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    Issues with folding & my gpu

    Hello fellow folders! Just recently (as in Saturday) my computer began having issues with Folding@home and my HD5850. It is failing to do any work units giving me this error: 17:21:25:WARNING:WU00:FS00:FahCore returned: UNSTABLE_MACHINE (122 = 0x7a) 17:21:26:WARNING:WU00:FS00:Server did...
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    Worklog: Water Cooling with a Vengeance

    Took the feedback I received from a previous thread regarding parts, made my purchases, and have just now started putting things together! (with a few minor setbacks…) I figured I would record a build log of my first go at water cooling and give my impressions of the parts as I went along for...
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    Thoughts and Comments on my first water cooling setup

    Hey there everyone. I had a thread a while ago regarding the Define R3 and water cooling, and have since decided to go with a different case. My current thoughts are going between the Corsair Vengeance (white/black version) and the CM 690 II Advanced. They have very similar internal layouts with...
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    Fractal Design R3 + H100?

    Whole system is: Case: Fractal Design R3 Mobo: Asus P8Z68 V Pro CPU: 2600K @ 4.523 and 1.315v RAM: 16 GB of 1600 Corsair Vengeance Current Heatsink: 212+ (push/pull config) Graphics: SLI 560ti's SSD: Crucial M4 Anyone think this would fit or have experience with this combination...
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    Chipset fan dying on my DFI nF4 SLI DR

    Fan will only spin at 150 RPM no matter what I set the speeds to. Making quite a lot of noise too. Anyone have any suggestions for a good replacement? It has to be a low profile since my graphics card sticks out over the center of the cooler.
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    Drivers for the 7900GT

    I can't really remember the driver version I was using before but I just recently updated to the 93.71 drivers. With my old drivers I was able to play a game on one of my two monitors and watch tv on the other. With the new drivers I can no longer do this :(. I've done the uninstall (in safe...
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    Sound Card help

    I'm having trouble figuring out what sound card to get to connect to this Reciever. Not looking to spend much. Around $50. Anyone have any suggestions?
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    Anyone know what could be causing this?

    Here's a screen shot of what's going on. It just started about a week ago. I thought it was just a problem with the game but it does this in more then just one game. Could it be drivers? I'm using the 91.47 nvidia drivers. Rest of the system is in my sig. I sure hope my gfx card isn't dying...
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    Very sad news....

    Got out of work today and called home to ask if my parents needed me to pick up my little bro at football practice.... My dad told me that my brothers best friend from middle school OD'd on heroin sometime today... I don't know what to say... I feel absolutly horrible for his family and for my...
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    My school is screwing me over!

    So here's the story. Last fall I was on co-op and the school charged my account for housing for the time I was not there. I get back in the winter and email housing asking if I could have the charge removed because I was not there the entire fall. They said I could have a refund if I could...
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    My department is evil!

    Today is my b-day. My department set up a Beta meeting and had me do all this stuff for our eDrawings product. About half way through this meeting a giant skunk runs in with a bunch of ballons and starts singing happy b-day with a french accent and does a few show tunes and bolts out of the...
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    New 7800GTX dead?

    So I was playing a few games today without a problem. I stop playing and hop onto the internet for some forum brousing. I then notice these green dots appearing all over my monitor. Then it starts to lock up on me. So I restart and in the bios screen I see this video tearing all over the place...
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    Work blocked ATOT....

    :|:(
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    DFI nF4 Ultra - D

    This board only has 2 standard PCI slots on it. I have 3 PCI devices I need to use (Wireless card, tv tuner card, and sound card) Is it possible to use the second PCIe slot for my sound card or other devices?
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    Which PSU to get

    So I've been looking into these PSU's Antec Truepower II 550W SeaSonic S12 600W After rebates the Antec is about $50 cheeper.. I can't decide which would be better. I am going to be getting a DFI SLI-DR mobo, 2 7800GT's, and a X2 3800+ eventually.... everything else in the rig below...
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    Video playback skipping.

    I'm trying to watch some .mkv files on my computer using VLC media player but the video playback keeps pausing. There isn't anything wrong with hte files because my laptop can play them no trouble. Anyone have any idea what could be causing this to keep pausing?
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    Dead 6600GT?

    For some reason now my 6600GT refuses to play any type of 3D application (Benchmarks or games). It will start the application and will run for a few seconds but then the video feed stops and the computer freezes and I have to reboot. I tried reinstalling windows and all that with fresh clean...
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    :confused;

    I just got a tech support question from a guy asking if he could ask a question...... :confused:
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    Another Joke

    A man came home from work, sat down in his favorite chair, turned on the TV, and said to his wife "Quick, bring me a beer before it starts". She looked a little puzzled, but brought him a beer. When he finished it, he said, "Quick, bring me another beer. It's gonna start."...
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    Joke

    As a woman passed her daughter's closed bedroom door, she heard a strange buzzing noise coming from within. Opening the door, she observed her daughter giving herself a real workout with a vibrator. Shocked, she asked, "What in the world are you doing?" The daughter replied, "Mom, I'm...
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    Fans, Fan Controller, and chipset hs

    I'm looking to replace the stock fans in my Lian Li V COOL PC-V1000APLUS The stock fans just aren't pushing enough air to keep my stuff cool. Any sugestions as to some good 120mm fans (3 total) with good CFM/dba ratio (higher CFM prefered) and a fan controller for them (silver prefered)...
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    PSU holding back OC?

    I have one of these PSU's I can get 2.3 to boot but it's not stable at all. I can only get to 2.25 to be somewhat prime stable (about 6 hours). I have to run a divider on my ram to keep it around 200 FSB or I get BSOD whenever doing anything intense (like games).
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    Safe to buy here and should I get this case?

    XPCGear.com is the place and this is the case: Lian-Li PC-7BPlus Windowed Aluminum ATX Mid Tower Case with Clear Side
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    YAC(case)T Need some suggestions

    I have $150-$175 that I can spend. I want a case that has at least 2 120mm fans, can hold 3 hard drives, and has good airflow. The list of stuff I have is in my sig. I would like for the hard drive bay to look similar to the one on this case here Thermaltake SHARK. I was thinking of getting that...
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    Sound Card?

    So I have the Logitech THX Z-5300's and I tried playing a little Prodigy (Smack my bitch up) and when I went to crank it up all the way (full base and volume) I had like poping sounds about 3 lights from max volume. There are 7 lights and about 4 clicks turns on another light. Now would this be...
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    ugh Idiot

    I just had a guy email me asking me how to uninstall a program... This guy is an engineer.. scarry
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    Beer - o - clock

    ROX! Nothing better then free beer at work on a friday afternoon.
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    RAM question

    I need more ram for BF2 but I have a DFI nF3 250 board w/ only 3 slots for ram. I currently have 2 sticks of OCZ EL Platinum Revision 2 (2X512). I would like to get some more of the same stuff because it rocks but it only comes in 2X512 packages and one stick would go unused untill I upgrade to...
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    Windows boot error

    Alright here's the deal. I start my computer up and I get this error message right after the bios boots up and right before windows loads that says there is a corrupt or mising Windows system file and that I need to insert the windows cd to do a repair. But when I do so the option to repair that...
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    BF2 refusing to intall on my PC

    So I go to install this game and I keep getting error messages saying there are files missing as it's trying to install. I went and returned the game and got another copy. Same thing happened. So I reset my bios to get everything back to stock speeds made sure my optical drive is working by...