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    Heard a rumor, want to know to know if it's true

    This one guy recently told me he read about some upcoming Intel technology that would trick older programs that only support one core into supporting all cores of the processor. I asked him to give me a link to what he read or an Intel codename or some such but conveniently he could not find...
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    Is there such thing as a quiet high end computer?

    I'm going to build a powerhouse gamer computer in winter when 45nm intel comes out and I'm wondering if there is such thing as a quiet gamer computer? I will not be overclocking. My goal would be to keep everything as quiet as a 360 during DVD spinning. so is there such thing as a very...
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    Page file being used instead of RAM in Vista?

    I have Vista 32bit with 2 gigs ram and I just noticed that the performance monitor says I'm using 1.7 gigs of the 4.3 gig page file but my physical ram usage is only 1.17 gigs out of 2 gigs. Why is it using my page file instead of physical ram? I'm running photoshop cs3 atm and have the...
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    20 pin power into a 24 pin?

    Guy I know bought a mobo with a 24 pin power connector and a the 4 pin 12V on the side. His 300W PSU has a 20 pin connector along with one 4 pin connector. Is a 24 pin connector required? It's a some cheapo nforce mobo...
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    Which video card/chip is on par with a 9800XT?

    I have an old 9800XT on my desktop. Had it for years, does what I need it to do. I'm looking for a laptop and I'm not familiar with all the new video cards that have come out recently. Which model numbers of video cards are comparable to the performance of a 9800XT 256mb? For example...
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    Buffer Underrun problem

    When burninga dvd in Nero, I'm noticing my drive buffer and my read buffer are dropping very fast. My drive buffer, which drops near instantly, goes from 99% ---1% ----99%----1% and it pauses the laser every time for the buffer underrun protection. The DVDs end up burned fine but it takes...
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    Ground loop electrical interference + lockups

    I am attempting to repair a cheap computer which I normally connect to a small 20" TV via SVideo output for things such as quick web surfing (wireless) and listening to music. When the computer is actually running (or was) there was an apparent ground loop that caused distortion in the picture...
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    Problem with CD Audio "ghosting" using 4 pin cable...

    Hello, I'm having a huge problem with playing cd audio with my 4 pin cd audio cable. I have it going from my cdrom to my hercules game theater XP "cd input." In WMP9, I went into the options menu under devices and changed the drive to playback with analog mode. I prefer analog mode becaues...
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    My Asus K8V powers down my HDD twice?

    Is it normal for my Asus K8V to power up my HDD on boot (WD 40 gig 7200rpm ATA100) , then show the POST screen, then in the promise raid controller detection screen (which is a waste of time because I don't have raid and I even told it IDE-only in the BIOS) it powers down my hdd, then after the...
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    What games support TruForm?

    Which games support truform besides Serious Sam and Madden? I know Morrowind supports it via an unofficial mod, but what else? I've read that if it's enabled for games that don't officially support it, then it warps some models to the point where they don't look accurate...
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    Newegg and Mwave are sold out! Where to go?

    Been trying to pick up an Asus K8V deluxe mobo and a retail A64 3000+ and they've been sold out for 2 weeks now. I'm sick of waiting because newegg's automatic inventory update always says ETA 1/3/04.....then on 1/3/04 it says ETA 1/5/04....then on 1/5/04 it says ETA 1/7/04.... now it says...
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    Who makes the best 9800XT?

    It's Friday, I'm on my 5th beer and I was about to do an impulse buy.... I then realized I should ask which 9800XT you all recommend? I'm not looking at Asus because their website is very rarely updated for the north american market. I have two other asus cards and I hate having to connect to...
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    Gas Station Nvidia tech demo on a Radeon 9800 256meg?

    I couldn't quite figure out where to ask this, but since it has to do with hardware being a tech demo, I thought I'd post it here.... I know there is a wrapper of some sort to run the Dawn demo on Radeon hardware... Just out of curiosity, does anyone know if the gas station nvidia tech demo is...
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    Memory for Asus K8V Deluxe Socket 754?

    I'm upgrading my system to an Athlon64 3000+ with Asus K8V along with a new Radeon 9700 Pro and I need some new RAM. My powersupply is a 430W Enermax whisper. I use a lot of photoshop and play games, so I need 1 gig. The mobo has color coded slots for dual channel so I'm assuming I might as...
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    In need of help: power issues

    I've got work to do for my classes and my comp keeps shutting itself off! Last week I added another 7200rpm hdd to my comp and since then it's having issues. I really want to figure out why it keeps shutting itself off. As I'm typing this it could power down at any second. Whenever I try to...
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    Enermax 431W + Epox 8K7A....bad choice?

    I've heard that there are problems with Epox mobos and enermax PSUs....right now I'm running an enermax 300W PSU with my Epox mobo fine, BUT since I added another hdd it's dying and I need more power. I need power to the following things: 3 7200rpm hdds 1 16x burner 1 16x dvdrom 1 floppy 3...
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    Am I in need of power?

    Right now I'm running 3 7200rmp hdds, one plextor burner, one toshiba dvdrom, an bunch of card, a gf3 with fan, two front intake fans, one rear fan, and a floppy drive all on one 300W enermax PSU. I'm SSSOOO paranoid right now. Should I buy a new higher power PSU? if so, what brand and what...
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    Can I burn stuff and listen to a cd at the same time?

