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    10c Difference Between Two 6850s

    I have a HIS 6850 and a XFX 6850. Under load, no overclocking at 24c ambient temperature the XFX hits 72c but the HIS hits 82c. I've tried swapping the pci-e slots and aiming a case fan at the HIS card which didn't really help the temperature. For this reason I believe it's either: (a) a less...
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    6850 CrossFire Running HOT

    I installed two Radeon HD 6850 graphics cards in an Antec Super Lanboy case. The case has two 120mm Yate Loon fans: One at the front in the bottom directing cool air in and one at the back near the cpu directing hot air out. Running stock (no overclocking) at 24C ambient temperature the top...
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    Remove plastic shroud from 6850

    I just acquired a Radeon HD 6850 video card and I noticed it extends over my SATA ports. I looked inside the plastic shroud and the whole area that's covering the SATA ports is empty. Is it OK to remove the black plastic casing around the card? Will it affect cooling? Would it void my warranty...
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    Two ATI cards in SLI Motherboard

    Is it possible to use ATI video cards in both PCI-E slots of an SLI motherboard? Obviously not with CrossFire, just for multiple displays.
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    Raid Card Recommendation

    ASUS A8N-SLI Premium Motherboard http://www.asus.com/products.a...&model=539&modelmenu=1 SATA 3GB/s PCI Express x16 slot available! I'm thinking about filling the machine with four 1.0 TB or 1.5 TB drives and a raid card. I might run windows, linux or freeNAS as an operating system so...
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    Network Attached Storage (NAS)

    I'm looking for about 1TB of data that I can access on the go. Its important that I am able to get to it from outside my LAN...
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    FreeBSD - Which distro for Q6600?

    I was reading a thread that actually recommended the amd64 distro for an Intel Q6600. I'm a little confused- can someone explain which distro is right for me? Thanks! http://www.freebsd.org/where.html
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    HDD Problems - Can't get windows to install!

    I have a 150GB Raptor drive that is fairly new and in great condition. SMART is looking good. Its absolutely not a mechanical error or a physical problem because I've had this exact problem before and can't remember how I fixed it for the life of me. The drive gets reformatted between HFS+...
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    Terabyte Sata Storage - Is Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000 the way to go?

    Is the Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000 the way to go for terabyte storage? Fast is important to me- I have two raptor-x drives currently. More importantly, because it is my storage drive I'd like it to be stable. Is this the way to go? How much have they been selling for on sale recently? What are my...
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    Online/Remote Data Backup

    Currently, I have an external hard drive that I backup and put in a fireproof/waterproof safe. I'm thinking about paying to have it backed up off site... any recommendations? I'd probably die if I lost all my code, pictures, etc...
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    LCD TV -versus- LCD Monitor

    Besides the TV tuner is there any real difference between LCD monitors and LCD televisions?
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    Cable Card - Encrypted HD Singals Over Cable

    I really want to build a home theather PC. I have comcast and I get a lot of channels in the 800 range that are HD. Mostly network stations, discovery channel, etc. However, I'm not sure which of the stations are encrypted and which are not. If I can't record in HD, I don't see the point. I...
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    Corsair 520 HX Enough?

    Overclocked Q6600 to 4GHz Geforce 7950 GT 2x Raptor-X 1x 400 GB HDD Water cooling pump 5x 120mm Fans a few pci cards ... More
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    ASUS P5K Premium

    See Picture The copper on the right hand side of this picture (to the right of the cpu socket) I can wiggle up and down pretty substantially. Is this normal? The other copper (heatpipe cooling) on the board is extremely firm and won't budge at all. Thanks
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    A Few Questions - ASUS P5K Premium

    According to the sticky you're supposed to disable "spread spectrum." I see options for PCIe and CPU spread spectrum. Should I disable both? On the FSB, I can see it but it won't let me push enter to change it. What is going on? I can't find the PCI Clock Synchronization setting... where...
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    New Power Supply

    I'm looking for a new power supply to replace my OCZ 600W SLI. I love my PSU, it runs rock stable even when I scrutinize it with a multimeter. The fan is pretty loud and the wires are ugly. Stable It has to be very stable. I'll be overclocking a bunch and I'd like to minimize ripples...
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    Wanted: "Broken Stones" Invitation

    Does anyone have a Broken Stones invite they could send via PM? So many thanks in advance!
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    [DELETE]

    Please delete this post! Anyone have this ram? I ordered the 2x2GB set and am hoping to run it at DDR 888. Thanks! Canceled my order. Heard too many bad things about this memoryh.
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    Network Speed Problem

    So if I take the same computer and I hook it up wired to my new Verizon FIOS service I get a 15 Megabit connection according to the speakeasy bandwidth test. If I unplug the wired connection and connect with a wireless card (right next to the unit!) and make a strong 54 megabit wireless...
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    Data Transfer Rate (And problem!)

