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    T7K250 vs SP2004C

    I need to purchase a medium-capacity hard drive, and I've narrowed my choices to the Hitachi T7K250 and Samsung SP2004C. It will be a single drive (for now at least, so no RAID). I'm looking for both performance (Hitachi's strong point) and quietness (Samsung's strong point). There aren't too...
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    Audio Line-in trouble

    For a while, I have been connecting my stereo (a small radio/CD/casette player) to my Logitech Z-340s (2.1) for better radio sound quality. I connected the two with a male-male 1/8" stereo cable, and all was fine. Starting today, I could only hear sound from the left speaker and subwoofer. I...
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    Antec TruePower 2.0

    I noticed Antec's new line of PSUs was announced about a month ago. Does anybody have information regarding when they will be available, and the specifications (12V amp ratings)? Searching returns nothing but the "Antec raises the bar for PC performance..." press releases. I was going to wait...
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    Gigabyte nForce4 Motherboards

    Since it seems the Asus A8N-E won't be released for a long time (if at all), I looked at other nForce4 (non-SLI) options. The Gigabyte nForce4 Ultra boards look nice (the K8NXP-9 and K8N Ultra-9). A Gigabyte representative told me the only difference between the XP-9 and Ultra-9 is that the XP-9...
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    New Computer for Christmas

    I've been planning on building a new system at the end of the year (waiting for X-Mas/after-X-mas sales). Here are the components I'm considering; I'm hoping you can give me some feedback regarding compatibility/bang for the buck. Next to each item are questions/issues that might come up...