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    Building a workstation, trying to choose between 7700k and 1700

    First of all (and least of all), Price. After taking into account the cheaper motherboard, and included cooler on the 1700, the AMD-based build comes out to almost $100 cheaper, which honestly is a drop in the bucket, and not a huge concern. I'm a web developer, but also do a lot of graphics...
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    Sleep mode, chirping noise, wont wake up until PSU is discharged and powered back up

    When my computer goes to sleep, after about 15 or 20 seconds, I hear an odd quiet chirping noise which I think is coming from my PSU. The noise is hard to explain, but it sounds kind of electrical in nature.. I don't know if you've ever heard the quiet chirp noise when the power finally...
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    New i7 Build - processor getting too hot

    I just finished my first Core i7 build, and the processor is getting really hot really quickly.. do you folks think it's a bad CPU? Bad Motherboard? I start the computer after being off for hours, and by the time I can get into the BIOS to check the CPU temp, it's already up around 51...
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    Building new system.. trying to decide on RAM

    I'm building a new system.. and I'm not really all that interested in overclocking, although I probably will do some light overclocking.. nothing extreme. I'm looking at the DFI Lanparty UT nF4 Ultra-D, AMD64 3200+ (Winchester), and the RAM is where I'm stuck at. OCZ Gold Rev2 Dual...
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    Radeon 9800PRO 128mb - artifacts

    Sorry in advance for the long post... just wanted to provide as much info as possible. I've got a machine.. Asus P4P800, P4 2.8, 512MB Corsair TWINX, ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128mb. I'll start by saying I'm not overclocking anything. A friend of mine needed their computer upgraded, so I...