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    SATA RAID on the ASUS P5N32-SLI SE

    I built my machine last night, and had been planning to put two 250Gb Western Digital SATA HDDs in a RAID 0 configuration inside. I think I had assumed that there would be two SATA Raid connectors on the motherboard, and I'd just have to plug one drive into each. Unfortunately, I found...
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    Initial XP install instability...

    So, last night I built my first totally from scratch PC. Now, in the past I've replaced motherboards, power supplies, drives, cards, etc - but never all at once. For reference, here are the important parts in the machine: # Intel® Core 2 Duo E6600 Conroe Processor 2.4GHz, 1066FSB, LGA775...
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    Preemptive Technical Support

    I just ordered all of the parts for my new desktop. While I did my homework and am reasonably confident that the parts I'm using should play nice together, I haven't built a desktop in a few years, and I'd like to just shove the list of parts up here to make sure that the machine will...
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    XPS Gen 2 - Shipped!

    Ship date was supposedly going to be April 12th for me, but I got a shipping confirmation on Saturday, and UPS says mine is currently in Nashville, TN en route to NYC. Can't wait to get my hands on this thing! Wasn'texpecting it two and a half weeks early, but I'm sure not complaining!
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    Looking for small-ish gaming laptop - Need suggestions

    I'm in the market for a gaming laptop, as my new job has me travelling an awful lot, and I can't use my work-supplied laptop for gaming. Unfortunately, the vast majority of gaming laptops are 17" DTR monsters, which is larger than I want (I'd like to be able to use it in an airplane without...