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    Need Help Choosing a Tower Case...

    I will be soon building a new computer, and I am starting to research parts starting from my case and cooling devices. Info on the system (might change a little): CPU: i7 920 (mild overclock) Hard Drives: 1SSD, 1 Raptor 150, 3 other 3.5" hard drives Optical Drives: 1 Blue Ray, 1 DVD-RW...
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    Microsoft suffers decisive EU antitrust defeat

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/200...8uUyG_oTHc3s0PAJrQn6gB Microsoft suffers decisive EU antitrust defeat By David Lawsky and Sabina Zawadzki 52 minutes ago BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Microsoft (MSFT.O) suffered a decisive antitrust defeat on Monday when a European Union court upheld a landmark...
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    Ingmar Bergmar dies at 89

    http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07...QimqrlDXSwDrHx2m711z7g Ingmar Bergman, Famed Director, Dies at 89 Article Tools Sponsored By By MERVYN ROTHSTEIN Published: July 30, 2007 Ingmar Bergman, the ?poet with the camera? who is considered one of the greatest directors in motion picture...
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    Eurozone growth seen outpacing US, Japan at 2.6 percent

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070507/ts_afp/eueurozoneeconomy_070507185558 Eurozone growth seen outpacing US, Japan at 2.6 percent by Leigh Thomas Mon May 7, 3:02 PM ET BRUSSELS (AFP) - Economic growth among the 13 nations sharing the euro will outpace both the United States and Japan...
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    In Mexican Town, Maybe a Way to Reduce Poverty in New York...

    http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/25/nyreg...erty.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin In Mexican Town, Maybe a Way to Reduce Poverty in New York Mario Vazquez de la Torre/Agencia MTV, via Associated Press Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg visited Toluca, Mexico, Tuesday. By RAY RIVERA...
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    Terrific Chinese stock market performance seems to never slow down..

    While other emerging markets that have returned tremendous performances in the last few years have somewhat slowed down, the SSE composite seems to find new momentum to trace records, on favorable macro data and market operations (IPOs, M&A). Six months index...
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    Euro near record high

    http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601085&sid=aEKNIUPaLRUI&refer=europe Euro May Rally to Record, Traders and Analysts Clash (Update2) By Agnes Lovasz and Bo Nielsen April 9 (Bloomberg) -- The euro's rise has taken analysts by surprise and traders expect more gains as the region's...
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    China focusing defense efforts on Outerspace, Cyberspace control...

    http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN2937026320070330 By Paul Eckert, Asia Correspondent WASHINGTON (Reuters) - China's development of modern modes of warfare including military uses of outer space and cyberspace have yielded impressive gains that require U.S. vigilance, experts...
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    The BRIC dream

    BRIC has been a buzz-word for some years now, well known by investors and people interested in the financial markets and synonym of exceptional returns. Here's why a guy who knows a couple of things about global economic trends thinks what we saw and enjoyed in the last 5 years might be just the...
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    Italy ready to take command of UN peace force in Lebanon...

    http://www.corriere.it/english/articoli/2006/08_Agosto/22/podi.shtml http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level_Engli...?cat=Security&loid=8.0.332343464&par=0 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/...EAST23/TPStory/TPInternational/Africa/ http://euobserver.com/9/22256 Seems like Italy is...
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    Human Rights Watch reports on the Israeli attacks in Lebanon

    http://hrw.org/reports/2006/lebanon0806/ Too much material to copy here, here's just some quotes: Israel/Lebanon: End Indiscriminate Strikes on Civilians Some Israeli Attacks Amount to War Crimes On July 16, an Israeli aircraft fired on a civilian home in the village of Aitaroun...
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    Gazprom Value Tops $300 Bln After Quadrupling in Year

    Looks like the general consensus is energy prices are seen high for the next year, despite Oil now back below 70$. I see 15$ a share coming fast. Gazprom exceedes now 300 Billion capitalization and is now the third company in the world for market capitalization. Gazprom's weighting on the...
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    IMF revises China 2006 growth forecast up to 9.5 pct, India to 7.3 pct

    After the amazing surges of the past two years, it seems that Emerging Markets still have space for continuing their hike. High energy and commodities prices sustain Brazil and Mexican stock, with both countries' currencies at record hight levels. Now good news from Asia, with China and India...
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    Zurich has the best quality of life in the world...

    http://news.ft.com/cms/s/b306640e-c82a-11da-a377-0000779e2340.html The study conducted by Mercer Human Resource Consulting ranked cities on the basis of personal safety, health and education facilities, transport, other public services, social, economic, environmental and political factors...
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    Gold hits 25 year high, silver' up 67 per cent in the past six months

    http://news.ft.com/cms/s/c299d256-bfcf-11da-939f-0000779e2340.html Quote: Gold hits 25 year high By Kevin Morrison Published: March 30 2006 10:39 | Last updated: March 30 2006 17:52 gold bar ADVERTISEMENT Gold touched a 25-year high on Thursday with traders eyeing $600 a troy...
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    Connecting X-fi to an audio receiver...

    Here we go: I am trying to connect the digital receiver to the analog plugs of a X-fi extreme music and weird things are happening... First of all the Left and Right front channels seem to be reversed: when I test with the creative utility the front channel spectrum is reversed, left...
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    c: hard drive is in the "safely remove hardware" tray...