    OK I'm sitting here waiting for someone to respond to my post in the tech support forum and I thought I'd play some guns 'n roses while burning some stuff. Of course I have both my dvd drive and burner on the same ide channel and my audio cuts out when the burning starts and stops. Could this...
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    dma question

    I have a toshiba 16x dvd rom drive and a plextor 16/10/40 burner and was wondering if these drives should be able to transfer any faster than the following modes my bios reports them as: dvdrom shows ata 33 burner shows PIO 4 right now I have dvd as secondary master and burner as secondary...
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    Choppy dvd playback

    Ok I know this is a common issue with users of the game theater XP, but since their driver support and technical support is NON-EXISTANT, here goes: Right now I'm running winxp pro with my gtxp and I'm trying to play any dvd with power dvd 4. My problem is that the audio stutters every so often...
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    How much money could I sell this for?

    celeron 300a @ 464 with glacier fan w/arctic cap 128 meg pc100 abit bh6 asus v3400 tv in/out tnt1 17" shamrock monitor with digital controls cheap keyboard sidewinder 3d pro joystick intellimouse explorer 5.1 gig western digital hard drive cheap case mustek 1200 USB scanner deskjet 855C 56k...
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    What is the best software dvd decoder?

    Currently I'm using powerdvd 3.0 and I'm pretty impressed. I enjoy the 5.1 playback via my GTXP (which is the only thing I like about the GTXP) Is there any other software player that might have even better picture quality? Or maybe I just don't have the settings tuned right. Movies seem to...
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    10 reasons why I hate my hercules GTXP: what should I get?

    The hercules GTXP should be labeled as a concept product rather than retail. Reasons follow: #1 The USB hub is not powered adequately and on some of the ports will not work with anything. #2 The horrible drivers will not remember the user's selected speaker settings #3 There is no subwoofer...
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    Difference between 2pin and 4pin cd audio cable?

    My GTXP has only 4 pin connects.....but the 2pin connector says it's "digital." Should I use a 2pin or a 4pin? So what is the difference?
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    Why is my framerate horrible in 3d aquarium screen saver with my geforce 3?

    I used to have a tnt1 running in a 464 celeron setup and 3d aquarium screen saver used to run fine. Now I have a 1.4 tbird with 512megs of ddr and an asus v8200 geforce 3 and it runs horrible. Of course, I have quincunx FSAA enabled, but would that really make that much of a performance drop...
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    What is up with the ad server all of the sudden? now I can't use my back button!

    Did this just happen lately? I used to use to intellimouse explorer's side "back" button to scroll through posts, and now there are two things in the history of some ad server. This means that I have to press the button THREE times to go back to the top. What gives?
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    Where can I get the Zolar fortune teller geforce 3 thing?

    I've seen all the videos for it, but where can I actually download the program that has zolar so my geforce 3 can be put to the test? BTW, the demo of xisle is amazing.
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    What is all this stuff on the epox cd? (along with other misc ?'s)

    I just got done building my new system (see bottom sig) with an Epox 8K7A. I have a bunch of questions about these specialized drivers that come on the cd, so I'll just list them all here: What do the VIA 4-in-1 drivers do, and should I install them? What is the USB filter driver for? What is...
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    trouble with gigantic HSF and epox 8K7A

    OK, I haven't installed a hsf in a while and I'm a little rusty, but here goes. I just got an Epox 8K7A and a retail 1.4 athlon with a big ass HSF. I read the manual on how to install the hsf just to make sure I don't screw up. This is the kind that has the metal clip (I hate that clip with a...
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    Problem with hard drive installation in a lian-li case

    I got a bunch of parts delivered today for the new computer I'm building. One of these was the great Lian-Li PC60+USB aluminum case. A while back when I read the review of the case I had no idea that the case that I ordered would in fact come with a rack on the bottom that would hold 4 or 5...
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    What is the best power supply for a lian-li PC60?

    (not above 70 dollars and not too loud) Will be running an T-bird 1.4
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    Final opinions about this system

    Ok, after months and months of waiting....I got sick and tired of waiting any longer so here it is: AMD Thunderbird 1.4 GHz (266fsb retail w/hsf).............259 (newegg.com) MSI K7 Master or K7T266-Pro R.................148 (newegg.com) 2 PC2100 256MB...
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    Now that some DDR mobos are discontinued, what should I get?

    I really want to wait for an nforce, but I just can't handle waiting the entire summer and having to put up with my ancient setup right now. A while back I heard that Asus discontinued their A7M266 and some other DDR boards were discontinued. I am going to be building a setup with a 1.4...
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    URGENT: problem with "official" detonator installation

    I just downloaded the new "official" detonators (the self-extracting flavor) and it gave me an error during the install. I was all happy that it had native 3d stereoscopic support for my ancient 3d glasses. THEN, it said something like,"PCI ID not found, discontinuing...
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    Asus P4T lan support?

    I read on the asus page about some "optional" lan support on the P4T. I clicked the link and it sent me to some page about the intel chipset.....I'm confused. What do they mean, "optional," and where do i go to get one of these things (is it an addin card, a cable that has...
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    case/power supply suggestions for a DDR mobo?

    I've seen some nice lookin cases lately, but I'm wondering which case would be adequate for ocing and would look nice at the same time. I prefer mid tower, but am open to any suggestions. Also, I need some ideas about which AMD certified power supply to go with.
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    Are these headphones good?

    I have the Optimus PRO 40 Will someone take a look at the specs and tell me if they are quality headphones? How would they compare with a more expensive set of headphones, like sennheiser?
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    Power button override problem

    I have an enlight 230w mid-tower case and an abit BH6 and I'm having problems with the power button. I'm trying to get it so that when I press the power button, I won't have to hold it down for 5 seconds before the computer shuts off. Also, when I do hold it down, it shuts off, and when I let...