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    New Build

    1. What YOUR PC will be used for. That means what types of tasks you'll be performing. Gaming only. Mainly World of Warcraft & hopefully Warhammer Online when it is released. 2. What YOUR budget is. A price range is acceptable as long as it's not more than a 20% spread $400-$500 USD...
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    BSODs galore...

    Any ideas would be appreciated, thought I'd check with the experts before I call it a day.
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    Underclock on 6800GT

    Doing some testing to try to find what's been causing instability in my system [see my thread], so I did a modest underclock on my 6800GT. Dropped it down to 335 Core / 800 Memory. Before I did this, the card was idling at about 45C CPU / 35C Ambient, now it's idling at 66C CPU / 47C Ambient...
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    Strange crashing error...

    Been having this problem for about a month now. Out of nowhere, the screen will go blank, my monitor power light begins to blink as if the computer had been turned off, then the sound locks up. Only way to get out of this is to do a hard power-down of the PC, then start back up. Seemingly...
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    Very high quality CRT?

    Welp, my five year old Samsung SyncMaster is really starting to show its age. As such, I'm now in the market for a new CRT [have a number of reasons for preferring CRT over LCD, not trying to start a debate over that here]. Curious what some of the highest quality CRTs in the 19" size would...
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    OMG, stubborn PCI slot!

    Trying to replace a SB Audigy2 Value w/ a SB Audigy2 ZS... the Audigy2 Value has been in the slot for two weeks, and it's quite warm in my apartment. I am completely unable to pull this card from the slot... almost bloodied my finger trying to pry it out. Tried gently rocking it in the slot...
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    Strange corruption error?

    I'm a total newbie to the CPU overclocking, but thought I'd give it a go anyway. Was shooting for a very conservative OC, just 100mhz over the 2400mhz stock on the chip. Anyway... anytime I attempt to reboot after making the appropriate changes in bios, I get an error telling me that...
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    1T, 2T... difference?

    New to the realm of overclocking and definitely to the world of memory timings. Just curious what the difference is between running at 1T or 2T. I run an Asus board [see sig] w/ 1008 bios and I noticed my memory was set to 2T. It was my impression running at 1T was optimal, so just curious if...
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    OCing BFG 6800GT?

    Welp, brand new system, so I'm attempting an OC on the already minorly OC'd BFG 6800GT. The GPU idles anywhere from 52-55C, and ambient at idle is 36-40C, which I think is well within normal range. When it's being pushed, it hops up anywhere from 5-10C, depending on the temp in my apartment...
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    Newb putting together a new rig...

    Well it's been too long since I've put together a new machine [3 years actually, ouch], so I figured it was about time. As it's been so long, I've allowed myself to pretty much drop out of the loop as far as the details of the newest cpus, etc. So I figured you guys would be able to give me...