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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?

    Looks like it's efficient between 150 and 500W. http://www.silentpcreview.com/article692-page4.html But will my PC really use 50% of a 430W PSU? This setup: ASUS P5E3 Deluxe (Intel X38 Express chipset) Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 2 x 1GB Kingston HyperX DDR3-1333 memory modules...
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    Need new PSU - what brands are good?

    I bought the Corsair HX 520W
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    Need new PSU - what brands are good?

    I bought a Sumvision 350W PSU as a temporary solution until I can get something decent delivered. Noisy junk, only 1 SATA power cable which only reaches the top drive bay. And then I plugged it in. Works, but supplied cable is too short.Switch cables. No power. Hmm. Replace fuse in...
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    Need new PSU - what brands are good?

    Ok, I found various Antecs locally: EarthWatts 380 (£43), Truepower Trio 550 £66, BasicPower BP550+ £66 NeoHE 550 £68 Earthwatts 650 £76 Is the 380 enough? Or should I buy a different one. From the specs, the 380 seems to have better rails than the 430...
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    Need new PSU - what brands are good?

    Hmm, seems everything is online these days. V. annoying.
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    Need new PSU - what brands are good?

    I need to buy my PSU from a shop in the UK. The list of available products is above.
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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?

    nope
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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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    50% overclock(2.4ghz) on Sempron 2600+ s754 @1.5v

    the more interesting result of this pretty good article is that the sempron 2800+ is poor value in comparison to the 2600+. It should probably be renamed the 2700+. The extra cache makes a small difference to the performance, certainly not as much as the extra 200 PR points suggest. Even in...
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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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    Antec case w/PSU

    wrong wrong wrong and wrong Please check facts before posting..... http://www.antec.com/specs/true380_spe.html and http://www.antec.com/us/support_productInfo_details.php?ProdID=20381 This is the True380S model, same as retail True 380 but with single fan (rather than two) for...
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    $1,700.00 to spend to build a new system

    Compared to that, a Celeron D will scream. Cool, buy a big hard drive. Don't buy that overpriced Raptor, a 250GB drive is going to be more useful, and nearly as fast due to higher density. Why? If you can get more performance with a better one, and you are spending $1700 (which is twice...
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    2600+ or 2800+ 754

    actually the ratings look a bit conflicting.... 2600+ vs 2800+ difference is 128k cache to 256k cache 3000+ vs 3100+ difference is 128k cache to 256k cache So why is 128k cache worth 200 PR points on a 2600+ chip, and only 100 PR points on a 3000+ chip?
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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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    Owner of LAN Gaming Cafe, Need Help..

    sorry, I made a mistake. Some XP 3000+ are 166MHZ fsb (PC2700 RAM needed), others are 200MHz fsb. Obviously if you have a 200MHz fbs, get PC3200 RAM.
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    Looking for a good dvd/cd burner

    the NEC sounds like a jet plane on reading or writing. Clock it down to 8x and it's better.
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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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    Owner of LAN Gaming Cafe, Need Help..

    just reading some of the other replies here... For the benefit of the American readers who haven't been to Indonesia, most internet cafes charge $0.33/hour, some slightly less. So you need to remember that. THe other thing is that these places are pretty pumping, full of people, heavy use. Most...
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    Owner of LAN Gaming Cafe, Need Help..

    Hi.... My experience of internet cafes in Jakarta is some pretty low specs... How much would you be charging per hour? It's normally only about 3000rp, so it's difficult to get nice PCs. I guess you will want to keep these machines a long time and not upgrade too much. I think any machine...
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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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    Final System Specs (939)

    What. Crap. That PSU is Antec's premium range, and puts out better amps (24A @ 12V) than their 450W cheapo model. It's plenty for a single hard drive system with a 6600GT.
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    new socket 754 semprons?

    It won't of course. The Sempron perfomance rating is pretty confusing when ratings mean different things for different products, but roughly speaking take 200 or 300 off to get the Athlon equivalent. I don't think cache is hugely important for the A64, but here's where all the socket 754...
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    new socket 754 semprons?

    Ok, so I found the specs: Sempron 2600+ skt 754 1.6GHz 128KB l2 cache @ $78 Sempron 2800+ skt 754 1.6GHz 256KB l2 cache @ $88 Sempron 3000+ skt 754 1.8GHz 128KB l2 cache @ $101 Sempron 3100+ (existing product) skt 754 1.8GHz 256KB l2 cache @ $114 Sempron 3300+ will presumably be 2.0GHz...
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    new socket 754 semprons?

    anybody got any news/ideas about this?
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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

    thanks for that netopia... Is there any difference between the 2400+ mobile and 2500+ mobile. I can get the 2400+ for about the same price as the non-mobile 2600+?
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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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    New $1500- Computer for a friend.

    if it was me, I would dtich the thermaltake case and PSU ($200). Those thermaltake cases look pretty adolescent, and are horribly heavy. You could get a quality PSU + case for $72 http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=11-129-148&depa=1... 550W is total overkill. Depends...
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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...