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    2-80 gb ssd in raid 0 or 1-160gb, no raid

    I'm building a new pc and I'm deciding if I want to use two intel x25-m 80gb drives in raid 0 (currently use raid 0 with a pair of 250gb normal drives) or just get one 160gb x25-m. I'm somewhat computer savvy but most times feel like the hassle of raid in the few machines I've built isn't worth...
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    Silent or Near Silent Computer

    I'm building a new computer in the next couple weeks based on the new i7 860 processor. With plans of a mild overclock I'm looking for two pieces of hardware that always create the most noise in my cases, the video card and power supply, that are near silent. However I still want something that...
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    Thermaltake Aquarius II VGA Waterblock - $3.97

    Went into radio shack today and they had a bunch of stuff on clearance including a Thermaltake Aquarius II VGA Waterblock for $3.97.
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    Wii Networking, and VNC

    Ok, I'm not an idiot. I know my way around a computer, but this is one thing that for some reason I can't figure out. So I have a Wii, and I've downloaded TVersity and I install it, go to my router and forward all the necessary ports to my computer's router ip, call it 192.168.0.4. Ok so I go to...
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    My cables are to short

    I just bought a new case and sadly, my old OCZ power supply's 24p cable and that other 4p motherboard cable will not reach my motherboard. I really only need like 4" to be able to reach. I really didn't want to have to buy a whole new power supply, and I don't want to have to scrap this new...
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    Low Profile Reciever

    I've got a couple of descent bookshelf speakers left over from my recent upgrade in my living room. I only use headphones for my pc, however I'd like to hook these speakers up to my computer via a small for factor receiver. I'm using a X-fi Elite box and would prefer hooking up something via...
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    K8N Neo4 Help

    So my computer stopped recognizing my keyboard and it won't go past the initial checks. It's a usb keyboard. I checked the back and the 4 led's that tell you what's wrong are showing the top left led as red. Now I can't look up what that means because my roommates threw out a box of my stuff...
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    How angry would you get?

    I recently made a post looking for a matching hard drive for my older sata drive, so I could set up a raid array. Someone had it and agreed to ship one to me for $40. He had said no CC-Paypal but I mistakenly tried to send him a CC-paypal. After refusal I apologized and funded via bank account...
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    DVD Creation software

    I'm a performer/computer geek and to earn some extra cash sometimes I make show reals for friends and friends of friends. I've used iDVD, on my friends Mac, in the past to make some pretty descent show reals, but I'm moving out of my old place and I've only got my PC to work with. Does anyone...
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    Best 1gig Ready boost drive

    I refuse to invest in any more ddr for my pc at home. I will be putting Vista on it though. It already has 1 gig of ram, knowing that it's good to match ram to ready boost size, I am looking for the best performing ready boost drive to match with it. Any ideas?
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    Best "small" 939 cooler

    I am in Europe for another few weeks and have already purchased an opty for my home htpc, however it is sans cooler. I wanted to get it up and running as soon as I get home so I was going to order a cooler for it for while I was still here. Here is the problem: my htpc does not allow for much...
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    Looking for powerbook g4 Battery Charger

    We had a spill (white wine) on a friends white Powerbook G4 laptop. After drying and inspecting it seemed as though nothing severe had happened. However after using the computer for a few hours, we plugged it in, and it refuses to charge or even work plugged in. Charging the battery on another...
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    Is this too good to be true

    while in Europe I've got my external lightscribe and my portable hardrive, this thing seems like it's a great idea, but the only review looks like a company pitch. Any see one of these in the wild and/or actually use one?
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    Mac OSX machine build help

    I've decided I want a Mac OSX machine, probably because my girlfriend's laptop is a mac and I seem to be helping her along every other day with it, and because I'm slightly enjoying OSX, dreadful I know. However with the possiblity of building a Mac OSX machine with intel parts (parts I already...
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    Creative's offerings

    I've been noticing a lot of drops in X-Fi prices, and knowing I'm going to be in the market for a new sound card in May, when I get back to the states, I was wondering if the drops in pricing were because of the Vista driver issues or is there any talk of a new offering from them. Just thinking...
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    Looking for some Speakers

    I will be in the market to spend about 200-300/pr. on some front channel floor standing speakers that will be hooked up to my media center pc via my AV reciever. Right now I am dealing with a really crappy $99 5.1 setup from a couple of years ago. I am basically looking for bang for the buck...
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    Which one?

    I am oversees until mid May and am tired of using my girlfriend´s computer. These two Asus Laptops fit my pricepoint and size pref. but would the Ati 1700 mobile card be slower than a nvidia 7600 considering the latter only comes with 1.66ghz core 2 as opposed to the 2.0ghz on the Ati laptop? I...
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    Coming Lcd Releases?

