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    Help me out please...

    Hi, I am gonna buy a new laptop for school. I also play alot of games so I would like a fairly decent graphic card in it. I am looking at a Dell XPS M170 with a nvidia 7800 GT. I was just wondering what you guys thought about his computer or if you have any other recomendations when it comes...
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    Need help on a laptop...

    I am gonna buy a new laptop for school. I also play alot of games so I would like a fairly decent graphic card in it. I am looking at a Dell XPS M170 with a nvidia 7800 GT. I was just wondering what you guys thought about his computer or if you have any other recomendations when it comes to...
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    Air conditioner?

    I know there is an air conditioner for you computer that goes into your drive bay. It'd the AirCon 400 somthing i believe. Anyway this airconditioner sticks out of the computer a good 5 inches. Is there an air conditioner that goes in the inside of your computer? The reason is because I have a...
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    HELP PLZ!!!!!!

    Ok heres what's going on. I am working on my computer and it randomly shuts off. I am like "wow that's wierd". So I turn it back on and nothing happens. I try again and again and again. Nothing. Finally I turn it on and get a black screen saying "Computer shut down due to thermal problem."...
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    Gonna buy a water cooling.......

    I am gonna buy a water cooling system for my computer. Price range is about $110......I am probobly gonna buy one off of ebay. Any recommendations on which brand is good? thanks alot!
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    about my cpu

    I need to know what kind of cpu i have. I know it is a P4 3.0 GHz but what I need to know is if it is a P4 478 or a P4 775......or something like that....how can I check for that number? thanks!
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    BIOS QUESTION?

    I have a dell dimension 4700 and did some upgradeing(including a case)...... anyway I took out the fan that was connected to the MOBO because I didn't need it anymore because the case included ALOT of them..... and now every time i turn on the computer it have an error message "CPU not...
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    Fan question......

    I have a dell dimension 4700 and did some upgradeing(including a case)......anyway I took out the fan that was connected to the MOBO because I didn't need it anymore.....and now every time i turn on the computer it have an error message "CPU not connected press F1 to continue or press F2 to...
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    Motherboard question....

    I was just wondering if there was a way I could see what mother board I have by looking somewhere in Windows XP? Thanks alot
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    Over clocking my cpu.....

    I my bios there is no way to overclock my cpu or memory or anything.....is there some other way or sort of application I can get to overclock cpu? Thanks
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    quick question...

    Is there a difference between servers and mainframe computers?
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    2video cards....

    I was thinking about installing 2 cards on a system I am building......just wondering on how you would go about that???? install the two cards the hook the monitor to one of them?????or get some sort of splitter to run to both of them? thanks alot!
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    LCD MONITOR QUESTION....

    just wondering how you clean a LCD monitor???? M ysister gets her finger prints all over it and I just wanna know what to put on it(I didn't want to reck it).....Thank alot!
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    LCD monitor....

    just wondering how you clean a LCD monitor???? M ysister gets her finger prints all over it and I just wanna know what to put on it(I didn't want to reck it).....Thank alot!
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    Memory upgrade.....

    Ok I have one gig of ram in my computer right now( 2x 512).....I run a really high end audio production program that need a crap load on memory to run.......so I picked up one stick of memery for really REALLY cheap(1x 1gb)......I have the 2x 512 on for dual channel.......I was wondering if i...
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    Windows XP page file......

    Just a question I have.....my friends told me i could speed up my computer playing ames by adjusting the "page file" is win xp.............it was set at 3084 but he told me to go 256....i have 1 gig ram........but is lower better?? thanks alot
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    Hard Drive?????

    Ok I am gonna buy a second hard drive for my computer(Dell Dimention 4700). I want to use the new one for strictly gaming. I am gonna go with one that goes 10K RPM's. I just need to know what mine is SATA, RAID, IDE, SATA 2?????? I don't know how to find out. And also do all of the hard drives...
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    Hard Drive help....

    Ok I am gonna buy a second hard drive for my computer(Dell Dimention 4700). I want to use the new one for strictly gaming. I am gonna go with one that goes 10K RPM's. I just need to know what mine is SATA, RAID, IDE, SATA 2?????? I don't know how to find out. And also do all of the hard drives...
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    Random shut down.....

    OK I built a computer for my girlfriend and it keeps randomly shuting down. The power supply is brand new. Everything else is used. It will shut down if you tap its case really lightly or sometimes you don't even have to touch it, it just shuts off. Any idea on what it could be? Thanks alot.
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    Xp Problem

    Ok I have 3 computers in this room(the room that I am in right now) and one of the passwords isn't working in one of them.....I called dell tech support but they dont understand (mexicans?!?!?!?).....I amn reading in my manual about bypassing something but i dont quite understand how to do it...
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    Program burning?

    I installed a program on my computer a while back and i broke the cd for it......the program is still on my computer but I wanna install a fresh version of xp......but I do not want to lose that program.....is there a way i can burn the program on my computer onto a cd so that I can istall it...
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    Need help fasT!

    Ok I got a problem.........Heres the thing I got a micro atx motherboard in a computer I am building for a friend....it had 64mb ram in it already....but I wanna upgrade to more...I looked on the internet and I found out that the max memory in 256......so I purchased 2 sticks of 128 memory(I got...
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    hardwareproblem?

    Ok heres what's going on. I am really into pc gaming and have been trying out alot of computer games lately....I have a dell 4700 with: 3.0 ghz cpu 1 Gb ram 80 Gig HD And a radeon 800xl graphics card i bought this new titanium case for it and it have 6 fans in it to keep it cool.....But...
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    hardware problems?

    Ok heres what's going on. I am really into pc gaming and have been trying out alot of computer games lately....I have a dell 4700 with: 3.0 ghz cpu 1 Gb ram 80 Gig HD And a radeon 800xl graphics card i bought this new titanium case for it and it have 6 fans in it to keep it cool.....But...
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    I need ram help....

    I am building a computer for a friend and I know that this motherboards max mem is 256......What i need to know is if it supports the dual-channel feature......It has 2 slots for mem and it had 2X64mb in it to start.....I just a little cheaper to get a 256 Chip instead of 2X128's.....So how bout...
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    anyone know???

    does anyone know about any kind of software that will invert my monitor???i am gonna make a projector and i need my screeen to be opposite.......but i would also like to turn it back.....thanks
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    Download help......

    is there anyway i can speed up my downloads???? and thing i can do on my computer or and software i can download? thanks
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    hard drive upgrade....

    me and my friend are gonna upgrade his old old computer for fun........he doesn't know anything about computers and i know a little.......i already know what kind of ram and cpu we are gonna get but i need to know alittle about hard drives........ i want to get an internal drive.........but i...
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    question about cables......

    i have a dell 4700....it has: 80 gigs 1gb ddr ram p4 3.0 ghz i was just thinking that my computer should be running faster than it is(no viruses or nothing like that)..... my mom has a dell 4600 with: 256 mb 40 gigs and p4 2.2 ghz and to me it seems like hers is running faster...
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    video card choice......

    hi i was looking at these forums and most of you know ALOT about graphic cards.......I am gonna buy a better graphic card to replace the one i got for free(radeon x300 se)... ....i need it for pci x16 and i have made a choice on which one to get......i wan to get a ATI radeon x800......but i...