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    Printer colour calibration

    I'm trying to fix the messed up colour on my HP C5180 printer (specifically affecting photos). According to the manufacturer (http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfr...c=en&product=1153481#), there should be a 'Calibrate Color' option in the 'Device Toolbox'. That option is missing. I am using Win2k8...
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    Need new PSU - what brands are good?

    My PSU has blown up (or so it seems, it won't turn on). It's an Antec Trupower 380S (http://www.silentpcreview.com/article61-page1.html) which has been running more-or-less continuously for 5 years in my Sonata case My load is a Q9550 CPU, 8GB of RAM, 3 SATA hard drives, DVD, an ATI X1650...
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    Motherboard temperatures

    I'm having problems. My E6600 on P5B-E Plus won't boot above 360MHz FSB (using ram good to DDR2-1066) (i've tried 450MHz Fsb, 400MHz fsb, down at 6* multiplier). At 360, Orthos has just failed after 11 minutes. At the instant of failure (I think - more-or-less), Asus PC Probe has alerted...
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    vcore fluctuating - bad?

    I have a Asus P5B-E Plus, Radeon X1650 Pro, Antec TruPower 380w, plus 2 SATA drives and 1 IDE drive. I've loaded the Asus Probe programme, and it's giving alarms about VCore dropping: [03/17/2007 at 11:44 am] Vcore Voltage Abnormal, 1.11 V [03/17/2007 at 11:44 am] Vcore Voltage become...
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    Thermal paste - do I need it?

    I've got a retail C2D E6600 installation in an asrock mboard. I'm ditching the Asrock and putting it in an Asus P5B-E Plus wth an Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro. Should I just move the CPU over and put the heatsink on top using the Intel paste that's already on the chip, or do I need to get...
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    Conroe motherboard with integrated video

    Looking to upgrade my skt754 asrock integrated video motherboard. I've currently got 2GB DDR PC3200 RAM. I'm getting a E6600 Conroe chip. I don't have any video needs at all - no games. Just fast CPU. Ideally I would like an integrated gfx motherboard. Are there any? Also, if...
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    Memory timings

    Hi. I have just built my new Sempron 2800+ system with Asrock K8-Upgrade 760GX motherboard. It's a nice fast system (the onboard graphics are pretty crappy, I tried one game and I got bad artifacts using hardware acceleration, but it's fine for what I use it for (2D stuff in Windows - web...
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    600w PSU - not enough power

    I thought this thing was pretty funny..... '600W' power supply, selling for £10.99 + VAT http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products...cm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=77507 Take a look at the outputs: http://image.ebuyer.com/UK/R0077507-05.jpg 17A (so they claim) @ 12V That's less...
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    My new setup

    Anybody care to comment on whether I will have any problems/will regret buying such a cheap motherboard. (prices below excluding sales tax) ASROCK SOCKET-754 K8UPGRADE-760GX S/V/L M-ATX £32.04 TWINMOS 512M DDR400 CL2.5 16 CHIP (MTEC) £33.91 AMD SEMPRON 2800+ HT SOCKET-754 £48.86 I'm...
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    2600+ or 2800+ 754

    These new socket 754 semprons have got me salivating! I'm close to ordering either a 2600+ (1.6GHz and 128kb cache) for £49.97, or a 2800+ (1.6GHz and 256kb cache) for £56.56. Unfortunately I can't make up my mind. My load will be general business use (MS Word, Visual Studio, JBuilder)...
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    Will Antec Sonata hold back overclocking?

    I'm pretty close to buying a Sonata case, mainly because it looks nice and contains a good power supply. My system specs will be AMD Sempron Socket 754 2800+ 512MB cheap PC3200 RAM Cheap Socket 754 motherboard (not sure which one) that will overclock well Existing 7200rpm Seagate 160GB...
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    celeron d motherboard for overclocking

    hi. I am trying to evaluate Celeron D 320 overclocked against Sempron 2500+ overclocked as here in the UK they are both the same price (£45), The thing is I can get a good budget overclocking board (A7N8X-X) for the Sempron for about £40, whereas I don't really have any idea about...
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    new socket 754 semprons?

    I'm looking at AMD's new price list http://www.amd.com/us-en/Corporate/VirtualPressRoom/0,,51_104_609,00.html, and I'm wondering about the socket 754 semprons listed, in particular the 2600+, 2800+ and 3000+. Are these bartons on socket 754? Or just very low clocked Athlon 64 core processors...
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    Best 'value' CPU

    Hi, I am a building a new system from the following components: Seagate 160GB hard drive (8mb cache) NEC 3520A Dvd burner Antec Sonata case I want to team motherboard, 512MB RAM and a cheap CPU with this in order to make a machine that will be used pretty lightly - web browsing, file...
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    Cheap PC rebuild

    I currently have an old NLX Pentium 2-400 system, with 320MB PC100 SDRAM and new Seagate 7200rpm 8mb cache 160 GB hard drive. It's falling apart, missing front panel, missing drive enclosure, etc. So I'm looking to transplant it to a new case. I've bought an Antec Sonata, plus an NEC dvd burner...
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    CPU for cheap machine - Celeron D, Athlon XP or Sempron?

    Hi. I am building a machine for my father. He's not strapped for cash but he sees no reason to spend anything more than he has to, considering that it will just be used for surfing the web, playing mp3s. As he doesn't currently have a PC, I don't know whether he will eventually use it for...