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    plannig on building a small htpc

    I have an old dell 4500 with a 2.4 gig Pentium, 1 gig of ram (2 x 512 one stick a crucial I added later). Two drives an 80 gig and 120 gig ide and an ati 9600xt video card. The system also has a dvd burner. I am thinking of buying the shuttle SS56L and making a htpc to leave at work and just...
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    planning on building a small htpc

    I have an old dell 4500 with a 2.4 gig Pentium, 1 gig of ram (2 x 512 one stick a crucial I added later). Two drives an 80 gig and 120 gig ide and an ati 9600xt video card. The system also has a dvd burner. I am thinking of buying the shuttle SS56L and making a htpc to leave at work and just...
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    thinking of building a cheap htpc

    i have an ati 9600xt and an ati tv wonder pro pci card already and a couple of harddrives. what else do i need and what would you recommend? should i go sff? how much ram is enough? i don't plan on playing games, just recording movies and burning them to dvd's. i appreciate all your help.
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    I need help!!! zalman cnps7700, arctic silver 5

    is this normal, is there a break in period for the as5 to spread and do it's stuff? i spread a thin layer over the cpu as instructed. only thing was that the back plate of my mobo did not come off so i used it instead of the one supplied but it installed well and it is pretty snug with the cpu...
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    3dmark05 score of 3670 high/low?

    i'm sure most of you are tired of these questions but hopefully not so tired you can't answer me.
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    ARRGGHHH!!!! My power supply is dead!!!

    i built my rig around september 15th about a month ago here. i ordered this part about the 7th of september. two nights ago i put my computer into sleep mode around 3am i here a loud beeping and i see the computer completely shuts down (when in sleep mode i could see the blue led blinking)...
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    the age old nvidea or ati, 6800u or x800xt question

    here is the age old dillema. i want to upgrade my video card the last item on my freshly built rig (actually almost a month old now (awwwww look it the baby pictures)). my sister and wife both have wanted to give me a birthday present so i will direct them to just buy me a gift certificate...
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    builders/upgraders wait till october 15th to buy amd

    it's that time of year..... read here intel will probably shoot their load soon as well.
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    my cpu fan doesn't startup with cold start

    i have cool & quiet on and asus' own bios temp controller. (i forget the name). what no i do?
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    NTLDR is missing.......

    i built my rig a few weeks back here. i finally started the ardous task of moving files over and one of the quickest ways was to load the most pertiant files to my old pc's second drive (a maxtor 160 gig ide) when i install it as a ide primary drive, the bios detects it but i get this...
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    are two burners silly?

    my rig presently has an nec 2510a 8x burner. i was thinking of getting the 16x nec 3500a and have dual drives but is it necessary, should i just get a fast dvd reader instead? if so which one? advantages or disadvantages to either choice would be appreciated.
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    Please post pictures of clean wiring jobs on your rig

    i just built a new rig (my first alone, link here) and was wondering what others have done to cleanup the tangle of wires and how others have gone about "cleaning up their acts." if at all possible show examples. give tips. share! i'll wait here.
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    new rig is done (with pictures)

    tsunami case bare same 2nd door open http://www.pbase.com/lrmat/image/33859398<a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.pbase.com/lrmat/image/33859398.jpg">same from rear</a> most of the components notice cheapo nvidea 4200 64megs mobo installed better...
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    tsunami dream case, top firewire connection

    i have this case and the firewire connections are seperate plugs. no i have looked at the manual for the mobo and the case and i am not sure how to connect. can anyone help?
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    windows xp misstates hhd size

    i just built my new rig (it's at work running prime95 overnight). i couldn't slipstream winxppro with sp2 so i did the next best thing, i installed winxp then sp2 which i copied to a cd. i think my version of xp was pre sp1 and didn't read my 200gig sata drive (which by the way installed...
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    benchmarking new rig

    i was wondering what software would be good for benchmarking and general testing of a fresh pc?
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    how best to partition a hdd

    i'm just wondering what size to partition a 200 gig sata hdd. also on the rig i'm building i will install a 160 gig ide drive for backup purposes. what is a good backup program that will automatically backup files, folders, etc that i chose.
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    new rig, sata drive + ide drive & optical?

    i ordered my parts yesterday from newegg &amp; zipzoomfly. my rig's primary drive will be a maxtor 200gig sata drive, i will also use my maxtor 160gig ide drive from my current dell as a back up drive. my optical drive will be an NEC 2500a and i plan to add another drive at some point. my...
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    I pulled the trigger!!!!!!

    after much deliberation, research, prowling the forums, and the occasional post, here is what i have ended up with: case: Thermaltake VA3000 Dream Tower Black Tsunami PSU: THERMALTAKE W0019+PFC Silent Purepower 480W mobo: ASUS "K8N-E Deluxe" NVIDIA nForce3 Chipset Motherboard...
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    754 motherboard dillema

    on jpeyton's excellent buyer's guide he recommends the EPoX 8KDA3+ NForce3 250Gb Motherboard for the 754 chipset, my problem... it doesn't have firewire, i suppose i could get a card latter or when i eventually get an audigy zs (but i have to get my video card and some other things first)...
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    HELP with mid-tower atx build!!!!!

    these are the parts i have decided on (i would have gone with newegg but zipzoomfly shaves a good amount of money andmost parts ship free 2nd day air): athlon64 3400 thermaltake tsunami dream thermaltake 480w psu MSI neo platinum 1 gig corsair value 2.5 ram maxtor 200 gig...
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    can't wait for shuttle will build mid tower atx... help!

    i was going to build a shuttle sb81p with a 3.4 intel 775 1 gig corsair value 2.5 ram 200 gig sata seagate drive nec 8x dual drive it still hasn't come out and i wanted to build in the beginning of september. (besides, i wasn't to keen on the hot intel prescott and i would have to wait...
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    Where are the gaming pci-e cards!!?!!

    where are they? where is the x800pro? the 6800gt? do YOU know? if so let us know. i'm waiting for shuttle to release their sb81p which uses pci-e (where are they?).