the difference in price was around 30 dollars, 30 more for the xt of course, would you pay the extra for the xt? Thanks ( I would have done a vote but dont know how and have a final tomorrow :()
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    NForce4 Chipset Pretty hot

    I have the chaintech NForce4, which has worked really well for me, but I have noticed that the passive northbridge cooler gets really really hot. Right now I have the multiplier at 2x, to help with the load, although im not sure how much it helps. I have the fsb at 300, but with the ram...
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    1905fp

    I have been looking at getting into LCD's for a while, and I am a gamer, and I think I am willing to take the plunge to LCD after a long time of my OLLD 21" Trinitron CRT, which has been really really dim and dark for me. Anyways, the 2001fp has a lot of hype, and is more expensive by a...
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    X700pro - xt at startup?

    So I have an x700pro that easily gets to xt speeds, which I have checked with atiTool, but I would like a way to get it automatically to xt speeds at startup. Becuase the x700xt is pretty rare, I havent found any bios's for it online, and am a little bit weary of bios flashing anyways, as I am...
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    Source run in a window

    I have encountered an interesting phenomenon with counter strike source. I have not tested it in other games, but in source, I get significantly (15-30) better fps when I run the game in the window. For example, while running in a game in office, in full screen it would run at consistently...
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    Crazy screen of death

    So since building my computer, I have encountered different types of screens of death, and was wondering what the possible causes of the different ones are. Firstly, the bsod, I have gotten, I think because of too high overclocks for the amount of power getting to my ram. Second kind, the...
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    Replacing Transistors

    I hope this comes soon... http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/other/display/20050202040129.html
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    Hitching

    I have my computer with specs below overclocked to 2.5ghz, and its basically prime stable, have run blend for 24 hours and its fine, one of the other ones died after a couple of hours, but thats pretty stable for a winchester. When I play CS Source or FarCry on the other hand, I get fairly...
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    Mouse Pauses

    I have a regular, couple of years old Microsoft Intellemouse laser mouse, the really generic one that has worked fine for me. It has started pausing every once and a while, maybe once every 10-20 minutes, and only for about a second. Also, once every hour or two it somtimes just turns off, and...
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    Dangerous volts?

    I have been adjusting the pots on my Fortron, and its been pretty weird, I adjust one and its at one point, then it slowly moves up to another voltage. Right now it seems pretty stable with the 12v line at 12.75 checked by multimeter and 5v line at 5.4. Are these dangerous? Should I adjust...
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    Reason For Failure?

    My system is in spec for the most part. I also have a couple of optical drives. My fortron had been giving me pretty low volts for a while, so I decided to open it up and adjust the pots. I did, and I brough them to about stock, so the 5v was at 5.05-5.1 and the 12v was at 12. It was working...
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    Power supply volts

    So I have a Fortron 530, on my PCIe system, and I just checked the volts with a really nice multimeter, and it showed 11.25 for the 12 volt line and 4.75 for the 5 volt line. These are low enough to cause system instability and enough for an RMA correct?
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    My New Rig

    First of all I would like to thank all of the helpful people here at anandtech, because they are in great abundance. I would not have been able to build such a sweet rig without you, and it is sweeet, so thank you. My rig is in specs, along with a NEC 3500A, and other accessories. Comparing...
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    Complete failure

    I finally finished the 4 month project, and everything is going wrong. The CPU is not stable at stock volts and speeds, the PSU is wayy undervolting, and the HD just went out on me. A few questions about returning items. Firstly, the readings I got for the PSU are from the BIOS health checker...
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    Returning Processor

    My processor wont run stable at stock vcore and stock volts. I checked them, and they are only about .04 volts under 1.4. I have never returned anything before, and am wondering if this is a valid reason for returning the processor. Thanks
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    Quick Chaintech nForce4 Report

    Firstly, the board is up and running, and the computer works, I am using it now. I have a pretty weak CPU, one of the bad week 35 winchesters, and it apparently needs extra voltage to be ok. One of my biggest problems with the bios is that there seems to be no cpu multiplier options, that...
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    Prime95 and Superpi

    System Specs are in sig, and both tests fail in a few seconds. Got CPU from monarch with what looked like thermal compound residue on it. My best guess is the winchester is at fault, so would like to return it while have the warranty. Any other suggestions for tests I should do or actions...
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    RS480 Chipset

    So I am thinking I am going to get this board rather than wait for reasonably priced good NForce4 boards, and seem to be in stock some places. One place that has them cheap doesnt have any reseller ratings, should I still go for it? Its here...
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    x700pro & 6600gt

    Ok, I know this topic has been shot to death and then kicked a few times, but I havent seen any threads directly addressing the issue for these cards. I have a x700pro, got it for cheap off of ebay. Part of the reason I bought it was because I like supporting the underdog. (ATI) And I dont...