    I'm currently on tour in Europe until mid May 2007. When I get back I'll be in the market for some kind of 22"+ lcd screen for my gaming/mce pc (it's in my room so no need for anything bigger than 24" probably.) I'm wondering if there are any planned releases or probable releases that should...
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    Buying Parts in Europe

    I will be touring Europe for the next 6 months and will no doubt be making some computer purchases. Currently I'm looking to get a portable, atractive, external hardrive (any tips?). However being used to simply newegg'ing it or rebate hunting in the states, I have little to no knowledge of...
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    Upgrading GF Powerbook HD

    My Girlfriend has a powerbook with only 40gb of storage. She needs more room, of course, for her rather large music collection. Should I price an internal and would it be easy for me to do myself (do it all time with pc notebooks but never mac) or I was lookng at one of these two externals...
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    Overheating problem

    I have a Asus a7n8x deluxe board with a 2600+ chip in it running at stock speeds with a retail heatsink but out of no where it started having heat issues with it. I started up MBM5 and the cpu diode is reading upwards of 99c. I touched the heatsink and it's deffinatly reading right, I almost...
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    Best Gaming Laptop for the Money

    Basically I've got a friend who wants a good gaming laptop, where portability isn't too important... The budget: a slightly flexible $1700... I'm a desktop builder... and don't have too much experience here. Any suggestions off hand?
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    Building a HTPC

    I'm finishing up the build on my htpc, but I'm looking for a nearly silent nforce 2 mobo with a silent heatsink solution. Because I wanted to 1) overclock my 1700+ and 2) have onboard spdif out. I'm deciding between these two boards or is there a better sollution? 1. Abit AN7 2. Abit...
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    Building a HTPC

    I'm building a HTPC but I've realized that everytime I've hooked up my computer to my TV, and my audio into my home reciever, I get a buzz in the audio. Should I look for sound solution that doesn't simply plug into a regular stereo output, like something that has a toslink output? Would that...
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    Problems with sound and My HTPC

    Guess this is the right place. Right now I have a self made htpc with my hd tv and a nice jvc reciever. However when the computer is on and connected to the reciever there is a rather annoying buzzing sound coming out of the speakers. Thinking that this was just a interference issue I started...
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    What's wrong with my computer

    Ever since my hard drive has begun to fail.... ie clicking followed by freezing. My motherboard has been acting all weird. I had to RMA my ram. And now it's recognizing my 1700+ oc'ed to 2100mhz as a 1000mhz processor and running my ram at 200mhz rather than 400mhz. The bios settings are correct...
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    Slot Loading dvd rom

    Topic is subject. I'm building a htpc and wanted to know if I could get ahold of a good slot loading dvd rom. Could I even hook up any, doesn't have to be slot loading, laptop dvd drive to a desktop motherboard?
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    80K and counting

    Had some clicking in my harddrive so I decided to run HDD Regenerator and it's been runnin for 12 hours now and has found 80k bad sectors and is still counting... will it repair these at the end or am I in a bad place, ikw order a new hd?
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    Solved

    I'm working on my friends computer and he has a few programs that I can't stop from starting up. They don't appear in MSCONFIG. The main one is a program called Oracle and it uses 95 megs of ram. There's also a program called Apache and I'm not sure what that is. Question is basically, where...
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    Audigy Gamer software disc

    I lost the software disc for my Audity Gamer and in order to get my speakers to work in 5.1 I've always needed this disc. I'd need an .iso of the original disc. I hope this is the write place to put this. Please move if it is not.
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    Audigy problems

    I lost the installation disc for my Audigy gamer. I can download the drivers off the Website but not the original programs, only the updates. I can't get the system to work in 5.1 without the programs for some reason. Can anyone help me out w/ getting the programs? I've only got sound comin from...
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    Changing ports in UT2004 and Pokerstars

    I posted this in networking but recieved no help... thought maybe it should go here.
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    Changing ports

    My school's network tech guy is a complete idiot and in trying to protect eveyone has shut of certain ports. I can't hardly play Pokerstars or UT2004. I was told that if I went in and "changed" the port information in the programs themselve I could fix this. However nobody told me how. Can...
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    Problem with Reconizing 160gb Harddrive

    Friend got this motherboard, and this harddrive... problem is this: I built the system and in the bios it reconizes the drive perfectly as a 160gb drive, however when I install a fresh copy of Windows Professional it only partitions it as a 12.7gb drive... any ideas as to why?
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    Upgrading RAM in a Dell Computer

    I recently installed an additional 256mb memory module in a friends Dell 4300 Dimention Desktop and it does not recognize it in the bios or in Windows. I know for a fact the motherboard can take 512 of ram, and I remember having this problem with almost the same machine about a year ago and...
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    OEM Harddrive help

    I'm upgrading a friend's Dell with an additional wd 40gb harddrive. Bought it off of Newegg but bought an OEM drive. I hooked it up and it recognizes it in the hardware manager and in the bios but I can't get it to pop up in My Computer... Do I need to format the drive (probably) but where...
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    Sub $1700 Laptop Buying Advice

    Looking for a desktop replacement. Does limited Photoshop editing and possible some video editing. A decent size screen size is preferred. Really just looking for advice on any possible ideas.
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    Small Form Factor Low priced system

    I'm thinking of putting together a htpc like small portable pc. not really lookin at shuttle pc's or anything like that... just something, maybe micro pc with some cheapy cpu that can still handle mpeg playback. I have an extra harddrive and plenty of sorts of ram so really just lookin for...
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    Ipod or Nomad Zen

    I basically have $300 to spend on either a 20gb Nomad Zen or a 10 gb Ipod. The obvious advantage is twice the size of capasity at $50 less for the Nomad. However the physical size and style of the Ipod is so apealing. Any personal experiences with both would be apreciated, or a direct comparison...
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    Pocket CD-RW

    A while back I bought some Memorex Pocket CD-RW at Bestbuy. I loved them and use them all the time for saving my bigger powerpoint files for class presentations. However I haven't seen them on the shelves in quite some time. I've found pocket CD-R's. I really really want some more of these as...