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    Do people "owe" anything to mankind?

    Scenario: An independant researcher discovers the cure for cancer one night, after many years of work. He calls his friends and tells them he wants to go out and celebrate. He goes out with his friends, gets totally smashed, and attempts to drive home drunk. He crashes and dies in a car...
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    Beta nVidia drivers and World of Warcraft

    I've been using the 66.76 drivers for quite a while now with my 6800GT (overclocked to Ultra speed). The card has been completely stable, and I even re-flashed the BIOS of it to the overclocked speed. That being said, I can't use any never drivers than the ones I have been using. Every single...
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    Are there newer (beta) nForce drivers?

    I'm building a new system tonight using the MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum - nForce3 chipset. Since I've been on an intel machine for a while, I was looking for drivers while I'm at work - and I noticed that they haven't updated the nForce drivers in like 5 months. I wouldn't generally care, except...
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    For everyone who plays World of Warcraft

    I was just reading a bit in the WoW forums, when someone pointed out a major bug they discoverd about HP/Mana and leveling up. Original thread can be found here. In a nutshell, what they found was that Stamina you get on leveling up doesn't increase your maximum HP at all, and INT you get...
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    Where oh where did Kyro go?

    What happened to the Kyro graphics cards? I know they had issues, but the theory was very sound behind them. I had always kind of hoped they would step up and start to really compete for market share. Did they die off? Or just give up?
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    *POLL* What computer company do you HATE

    Let me know if I should add any more companies. I listed as many as I could think of off the top of my head.
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    REFURB - Seagate SCSI ST336753LC 36GB 15K U320 - $85

    For those of you who use and love SCSI, here's a good deal on a 36 GB 15K drive! Hypermicro is selling these cheap! Click me if you love SCSI I'm grabbing a few to go with my LSI Logic MegaRaid Elite 1600!
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    HDTV - how do you get it?

    I don't have HDTV, and I was wondering what it took to get the service. Do you have to buy anything (besides the TV & decoder)? Call your cable company? What? I was looking at geting a HDTV card for my computer and I just need to know if I need to do anything specific to get HDTV on it...
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    Home Theater Speakers on a PC

    Some of the speakers threads in the last few days got me thinking and wondering. Would there be any benefit to getting a full on Home Theater system for your PC, rather than 'computer' speakers? I know about super expensive ones; I'm more thinking about something like this that runs in the...
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    Someone tell me what BOINC is!

    Okay, I've been running "regular old SETI" for months now, but it's mostly just installing them and forgetting. Today I ventured into DC forum and I see this stuff about SETI BOINC. Someone tell me what it is, and if I should switch, and why!
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    New dual Xeon motherboard

    Hey all! I was looking around for a dual Xeon board to upgrade to that would support PCI-E AND PCI-X, and I ran into this motherboard. Anyone have any experience with it? The only reason I ask is that it seems to claim ONLY to support the noncona (sp?) CPUs, and not older ones. I...
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    6800GT PCI-Express version

    After some problems with my motherboard, I've considered upgrading. And if I upgrade now, I want to get a PCI-E motherboard. And if I do that I need to replace my AGP video card. In short, is there any "fast" video cards that are for sale for PCI-E right now (outside of the 6800 Ultra...
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    You fight like a dairy farmer!

    Just reminicing about Escape from Monkey Island. ;)
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    Has HD innovation stagnated?

    I was just looking at StoarageReview.com and was thinking about a few things about hard drives. Hasn't it seemed like latey everything's stuck, speed wise? The Raptor is the fastest home HD. It has been for months. No one has released anything to challenge it. Sure, there have been some 16 MB...
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    Best PC TV tuner card

    I'm thinking about getting a TV card for my PC. Now, I tried this once in the past, and had immense problems with all 3 of them CompUSA sold (I can't remember right now what brands, except that one was the ATi TV Wonder). This will be on a dual processor system, which might be an issue for some...
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    Back to Beta drivers again

    After having ATi with my 9700 Pro for the last 2 years, it's odd looking for driver updates for nVidia and realizing they they only release updated "offical" drivers every 3-6 months. I got used to that whole new-drivers-every-month thing. Not that they fixed all their problems with the constant...
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    My dead power supply story

    CLIFF NOTES FOR THE LAZY: Story of various problems that my computer developed over months. Replacing power supply fixed them all. Good FYI if you're having odd problems you can't fix. Well, I've always heard to attribute a lot of problems to a power supply dying, but I never really had...
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    Why do people consider pirating software different than stealing?

    Anyone out there into psychology, have any ideas as to why people, when copying software, are much less apt to consider it stealing than going to the store and shoplifting a copy? We all know this is the case, but...why? Why doesn't someone's consience kick in on them the same way?
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    IDE problem, I'm stumped

    At work we have a computer that is only used as a router, DHCP server, and Ghost server. All it does it hold ghost file images, hand out the images to clients that request them, and route the internet to those systems after they have the image. Lately, this computer has been locking up - but...
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    Ideas for solving SMTP problem at work

    Scenario: The place I work is a small buisess (about 40 employees). Our server is an Exchange 2000 server at work, where all the "in-office" workers are directly connected through outlook. We have a few laptop users who only use their laptop, even while in the office. Right now, all the...
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    Single Xeon motherboard?

