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    Sempron2800+9600XT vs Amd3000+X600Pro

    Detail: Sempron2800 on socket754 9600XT 128mb 512mb ram AMD3000 socket939 X600Pro 128mb 512mb ram. Thanks.
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    Graphic card doesn't sit well on the motherboard HELP!

    Did you screw your mobo down to the case before inserting to graphic card? I heard some people have a problem that (without inserting the graphic card first) their graphic card doesn't align perfectly with the slot at the back of the case. It's better to, insert the card on the mobo, make...
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    I'm in the market for a new PSU

    ENERMAX Noisetaker Series 420W (ATX12V v2.0)
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    Should I use 80 wires IDE cable?

    Thanks a lot people.
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    Should I use 80 wires IDE cable?

    Hi, I have a 5 years old pc running Celeron 500. It uses a ATA66 Quantum 13G HD. It's 5400rpm. Too slow. So I bought a WD 80G 8MB cache HDD, hope to make it a bit faster. Now about the cable. The original one used by the 13G has 40 wires. I know ATA100 harddisk should use 80 wires cable...
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    AMD ATHLON 64 3000+,3200+,3500+ & 3800+ With SSE3!!

    I suppose Winnie is best. So how is Newcastle compared to Clawhammer?
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    AMD ATHLON 64 3000+,3200+,3500+ & 3800+ With SSE3!!

    Now I see 3 different AMD64 3500 2.2Ghz 512K 400fsb at my local store. They are 1. #ADA3500ASBOX (just came out) 2. #ADA3500BIBOX (slightly more $$) 3. #ADA3500AWBOX Looks like (1) is the new Venice with SSE3 (available now?!), (2) is Winchester, and (3) is Newcastle. Can anyone confirm...
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    General memory price trends?

    My local store DDR400 and DDR333 512MB ram dropped price 18% suddenly yesterday. The same thing happened for a few other stores, around 15%.
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    Is the WD Raptor really worth it?

    How come I see an entry like "Western Digital Raptor WD740GD (74 GB SATA w/o TCQ) - 585" here at Storage Review (choose any benchmark) ?
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    Do I need to enable NCQ to use it?

    I got a MSI mobo (the ATi Xpress200 S939 mATX one) for my friend and I also picked up a Seagate SATA hdd 160G w/NCQ for him. Recently, I read something somewhere that I need to enable the NCQ function (in BIOS?) and hence the mobo needs to support such feature. Is that true? Or is it that you...
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    Is the WD Raptor really worth it?

    Question again: How to identify a 74G raptor w/TCQ from one without? Do they have different product code?
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    Is the WD Raptor really worth it?

    Question from aside: Does it make any sense to put 2 ratpors in RAID1?
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    My 3pin PWR LED cannot fit the 2pin thing on mb ?!

    I have a Antec SLK3000B case. The front panel power LED cable is a 2pin (but since it has an empty pin between the 2 pins, it has a 3pin size). I thought that is standard. Now I have a MSI RS480 motherboard. The place where it has two rows of pins for me to plug in those front panel things...
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    Where to buy Seasonic PSU?

    Does anyone (e.g. Canadian, Toronto people) know if any store sells those quiet PSU in Toronto? I can only find Nexus's :( Thanks.
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    Use DDR333 on A64 3000+ ?

    Ok. So should he use use them as single channel (333, 400) or dual (333, 333) ?
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    Use DDR333 on A64 3000+ ?

    My friend wants to buy a Socket939 A64 3000+. He now has a PC2700 512mb ram. He doesn't want to spend a lot so he just want to get another 512mb ram and put them together. Questions: 1. one ddr333 + one ddr400 together, will it work on dual ? (both set to 333?) 2. given a ddr333 and a...
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    What hardwares do what job?

    For these tasks (considered separately) 1. zipping/unzipping big files (e.g. 1G) 2. dvd decrypting 3. running a java program simulation for a day Which CPU (Intel/AMD) for which? Do I need low latency ram? Do I need a lot of ram? Do I need a fast HDD (like Raptor)? Please help. Thanks.
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    What's the real life transfer rate of USB external enclosure?

    480Mbps (if I didn't misread) is in theory right? So what about in real life?
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    Anyone know how to do this with HTML?

    I think I need that. Let me go find it. I considered that but it doesn't work well if the two pages are not aligned e.g. the user moves it.
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    Anyone know how to do this with HTML?

