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    Build Advice

    Hi all, Just wondering if anyone could help me with this build that would be used for gaming as well as recording (Pro Tools, Ableton), and some light Photoshop. PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant CPU: *Intel Core i7-5820K 3.3GHz 6-Core Processor ($362.95 @...
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    Best time of year to buy all the parts for a brand new build?

    In terms of price, is it the general consensus that you will get the best prices on Black Friday or cyber Monday to buy all your parts? Or is there another time of year that's better? I hate seeing my PCPartPicker graph hitting a low spike by a few hundred dollars and then leveling off again...
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    New LaserJets Print Avery Labels off alignment. Prints too far up and sometimes left

    Hi, OS: Windows 7 64-bit I am completely frustrated with this problem. I have tried finding a solution, and it seems like I've stumbled across a few people having this problem, but no concrete solution; yet it seems to be something that would have been addressed by HP, Avery, or Microsoft...
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    First-Time Overclocker, problems with E6750 and DDR2-800 RAM

    I'm new to overclocking (never tried it until the other night). Read through the clunk's, graysky, and wolfram beginner's guides and got a good idea of it. Mainly followed Clunk's, I was overclocking fine when it came to booting, temps, and stability tests, until I realized the system wasn't...
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    Computer crashes and monitor gets no signal and I have to reboot.

    Hey everyone, This problem started happening all of the sudden and it is getting really annoying. I built this computer a little over a year and a half ago. Recently the hard drives failed and I had to buy two new ones (I configure them RAID 0). Needless to say, I'm running off a recently...
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    9800 GX2 overclocked editions

    As of April 3rd, EVGA released three new overclocked editions of the 9800 GX2. In order from slowest to fastest: KO, SC, and SSC. I just got a 9800 GX2, and figure I can step-up to one of these. Are they worth it? Is overclocking the graphics card gonna have a dramatic increase in...
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    How to tell if your gfx card solution will be CPU-bound?

    I ended up with 2 EVGA 9800 GX2s (long story). My plan is to return one and get $600, but I'm wondering if I should just keep it and run Quad-SLI. I've seen the benchmarks, and they aren't that impressive, and the drivers are finicky at best right now. But the main thing that concerns me is...
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    P5K-E WiFi AP USB 2.0 Ports

    I just built a new PC with an ASUS P5K-E WiFi AP. It has 6 USB ports in the back, and 2 in the front. Obviously, being a new card, all of these ports are USB 2.0. But when I plugged my iPod into a back USB port last night, Windows said the device would go faster if plugged into a USB 2.0...
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    PCI-E 2.0 and 1.1 question

    I've searched through lots of forums, but could not find the answer to this. So forgive me for another 2.0 vs. 1.1, question, but after lots of due diligence, I think it's safe to ask this question. Everybody knows that PCI-E 2.0 is not worth it yet, because no video cards are capable of...
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    9800 GX2 never detected on boot-up

    I built my new PC, and when I put the 9800 GX2 in, it wouldn't boot up. I just get a blank screen and one short beep. I thought it might be defective, so I bought another one to test... same thing happened. Right now I'm using a temporary PNY GeForce 8500 GT card until I can figure out how to...
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    Built a new PC, boot-up problems

    Okay, I'll be as detailed as possible. I got my parts from newegg and assembled my computer last night. I went to power it on, and, it powered on fine, all the LEDs went on, and the fans fired up. However, there was no picture on the screen. I hear one short beep from the PC speaker, but...
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    Need help picking out a new case

    I just bought all brand new parts to build a PC. I ordered this case: http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16811133024 ...And it's absolutely horrible. I need help finding a new case. I was hoping someone can tell me what the best brand to get is. I thought Thermaltake was a good...
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    Building a new system... need help!

    I am building a new system, and I need to know what I should go with for some of the parts. Processor: Duo E6850 or Quad Q6700? The rig is mainly for gaming, but I do some encoding here and there (not a ton), and do run Photoshop a bit. I know they say Duo is better for strictly gaming, but...
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    iTunes for Win XP always gets an error report box when i try to open it

    Recently my iTunes has stgopped opening. Everytime I try to run it I get a send error report box ("iTunes has encountered a problem and needs to close."). When trying to run quicktime, i get a buffer overrun error. I've tried everything. I've uninstalled the programs (quicktime wouldnt...
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    NTLDR is missing error, but no boot disks work

    I have a computer with the NTLDR is missing error, but when I try to use boot disks or boot CDs, none work. Instead it will say "Strike F1 to retry boot, F2 for setup utilities". I have tried the ntldrfix boot disk and boot CD. I have also tried making a startup disk from a working xp...
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    computer slowdown.... fan problem maybe?

    My computer's been running slower and slower. I just bought a new hard drive because the S.M.A.R.T. readings showed my old one was bad. That sped things up and I thought I had solved mjy problem, but there is still slowdown... my computer is 4 years old but the specs are still good enough to...
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    PS/2 Port stopped working

    Recently, my PS/2 ports and USB ports on my motherboard stopped working the way they should. I have to keep wiggling the cables until it's just right to get the computer to recognize they're there, as if the jacks were loose or something. In fact, my PS/2 just stopped working all together the...
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    games performance decreasing, even on old games

    I was playing SimCity 4, and when I tried to change the specs the other day, it started getting really choppy, and it didn't fix when I changed them back. So I uninstalled it and reinstalled it. Now, and I noticed that it wasn't performing as good as it should. This is a pretty old game, and...
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    Cleaning/Optimization/Registry/Memory Utilities

    Is there a utility out there that can clean up your processes? For example, sometimes there are processes in your task manager that don't need to be ran, and sometimes there are ones that maybe could be corrupted and/or are using up more memory than they should. Is there a program that will...
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    Computer started freezing randomly

    My computer has been freezing up lately, and I don't know why. When I reboot afterwards, I get multiple message boxes that say "The system has recovered from a serious error." I haven't installed any new hardware. Does anyone know what's wrong and what I can do to fix it? This is the error...
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    Computer suddenly shut off for good... power supply maybe?

