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    Connecting a switch to a router?

    Hi all, I need to connect a Dlink Gigabit 8 port switch to my Dlink 655 wireless router. I have connected computers before directly to the Dlink 655 router using regular "patch cables" -- not cross over. Same goes to the switch. But what cable to I need to connect the switch to the router...
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    32" LCD 1080p too small for computer use?

    I wish to heck stores would start hooking up a computer for demos to at least to ONE LCD TV to show what it looks like. One thing is having 50 TV's showing a BR movie or some sport channel, but I would really like to see what a desktop or a Word document, or a webpage would look like. It...
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    Computer to Router VS Computer to Computer

    Good morning all, When I connect my two computers to each other directly using a crossover cable and both comps have built in Gigabit Ethernet cards, I get blazing speeds in transferring very large work files. I recently got a router that has 4 gigabit ports. I connected the two computers...
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    Have 2 Vertex SSD drives -- best setup for new build

    So I have 2 Vertxex SSD's (60GB). One is currently installed in my main comp with OS (Win7 64), all my usual apps, etc. I am about to install all my games on it. However my question is this.... would it be better to take the other Vertex I bought (was originally for another computer) and...
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    Multiple connections -- same computer

    I have gone through Ezlan.net and not sure how to word or search for this information. Essentially I have a very simply wireless network at home that works very well. One computer -- one wireless router and the modem from my cable company. I hate wires so the router and modem are together...
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    Identifying a video card (onboard)

    Ok so I have a client of mine -- gave me his PC to clean it up and reinstall windows. He went out and bought Vista to replace the XP that it came with. I installed and all is well but for the life of me I cannot figure out what onboard video card has. The system is an older Via ester...
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    Connecting HDMI directly to TV - No receiver

    This might be a stupid question but... I am setting up a small office for my father. He currently has a 32" LCD TV (not a monitor but actual HD TV). The TV has like 2 HDMI inputs in the back along with all the other connections. The TV also has built in speakers. My father will connect his...
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    Upon reboot -- P5Q-SE always forces reset

    So I finished buying a P5Q-SE board, with my older Q6600 G0 and 4 GB or RAM. I have used the same ram and CPU in my other P35 chipset mobo for years and worked like a charm. The new mobo, the P5Q-SE is a P45 chipset. I set the speed, V, RAM timings and left all else to auto. I run the...
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    Power Supply fan cable to motherboard?

    hey all, I have 2 power supplies. One is a PC&C 750 and one is an older Antec 550 (think it's an TruePower or something). The Antec has a cable that is blue that I can conect to the motherboard where it says Power Supply Fan. The 750 does not. What is this for? I thought that PS did their...
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    HDMI out for HTPC

    Hey all, I am trying to understand how video cards that have HDMI out work. I currently have my regular old ATI X1900 sending out my video to my receiver via its DVI... using a DVI to HDMI cable. I then have my optical cable going from my motherboard's onboard sound to my receiver. This...
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    Corruption of HD/Data from OC'ing?

    I have heard of corruption your data/OS installation while oc'ing on some boards. Does this stiff apply to "newer" boards? I have an Asus P5K-E (wifi) which is a P35 chipset. Am I correct in assuming that oc'ing my CPU and RAM DOES NOT affect the speed at which the PCI bus is running? or the...
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    Unimpressed with all this new hardware

    What jump in hardware and/or technology gave you your biggest noticeable increase in performance that you can remember? I don?t know about you all, but over the last few years going from Celerons, to single core AMD to dual core X2?s, to new Intel Core, to quad core and now the newer 45nm chips...
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    Help on Lapping my CPU please

    I am having a bit of an issue. I have a q6600 G0 purchased a while back. From day one the temps using coretemp would have cores 0 and 1 at 10-12c higher than cores 2 and 3 at idle or at load. In fact at times the difference is even more than 10-12c. When encoding videos using Handbrake and...
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    Enabling AHCI and Installing WinXP??

    Hey all, Well I have to do a fresh install of WinXP 32. My issue is that I am currently set in the BIOS for my hardrives as AHCI for the SATA drives that I have.. not IDE mode. It is my understanding that when I start installing Windows after a format, it will not find my hardrive unless I...
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    Format USB memory stick using NTFS??