    But that will change the page to another one. I just want that particular picture to change to another one while the rest of the page stay the same.
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    Anyone know how to do this with HTML?

    I have a GIF picture on a page. Then I want to have a link (or button) that, after people click it, that original GIF picture will switch to another GIF picture of the same size (without changing the page). Does anyone know how to do it? Thanks.
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    Mozilla Firefox cannot use ftp site?

    I want to access a ftp://xxxxxxxx.com website to upload my files to it. I was able to do that using IE (it pops up to ask me to login) but now with Firefox 1.0 I cannot. It gives me a "530 Login incorrect." error. Is there anything I can do about it?
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    What is the thing that add harddisk outside a PC?

    And what's the different between 2.5", 3.5", and 5.25" external enclosure? What is that size refering to?
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    What is the thing that add harddisk outside a PC?

    So a rack by itself cannot give me an extra IDE port and it merely put the harddisk at the front? i.e. if I run out of those 4 IDE port and if I dun want to get an adapter card, then I must use external enclosure?
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    What is the thing that add harddisk outside a PC?

    My friend told me there is something that allow me to put a harddisk outside the case and connect it using a USB. What is that thing? (I only know adapter card can give extra IDE ports.) Is it a rack this one here? What is a rack by the way? What is an external enclosure like this one...
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    Can someone clarify those DVD terms for me plz?

    I want to buy a DVD burner. I see these terms. DVD + R, - R, + RW, - RW, and DL. So R is recordable, and RW is rewritable, right? What are + and - ? Just two different standards that DVD player might use? Then +R and +RW both use that "+" standard? Assuming from above that +...
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    What's Mozilla FireFox (Safe mode)?

    Thanks a lot.
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    What's Mozilla FireFox (Safe mode)?

    I see both "FireFox" and "FireFox (Safe mode)" in my Mozilla folder under Programs list . What's that?
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    Asus K8N nForce3 250Gb or Asus K8V-X K8T800 ?

    I think I'll go with the nForce then. Thanks a lot.
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    Ever heard of Sapphire Radeon 9600Pro "Advantage" ?

    So there's no advantage at all. What a lie. I bet they gonna call those half-bandwidth versions as "Ultra" soon. Hard to find at my local stores. Keep finding... Thx all.
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    Ever heard of Sapphire Radeon 9600Pro "Advantage" ?

    Have anyone ever heard of Sapphire Radeon 9600Pro 128M with an "Advantage" wording after it? How's that different from the usual 9600Pro? That "advantage" 9600Pro 128M = $115 Cdn and 9600XT 128M = $165 Cdn. I saw those reviews that they only have a few fps difference. Does it worth to go for...
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    Asus K8N nForce3 250Gb or Asus K8V-X K8T800 ?

    Same price. So which chipset is better? Thanks for help.
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    Questions about RAID 1

    Hi, I'm currenlty using a SATA 80G HDD, running WinXP, and thinking about getting another identical HDD to do a RAID 1 using the controller in VIA8237 chipset. I have the following questions. 1. Must I format my old HDD? It would be wonderful if I could just plug in the new drive, put...
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    Does anyone know what this blue screen means?

    I use WinXP Pro. One day when I started up my computer, I was in DOS and forced to choose between those safe mode, last known configuration, start normally, etc. No matter which mode I chose, it ended up with the following blue screen while loading. "A problem has been detected and windows...
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    So im curious on settings for my new pc

    Here I see a very unbalanced system for FarCry. Pair up a 9800Pro with AMD2800+ will make you happier than with the GeForce4.
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    Need cpu to run Java.

    I wrote a Java applet that simulate some siuations. I need to run it over and over again to get some statistics of the result (say 15,000 times). Is AMD or Intel better in this kind of computation? I obviously don't need a good video card, but do I need more ram? Or is such computation task...
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    How to install SATA HDD after setting up WinXP?

    You need to make a floppy disk with the SATA driver. What I did was to find my motherboard CD and somewhere inside it has a MakeDisk program to make such floppy disk. Then do the F6 thingy with your floppy disk. Note: If your motherboard is not really new (e.g. my A7V600 with the KT600...
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    How to install SATA HDD after setting up WinXP?

    I know how to install a SATA harddisk when I newly install WinXP; put the floppy disk in and press F6 (I guess)... But now I want to install a SATA harddisk on my friend's computer, who is running WinXP. I don't think SATA HDD is plug-n-play (is it?) and I afraid WinXP cannot detect it when I...