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    Optical In problems with SBlive! Drive

    I'm trying to wire up my DVD player to my PC so I can make use of 4 channel sound. I'm using the Creative drivers for the Sound Blaster Live! card with the drive bay board I can't find any controls for Optical In - everything else is there but not that. I tried using the SPDIF ports on the DVD...
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    Can anyone identify this GFX card please

    Trash Heap On the bottom row there's a GFX card with a fan and L shaped RAM. Can anyone identify it please? Does anyone recognise the rest of the cards? Think of it as a quiz if you want.
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    PC125 and PC133 Ram in same system

    If I buy a stick of PC133 and put it in a system with PC125, the PC133 Stick will run at 125, without having to go into the BIOS, yeah?
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    What's the ULTIMATE videocard for the ULTIMATE PC?

    I found this PC on the street a while back. I recently bought some RAM and tested it today and it appears to be working fine, but the Voodoo 3 card I've been testing it with is for the PC I'm about to give to my dad. So, what's the best PCI graphics card for a system based around this kind of...
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    Harddisk apparently running at 67c

    I've jsut downloaded SpeedFan 4.20. It doesn't support my mobo but it does give me temperatures for more or less everything. According to the program my HD2 is running at 65-70 degrees celsius, but, te other hard disk HD0, which is the same model is running at 35c. Do you reckon this sounds...
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    Small, quiet HSF or fan for Socket A recommendations please

    I C&Ped this from the CPU forum. I'm not entirely sure where it belongs. I'm looking to buy a new HFS for my machine, but I can only seem to find reviews for the relatively expensive and large neon and LED types. Also, I don't think I can use the larger 12cm kind because, due to the size...
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    Erm. Closed. Moved to cooling forum

    Hi, how are you?
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    XBOX GFX benchmarks

    a friend of mine has an XBOX and I was quite impressed with the quality of the graphics on it. I read up on the specs for the machine but I can't find any specs that I can compare with PC benchmarks. It's probably been asked before but does anyone know where I can get the benchmarks for the...
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    Quiet, preferable passively cooled 350W PSU

    I'm looking to buy a quiet PSU as my current one can be heard from downstairs. According to various calculators I've used my system requirements are between 250 and 300 watts, so I'm looking for a 350w, maybe 400w PSU that's preferable passively cooled, but a quiet fan based one will do, oh and...
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    CD drive not spinning

    My friend is having a problem with her CDROM drive. The drive bay opens and shuts but when she puts a CD in she says it isn't spinning and she can't access anything from windows. The drive is listed in "My Computer" but nothing comes up when double clicked on. As far as I can tell she hasn't...
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    Is it possible to have a dual boot set up with two copies of Win98

    Is there any software that will enable me to use two versions of win08 in the same way that different operating systems can be used? I want to be able to set my machine up so it'll boot with one set of drivers for my sequencer software - the APS Live! drivers, and another boot where it'll load...
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    Win XP Pro newbie: Messenger popups and Vid Card driver probs

    I've just installed Windows XP Pro and I'm getting a copy of SP1 from my brother in law soon. First problem is when I run either the built in version of Messenger or the 9x build of messenger under XP I get frequent dialogue box popups with links to dodgy looking "messenger fix" sites. All...
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    Ancient socket 7 pentium based tower

    I found a huge PC tower someone had thrown out a while back, stripped of more most of it components, just the CPU, PSU, Soundblaster AWE32 and a worn out FFD remained Does anyone reckon will work if I buy some RAM for it? It was sat there for probably only a couple of days, but it had rained...
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    Console style games on PC

    Are there a games for the PC that are anything like Zelda: Ocarina of Time or Mario 64? All I know of are games like Diablo and MDK
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    Old ISA Soundblaster AWE32

    Last year I found an old pentium tower that was thrown out. Most of the components were taken out - RAM, harddisk etc, but there was a soundblaster 32 left behind. As far as I can tell the machine hasn't got any rain damage inside, though i was raining a bit when I saw it so I don't know - I...
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    9500 Atlantis Moddable?

    I've found this card on ebay and have skimmed through the 9500-9700 softmod faq on here. This atlantis card, though, hasn't got it's RAM positioned in an L-shape. Anyone know if this will work? 9500 Atlantis This image is labeled 9500pro - the card is identical to the one in the photo on...
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    9600se low profile passive cooling

    I found this card going for £10.50 (about $18?) on ebay, there seems to be only one sniper about and I'm wondering if it's a good deal. No drivers or anything come with it, just the card. I don't need the card or anything, but I felt like bidding for it anyway.
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    Putting a heatsink on video RAM

    I've got a couple of heatsinks from my old k6-2 and pentium mmx, one copper with tiny fins, one alluminium with less and thicker fins (was the one on my k6 - probably why it was running pretty warm), and I' m wondering if I can attach them to my graphics card. It's an Asus Video Suite v9280...
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    Attaching a heatsink to a video card's RAM