    Hey all, I recently purchased an 8GB USB memory stick. I routinely deal with large files well over 4GB and hence the purchase. To my dismay when I tried to copy over a 6GB file to the 8GB USB key, it said not enough space. I then relized that there is a limit of 4GB in the FAT32 system and...
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    Enabling NCQ in Asus PK5-E WiFi? Need AHCI in BIOS?

    Anyone know how to enable NCQ and where the heck to find it on my system? My Asus P5K-E Wifi board using a Q6600, 2x500GB WD SATA drives (both NCQ) and 1TB drive also NCQ give me no options for it. In my other system (eVGA 680i, right in the control manager under hardware and IDE/SATA the...
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    Trying to improve HD/storage performance or something else?

    Hi all, There isn't an actual topic area of HD performance or storage tweaking etc in general so I figured I would post here. My issue is this: I tend to do many things at once on my computer and in that regard they are, what I assume, very hardrive/read/write intensive, if I can use that...
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    Mobo Backplates -- Universal?

    Hey all, Are the backplates we put on the back of most mobos (I am talking 775 here) from aftermarket HSF generally universal? I mean if I have a backplate on my mobo from my Tunic Tower, and have to replace the tower and want to put say a 120 extreme... the backplate is a backplate is a...
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    Q6600 driving me nuts...

    Well I am about to snap. No matter what I do, what I try, I cannot seem to get decent and even temps on my Q6600 G0 using the Ninja Rev B. with a 72 CFM fan on full. The CPU is running at 3GHz so all I did was OC the FSB to 333 and kept the multi at 9. My Vcore is the ONLY volt I increased? all...
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    Video Card with HDMI - both video and audio?

    Hey all, I was at my local computer retailer the other day and he had both ATI based and nVidia based video cards from Asus that show on the box that they can both send out Video and Audio through an HDMI out. I believe that it was an ATI2600 and Nvidia 8600GT. Are any of the higher...
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    Fan Clips for Ninja RevB-too small for SilenX fan?

    Hey all, I recently decided to buy a new 120mm fan to replace the one on my Ninja Rev B. I read on Anandtech that they had replaced the stock 120 fan with a SilenX Ixtrema Pro 120mm 14DB 72CF fan. I was shocked when I was at my local computer store to find out that they actually carry this...
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    Lowering voltage on e6850 not much change on temps?

    Hi all, Pretty much from day one when I got my new e6850 on my eVGA 680i SLI I oc'ed it to 3600Mhz and running 1.41V in bios which would actually show around 1.38 or so most often in CPUz. My temps using my tunic Tower and using the newest Coretemp which takes into consideration the new G0...
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    Aftermarket HS/Fans for Desktop HTPC cases?

    Might anyone suggest a decent hs/fan that will fit in some of the more recent desktop HTPC cases? Something that actually cools real well but is close to silent? Cases I am thinking about are the Thermaltake VC4000SNS(Mozart), or the Antec Fusion Media Centre Case, Antec-Overture II and these...
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    My new e6850 L722A

    I ordered an Intel e6850 from NCIX on the 22nd and it came yesterday and I spent some time pulling out my original e6600, which will go to my wife, to install the e6850. The batch says L722A. Anyhow I am certainly no professional reviewer nor do I have the experience to provide a detailed...
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    Why some CPU's OC better than others?

    Hi there and please excuse my ignorance but I am having some issues wrapping my head around why two exact CPU's (in this case C2D e6600) could OC so differently. I originally bought a 29A e6600 a while back. I am using an eVGA 680i mobo (the first revision). I can get around 3.2 GHz with no...
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    ATI CRossfire Questions...

    Good morning all, I just added a second card to my original X1900XT setup running on an X2-3800+ on an asus MVP deluxe mobo. The new card, the master is actually an ATI x1950XT Crossfire and installing it and connecting the dongle and all was not an issue. However it did take a while to...
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    Do you need ATI CCC to enable Crossfire?

    Hey all, Currently I only have the ATI drivers (latest) installed and the ATI Tray Tools utility on my X1900XT. However I recently added an ATI X1950XT Crossfire Master card. Do I need to install the CCC software from ATI or is there or will there be an option within ATI Tray Tools to enable...
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    ATI Tray Tools and no CCC installed?

