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    Hard drive enclosures

    I'm gettting confused about hard drive enclosures, which I know very little about. I have built a system for a friend with an Asus A8N SLi Deluxe motherboard. This comes with an external SATA bracket (including power connector). He wants to buy an external enclosure for back-up and moving...
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    OC with nforce4 non-SLI non-Ultra

    From Anandtech's nforce4 Introduction, October 19th, 2004: From some guy posting at nforcersHQ: Could someone explain this to me? I've read the "Quick and Dirty Guide" (to overclocking :) ) but it seems to assume (reasonably given the focus on Ultra and SLI these days) that HTT will be...
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    Emergency research

    I have a friend who wants to buy a new rig, in the next few days. I will be building it. These are the details: Executive summary: nforce3 or nforce4? 1. In UK. Budget is GBP 1500. For those who know US prices, my rule of thumb is that this will probably be equivalent to a $2000 budget. He...
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    Mobile Barton - the variants explained

    Finally, I have found a highly informative link on the AMD forums, which explains a great deal about the various flavours of Mobile Bartons. AMD forums link Now to find an OPGA 35W part. Tally-ho!
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    Locked 2500+ or unlocked 2800+ for more money?

    I'm about to spring for a Barton but can't decide between a locked 2500+ @ £60 (yes, I'm a limey and that equals $114 so Americans sure have it good) and an unlocked 2800+ @ £90. I realise that with a locked 2500+, one can up the FSB from 166 to 200 and get a 3200+. However, I believe having an...
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    1600x1200 LCDs - watch for DVI compliance

    Apologies if this has been mentioned already but I have searched the forums. Extremetech have an interesting article about the way in which DVI is implemented on graphics cards and how this may affect image quality on LCDs, particularly those that have UXGA (1600x1200) native resolution. Those...
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    Wait for PCI Express for media server?

    Hello everyone, I'm new here. Have been lurking for a while and it seems like a lot of you will have some views on this. My question is, I'm afraid, a variant of the perennial should-I-wait-or-buy-now kind. It's been a while since I bought a new PC. What I'm looking for is an all-purpose...