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    Gigabyte EX58-Extreme strange noise

    I have a Gigabyte EX58-Extreme mobo with a intel i7 920. I'll list the rest of my specs later if they prove to be relevant. Anyway, a couple of days ago I started to notice a "squeaking" noise coming from the machine. Kinda like the sound you get from cheap laptop PSU's when they are stressed...
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    High i7 temps for stock clocks?

    I recently went ahead and purchased an i7 920 and a Gigabyte EX58-Extreme mobo. I've pretty much just put it together and have not had much time to play with it yet but what I have done is run some Prime95 to check CPU temps. At everything stock, no OC and stock fan, my cpu idles at about 40C...
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    Faster router caused slower transfers! Help please.

    I recently purchased a NAS for file storage and media streaming. It had been reviewed to reach average network transfer speeds of 25MB/s. However, I have a Gigabit LAN port on my mobo, but it was hooked up to my old D-Link DI-643M (or some such) which only had a 100Mbit max LAN transfer speed. I...
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    PSU for Core i7, 580W enough?

    I just ordered a new system online consisting of: Gigabyte GA-EX58 Extreme Corsair TWIN3X DDR3-1333 4096 MB (2 x 2048 MB) Gigabyte Radeon HD 4870 Intel Core i7 920 I didn't order a PSU yet cause I was kinda hoping that my old one would still be up to the task. The one I currently have...
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    Make the leap to i7?

    I need some upgrade advice. I'm currently on a rather aging system and has got myself a laptop that beats the shit out of my desktop sporting a 8800m GTX. My desktop however is as following: AMD x2 3800+ cpu @stock (whatever that is) ASUS A8N-E mobo 4x512 mb DDR ram Nvidia 7800 GT 256mb...
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    [FIXED]Why are my codecs working?!?

    EDIT: Nevermind, app settings that were messing with my setup. All fixed now. ---------- Yup, you read that title correctly. I want to know why I'm still able to perfectly fine play back ANY media file on my system when I've spent the last couple of hours trying to uninstall anything even...