    Hi all, I have been running my ATI X1900XT using ATI Tray Tools with the latest ATI drivers (just the drivers and not the CCC part). Reason for this was that I reformatted recently and installed my XP pro fresh. Then when I went to download the full ATI Drivers including CCC, and I installed...
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    X1950XT and X1900XT in crossfire? Can you mix?

    I thought for sure you could not mix the ATI X1900 series with the X1950 series for crossfire yet I am being told you can. Is this true? I currently have on one of my systems a ATI X1900XT and wanted to add Crossfire. However finding an ATI X1900XT Crossfire master card is hard and every...
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    8800GTX + 22"LCD in DVI = Scaling issues

    Hi folks, I recently upgraded from my older 21" CRT Sony monitor that saw its last days to a new Acer AL-2223W LC 22" monitor on my eVGA 8800GTX using the DVI cable. I am running XP pro with NVIDIA?s latest drivers and it scales my widescreen monitor into a 1600x1200 resolution, and not...
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    Loud Maxtor 500GB drive. Is there a utilty to quiet it?

    Hi all, There use to be a small utility made available from Maxtor to reduce the 'acoustic" noise of some of their drives. You could run the app and you could chose quiet or performance mode. I bought a brand new 500GB Maxtor Maxline Pro SATA2 drive and it's freaking loud on access... way...
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    USB wireless netwok adaptor drops connection often?

    Hi all, I recently switched to a DLINK wireless USB adaptor (DWA-142) which runs at the N speed as my DLINK wireless router is the 625 N based as well. Before I had an older plain old G based PCI card that worked well. However this new USB based wireless adaptor drops my connection all the...
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    Mixing brands -Wireless N Router and NIC

    Hi all, If I might ask -- I can go ahead and buy a Linksys N wireless desktop card to work with my Dlink Wireless N router correct and I will still benefit from the N standard coverage and speed? I don't need to stick to Dlink correct? Only reason I ask is that the Dlink router was on sale...
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    Tunic Tower LOUD

    Ok so all the reviews give the Tunic Tower the thumbs up -- best thing and as close to water cooling as you will ever get -- best thing on air. Anyhow I originally have a Big Typhoon which I simply loved on my X2-4800. Now I use the Tunic on my new e6600 oc'ed to 3200mhz. I am using an...
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    12V reading LOW - Do I need a better PS?

    Hey all, System Specs: e6600 dual core ? running at 3300 MHz 367 FSB eVGA 680i mobo 4 X 1024 Crucial Ballistix PC6400 4-4-4-12 2.2 V Ram eVGA 8800GTX 3 HD (500X2 SATA and 36GB Raptor SATA) LG 16X DVDW IDE Antec 900 series case (4 x 120mm fan and 1 x 200mm fan) Tunic Tower 120 Using...
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    Windows XP 64 and wireless NIC drivers?

    Hey all, Well I have Win X 64 running on my server with 4 GIGS or RAM. All my drivers worked, printer, scanner, video card, chipset audio etc... but for the life of me I cannot seem to find any available drivers for my wireless NIC from DLINK. For that matter no matter what brand I look into...
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    4 X 1 GIG DDR2 in eVGA 680i? Works?

    I noted that within the manual it says my eVGA 680i mobo can handle up to 8 GiGS or RAM (or populating each of the 4 DDR2 slots with 2GIG sticks). Aside from limitations within WindowsXP and such, has anyone tried? Did it kill your timings or OC? I tried doing a search here for anything on 4...
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    Multiple Video Cards -- NOT SLI

    Hi all, I've looked through as many posts as I could and although I did find some info I had a few more questions about multiple video cards within the same comp. I am not looking to run SLI now but have currently my 8800GTX running in my eVGA i680 SLI board. The 8800GTX has dual monitor...
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    Hosting Microsoft Exchange Server at home or paying for online host??

    Hey all, Was just wondering what is a better deal for 2 people that require the functionality and portability of Outlook and Microsoft Exchange server? I mean for 2 people would it be better for me to setup a server at say my office or home or would it be easier/cheaper more cost effective to...
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    CPU-Z and voltage shown on eVGA 680i

    Ok weird!! I was slowly incrementing my voltages on my eVGA 680i for OC?ing purposes and when I hit 1.5V (through BIOS) in the latest version of CPU-Z it would show the correct voltage until I hit 1.5 or higher. Then no matter what, it would simply show 1.29 or something really low. Within...