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    Realtek netcard help

    I have an Abit AW9D mobo with the realtek 8168 gigabit net card built in. My machine (and the others in the house) are plugged into a netgear gigabit switch, The switch plugs into a Watchguard firewall. The firewall plugs into a cable modem (motorola surfboard 4220). My cable service is 16mbs...
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    Disable NCQ?

    Have an abit aw9d mobo (intel 975x chipset) and I'm using the HD controller in Raid mode in the bios. I can't see any way to disable the NCQ? The HD has no ncq disable jumber, and as far as I can tell some folks can disable it in the driver if they are using an nvidia chipset on the mobo...
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    Adding sata/raid drivers to an existing XP installation?

    I have a functioning windows xp installation and I am getting a new motherboard that has a new hard drive controller chipset. Normally when you swap motherboards the existing windows installation will blue screen on startup because the hard drive contoller has changed and it does not have...
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    Dual boot using F11 Boot menu.

    I have 2 physical HD's in my system, one sata, and another a standard IDE drive set as master. Windows XP is installed on the sata drive, I had linux installed on the ide drive. I was not using any boot manager on my main drive (sata - windows xp). At boot, I hit F11 and choose a boot device...
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    Defrag Software Without a Service?

    I was wondering if anyone has heard of or uses a Disk Defragmentation software package that does not require a windows service to be installed. I dont want anything running in the background, I dont want it to monitor disk usage, I don't want a scheduler. I just want a Defrag program I can...
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    is Raid 0 Faster than a single drive?

    I care not about write performance, I know a Raid 0 is faster in wirtes. I care about online gaming specifically where you load protions of data while playing (and causing studders), not like quake/doom style where the entire level is loaded before hand. I have a Maxtor 300gb 16mb cache...
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    Video card repair?

    I have a x800pro, Sold it to a buddy. he put it in an acrylic case, and well I guess acrylic cases have more potential for static. he fried the mobo and vid card when he moved it from a regular case to an acrylic case. So long story short. Can you even have a video card repaired? I bought it...
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    7800gtx at 500/1300?

    I see alot of 7800gtx overclockers running lower than mine? just wondering if I got a freak card or if you guys are using something other to show true frequencies? My card runs games all day long at 500/1300 with the stock cooler. (430/1200 stock) Im using the nvidia drivers with the...
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    Does refresh rate effect FPS?

    Something I always wondered. Does changing the refresh rate in a game (but not resolution) effect frame per second in any way? I know the refresh rate is the rate at which stuff draws on the screen, not sure if the GPU has to do more work as the resfresh rate goes up, or if that not even...
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    Video vs CPU limitations...

    Just trying to gauge at what point gaming becomes cpu limited and the same with video limited. Lets assume were using the latests games. Doom3, Everquest2, Battlefield 2, etc... And lets also leave AA and AF out of the picture. As the video resolution increases does the video card take...
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    Displaying FPS with Nvidia

    I had a x800 Pro and using the Ati Tray tools, I got a nice FPS monitor and gpu/mem temps that displayed up in the corner of the screen while in games. Is there something like that for nvidia owners? The built in NVtweak seems to have the auto overclocking that I used in ati tray tools which...
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    Compact Flash vs HD Speed

    Wanting a 4gb ram drive for gaming. Most motherboards only support 4gb total. Solid state 4gb drives are pricey. What about using a 4gb compact flash card with a compact flash to IDE adaptor? Is the flash ram going to be slower than the hd speeds? Compact flash speeds are 10mb/s or so, dont...
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    Swapfile on a different drive, but slower?

    Hi folks, I have a maxtor 300gb 7200rpm sata drive on order. I usually make a separate partition for my swap file, I know it would be better to have the swap on a different drive all together and different controller. but what about if the drive is an older slower drive? I have an older drive...
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    ati x800 + overdrive = lines?

    I have a ati x800 video card, it come with a nice overdrive option in the drivers that overclocks the card based on temp, well anytmie i turn this on and reboot, the video get alot of lines thru it. I dosent seem to happen until i reboot, i do notice some decent performance increases while...
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    Fastest HD system for desktop?

    Hello, its time to upgrade my HD system in my home machine, everything else is lightyears ahead, the HD technology still makes my system chugs as the rest of the system is always waiting for it. Current system is a athlon 64 3000+, msi mainboard, x800 graphics, 1 gig of ram, and ibm deskstar...
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    Bus question...

    How if any will the bus speed (and/or ram speed) effect at what limit i can download stuff from the internet via a network card that is plugged into the bus obviously. I know this sounds strange, but I have a friend at work that thinks the bus speed of the computer effects the download speed...