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    Quick help on a price quote

    She wants to sell her system and asked me how much it was worth. I have a good idea, but I wanted to get some other opinions. Thanks in advance for your input. Basic specs: p4@2.6 256mb ram 80gb hard drive integrated graphics Ideas?
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    Best Motherboard for the Money

    I am thinking about picking up an Opteron 146 (2.0 GHz) in order to OC it to at least 2.8, hopefully. As such I need a board that can take me at least to 280 MHz fsb. I've searched high and low but can't find one that gets to this range in 939 for less that 100 bucks (I just need OC stability...
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    In Need of a Skilled Troubleshooter

    I have a home-built system in a budget case. A while back the little plastic piece in the front usb port that keeps a usb cable from being inserted the wrong way fell out so that it was just the bare interconnects. Unfortunately I forgot about this and inserted a usb cable the wrong way (like an...
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    Mount Rainier

    A couple of years ago, I remember hearing about it and thinking that it sounded really cool. Who wouldn't want to use cd's and dvd's like floppies and have broad recognition from all computer drives without specific software? Support was supposed to come with service pack 2, but when that...
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    Cool and quiet fan for Athlon mobile

    I want to purchase a Thermalright SLK-947U and I was wondering what the best fan for it was. I want good cooling performance, but I don't want my computer to sound like it's going to take off at any moment either. What is the best compromise this way? I've heard good things about the Panaflos...
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    Thermalright SLK-947U

    I have heard conflicting comments, both that the this mobo needs the NEO Backplate and that it does not. I want to buy one of these from SVC where they are currently only 19.99 but I don't know if I need to buy the backplate as well when I order. The site says that you do but, like I said...
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    T-bird overclocking issue

    I have a rather old system, but I'm trying to milk as much performance out of it as I can. My comp contains the following: Athlon T-bird 1.33 MSI KT3 Ultra (KT 333 based, AMI BIOS v. 5.x) PC 2100 CAS 2.0 (256x2), Kingston PC 2700 CAS 2.5 512 MB Geforce 3 etc. The problem is that I can't seem...
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    AMD Overclocking Forecast

    Currently the Mobile Athlon's (2400+, 2500+ and 2600+) are obviously the best overclockers from the AMD side of things. This has been the case for a couple months now. In the opinion of those of you who are experienced members of the overclocking community, is it likely to change soon? A few...
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    Geil 512 MB PC3500 for $68 - Is this real?

    I found this price at abspc.com. It's Golden Dragon with 2.5 6-3-3 1T timings which makes me even more skeptical. Newegg only has the dual channel kit of 2x512 but that is for $285. Even the cheapest generic stuff is usually $85 at this speed and size. This seems like a really good deal - too...
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    ABIT NF7-S Rev. 2 poll

    A lot of people over at the CPU/overclocking forum who have this motherboard have been saying that it won't go beyond exactly 200 fsb stably for some reason. I was looking into getting this board, but I don't want to if it's not going to let me overclock quite a bit. Some people have...
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    XP-M questions

    I'm just seriously getting into overclocking. I've never built a system specifically for it before, although I've researched hardware and worked on/built computers for years. Now I'm looking into an XP-M system for overclocking. Reading over the forums etc, I have a few questions: 1. What...
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    Athlon XP-M 2500+ Overclocking

    Hello, I am new to these forums and was looking for some help on building a new system. Currently, the best overclocking CPU seems to be the XP-M 2500+ and i was looking to build a system around it. From what I understand, every 2500+ (mobile or desktop) has a Barton core. Bartons have a 512k...