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    Cheap, quiet HTPC CPU heatsink/fan

    A friend of mine is building and HTPC and asked me to look over his planned build: GIGABYTE GA-MA785G-UD3H ATX AMD Motherboard http://www.newegg.ca/Product/P...x?item=N82E16813128395 AMD Athlon II X2 240 2.8GHz Socket AM3 65W Dual-Core Processor...
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    How to Send Audio to HDMI on Radeon 2100

    So, I have an AMD-based motherboard, the GA-MA47GM-G2, which has a built in Radeon HD 2100. I have ATI's DVI to HDMI adapter and have a TV connected to the computer via that adapter, and the video displays with no problems, however I cannot find a way to trasmit the audio. Normally (on my...
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    Guide to Installing Tomato or DD-WRT

    I bought the Trendnet TEW-432BRP router about two and a half years ago. Initially the wireless was extremely flaky, as was its ability to maintain internet connectivity. After I flashed it with the newest firmware (official, at the time), most of my problems went away. it would occasionally lose...
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    Need cheap LGA775 ATX Mobo with IDE connectors

    The motherboard on my PIII died after 9 years of valiant service and I'm looking to redo the computer. Since I already have the optical drive and two HDD's (all three are IDE/PATA), the board needs to be able to be able to support at least 3 IDE drives. As well, the case from the PIII is ATX...
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    Soyo Motherboard Bios Flash

    I'm having a problem with an old system: it's a Slot 1 Pentium III 550 MHz with a Soyo SY-6VBA133. I was recently reinstalling Windows when there was a fairly loud click, the system reset and failed to load properly. Now it gives the error message And then some crap about not detecting a...
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    Radeon HD4850 Underclock

    I recently bought an HD4850 and am very happy with my purchase: the one problem I have though is that it runs pretty hot and its fan is pretty loud (although I expected it). I've underclocked the GPU clock to 500 MHz and memory to 750 MHz using Catalyst Control Center's Overdrive whenever I'm...
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    Radeon 4850 by Manufacturer

    I'm considering buying this card http://www.esng.ca/productDeta...734200034237&isid=7988 and I wanna know how it compares with the other 4850s. Most importantly, how's the cooling?
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    Budget 775 Mobo w/ Integrated graphics

    I'm building a 400$ PC, so I don't care much about performance - I'm gonna pop an e2180 in there with 2 gig ram if you need to know. I don't have much experience with mobos with integrated graphics, but anything that runs Vista Aero is fine. Integrated audio is also a must. As cheap as possible...
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    RAM frequency vs FSB

    I've got a Core 2 Duo e6600 on stock cooling (so I don't want to overclock much), but I've got it perfectly stable with 52 degree celsius load temperature, with the FSB at 300 mhz (not the original 267). My RAM is Kingston ValueRAM - it's DDR2-667 with 5-5-5-12 latencies. I've got a...