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    Gigabyte EP45-DS3L vs Asus P5QL-E

    My motherboard just died and I am trying to figure out what motherboard to replace it with. I will be running an e7200, and will probably not be doing much overclocking. At the moment I'm looking primarily at the Gigabyte EP45-DS3L and the Asus P5QL-E. Overall I've heard more positive info...
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    Rep. McKinney files bill to impeach Bush

    Searched and didn't find any other topics on this, so here it is. According to the Guerrilla news network and CNN Rep. McKinney has introduced a bill seekeing the impeachment of Bush. I'm not entirely sure what she's trying to accomplish with this, given that the dems don't have control...
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    Xtreme-G 84.56 Drivers out

    Avalible here I downloaded the Xtreme-G 84.56 drivers earlier today and decided to do a comparison between these and the official nVidia 84.21 drivers: Counter Strike: Source 1280x1024, 8xAA, 16xAF, everything maxed 84.21..........84.56XG 102.04fps....101.02fps F.E.A.R. 1152x864...
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    Shrouding Scythe Ninja?

    About a month ago a put together the system in my sig, and i've been playing with tiny tweaks inside the case to try and get the best possible cooling of of the ninja. One thing that i've noticed is that when i pull the side of the case off while the system is running if i put my hand above...
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    Rivatuner Fanspeed controls not working

    Ok, i have an EVGA 7800gt CO (516) card, and i got tired of the fan noise on the card, so i decided to use rivatuner to change the fan speed. Stock settings are to run the card at 43% fan speed across the board, but i decided to go with 33% for 2d, 43% for low lvl 3d, and 50% for high lvl 3d...
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    CPU voltage problems and OC issues

    I'm having some problems with getting my X2 3800+ to overclock. I'm going for a 2.4 GHz overclock (240x10 with a 9/10 mem divider). When I OC to those settings and run Prime 95 core 2 crashes after only about a minuite at stock voltage, voltage +4%, and voltage + 10%. According to SpeedFan...
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    Building a new comp

    Newegg Wish List Ok, i'm building a new comp, and i wanted to see if anybody has any opinions/reccomendations for different parts. Before anybody says i don't have a PSU in the list, i know that, i'm pulling the OCZ powerstream 520 out of my old comp and putting it in this one. I'm...
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    Proc temp high, what's wrong?

    Ok, here's my problem, i've got a newcastle 3400+ with an XP-90 and a panaflow L1B on it. No matter what i can't get my temps down, idle fluctuates between 39 and 45 depending on room temp (which doesn't fluctuate nearly that much, it's generally around 25-27c. When i start up the prime 95...
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    6800 Ultra bios question

    Ok, i've got an EVGA 6800 Ultra (agp) that i got when the 6 series first came out. My current bios version is 5.40.02.03.00, my question is if there is a more recent bios version that will improve performance. I can't seem to find anything out there on more recent bios flashes, but i'm...
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    Intel Vs AMD CPU, not allowed to compare?

    Ok, recently one of my friends began telling me that Pentium 4 and Pentium D procs are slaughtering AMD procs, and even said that the PD EE is literally unbeatable by anything AMD offers. When i reminded him that even the 3800+ X2 beats the high end PD in most cases, and that for raw...
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    Fan for XP-90

    Wel, i'm gonna order an XP-90 tomorrow, and i'm wondering how much more cooling i can get with a panaflo m1a vs an L1a, i ask because i have been able to find the 92mm L1a with RPM monitoring but not the M1a, and i'd like to know if the extra cooling is worth it, given that i will be throttling...
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    Where to get shin etsu

    Ok, pretty much what it says in the topic, i'm going to be getting an xp90 soon and i want to use shin etsu thermal grease, but i'm not sure what specific formula to get, or where to get it. So pretty much, what should i get, and where should i get it?
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    Stability problems with X800

    One of my friens just built a computer and for his graphics card he chose a MSI X800 PCI-E with 256 meg Vram. All of the componets showed up today, and now he can't get the videocard to stay stable in any game. We have installed several different versions of the ATI driver, but no matter what...
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    Anti Static Bag and motherboard RMA

    Ok, so here's my situation: i need to RMA my mobo because the on board USB headers and the Lan port recently died, my problem is that i have all of the original packaging except for the ASB, because that had to be used to ship another mobo. My question is this: is it safe to put the board in...
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    File system corrupted

    Ok, here's the situation: last night i set my computer to hibernate instead of shutting it down, when i came back this morning my network connection suddenly stopped working, so i rebooted, only to have very weird behaviors during the boot process (taking faaaaaar longer than normal to load...
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    Hard drive problems

    Ok, here's my situation, i think one of my hard drives is going bad, and it's screwing my RAID array up (RAID 0). is there some sort of utility that will allow me to test each individual hard drive once i'm back in standard single hard drive config and see which one is bad so i can replace just...
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    CPU vs Case temp

    Recently i noticed something very interesting when using MBM to check my CPU and case temp during a long video render. Here is a screenshot of the MBM dashboard about an hour into a 5 hour video render. 50c CPU and 45c case, makes sense right? This is where things get weird: Here is a...