    Copy from one Western Digital 4000YR (eSata) to 2x 150gb Raptor (Sata, Raid 0). I'm getting like 6-11MB/sec. Does this sound right? IMPORTANT Weird... It transfers for like 10 minutes then it says out of memory. The partition it is tranfering to is 35/240 GB at the moment. According...
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    My Two Problems w/ Vista

    Ok. So I've recently setup vista ultimate 32bit. I have two problems. #1) My external hard drive supports eSata. On windows XP I could turn my hard drive on after booting and it would detect it and work fine. On vista, I need to go to device manager and select "Scan for hardware changes."...
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    Ridiculous Vista Error

    I just activated the guest account. I went to log on for the first time and it said please wait while it sets up the desktop. After a few minutes of waiting I hit CTRL+ALT+DEL to bring up the taskmanager and I saw like 50 windows open that say: "Windows cannot open this file." Select a...
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    Raid Questions (1-Different HDDs 2-Which Controller)

    Don't reply about the effectiveness of raid 0 please! (1) I'd like to stripe a 150gb raptor I purchased when they originally came out with a 150gb raptor-x. The raptor-x is brand new. When I looked at the numbers, one is R0 and one is R1. I'm assuming this stands for revision. I hope this...
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    *STRANGE* Hardware Boot Problem

    Ok, so I've tested this problem with both vista and XP. What happens is, the computer gets to the black screen with the loading bar and freezes after 2 seconds. Sometimes it will flash the BSOD and reboot. Strange enough, if I reset the CMOS it will boot one time. When I selected restart in...
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    Topic Moved (Old title: Still not fixed, vista problem.)

    So I've been reformatting and installing everything from scratch today. Hours among hours have been flying by while I set everything up. I powered the computer off and installed the soundcard and the tv capture card, as well as plug in two additional fans. Now, when I turn my computer on I get...
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    Operating System Not Working

    I backed up my operating system with arconis true image. I bought another hard drive and configured them in a raid 0 array. Then I restored the image to the new array. It boots up and gets to about 2-3 seconds in to the windows loading before crashing. I'm guessing its because it doesn't know...
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    Raid Problems

    I just purchased a second identical hard drive and I'm trying to install windows on a raid 0 array. In my bios I've enabled raid and selected the two sata ports with the drives I'd like to configure. Then, I rebooted and entered the raid options and set the two drives to striping. When I boot...
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    PP&C -vs- Seasonic

    If you want a bad ass 1000w extreme psu.
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    PSU - Loose Connection

    I've been jump starting my PSU to test my water cooling pump. Now that its working fine, I installed the rest of my components. When I tried to power on my pc nothing was happening. I narrowed it down to when I push on the motherboard power connection it would power up.... and shut down as soon...
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    Lian Li Mesh -vs- Dust Filter

    What is the function of the mesh over the lian li fan? The only thing I can think of is as a poor dust filter. I'd like to setup the fans in my system as filtered positive pressure. (The primary cooling will be liquid.) Throw this mesh out and install a real dust filter?
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    Lian Li: I don't get it...

    I can't figure out why people obsess over these plain, boring cases.
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    Help me pick out an unneccesary air cooling case

    http://www.xclio.com/htm/products.htm I like this XClio stuff... the wind tunnel is cool, but are those fans in the right spot? The A380 is really sharp too. I want to get one of these excessive cooling cases and set it up to be positive pressure and somehow filter the fans. If you can...
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    Which of these graphics cards is faster?

    I RMA'd an evga 7900 GT CO (500 / 1500) and I recieved a evga 7950 GT (550 / 1400). Should I be happy or upset?
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    Wanting to switch cases....

    Ok, so I want to switch to a xclio windtunnel or an antec 900. Design aside, which do you think will be quieter and which do you think will have better performance? One of my biggest things here is dust. I need to make sure there won't be much dust. What will I need and how should I set it up...
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    EFS Problem - Panic!

    So I encrypted my storage. I went through all the measures to protect myself. I have .CER and .PFX files. Once I had everything all set exactly how I wanted it, I used arconis true image to backup my operating system. I believe since then I've restored my operating system using the image...
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    Computer Running Hot

    I'm currently using the NZXT Lexa Classic case http://www.nzxt.com/products/lexa/ and I've got a bunch of fans that just aren't cutting it even though I have it neatly arranged for good airflow. I'd really like to run a positive pressure cooling system to keep the dust out. What are you thoughts...
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    Best Website Downloader?

    The best, most complete website downloading software? Money is no object, just want the best.
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    Fan Configuration, Best Fans and Dust Filters...

    I have my door fan pointing in.... pulling cool air into my case with my big typhoon fan (just an inch away) pushing air in the same direction. On the top and back I have exhaust fans clearing the hot air. Does this sound like a pretty good configuration? Ok, so I'm playing my game and all of...