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    Questions about memory upgrade on old computer

    I'm going to be upgrading my brothers old machine with some memory sticks lying around at my place. His PC is a 1.3 Duron (100 Mhz bus) on a Gigabyte 7VAXP and the VIA chipset on it supports up to DDR400 memory. What I want to know is: Is it ok to run DDR400 memory with just a 100Mhz bus CPU...
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    Help with memory upgrade

    I'm looking into upgrading my memory to 2GB in preparation for installing Vista x64. It's on an Abit KV8 with a S754 Newcastle 3000+. Right now I have two 512MB sticks of DDR400 at 3-3-3-8 2T. I was hoping to just add a 1GB stick, but according to the manual that means that the memory will have...
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    Vista 512MB RAM requirement

    Am planning to upgrade a laptop to Vista. It currently has 512MB Ram but also has integrated Intel graphics which shares memory. Does anyone know if Vista setup makes allowances for integrated graphics memory or is it stricty 512MB required and not one meg less allowed? Yea I know it'll be...
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    Help with 6600GT

    Hi. I've recently bought a 6600GT to upgrade an older computer and so far it's reporting very high temps. Specifically, it's the XFX 6600GT with DDR3 memory (this one). When I run the CS:S stress test, after just a few minutes Rivatuner reports that it hits 97C :( I've checked that the fan...
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    Video card power consumption question

    Hi. I'm planning to upgrade an FX 5200 to something better. Was looking at 7300GT/7600 GS - obviously AGP versions. Was just wondering how those newer cards compare to an FX 5200 power consumption wise, because I don't want to have to upgrade my power supply.
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    This has to be a joke right?

    Link Was browsing around and saw this. I'd hate to think what battery life would be like - if there's one at all. I suppose someone's thought there's a market for this sort of thing but err....no thanks from me :)
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    Someone help me find a free software firewall

    I'm trying to find a (at least not too bad) free firewall that supports internet connection sharing. I'm doing internet sharing via the standard windows way. I've tried using comodo and I followed the instructions but still couldn't get internet sharing to work unless I turned off network...
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    Overclocking Duron 1.3

    Hi all, I have a fairly old computer with a Duron 1.3 in it and was looking to overclock it to hopefully give it a bit more life. The trouble is that the motherboard doesn't have a PCI/AGP lock and I'd rather not take pci/agp speeds out of spec. However, the motherboard does support 133...
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    Does anyone here run Windows XP on a limited account?

    Hi everyone. Was wondering how many of you, if any, run windows using a limited (or even guest) account as opposed to having an admin account. I've looked at a lot of security advice throughout the internet and one of the big pieces of advice often given, is that it's best to run on a...
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    How can Windows Vista make your cpu consume more power?

    OK I checked this Inq article and at the bottom it says: What the heck? How can an operating system make your cpu hotter/use more power?
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    How reliable are the latest bunch of maxtor hard drives?

    Hi there, My mums getting a pre-built computer and the company only uses maxtor drives. The computer will have 2 x 200 GB drives - not in raid or anything like that though. It seems that over the last few years according to reviews/forums they've had a bad reputation with reliability and...
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    Anyone had experience with this barebones

    I'm going to be getting a custom built computer and noticed that this barebones thing has very good price. It won't be used for gaming so the onboard video will be fine. After loads of googling (and searching this forum) I've not seen any reviews on this particular one or any Asus Vintage...
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    Max safe temp for my chipset

    I've been looking at fans settings and stuff like that and I'm wondering what is a safe maximum temperature for this chipset?
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    Antec Sonata II PSU question

    Hi there. I was wondering if anyone could tell me if I'm effectively wasting power using the PSU (450W Smartpower2) which comes with the Sonata II. I'm planning on making a computer with the following specs. A64 X2 4400+ 1 GB Ram (2x512MB med timings) Nvidia 6200 or ATI x300 2 Samsung...
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    Why do review sites only really seem to focus on FPS games?

    Over the last couple of years I have become increasingly annoyed with a lot of hardware review sites. It seems like they all only really focus on FPS games - what is the reason for this? Is it because FPS games could be popular than other genres (just a guess)? I'm sure I speak for quite a...
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    Need help with HL2 video settings

    OK as a lot of us know, valve has now updated HL2 and CS:S to include hdr support and other gizmos like that. The problem is that the game no longer defaults to directx 8 for Nvidia fx cards - so i'm now defaulted to directx 9! Now I know you can use the -dxlevel xx command thing when you...
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    Crazy A64 Newcastle Undervolting

    OK guys I seem to have been able to do some huge undervolting on my A64. Its a Newcastle 3000+ - S754, 2.0 GHz, 512 cache, 130nm. My mobo is an Abit KV8. Using RMclock ive managed to lower the VID from a default 1.5 down to just 1.25 - altho due to slight overvolting from the mobo the...
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    IE seems to have hijacked Pop-up Blocker

    When I visit some websites, my pop-up blocker (The one that comes with IE in XP SP2) seems to get overriden. I'm not talking about the flash pop-ups as thats always been a problem but standard pop-ups appear. When that happens the green icon on the IE taskbar appears saying that i've allowed...