    Last night, my computer shut off and wouldn't turn back on. I did have an ethernet PCI card in there that was coming loose, and i would usually just plug it back in and have no problems. Last night, soon after it came loose, my speakers popped and my computer shut off (I'm hoping nothing got...
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    Confused about motherboards

    I'm in the market to build my own computer, but it's been awhile and I haven't kept up. I'm building from the ground up, and obviously I have to start with a motherboard. I want to compare different motherboards, but there's so many specs that confuse me, like chipsets, etc. What is the...
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    Replacing Hard Drive

    I have two 80 gig hard drives right now. I just got a 300 gig, and I want to replace one of my hard drives, but keep all the data that's currently on it. I don't know how, though, because these are my options: 1. Replace my first hard drive, which has all my system files on it, but then I...
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    Computer won't get past bootscreen, just reboots

    Today, my computer started only making it to the bootscreen, where it would load for a while and then just reboot again. My computer was working fine before this. The last thing I did before this was uninstall a couple of programs (iMesh and WinCVS to be specific, but that shouldnt matter). It...
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    Cannot log into any sites at all (including e-mail)

    I can't log into any E-mail sites or any login sites at all with my name and password. However, if someone else uses their name and password on my computer, they can log in. I've never seen anything like this before. I've tried clearing all my caches, etc. I've never seen anything like this...
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    SATA to IDE adapter: Slow down?

    I have a SATA hard drive, but my mobo doesn't support it. If I got a SATA to IDE adapter, would that slow it down? Would it be better to just get a PCI card with a SATA port? Thanks!
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    Assigning an extension to a group of files

    I unzipped a group of files that for some odd reason didn't have extensions. In order for a program to recognize them, they need to have a certain extension. There are over 700 files, so obviously renaming each one to give them an extension is not something I was planning on doing. Is there...
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    Not detecting hardware

    I just had to replace the hard drive on a Dell Inspiron 610m and after installing XP, none of the internal hardware on the laptop was detected (network card, video card, audio card, etc.). I always thought that the hardware would be automatically detected. It wasn't, so I tried using the dell...
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    Connecting two routers

    I just bought a Linksys wireless router to connect multiple computers/consoles in my room. My whole house has ethernet ports wired through it, so each room has a jack. I believe this is connected through a switch, which goes into a Linksys wired router in my attic. I connected my new router...
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    Digital Camera Christmas Disaster

    Hahahaha, well it turns out that both me and my dad bought my mom a digital camera for Christmas. I bought her a Sony DSC-L1, and he bought her a Canon SD200. Our problem now is which one she should use. Unfortunately, I don't know much about digital imaging, and most of the research I did...
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    Random DLL error causes program crashes out of the blue

    Yesterday I rebooted my computer, and out of the blue, I received two start up errors. Both ccApp.exe and aim.exe said they couldn't start because MSVCR71.DLL was missing. This was completely random, my computer was running fine before. This was completely out of the blue. Now, in addition...
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    Recent random rebooting

    Very recently, my computer started randomly rebooting (not very often at all). The last time this happened, I was installing Icewind Dale II. I am not overclocking anything, and I recently reformatted. System Specs: Intel Pentium IV 2.2 GHz Windows XP SP2 1 gig rdram ATI Radeon 9800...
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    2 Operating Systems after Windows Update?

    Hi, I just reformatted an old laptop to get it starting from scratch again. I installed XP Home on it, and then after I ran through a couple of Windows Updates, whenever I would reboot, it would ask me to make a choice of Operating systems, both of which were "Windows XP Home Edition". This is...
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    Speakers became distorted all of the sudden.

    I have Klipsch 2.1 speakers on a Sound Blaster Audigy Platinum. I have the latest drivers, everything is connected fine, and I make sure the master output level isn't up at full volume. My speakers worked fine until yesterday when their output became more distorted. Some Mp3s are worse than...
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    Can't boot into anything

    I found an old laptop that I want to fix, but am having some trouble. I'm getting the blue screen at bootup that says logon process terminated unexpectedly. I wnat to go ahead and reformat the whole thing, however, it won't boot from a cd even when i set it to. and if i try booting from a...
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    Slow running XP on P4 1.6

    My roommate's laptop is running kind of slow. He has a P4 1.6 GHz processor and a 30 gig hard drive. I've done numerous cleanup utilities, such as ad-aware, ccleaner and ace utilities, cleaned up temp files, etc. I've also defragged it twice. However, it still lags, for example, when you...
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    Extremely slow copying from DVD to hard drive

    Before I reformatted my hard drive, I backed up certain data, such as MP3s and mpegs, etc. on to a few DVDs. Now, when trying to copy back from the DVDs to my HD, it takes forever, sometimes says "50 mins remaining," which was much longer than it took to burn from the HD to the DVD...
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    P2P does not work without a wireless connection

    Hi, I live at a college campus and am connected to their ISP. P2P is completely blocked -- some programs, such as Ares, used to work, but don't anymore. However, I have noticed that people accessing wireless connections in lecture halls with their laptops are able to download off of P2P...
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    Having 2 OSs: is performance affected?

    I was wondering if putting two operating systems on your computer will slow it down at all. For example, I have Windows XP Pro SP2 and was thinking about putting Linux on my computer as well. I play a lot of games; however, and want them to run as smoothly as possible. In fact, I just...