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    Win7x64 hp boot BSOD

    Any insights welcome. EDIT fix found see below. I have a 100% boot BSOD since yesterday EDIT after windows 7 update. red herring when an awkward Alt F4 moment quitting a game (I had to talk to my Mom on the phone and felt the sound effects would seem discourteous) caused aero to stop...
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    which SSD with ICH9R X38 ?

    Need help, want a single SSD to instal Win7 64 and currently run XP32 on a raid 0 of two Hitachi T7K sata spindles via ICH9R. Must keep XP32 running, has many games on it and want to keep raid 0 intact as that is good for XP without TRIM. Hoping for a dual boot system. Googling found...
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    Moral dilemma over CPU QX9650 price

    Just thinking out loud, about the QX9650 CPU which is priced about £650 in the UK, that is about US $1260. Meanwhile the Q9450 due in 4 weeks weighs in about £220 or $430. Its no good me coming here and asking you if I should get the 9650, that has to be a personal decision depending on how...
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    Acer V Toshiba ? choice for Xmas pressy

    folks, I got to tell my dad what to get my ma for Christmas, if I screw up there will be no Christmas pudding for me!! jk I am favouring two laptops from ebuyer with WinXP pro, Acer Travel Mate 5720 compared with Toshiba Satellite Pro A100-00S questions, if you can help me find the...
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    Upgrade decision AM2 CPU board or C2D build ?

    I know its no good asking other people to make your decisions for you but I would be interested to hear comments people have to make about the upgrade choice I have to make. I have a SanDiego 3700 box running on a ASRock Dual SATAII with 1024 DDR, X850XTpe AGP, 2xHitachi T7K250s RAID0...
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    Why dont large HDDs stripe the platters for parallel r/w ?

    As far as I know the large discs have the same IO speeds as the entry level. Yet none of them provide data fast enough to fill up ATA100 bandwidth, let alone SATA2. I was hoping someone could explain to me why it is that the large multiplatter HDD do not read and write faster than single...
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    buy in haste, repent at leisure, how to upgrade from this situation ?

    I saw an X850XTPE AGP on sale and bought it without thinking too hard about anything except how it was twice the pipes and clock of my 9700. When I went to fit it, i found my 3yr old Epox8RDA+ (nF2) capacitors were oozing and it was time to change the mobo as well. ... but i have a brand...
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    Terratec Aureon sound cards ?

    Are they better than Audigy2zs ? Currently I am exercised about my audio upgrade options because I have SoundStorm APU (Epox 8RDA+) running Logitech Z5500 via SPDIF and the only way forwards from here is downhill. By which I mean, if I want to move to 64bit I have to contend with systems...