    I've got a couple of heatsinks from my old k6-2 and pentium mmx, one copper with tiny fins, one alluminium with less and thicker fins (was the one on my k6 - probably why it was running pretty warm), and I' m wondering if I can attach them to my graphics card. It's an Asus Video Suite v9280...
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    ti4200 on win98

    I have a second ti4200 card now (I sort screwed up on ebay not realizing you can't undo a "buy it now"). This one is the Siluro ti4200 (not the 8x AGP one). Like my other card the offical nvidia drivers (regular and forceware) don't work very well on the card - anything that uses direct x crawls...
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    AGP 4x card on APG 2x slot

    Just been reading through the graphics card FAQ on here and it says that AGP4x cards usually work on 2x. I have a spare Siluro GF4 ti4200 card (not the 8x enhanced version) and a second PC with this chipset according to CPU-Z: Mainboard and chipset Motherboard manufacturer Compaq...
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    GFX card overheating?

    SmartDoctor2 is reporting that voltage is at 1.68, sometimes it jumps to 1.73 for a couple of seconds where smartdoc gives me a warning. Is 1.73 safe? How do I lower it, and is this the reason the GPU is always around 49 degrees celcius? I don't know if this is typical of graphics cards but even...
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    VDDQ voltage - is 1.68v safe?

    SmartDoctor2 is reporting that voltage is at 1.68, sometimes it jumps to 1.73 for a couple of seconds where smartdoc gives me a warning. Is 1.73 safe? How do I lower it? My card is an Asus Video Suite V9280 ti4200 Are there any alternative to or updated Asus enhanced drivers that will work...
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    Fans

    I have a tower fan installed on my PC and it's drawing air inwards in to the system. Which direction will the fan be most efficient - drawing cooler air in to the computer or drawing hotter air out of the system?
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    Sempron 2200+ @1500Mhz temperatures

    Mines currently running at 40 degrees celcius while my system temp is about 30c. Is this normal? At what temporatures do Semprons tend to become unstable? Thanks
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    Asus V9280 Video Suite Ti4200

    Does anyone here have the Asus V9280 ti4200 Video Suite card? I'm having problems with the WDM drivers. Whenever I try to use any software that uses these drivers it locks up. The documentation that comes with it is minimal for the video-in settings - all I want to do is record something using...
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    Asus V9280 Video Suite - Ti4200

    I've just bought this card today and have been having problems with it from the start. With the drivers that came with it the machine crashed with loads of funky screen artifacts during the windows splash screen. That seems to resolved now I'm using more recent VIA and Asus drivers, but now I...
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    Graphics Benchmarks Websites

    I tried looking on google earlier. I found some sites with benchmarks but none that have a list of graphics cards along with their benchmarks for comparison. Are there any? Thanks
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    Radeon 9600se

    My mobo has a 4x AGP slot, but according to CPU-Z it supports 8x but with a transfer rate of 4x. Will the 9600se work ok at 4x speed? If so, is it worth getting or is there an older 4x AGP card that gives similar peformance to the 9600se in 4x mode? I ain't got a clue about this here APG malarky.
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    VIA/S3G KM400/KN400

    I've just bought a Sempron 2200 and it has an inbuilt VIA/S3G KM400/KN400 graphics chip. I want to find out how it compares to other graphics cards but I can't find anything worthwhile through google. I've an idea that' it's a pretty poor card/chip, inbuilt ones usually are, but it should be...
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    K6 2+ 500MHz

    The motherboard it's on has clock multipliers but doesn't have anything relating to FSB. On it's default speed it ran well enough but was always about 60 degrees celcius, but all the IDE cables and dust in it probably didn't help things - it's cleaned up now. Reckon it can be clocked up?
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    Ram backwards compatibity

    I've just ordered a PC2700 DIMM to replace my PC2100. Could I use the PC2100 on motherboards that use PC100, PC125, or PC133 DIMMs?
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    PC2100 overclocking

    I don't know the brand name. My Sempron is supposed to be running ay 1.5Ghz on 166.66 fsb - It came with 512MB of PC2100 so I'm assuming it should be able to run at that speed. But I need to be sure. Is it safe to clock it up from 133 to 166?
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    V2MDMP Motherboard Manual

    The manual that came with my mobo was for V4MDM/V4MDMP and V2MDMP, but it only shows the FSB jumper settings for the V4M. Does anyone know anything about settings the FSB jumpers for the V2MDMP board?
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    Odd Semp2200+ FSB value

    I've just bought a new PC - A sempron 2200+ @ 1500MHz. The trouble is it's only running at 1200MHz. In the BIOS the FSB is set at 133/333 - isn't this a strange value? The maximum value I can up it too is 165/400 (or 450 can't remember, it was ridulously high anyway) - which I daren't try...