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    Probability Problem, Quick question...

    Ok, here is the quick question for any who remember anything from Problem Stats... Two people are playing a game that has 8 possible "hands" (1 through 8), and hand 8 is the best "hand" that can be achieved, and "hand" 1 is the worst... If each of these 8 "hands" have a probability to come up...
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    Need to buy a cheap PC, FAST!!!!

    Hey all! I need to buy a cheap semi-capable gaming tower for my wife... The only requirements I have, are 1). NO Celerons!!!! 2). Must contain fairly recent technology i.e. nothing older than 1st gen A64/64bit Semprons or 800fsb P4's... 3). Must have a video card slot (AGP or PCI-e) 4). Must...
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    Difficult Probability question for any math wizzes out there!

    Ok, here is a very difficult math problem for any prob/stat wizzes out there... What is the probability of the following event to occur: Suppose you have a random group of 30 people. What is the probability that 2 each of those people will have a birthday in each month January through...
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    Probability math question?

    Here's a probability question for anyone who cares to take a stab... 5% of all males in a population are obese 0.25% of all females in a population are obese If 54% of a population are females, then what is the probablilty, when a person is chosen at random, for them to be obese? I...
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    CPU voltage the cause of higher temps?

    Well, I have posted on here a little lately about possible heat issues for my processor and trying to overclock. In none of my endeavors have I experienced any instabilities, but my temps still concern me. I noticed today in CPU-Z that my CPU voltage looks way high for some reason. It is...
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    What are your CPU temps when OCing A64's?

    I see a lot of people lieing about their temps all the time, so I am trying to get a feel for what temps I should truthfully expect. I see a lot of people posting crazy overclocks with temps still down in the 50's with stock cooling, which I know is bogus. So, my questions are: 1). What are...
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    Prime95 hanging when connecting to server?

    Is it normal for Prime95 not to work sometimes? This sounds like a stupid question, but the other day I tried to run Prime95 and it would just hang with the message "connecting to server" or something or other in the window? At that point, it would just not do anything at all, and I would have...
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    Wierd start button bug with Windows XP Pro!?

    I get this strange problem sometimes in Windows XP Pro where my start button in the lower left corner does not do anything when I press it? It is almost like it gets detached from the menu it is bound too!!! For the life of me, I cannot figure what the heck is causing this problem. All of the...
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    Very strange overclocking with 4 Ram sticks?...

    Well, I have 4 sticks of 512 PC 3500 DDR RAM, and my goal was to get my ram to actually run at 433Mhz speeds. It has been talked about at length on these forums of the limitations of the A64 memory controller when 4 sticks are installed, but I am still trying to get around this, somehow. It...
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    Asus A8N-SLI Chipset fan woes:(

    Greetings, A few days ago my chipset fan failed on my motherboard (see sig). My computer manufacturer sent me a new replacement one, with no problems what-so-ever, however I am having a heck of a time removing the old one from my motherboard. One of the pins came out but the other...
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    Overclocking GeForce 6800 Ultras with coolbits?

    Hi, I just updated my graphics card(s) drivers to the Nvidia 77.77 and coolbits no longer enables clock speed controls?????? How do we enable this in the registry now with these new drivers???? Any help is appreciated! Thanks!
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    Special A64 Far Cry patch help...

    The Far Cry A64 special patch won't work on my system... Every time the patch goes to finish, it says that an A64 must be installed on my system to install the patch, and it aborts... I have seen others post on here saying that it works no problem in Win XP, so why am I having so much trouble...
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    Doom 3 benchmarks ok?

    I read a lot of PC magazines and I always seem to see benchmark results that seem a lot faster than you would get in real life... My current benchmark for Doom 3 is 72fps at 1600X1200 Ultra Quality with 2X AA and 8X AF... My question is, is this good? Turning down to High quality doesn't seem...
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    Coolbits overclocking?

    How do I enable the overclocking tab in the Nivdia 71.89 drivers with my setup? I can't find anything anywhere...
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    Should I upgrade my bios on A8N-SLI Deluxe?

    I am debating whether or not I should update my bios... What does everyone think. The only issue I get once in a while is some sort of blue screen video error on bootup, but it rarely happens, and other than that my system is smooth and crash free... Could updating to rev 1007 solve that...
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    Major Issue with SLI enabled in certain games...

    In some games (so far Far Cry and Pirates!), the game will run great at the highest setting for a while, but then there is a visual tearing of the image, almost as if the video cards became out of sync!!!!!! When I say tearing, I mean that the image is literally ripped in two, and the two...
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    Weirdness with ram....hmmmm

    Ok, some of you may have seen my post about my DDR433 ram a few days back. I just wanted to post some interesting info... Well, here's the thing. I have 4 sticks of PC3500 DDR CL2 mushkin ram. For some reason it likes to default to PC333 in my bios. I found that this has to do with the...
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    How do I get my ram to run at stock speed? (433DDR)

    Hey all! Just bought a new PC with the Asus A8n-SLI Deluxe mobo, FX55 processor, and 4 sticks of DDR 433 with heat spreaders from Mushkin. Problem is, the company I bought the rig from underclocked my RAM, and told me that they did so because it is more stable because the RAM is finicky? Can...