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    Problem with VGA Silencer Rev.3

    I have a radeon 9800 pro, just like this one in the article with this silver looking thing that is like a small wall around it... http://www.ocfaq.com/reviews/ArcticCooling/VGASilencer_Rev3/ and my card is identical. I put on the paste, in fact i put on a generous amount of it just to make...
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    Reformatted and now my HP doesn't work.

    I have this HP i got my sis a long time ago and i have a little problem... It doesn't boot the HD from the bios...or at least i dont THINK it does. I formatted the HD to 1 partition (used to have 2, one called D: Rescue or Recover or something I installed the new OS from my XP 8 in 1 cd...
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    9800 pro overclock

    So i was about to put down major bucks for a new mobo/processor/ram and i suddenly realized... What about my video card? I was running this rig... Athlon xp 2200 1052 mb pc2700 crucial RAM Asus A7n8X deluxe mobo and a Geforce 4 ti4200 then i overclocked my processor to 166x11...
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    A64 2800 Newcastle board help

    I'm going for a low budget, good overclocking system with a decent motherboard. I have the 2800 64 bit processor (actually in the mail) and am in need of a motherboard. Whats a good overclocking motherboard besides the DFI LanParty UT?
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    Sempron or Athlon 64

    I know for a fact that with very little effort the AMD Sempron 3100 (currently 115) bucks can outperform the living crap of the athlon 64 3400. I also know that the athlon 64 is around 80 bucks more. The epox mobo i want is 67 dollars, and was used in the test by X Bit labs to OC the...
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    Epox 3100 sempron OC comparison of boards

    Whats the difference (if i want to overclock my 3100 sempron ;-) between the following epox boards... EP-8KDA3I EP-8KDA3+ by this i mean is there a difference in their ability to OC cause if not their is no reason i should spring an extra 50 bucks for the + right?
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    Memory heatsink purchase worthy?

    I wanna know what can help OC my 2200 XP and people say a really nice fan and a pair of memory heatsinks for my dual ddr should help...are heatsinks worth it?
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    OCing my 2200 XP

    i wanna go to compusa and get better cooling solutions for my SH*T and I was wondering if you guys had any suggestions. Right now i've already OC'd my processor from the stock 133x13.5 to a 166x11 and when i up it to 11.5 it gets unstable and quits graphic applications on me...thats stupid...
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    Ti 4200 Overclock?

    I wanna OC my ti4200, and have done so with coolbits. If i get a higher-powered cooling solution from compusa, should i be able to break my current OC speed of 260/555? Is it possible? or am i just a crazy man looking for a bear in the middle of a walmart parking lot. GFX card is as follows...
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    Trying to upgrade my system...

    Stock is as follows AMD Athlon 2200xp at 1.80 ghz on 133x13.5 Nvidia Geforce 4 ti4200 4x at 250/500 pc2700 only running at 133 ran a custom game-only run of 3dmark03 and got a score of 1460, since then i overclocked from a 1.8 to a 1.92 on 167x11.5 and clocked my force to 260/555 (i...
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    Dual DDR on ASUS good?

    Scenario Dual DDR pc 2700 (2x512 sticks) AMD athlon 2200 XP this a big improvement from just a single stick of 512?
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    celeron 2.40 ghz

    I'm planning on building my friend an everquest machine and he's given me a number of the parts, with include the following 2.4 ghz celeron processor 712 mb ddr pc2100 ram 60 gig hdd Chaintech MP4M266A Pentium4 478Pin DDR266 Motherboard (533FSB) (Audio,Video,LAN)(Prescott Ready) geforce...
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    Which video card for EQII

    Assuming i can overclock the card I buy (aka 9800 SE > Pro) conversions and whatnot, what is the best card out there for 100-120 that I can add to my rig to play EQII fluently on decent settings. My current rig Asus a7n8x deluxe AMD 2200 athlon XP 1052 (2x512 Dual DDR) nvidia geforce 4...
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    GeForce 4 ti4200

    whats the safest overclock speed for my PNY GeForce 4 ti4200 64 mb 4x card? Clock freq Mem freq
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    pimp my "rig" for EQII

    Alright here's the deal. I've got a very tight budget, it's so tight, that I need to make this rig work for EQII without spending money. I need it to run with a constant frame rate on ANY setting. (sometimes lags in big cities etc..) Here's my stuff.... Asus A7N8X Deluxe Mobo AMD Athlon...