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    SATA Drive won't detect.

    Hi. Today i received my Western Digital SE16 WD2500KS to replace my current Maxtor IDE hard drive. So I disconnect my old hard drive, put in the new one, and put my windows xp cd in the drive to format and install windows-but.. no, my bios does recognize that my SATA hard drive is connected...
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    Buying a new CPU, please help... :)

    Hi all, I just needed a little input on whether i should buy an Athlon 64 3500+ or a 3400+, of course being s.939 and 754 respectively, I can't really decide on which to get. On one hand, with the 3500+ i can supposedly take advantage of my dual-channel'd Corsair 3200XL memory, but i've heard...
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    Random reboots

    I've had this problem for quite a long time, and though it occurs sporadically in quite a few games, it hasn't driven me insane yet. Lately, I've been trying to play Planetside, and it is happening a lot, where I would be running the game for a few minutes, and suddenly my computer restarts...
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    Flashing BIOS far increases performance?

    A little while ago I posted a problem about having rather disappointing performance after buying a 6800nu, posting 3dmark03 scores of around ~5900, (My system is in my sig) and having people say that a configuration equivalent to mine should be getting around 8000 3dmarks. Well, after a while a...
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    9700 Non-pro and 6800 Non-ultra

    Recently, I upgraded from an ATI 9700 non-pro to an eVGA 6800 NU, with the eventual hope of using eVGA.com's trade-up program to get a 6800 GT for just the price difference. However, after comparing game performance with the two cards (/w 6800nu) I am pretty disappointed.. My system specs...