    I've been looking for a motherboard to use a 2.4 GHz Xeon in (Socket 604). It seems that all of them are dual processor boards. I don't need 2 processors, and I will never add a 2nd one to this computer, so is there a motherboard out there that is designed for 1 Xeon? The cheapest 2 Xeon...
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    Cheap gigabit switches with Jumbo Frames

    Does anyone know of any SOHO type gigabit switches that support Jumbo Frames?
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    Question about onboard SCSI

    It's rather a simple question. I just wondered what bus the on-board SCSI interfaces were connected to (most likely). Our work server here has 32/64 bit 66 mhz PCI slots; so I assume that it would have the same bandwith as a 64bit/66MHz PCI SCSI adapter would. Is that correct? Or is it faster to...
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    Voodoo2 SLI - did you own it?

    People are disagreeing about how many people owned 2 Voodoo2s in SLI 'back in the day', so I wanted to start this poll to get a rough idea about ATers, and how many of us shelled out the dough for it.
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    6800GT Overclocking oddity

    I got my PNY 6800GT a few days ago and so far it's wonderful. But I've had one odd issue in my overclocking adventures with it. I enabled coolbits in the registry, and so have been using the sliders that enables to overclock with. Anyone who's used this knows how there's a "test settings"...
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    Guest account can't print in XP Home

    I was fixing the computer of some people I know, cleaning off spyware, etc, when they asked me to fix their XP HOME edition so that the guest account can print. They generally have a login for every family member, but sometimes kids they babysit come over and they wanted to allow those kids to...
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    SCSI RAID?

    People talk so much about IDE RAID here, I wondered if the same general findings held true for SCSI RAID as well. I know that in a server environment, RAID is very helpful, but what about a standard workstation-type environment? This would be just for photoshop/some CAD work/occasionally used...
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    Sure is a pain to find a 6800 GT in stock

    I had just decided to go ahead and order the 6800 GT - on Friday several online places I looked at had them still in stock. Today? Every store I look at has them on backorder! Sheeesh, you'd think that $400 video cards would be in stock SOMEWHERE (without paying $40 more).
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    nVidia SLI question

    Does anyone know for sure? Will the 6800/6800GT/6800U all support SLI, or is this something they are reserving for the top end cards only?
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    Adding Linux box to Windows 2003 domain

    I'm a linux newbie wanting to try SuSe 9.0 - I have it on a computer, but the rest of the systems here are set up using a Windows 2003 domain. I would like the SuSe machine to be able to access file shares, printers, etc on the domain. Can anyone explain what I need, or give me a link on how to...
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    Can you actually find Music Videos on TV anymore?

    I don't know about you guys, but it seems to me like it's impossible to actually find a music video on MTV or VH1 anymore. Especially VH1. That station seems to be all 'behind the music' type shows anymore. But even MTV has too much other junk on; even TRL the videos are talked over or have...
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    Spinoff: Bands that are good live, but otherwise you aren't a big fan of

    For me it was Barenaked Ladies. I never liked them much until I went to a concert, and they rocked. I also love seeing the Aquabats live - if any of you know who they are.
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    I just lost one of my best friends.

    I was in bed around 11:30 night before last, when I got a call from the parents of one of my best friends. It turns out that he was killed in a car accident about 2 hours before. They had just had the highway patrol come to their house to report that he had died. He was 22. Driving back from...
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    Okay, WHEN did DVDs start putting previews in the front?

    I rented Radio tonight, and after I popped it in, we had to sit through like 15 mins of previews that the machine WOULDN'T LET ME SKIP. That is just NOT cool to me. Are all DVDs getting this way?
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    Michael's Back! And could it be honest?

    Take a look at it! He's no longer advertising for processors that don't exist! And lookie, no more symbols from reviews that were never done. Did someone get threatened with leagal action?
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    POLL : Were you scared by Resident Evil the first time you played?

    Zombie thread got me thinking about this. I jumped about through the roof when the dogs came through the window. The RE series is the only survival-horror games I ever really got immersed in and enjoyed greatly.
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    Dell/HP/etc power supplies being more "efficent"

    Everyone here seems to say that the power supplies used by Dell or whoemever are more "efficent" than the standard ones that us system builders use; hence they can get away with smaller 230 wt power supplies with a Radeon 9800 Pro/P4 3.0/ etc. I was just thinking today and wondering...if they...
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    Advantages of non-HD SCSI

    Okay, I know the advantages that SCSI can give in hard drives over IDE ones. Now I'm wondering if there is any real advantage to using other things on the SCSI bus - like a CD burner. Is there any real difference between a SCSI burner and an IDE one? How about scanners? Any reason to use a SCSI...
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    How do you pronounce Radeon?

    So which way is it?
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    Dual Xeon server motherboard question

    We are putting together a dual Xeon server at my buisness (the Xeons were free - so we are definitely using them). I was looking at Tyan's selection of dual Xeon server motherboards, and I ran into a question I can't seem to adiquately answer. I've looked mainly at 2 chipsets - i7501 and i7505...