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    Guts upgrade for a low/mid desktop <$500 (no gaming)

    My home desktop began showing video artifacts & tearing this past week, even in BIOS. Booting to Safe Mode is impossible; the screen is entirely artifacts. It's probably the GTX 460 or the PSU, but troubleshooting a build from 2008 with legacy parts & slots probably isn't worth the...
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    Good mobo for Intel Q9450?

    I'm building a system for my home office and am looking for a chipset and/or mobo recommendation. The box will be used almost exclusively for database work, but I'm forced to use XP so 4gb of memory is all i can install. I won't be gaming or overclocking at all, and since my office is in the...
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    Recommend a fan controller

    i finished my system last week in a Lian-Li PC-76 case. it's awesome and the system runs very cool with my Zalman 7700 copper HSF, but it's noisy as hell because i can't control the speeds of any of the 120mm case fans. there are two of these that i need to control, as well as four 80mm (i...
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    Plextor PX-716SA SATA DL DVD burner

    I've been really wanting to get one of these for awhile now...does anyone know if there's a more specific release date than "December 2004"?