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    Replacing an MSI HD4850. What card will match or outperform?

    The fan on my MSI HD4850 is going. Is there an easy after-market fan solution that I can turn to? I’ve built, but never overclocked a system before so non-stock fans are something new to me. I’m assuming that many modern cards will match or outperform this seven-year-old card. But with the...
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    Jumper-like caps connecting case LEDs/switches to motherboard

    Would someone help me out with the name of this part? I have an older case with a two-wire power LED heading into a 3-pin jumper-like doohickey that plugs into the motherboard?s ?10-1 pin F_Panel? (along with HDD light, switches, etc.). The problem is the pin block on the board doesn?t have room...
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    Replacing Motherboard ? need new thermal compound?

    This is probably a very simple question, but I?ve never been in this situation before and don?t want to overlook something so basic. After cobbling together a handful of new bits, there was a hardware fault in the motherboard. I pulled the CPU (E2180) and the cooling fan (stock), and they?re...
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    Building a Linux fileserver ? hardware suggestions?

    I?ve built higher-end gaming/productivity machines before (about as high as possible without getting into OCing, hence ?higher-end?, not ?high-end?) and some modest home desktops, but never a dedicated file server and never for Linux. I?m also a complete Linux noob, so am very much out of my...
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    Yet another recommend-a-card thread

    Well, thanks to the wonderful help, advice, and information I?ve received here, I?m proudly staring at a Dell 2408WFP, and I?d like to upgrade the video card. Budget: Somewhere around $200. I can go up to about $250 or so, if it?ll make a substantial difference. Existing hardware: An Asus...
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    Two 7800 GTXs in SLI or a single $200 graphics card?

    I?m eagerly awaiting a new Dell Ultrasharp 2408WFP (thanks xtknight!) and am wondering about my video card. Will my single Evga 7800 GTX have an easy time driving, say, HL2 or Bioshock in the display?s native 1920 x 1200 resolution? It does fine now on a CRT at 1024 x 768 with all video...
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    Customized remote backup

    I hope this is the right forum for this?not sure if it should have gone in Programming or here. Please accept my apology if this is in the wrong place. There are two home offices, located on opposite sides of the country. One has a network attached storage device, the other has a regular...
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    GPU/SmeePU?which brand?

    First off, please accept my apologies for starting another one of those "which X should I buy" threads. (Egad... to make matters worse, I also dropped a similar thread in the Motherboard forum. Even copied this apology!) I've read countless threads, googled for buyer's guides, reviews...
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    Please forgive another which mobo thread

    First off, please accept my apologies for starting another one of those "which X should I buy" threads. (Egad... to make matters worse, I also dropped a similar thread in the Video forum. Even copied this apology!) I've read countless threads, googled for buyer's guides, reviews, comparisons...
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    Swapping XP Home/Pro between two machines

    Hello, and thanks for opening this thread. I've read/relied on these forums for quite some time, and finally have something of substance to ask. (I think it'll be quite some time before I'll be able to answer anything of substance). How I want to make my life difficult: I have a...