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    VPN Tunnel & DNS Question

    My friend is going to China soon, and I helped him set up an OpenVPN server on a DD-WRT router. I have a general question about the VPN tunnel and DNS. As you may know, China's firewall blocks lots of things. I set up the VPN such that all traffic gets tunneled through the router, so he can...
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    PNY 8800GT RMA

    Hi All, I have this card: http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16814133232 I mounted an Accelero S1 + 120mm fan onto the card, and all was well for a year. I've never had temperature issues before, and I'm sure that my S1 was seated properly (after checking repeatedly). Last...
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    Accelero S1 rev. 2 + PNY 8800GT Mounting Questions

    I recently purchased an Accelero S1 rev. 2 for my PNY 8800GT. I have two issues/questions: 1) The PNY 8800GT already comes fitted with a PWM heatsink. However, it is somewhat tall. It nearly comes in contact with the Accelero Heatsink. If the PWM heatsink touches the Accelero heatsink...
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    Question about my PC6400 RAM

    Hi, I recently jumped on the 2GB PC6400 Crucial Ballistix deal. I popped in my sticks and loaded up CPUZ. My CPUZ menus show these: Memory SPD Now, I was wondering why under the Memory tab, the timing shows 5-5-5-18, but under the SPD tab, the timings for 400MHz shows 4-4-4-12. Is there...
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    (new) Seagate 320GB 7200.10 DMA problems

    Hello, I recently purchased and built a completely new system (pasted from xfire): Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6600 @ 2.40GHz (2 CPUs) 2046MB RAM ECS P965-T 1.0B Seagate 320GB 7200.10 SATA NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS When I installed a fresh copy of winxp SP2, everything was fine. The drive...
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    Question about Fortron PSUs + My Rig

    EDIT: Oops, I just noticed the power supply thread sticky - Reading it now. I've been wanting to purchase a new PSU to replace an old Antec 300W PSU that came with my case. Currently, my rig is as follows: P4 2.4 (533FSB) ECS L4S8A2 mobo 1GB PC2100 RAM (1x 512 stick, 2x 256 sticks)...
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    Problem with AGP speed

    I have a Radeon 9550 which supports 8x AGP (The exact same product spec is here - I have the exact card). My motherboard, an Elitegroup (ECS) L4S8A2 also supports 8x AGP (Product specs here). However, there's a disparity between the reading I have from my ATI display utilities and the program...
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    CD/DVD writer on IDE SLAVE question

    Does putting a DVD or CD writer on the IDE slave effect its performance? Most instructions for DVD or CD writers tell you to put the device on MASTER, but I have a situation where it must be put on SLAVE. Are there any drawbacks/speed/compatibility/error issues that results from putting the...
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    VERY strange seagate HDD problem - cannot detect HDD on cold boot, but detects on reboot

    EDIT: I fixed the problem! In my BIOS i turned off "quick boot" and now everything is working again. Apparently my drive needs more time to spin up before successful recognition by the BIOS. Here's my strange problem: I have a 120gb Seagate HDD that I use for backup storage. I have been...
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    Changing the WUTEMP folder destination

    I was wondering if it was possible to change the location of my WUTEMP folder (the folder where windows XP dumps all the temporary files). Currently, WINXP just assigns the folder to a drive that I want to keep free of temporary files. Is there any way to change the location (drive) of this folder?