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    Are larger SATA 2.5" drives going through growing pains?

    I've been look to replace the 120gb drive in my McBook and was aiming for 250gb. However, when looking at reviews from customers I've seen a disturbing trend that most drives seemed to have surprisingly high numbers of complaints - people on their second and third failed drive, etc. Is this a...
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    Games jumpy??

    I've got an Athlon64/3000+ with an ATI x1600 and several old games we've tried playing are incredibly jump on it! Both Diablo 1 and Bricks of Atlantis (a relatively recent shareware title) both should play smooth as a baby's bottom but instead are jumpy like a geek on caffeine. I had the 5.13...
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    Best boot manager?

    Anyone have recommendations on the best boot manager on the market these days? What I'm intending is setting up one PC with multiple copies of Windows XP on it to compare different web browsers, AOL, etc, all separate from each other. Each partition will be about 2-4gb and will need to be...
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    Internal DLT drive causing power problems?

    I've got an internal DLT7000 drive in my system and it has been causing power problems. The system has a Gigabyte K8NXP-SLI, Athlon64/3000+, 2x 512mb RAM strips, a few HDs, an LG DVD burner, and most recently an ATI Radeon X1600 video card (had an X700 before that and a Geforce 6200 before...
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    SLI using ATI cards on nForce mobo?

    I started wondering what it would take to make two ATI cards work on an nForce4 SLI motherboard? At that point, how about two Geforce cards on an ATI Crossfire mobo? Is it something that could be reverse engineered or would it simply cost each side too much to bother with? Its too bad there...
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    Luxor horribly jerky on Athlon64+X700Pro?

    I've got an Athlon64/3000 on a Gigabyte nForce4 SLI board. I originally had the Geforce 6200 128mb non-Turbocache PCI-E card but it crapped out so I replaced it with an ATI X700Pro. Everything seems fine, except for one thing: the game Luxor now runs like crap. It used to be really smooth but...
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    Low-end usage, 6200 or 6600, 128mb or 256mb?

    If you had up to $120 to get a PCI-Express card, and weren't that into games, would you get a 128mb Geforce 6200 for $80, a 128mb 6600 for $105 or a 256mb 6600 for $120? Does the extra memory make much of a difference? Is there really that much of a speed difference between the 6200 and 6600...
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    Why no nVidia Geforce 6x00 w/ VIVO on PCI-Express?

    nVidia has always had a good name for their VIVO support so why do none of the PCI-Express versions of the Geforce 6x00 series support it? I'm in the market for such a card and would prefer not to have to make do with a less capable ATI card for the same money. Any thoughts? Damien
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    Backup software suggestions?

    After a HD crash last weekend (no really important data was lost, I think) and a DLT4000 drive in hand, I'm after some decent backup software. Any suggestions? I'm intending splitting up the backup schedule in two - one for regular data and one for pictures we take with our digital camera (I'm...
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    Backing up data to minidv cam?

    Has anyone tried Firestreamer-DV to backup files to their minidv cam? I've got a minidv cam and figured it'd be worth trying to use it for doing backups. Anyone?
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    Thinkpad A22m, need new HD

    The HD in one of our laptops at work has died. Its an IBM Thinkpad A22m that came with a 30gig HD. The machine is two 1/2 years out of warranty so no free fix. The question is whether it would be worth spending the extra money to get a part straight from IBM or should we just get any OEM...
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    New system causing I/O bottlenecks

    After comining my dream machine :) with the above hardware I've started to notice bottlenecks regarding I/O. For example I've seen DVD-res xvid movie files skip around that were playing in the background while e.g. working with Mozilla or eclipse, something that never happened on my old 1.1ghz...
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    SOLVED: Gigabyte GA-K8NF-9 keyboard problem?

    I got a GA-K8NF-9 yesterday and built what I consider to be a very nice machine - it isn't high end in the rest of the parts but it is a huge boost from my previous Duron & ECS mobo system. Anyway, within half an hour of having the machine on the PS/2 keyboard stopped working. I picked up a...
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    K7SEM + 1900 + 512meg PC133 = WinXP Home crashes

    I've had an ECS K7SEM rev 1.0 motherboard for two years with a 1.1ghz Duron. This past week I got an Athlon 1900+ and it has been running at 1.2GHz due to the 100MHz bus thingy. I changed the BIOS to 133MHz and it detects it correctly, but now my Windows (XP Home + SP2) install refuses to...
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    Phoebe 8port 100mbit switch - any info?

    Does anyone know anything about the Phoebe 8 port 100mbit switch model OCT8SW-I? Unlike the one advertised on Phoebe Micro's website, this one has a translucent green cover on it. I bought it for a few dollars in a Used bin at a local computer store thinking I'd find the details online - no...
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    Help choosing Athlon CPU + RAM

    What's the best RAM to get to use on a Gigabyte 7VT600 motherboard if I want to start off with an XP 2400+ or XP2500+ CPU but would also like to keep the RAM should I upgrade to a 400MHz bus chip in the future? If I'd need to replace the RAM to work with a 400MHz CPU I might as well just get...
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    Max CPU on ECS K7SEM v1.0

    I've got two ECS K7SEM boards I'd like to upgrade from their current 1ghz Durons. There was a BIOS upgrade relased (http://www.ecsusa.com/downloads/k7sem.html) on February 11th this year that says: 1. Update AMD Athlon XP CPU support 2. Changed function of method for fixed XP showed that Port...
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    Dual DVI and TV I/O?

    Are there any cards out there with either a Radeon 2 or GeForce3 chipset that have dual DVI outputs and TV in and out? Or am I looking at two cards for this?
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    Tyan Tiger MP with Win98?

    Is it possible to run Win98 on the Tyan Tiger? I'm considering getting a Tiger along with two Durons and I'll be running Win2k and QNX as my main OSes, but I wanted to keep Win98 as a backup, and for running older games. Has anyone tried it?
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    Windows 2000 on MSI 6330 Lite Edition?

    I was trying to install Windows 2000 on my father-in-law's new Athlon system but the setup disks crashed on disk 4. The motherboard is an MSI 6330 Lite Edition (don't know what PCB rev or BIOS rev) with 384meg PC133 RAM and a 1.33ghz chip. Any ideas what to do with it? Windows98 worked ok...
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    Best video card for TV (read DVD) output _and_ DVI?

    I'm looking for new video cards for two systems I'm planning on building soon. Both of them will hook up to DVI-based LCDs (one a 17", one a 15"), and I'll need video cards for both. There are a few issues which stop this being an easy decision: 1. I want one of them to support both...
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    KDS LCD monitors?

    Having seen some KDS LCD monitors for sale really cheap at Sam's Club, my wife and I are considering getting two, but wanted to check with you guys to see if anyone had used them before. The ones we're considering are the RAD-5 (15") and RAD-7 (17"). Have any of you used them? The...