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    WD Elements Portable on all the time?

    I just picked up a Western Digital Elements Portable 250GB external usb hard drive, mainly because it was affordable. Is it ok to leave this hooked up to my computer all the time?
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    how to match up watts?

    My trusty (till now) Onkyo CS-210 mini-system finally gave up the ghost. The receiver/cd player is toast but the speakers are still good so I'd like to keep them. They are rated at 70watts but the Sony stereo receiver I want is rated at 100watts. Will these speakers work with the Sony receiver?
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    Wolfenstein

    I'm a bit out of the loop game wise (haven't bought a game in over a year). I did like Return to Castle Wolfenstein and when I saw that a sequel was out I got interested. Anyway here's my system... Intel Core i7 920 at stock Radeon 4870 Will my system play it at 1920x1200 at 4xAA 8XAF...
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    p6t deluxe and ahci

    I just flashed the bios on my p6t-deluxe to ver. 1102. Now when I enable ahci for my sata drive the system crashes every time just after the windows load bar appears in Vista x64. If I select "IDE Drive" in the bios instead the computer boots and seems to work fine but I'd prefer AHCI. Also...
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    Core i7 Socket

    When you close the retention flap and push down and fasten the lever do the pins get raised up towards the cpu or is it just downward force?
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    any downsides to Vista 64 bit?

    I mainly will use my new system for internet, email and some light gaming. It will have 6gb ram, an ATI Radeo 4870 1gb video card, an x-fi Titanium PCI Express sound card, Asus P6T motherboard, and a core i7 920 cpu. I'm a bit out of the loop on where things stand today (it used to be that...
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    Epson 1640SU + Vista 64 Bit

    I have an Epson 1640SU Scanner and I am building a new Vista system. I ordered Vista 32 bit, but now that I have it and my 6gb of memory in my hands I read in the P6T motherboard manual that I need Vista 64 bit to address all of the 6gb. So I was wondering if anyone here knows if my scanner...
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    Seasonic M12 600W EPS12V and i7?

    I'm pricing out a new build and ncix.com has a decent deal on this power supply. Would it be enough to power a core i7 920 and a single Geforce 260 216 on an Asus p6t motherboard?
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    is 3GB ram enough?

    I'm getting a new system to last me for 2 years. I mainly game and surf the web. With Vista and new games would 3GB of ram be enough or do I really need 4GB?
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    Adobe Audition + quad core?

    I'm advising my brother on what cpu to get with his next system. He records music using Adobe Audition. Will a quad core help for audio like it helps for video encoding or should I tell him to get a faster dual core like the e8400 (other than music he just games and surfs)?
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    How much difference would I see?

    I built my current system 2 years ago. It's with an Athlon 4400+ dual core and 2 7800gt's in sli and using Windows Xp I'm thinking about buying a system with a q6600 and a single Geforce 8800gt using windows vista. How much of a performance increase would that get me? Enough to justify...
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    120hz lcd's and ghosting

    I've read that the newer lcd's are pretty good for not ghosting but I was wondering if the 120hz lcd's that are going to come out over the next couple of years will eliminate it entirely?
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    Program Updates

    Around the same time I loaded Dragon Naturally Speaking 9 a few weeks ago I noticed that I had 2 new icons on my computer. One in the start menu and one in the Control Panel. Both are called Program Updates and once in a while I get a pop up from the task bar asking for me to configure it...
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    Multicore vs. PPU

    I've been reading about the new Physics Processing Unit card that is coming out. However in the future there will be processors with 4 or more cores on them. Wouldn't it be easier (and less cluttered in the case with all those cards) to just code a game to take advantage of one of the cores on...
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    SED Display Question

    Will you be able to use these at different resolutions like a CRT and with no native resolution like a LCD?
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    Belkin Pre-n Router Problem

    I use a Belkin Pre-n Router and when I play online games the images skips/jumps every few seconds and it's very annoying. When I disconnect the router and plug straight into my cable modem the problem vanishes. Is there anything I can do short of exchanging it?
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    How much protection do router's firewalls offer?

    I've got the Belkin Pre-n Wireless router and on the box it says that it has a hardware firewall built in. How much protection from internet threats does that give me? Hypothetically could I run my desktop off it without a software firewall (like Zonealarm)?
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    BF2 and Nvidia SLI AA?

    Since BF2 has it's own AA settings in game, how do I set up 8x SLI AA (the max setting in the game is 4x)? Do I set it to OFF in the game and just set it up in the Nvidia Control Panel?
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    utility for hard drive specs

    I bought a drive recently but I'm unsure of some of it's exact specs. Is there a utility that will give the drive's SATA version, cache, etc. I tried cpu-z but it didn't list the drive specs. BTW it's a Western Digital SATA drive.
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    EVGA SLI Motherboard SATA slots

    The way I've got my new computer set up the SATA 1 port is blocked. With me using just 1 SATA drive is there a problem with leaving SATA 1 empty and using SATA 2-4?
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    Nforce Firewall

    I've got a nforce 4 motherboard on order but I remember reading that the hardware firewall was buggy before. Is it running any better with current drivers?
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    dinovo mouse

