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    Possible to swap MB without OS re-install ?

    Hi all, One of my systems mb bios has gone corrupt and does not post anymore, a gigabyte p35c-ds3r. I'm going to replace it with a ep45-ud3p. The system has vista 64 on it. Is there a way to do this swap without an OS reinstall ? I have a huge amount of data on the system drive and a...
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    PC won't boot/post after extended shutdown ?

    Hi all, On one of my systems that has a gigabyte p35c-ds3r mobo, past few days after being shutdown, when I boot the pc it does not boot or post, no beeps nothing, just spinning fans. If I pull a stick of RAM, the system will then boot and I get a message along the lines of 'reading bios...
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    LG W3000H-BN 30" Monitor, anyone have one ?

    I'm thinking about this monitor. S-IPS 30", looks nice, wondering if anyone has any experience with it. $400 cheaper than the dell 30" model. I currently have one of the older PVA 24" LG monitors and love it, a lot better than the Dell 24". Wondering if this is also on par...
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    Far Cry 2 slow performance on a single 4870

    Hello, I wanted to know if anyone else has experienced this. I've been running Far Cry 2 on two machines, both at 1920x1200. One is using a 4870x2 with a quad core at 3.8ghz the other is on a 4870 512mb with a quad core at 3.6ghz. Both are using vista 64. Both systems are using completely...
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    Anyone else playing Crysis Warhead already ?

    Anyone else playing this yet. On my system (3.6 quad core, 4gb ram, 4870x2) at 1920x1200 all very high under dx10, I average 30fps or so, this is with no AA. In warhead at the same res, same system, everything on 'enthusiast' which is the new max setting.. 20fps. Seems even worse now.. not...
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    Anyone preorder WAR from the EA Store ?

    Hey all. Up here in Canada there are only a couple places you can get the pre-order for war, I believe eb games and future shop. I was considering just ordering it from the EA Store, anyone buy it through them ? Do they just e-mail you your open beta key or what ? Thanks in advance.
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    Diablo 2, has a way been found to run high res yet ?

    Just reinstalled this after not play for years and years :D Has any way been found yet of running D2 in a high res, or is it still stuck at 800x600. It looks terrible stretched to fit my 1920x1200 display, and in a window, is really, really small. Thanks in advance.
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    Age of Conan 5.1 Surround Sound in Vista

    Allo all :) Just finished installing/patching AoC. I'm running vista 64 sp1 and have a sb x-fi xtremegamer sound card. 5.1 surround sound does not seem to be working for me. Whether I set it to 5.1 or system default in my AoC sound settings or not. Anyone have 5.1 working under vista with...
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    Question of 780i MB Owners...

    'Lo all :) I am planning on picking up two of the new high end nvidia cards when they come out next month and going sli for the first time. I haven't used an nv based mb since I had an a64 3500 back in the day. I have no interest in ddr3 so I am going to go with a 780i board and I am...
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    Possible to have 2 expansion cards on an SLI mobo with 2 vid cards ?

    Hi all. I'm planning to go SLI when the new nvidia cards come out. I was wondering if there are any high quality SLI mobos that will allow me to have two video cards as well as my tv tuner and my sound card all plugged into it ? Looks to me like there is no motherboard that will have enough...
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    Does anyone have a SB X-Fi Xtremegamer connected with optical output that outputs dolby/dts over spdif ?

    Hello all :) I am having some headaches as of late with soundcard woes. I recently bought some z5500 speakers and decided to stop using my motherboard's onboard sound and opted to get a creative card as I game a lot for eax 5.0 and it's onboard eax decoding. First I bought this ...
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    Need recommendation on quality 5.1 pc speakers..

    Can anyone recommend me a good set of 5.1 speakers for outputting dolby digital/ex etc from my pc when viewing movies. I realize an actual stereo would be better, but hoping there are a set of pc speakers that have reasonably good sound. I was also under the impression that I don't need an...
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    Recommend a good router that doesn't stall with p2p traffic please..

    Hello all, I currently rent out a home to university students, there are seven people renting there and I have a high speed internet run through the home using a Linksys wrt54gs v5.0 router. Not surprisingly there is a lot of p2p and other such traffic going through the router...
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    So 8800GTS 512 = 9800GTX ?

    I realize this is probably self-evident, but I was considering upgrading the 8800gts512 I have in one of my machines to a 9800gtx. But is the 9800gtx just a renamed 8800gts512 with higher stock clocks ? It looks like that is exactly what it is on paper. So if I were to OC my 8800gts512...
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    XP/Vista on Dual Boot on one drive, want to merge to one partition

    Hello all, I currently have xp and vista set up to dual boot on my hard drive. It is a single physical hard drive split into two partitions. XP was originally installed on the primary partition and then vista was installed on the second logical partition. What I want to do is delete the...
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    Will the multiplier used for my OC make a difference ?

    Hi all, I was wondering if there is any real world performance difference if I were to run my Q6600 at 8x450 or 9x400 for a 3.6 OC. I give this as an example, as I currently am running it at 8x430 for a 3.44 OC. If I were to match my OC with a 9 multiplier rather than a 8, does this...