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    No video on new system build;

    System: Know working parts, from previous build: Antec True power 450 watt Hard drives (SATA) Optical drive(PATA) Sound Card (Audigy, original) New parts: Thermaltake Graphic Card PSU (250 watt) MSI 8800 GTS (640MB, with PCI-E power connector) Asus P5B-E Core 2 Due E6600 OCZ plat...
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    New system build

    Building a new system for the holidays. I will be ordering the case/PSU today and the rest on 12/10. It is entirely for gaming, nothing more and nothing (hopefully) less. I have a budget of about $1100. Total system power draw is of no consequence (power is a flat rate/included in rent), and It...
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    Any major flaws with this monitor?

    Offical page Newegg's page PCmag review Note that I will be using it primarily for gaming, but I cannot afford a monitor too much more expensive than this one. I do, of course, have a DVI on my video card (9700 pro), if that matters. It's $180 after mail-in rebate, which I'm willing to...
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    NB fan died, can it be replaced?

    My Abit Kv8's northbridge chipset cooling fan died, and it doesn't have any heatsink (just a spreader and the fan) so it is, of course, overheating. Can this be replaced from a general retailer(Newegg, ZZF, etc.) or do I need the specific part from Abit? IE will a NB heatsink (such as This...
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    How to underclock an old A64?

    The exact motherboard can be found Here. The CPU And I don't know the RAM, but it's DDR400 at stock speeds and latency. STORY I have a problem in that my CPU is running too hot (65C under load) and I'd like it to run a bit cooler. I figure I can accomplish this with a simple...
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    Looking for ~$50 video card

    Looking for a video card, at roughly $50, that will work in: Athlon 3000+ 512MB of DDR-333 It's an eMachine bought as a budget rig about a year ago. It has an AGP slot, probobly 4x
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    Possible to install SATA drivers from CD?

    I've recently recieved a brand-spanking-new Seagate 7200.7 80GB. Unfortunately, I got an SATA drive. Which is now biting me, my installation of WinXP, and my patience in their proverbial arses. I pressed F6 at the start of the install, aand it came up with a message to insert the disk...
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    Will SATA NCQ cause problems?

    I did a search and it turned up people having problems with a solo SATA disk - getting "no IDE HDD installed" errors and such. I'm considering Seagate's 7200.7 SATA150 NCQ, as I plan on using this drive for atleast 5 years. I was wondering : will having SATA or NCQ make this drive unable to...
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    System Boot times skyrocket (help thread)

    System Specs Literally overnight (14/17 to 18/05) the system began a very odd problem: On boot, single normal beep (no beep code), POST begins. It stops at the "Memory Testing" line, but not always (Sometimes, though a minority of the time, it stops at the line with the CPU's...
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    Steel milling/beveling... where can this be done?

    Looking to have 1" thick steel plates milled, and I was wondering where I can have this done. Making a german style* PC case (BTX form factor) custom. Want keyed bevelling on a total of 24 sides (6x4) and a total of 8x12cm holes drilled into them (the plates). It is currently a 6'x4'x1" steel...
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    Sapphire X800 no longer sensing molex connection

    The cuircit breaker flipped when a lamp was plugged in, my machine was behind surge protection (crappy one). I have a cheap PSU (450 watt, came with case, non name brand) and now my video card (Saphire X800 Pro, AGP, connects via the larger molex style plug) will not let the machine boot. I get...
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    Why not have optical SATA drives?

    Since most new motherboards have SATA, and many of them support more than 8 drives, and the bandwidth is not really an issue for optical drives, why not have CD and DVD drives on the SATA bus? That way we would be more future proof in our purchases, assuming that PATA doesn't stay on...
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    Negatives of low-level format?

    I'm looking to do a low level format of my 60GB HDD, and I was wondering if there are any negative side affects. I know that it takes a while, and that (of course) it will do all that a high-level(standard) format will.
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    'Plated' speakers? is this BS?

    My brother has some (IMO) rathar nice speakers, whiuch don't seem to lose sound quality with more volume. He claims they're 'plated, saying that they don't have a single magnet but a series of small ones up and down the 'cone (it isn't even a cone, more of a dome, assuming that those...
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    X800, X600, X300 what do these mean?

    With the recent development of the Xx00 line, I was wondering: which is which? That is, relative to thre previous lines: I already know that the X800 is off of R420 and is thus an entirely new card (I know, R420 was based off of the 9800). But what of the other Xx00 cards? I assume (correctly...
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    Peltiers: can they increase heat?

    If you had, say, one of those nifty 35W Athlons, and added an incredibly powerful peltier, could it make the CPU run hotter than having just the CPU and HSF there?
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    380W enough for system?

    I'm building a system for a friend (he's good with OS stuffs, not hardware) and I was wondering if the bundled 380W PSU that comes with the Antec Sonata is good enough for: Athlon 64 3400+, Socket 754, 512K MSI K8N neo platinum, K8T800 1x40GB Maxtor 1x120GB Seagate "barracuda" Geforce 6800...
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    Anandtech: against BTX? Why? State your arguments here! *now with poll*

    Why would anandtech's forums be against BTX/CTX? After all, aren't many of us overclockers? Arent many of us SFF users? Don't we all want a quieter, cooler case? Perhaps we would then be able to get those few more Mhz or few fewer Db out? My main idea as to why we would be against it is...
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    68C Idle, 75C load, is this normal?

    I have a stock A64 at stock speed and (I think) stock voltage. I'll post my voltage on restart. I used OCZ ultra thermal compound, which seems to work fine on my brother's 2.6C at 3.0. the P4 runs at 45C idle, but my A64 runs 1t 68C idle, ~75C load. I RMAd my CPU because it was registering at...
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    Using NT/2K user levels in XP?