    I want to get a Logitech Dinovo keyboard (the non-bluetooth cheaper version) but I want to keep using my current Microsoft Intellimouse. Will the Dinovo drivers let me do this or do you have to use the included Logitech mouse?
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    x-fi positional audio question

    I read a poster say that with a pair of headphones with the x-fi you get positional audio from above and bellow you in games which is something I've wanted for a long time. Is this true? I quickly read the highlights of a couple of reviews but I don't remember reading about this feature.
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    Nero track order problem

    I have Nero Express 5.5. When I am compiling a CD it puts the tracks from the first cd last and the tracks from the last cd I put in first. I'd like to reverse this so that the tracks are in the order I add them, chronological first to last. I looked in the Nero preferences but didn't find...
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    power button problem

    I have a Lian-li PC60USB case housing a 3 year old p4 setup. When I press the power button in the morning it won't start right away. Sometimes it takes 4-6 presses to get it to start. Once it starts though it runs fine. I replaced the power supply with a 300 watt Antec but the problem...
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    anisotropic filtering and memory

    Does anisotropic filtering take up space on a video cards memory or does it just take up more cycles on the cards gpu? I'm wondering because the settings in Doom 3 are pegged to certain amounts of memory. I've got a 128MB Radeon 9800np and I'd like to enable AF but I won't if it takes up too...
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    usb 2.0 drivers?

    I just installed an Iogear usb 2.0 PCI card. XP loaded it's own drivers and didn't prompt me for the install CD. What I'm wondering is if XP's drivers support USB 2.0 or whether the drivers it loaded will just function as USB 1?
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    floppy scanned in Windows

    I recently flashed the bios for my Asus P4T-E motherboard and installed a new processor. Also, I got 100 viruses somehow on my computer when scanning with Norton the other day and they've all seemingly been removed. Anyway, the thing is now when I boot into Windows (not when the bios scans the...
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    SATA drives

    I've read that you have to load drivers for RAID with SATA drives by pressing F6 when Windows XP installs. Do you have to load drivers for SATA drives in the same way when Windows XP installs and you're not using RAID, or does it load it's own drivers automatically?
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    P4T-E memory configuration problem

    I recently added 2X128mb Rambus PC800 memory sticks to my 2X256mb on my P4T-E motherboard. Now I have 768MB total. When my system boots it lists the ram at 768mb, however when I run Aida32 or Sisoft Sandra's memory test it lists me having 1 256mb and 4 128mb (which is strange as there are only...
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    heatsink compound on pins

    I just installed a new Pentium 4 cpu in my motherboard replacing an older one. I had trouble getting the new one to work at first so for various reasons I had to go back and forth between the two processors in the motherboard a few times. Anyway, when I got my new processor to work I noticed...
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    bios flash and O/S

    I've got a new cpu coming in the mail to upgrade my current one. To install the new cpu I have to flash the bios. Does flasing the bios affect the O/S at all and do I have to potentially reload Windows after the flash? Anyway here's what I'm using Mobo- Asus P4t-e cpu's - both pentium...
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    sound site?

    What's a good site that's dedicated to soundcards and speakers? I used to visit 3dsoundsurge alot in 2001 when I built my last system but their page doesn't seem to be updated much anymore.
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    lian li pc60 power supply installation?

    I used a Lian Li pc60usb case when I built my system 2 years ago. It has been a great case but one thing that was annoying was that with a dual fan power supply you had to unscrew the bottom fan grille, insert the powersupply, and then screw it back on once inside the case. Not hard to do but...
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    SATA RAID difficulty?

    How much more difficult is it to set up SATA RAID 0 than just having 1 drive? I've read about people putting two of those fast Raptor drives in RAID and alot of new motherboards seem to have it built in but is there much to it?
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    importance of hyperthreading?

    I use my computer for surfing and gaming. Would a Pentium 4 with hyperthreading make a difference for someone like me? The Athlon 64 looks like a great chip but from what I've read it doesn't have hyperthreading. Does this matter at all?
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    Audigy 2 zs on 4.1 setup?

    I'm going to be upgrading my system later on this year but I'm going to keep my Logitech z-560 4.1 speakers. Currently I have an Audigy Gamer soundcard. Does the Audigy 2 zs offer much over the support for the extra speakers (7.1) or should I just keep my Audigy Gamer card?
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    shared pci slot

    My sound card locked up on me the other day. It was stuck on 2 speakers while I have a 4 speaker system. I reloaded the drivers and moved the card to another pci slot and it works now. However my Asus motherboard manual lists the pci slot I moved it to as "shared." Does this matter? Will it...
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    ram usage program?

    Is there a program that will display how much ram my system is using on the screen while a game is playing? I've tried Coolmon and Samurize but they both disappear once the game (like Unreal Tournament 2003) launches.
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    Rambus compatibility?

    I've got 2x256mb of pc800 Samsung Rdram in my system. Some time in the future I may want to add 2 more 256mb sticks to get a gig total. I've seen noname rdram advertised as "Premium" sell for $30-$40 Can. less than the brand name stuff. Will this cheap rambus memory co-habitate fine with my...