    Title says all... I just finished my first build and i noticed my main hard drive C: is among the drives that can be "safely removed" together with all the external peripherals... Is it normal? The drive is a WD 250giga connected with serial-ata2. The OS recognizes it in location 0 as primary...
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    My first build up and running... now what?

    After long hours spent on the foum and with (a lot) of help from you guys here on AT I finally finished my first build. Now it's up and working, and I am trying to understand what should I do... I updated the video card drivers, and run windows update... what else? Should I update the MB bios...
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    How to install a DFI ultra-D

    Hey.. title says all: I am starting my first build using a DFI Ultra-D and having problems trying to have the system boot. What are the main things to start with? I connected the mobo to the PSU via the 24 pin, the 4 pin and a molex. Connected the heatsink, connected a videocard and a PS/2...
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    Enermax liberty plugs....

    I am in the midle of my first build and I noticed that my PSU has a small plug coming out of the main sleeved bunch of cables. The manual says it can be connected to the motherboard so that the system can monitor the PSU fan speed and react if there is a problem. I cannot find the right plug on...
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    Connecting an x-fi music

    Here we go.. I'm in the middle of my first build, am the motherboard manual says to connect the DVD reader audio plug to the motherboard karajan module (DFI). I am planning on using a discrete solution for my audio (creative X-fi)... so should I try to locate that plug on the audio card, or just...
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    Many problems with first build...

    Here we go, I am starting my first build and already facing problems due to my extreme noob-ness. I have a DFI lanparty Ultra-D, Opteron 170 CPU, Zalman 9500 HS and Enermax 500 Liberty PSU. I mounted two Dimm of Ram, mounted the CPU, applied Silver5 thermal paste and then mounted the CPU...
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    x-plosion

    Sorry... my internet connection failed in the middle of an edit... I just wanted to ask you audio gurus what is the buzz about the new HDA X-plosion audio card, and what is the difference with the X-mystique currently in the market... Sorry again for the empty post...
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    Will start building today... any guide/advice for a newbie?

    Case: Thermaltake Armor Motherboard: DFI NF4-Ultra CPU: Opteron 170 Heatsink: Zalman 9500 Memory: 2Giga OCZ platinum Hd: 2 X WD 250 Giga SataII 16mega cache, WD external 250giga Video: evga 7800gt PSU: enermax liberty 500 Monitor: Dell 2405 NEC Dvd NEC Dvd-RW Floppy and memory cards...
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    Ready to order... can you critique my first build?

    Ok.. after having read the forum and asked millions of questions I am kinda ready to order: Here's what I would get right now: Motherboard: DFI Lan Party UT NForce4 Ultra-D 109$ Case: Thermaltake Armor Full Tower Aluminum 139$ or (149$-10$MIR if Newegg) Hard drives: 2 X...
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    Laptop-like keyboards...

    After years of laptop-only life, I kinda like the feeling... any keyboard that replicate this in a desktop layout?
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    tigerdirect Hot deal on gaming hardware...

    http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications...?EdpNo=1696401&Sku=MBV-NI8SLI-78002ULT Looks Hot to me...
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    Buying Vs. Building

    Ok, after years of laptop-only life, it's time for me to get a desktop again. Problem one: build one or just configure one on some of the online vendors wesites? I know most of you tech-heads and computer geniuses have a short answer for this already: building is cheaper, gets you exactly...
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    New trends in China consumers' patterns...

    From the NY Times: Made in U.S., Shunned in China By KEITH BRADSHER Published: November 18, 2005 GUANGZHOU, China, Nov. 17 - Abby Chan, a 23-year-old advertising copywriter, took a break from shopping for Levi's jeans at a mall here on Wednesday evening and relaxed at a table in a...
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    Pinter is 2005 won Literature Nobel Prize

    Eventually.... God only know if he deserved it before.... http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArtic...ID=169798+13-Oct-2005+RTRS&srch=pinter One of the very few last geniuses on the planet
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    New gateway convertible laptop...

    Anybody has experience with this tablet? Looks pretty cool, and the tablet platform is mature enough to jump on board.. http://www.gateway.com/programs/convertible/index.shtml
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    Help me set up an Pc based audio system...

    I have all my music collection ripped into MP3s and stored on my notebook PC. Now I have decided to start building a new desktop computer, and I am quite done choosing everything but I really can't understand what my possibilities are in the audio department. I will experience every media...
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    G8 near to cancel the debts

    from Reuters: http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&e=1&u=/nm/20050610/ts_nm/group_dc By Brian Love and Sumeet Desai Fri Jun 10, 6:26 PM ET LONDON (Reuters) - The Group of Eight rich nations edged closer to a historic deal that would wipe out $40 billion of debts owed by 18...
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    22 Million Chinese Seek to Block Japan's Bid to Join U.N. Council

    http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/31/international/asia/31cnd-china.html? from NY Times website: 22 Million Chinese Seek to Block Japan's Bid to Join U.N. Council By JOSEPH KAHN Published: March 31, 2005 BEIJING, March 31 - A grass-roots Chinese campaign to keep Japan out of the United...
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    Is slavery still in the US?

    IThe US has the world's highest incarceration rate: http://forums.dpreview.com/... .../read.asp?forum=1018&message=12565178 even more than China, in fact four times more, yet China has four times the population of the US. Why? Well, probably because it's good for big business. Chevron...