    Im looking for a way to use the user level set of NT/2K (IE guest, user, power user ,super user, backup user, admin, etc) in XP. Annoyed by the user-friendlyness of XP (haveing only something between guest and user, and admin, I have become thouroghly infuriated with microsoft's latest 'attempt'...
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    A64 at 70°C, LAN not recognized

    Backstory:last weekend I recieved an A64 2800+, Abit KV8, and OCZ DDR3200 512MB "Performance" series. After the CPU registered at 90-100°C and the LAN was not recognized (by the hub, and by the OS), I RMA'd CPU and MB. I recieved them today. I installed the new CPU and MB. Upon boot, I check...
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    How to start up an ATX PSU without a MB?

    How can I start up an ATX power supply without a motherboard? I tend to run my HDDs, DVDs, and CD drives 24/7 with all other compontents off until the system is turned on. My old AT PSU just died, and I can't get an ATX PSU to stay on (I can get the internal PSU compontents to turn on. The PSU...
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    Cutting out the fan 'grill' on my case. wondering how to go about it.

    I have a case with terrible fan grills. See here. How should I go about cutting out the grills on the back of the case? I have 2 more wire grills but I can't get a hacksaw edge onto the grill, and I don't have a dremel. Any suggestions?
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    Dead southbridge, CPU? What are the chances?

    I recieved my Abit K8V, RAM (OCZ 3200), A64 3200+ yesterday. I assembled them this morning, and upon boot there was an annoying beep. Oddly enough, the system started, formatted, and installed fine. no lock ups, nothing. But then this happened: Upon entering the BIOS I saw that the CPU was...
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    What are good power supply brands?

    well?
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    Upgrading to A64 from Celeron 1.8

    Currently I have: Celeron 1.8Ghz P4VXMS (cheapest available Sct 370 board with convertor Terrible PSU Geforce 4 Ti4600 128MB 1024MB PC133 SDRAM 512MB DDR2700 I have about $350 saved up and I would like to upgrade. It would be used solely for gaming, first person shooters. I don't care about...
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    How would a motherboard/chipset limit Memory speeds on an A64?

    Seeing as the memory controller is on the CPU, and, I assume, the memory never directly interacts with the chipset or any other components. Why would A64 chipsets/motherboards have any memory specification, beyond: ?Maximum electron frequency over the distance between the socket and the memory...
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    HL2 thieves cought by million-nerd army

    The Inquirer has the story so it may or may not be real... Linky Sorry if this has already been posted, search turned up nothing.
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    Bin decompiler, where art thou

    I have a .bin file on a CD that needs decompilation, but google turned up no relevant results for getting such a decompiler... does anyone here know where to get one?
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    Gaming Server for $1000?

    A club I go to after school has weekly LAN parties. Unfortunately, our server is identical to the other computers. So we've collected $978 and I would like to know what setup would work best for a LAN gaming server. It would be running a dedicated, Windows XP (64 if applicable) server for games...
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    How high can CPUs go?

    Disregarding cooling, would CPU's theoretically be able to reach unbelievably high speeds(like 30Ghz)? Or is there some kind of lock on the CPU (not the chipset or the MB) that prevents extreme overclocking?
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    Has anyone ever had a sensitive microphone?

    I've tried several headsets, but I've always found htat after about a month I have to practically yell into it for it to pick up my voice. Yes, I've turned up all availabe valume controls (in the audio options for the system, audio options in the game, etc.). I know that it's not that it's...
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    Details hammered out on BTX yet?

    Well?
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    Image Quality: can you tell the difference?

    Maybe it's because my eyesight's not to good, but I'm not shure. So I ask you this: can you tell the difference between 2xAA/AF and 8x? I can't. Is there a noticable increase between 1024x768 and 1600x1200? The only thing I've been able to notice is the difference between OpenGL/Direct3D and...
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    Using a key for a computer?

    In looking at the Sun server we have sitting unused at my school I noticed that there was no power button, but what apeared to be a switch. Upon further inspection it was alas a key. A physical key, like to a door. It had 4 settings, on, off, one with an odd symbol like ~ but sharper, and one...
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    Onboard Video Vs. Dedicated video card, which is faster?

    The two setups: Setup 1: Abit 'AN7' NF!! Ultra 400 with MCP-T AMD Athlon XP 1.83Ghz (2500+), 333FSB, 512K Cache, (OC'ed to 366Mhz FSB) 2x256 DDR-400 (at DDR366) eVGA GeForce II Ultra 64MB Setup 2: Shuttle 'MN31N' nForce2 IGP with MCP-T AMD Athlon XP 1.83Ghz (2500+), 333FSB, 512K Cache 2x256...
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    Did a 'stop' during defrag, Now system is unstable!

    Why would MS include the stop button on the defrag if it destabalizes the system? Albiet, I am mad at him, but I'm more mad at microsoft. Especially for a monkey-proof OS, why would they allow this? The computer boots, but crashes often when running apps. Does the system re build (the NTFS...
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    Can games run on linux?

    With regards to linux and games, how have your experiences been? And yes, I do realise that some options overlap, just choose the most correct.
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    $750¹ to upgrade, what to get?

    BTW this is Killa's brother my current specs are: Celeron 1.7Ghz @1.8 1GB PC100 SDRAM Geforce 2 ULTRA 64MB Western Digital 80GB Special Edition. Ahanix Black Knight (in the mail) I also have a pile of old fans (80mm, 92mm, and 120mm) that I am not able to use due to lack of fan mounts. I...