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    PCI and DRAM frequency confusion

    So, I need to build a new machine on the cheap, and after a long period of not overclocking (the last time I knew anything about it was when I had a celeron 566), I have become a bit confused over PCI frequency locks and ratios. I'm talking about the PCI-not-express frequency here, as I don't...
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    Strange Browsing Problem

    Hi I'm using Firefox and IE, they both have the exact same problem. A few websites stopped working, including gmail (shows loading screen forever), and HardOCP (black screen, browser says 'done'). I thought I would check the page had actually downloaded by going to view > source, and it seems...
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    USB-key wireless network adapters

    Hi. I'm setting up a friends broadband with a wireless network. Obviously I don't want them spending more than they need to (we are students), but at the same time, the thing is going to need to work. I saw that USB-key wireless network adapters are a fair bit cheaper than the 'box with an...
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    6800GT + DualView > wrong icon colour depth

    Hi I got a 6800Gt a while ago (Aopen one). It's all working fine, and the other day I decided to give this DualView nonsense a go. It works properly, and is overall a pretty impressive feature. The only problem is that with DualView enabled, all my icons take the 8-bit colour depth versions...
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    System buying advice

    Hi (hope this isn't the wrong forum!). I am looking to buy a new system in time for the arrival of HL2 and doom3, and am mainly interested in the future availability of northwoods. At the moment, I'm looking at: Intel 2.8C Asus P4P800-Deluxe 2*512 DDR 9800xt/5950 or lower end x800/6800 I am...
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    'clever' bandwidth throttling

    OK, Firstly here are the resources I have available: Linksys router with 4 port switch, cable modem, 12 port switch, a bunch of network cards, and a P2 350 that can be used to run a linux router or whatever. We have 4 people in our house who share the 512K connection. The basic problem is that...
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    P3 coolers

    I searched for p3 and only got one result, so I'm sorry if this has been asked before. I'm trying to get either a passive or very quiet P3 heatsink in the UK, and am not having much luck. I remember there used to be a ton of them on the market and was hoping that perhaps now the big ones might...
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    Drives spinup for no reason

    I'm running win2k pro SP4. I have a CD drive, a CD writer, and two Hard drives, and the hard drives are set to turn off after half an hour. The problem comes when I go to shut the PC down, windows decides it needs to spin up both CD drives if there is a CD in them, and the secondary hard drive...
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    windows took over my parallel port

    Hi As part of a university module, we are developing systems using the 6502 microprocessor, and for the testing out of software for the systems, we use ROM emulators which plug into the PC parallel port and the ROM socket on the 6502 board. This emulator works fine in DOS, but when I try and...
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    HDD click of doom dilema

    I have a 5400rpm, 60 gig Maxtor drive that has served me well for 2 years. However, while running a virus scan yesterday, the drive started to make the click of doom. Can I RMA a drive that has not actually failed but that is about to? Does this clicking definately mean that the drive will soon...
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    Broadband http dies after 5 minutes

    I have this problem on two comepletely seperate networks, one is using ADSL and the other cable, and with two different routers (one netgear, one belkin). The broadband connection works perfectly in every way, except for after about 5 minutes of use, no website will load, even though msn or p2p...
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    Which cheap TV out card?

    After moving my PC into the lounge to watch a divx last night using the TV out on my Geforce2 GTS, I am now looking to convert another machine into a kind of half-assed HTPC. The only component I really need is another graphics card with TV out. I would use this GeForce and buy myself a new card...
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    3ns RAM really 3ns?

    Does the kind of RAM used on graphics card boards really have 3ns RAM? What I mean is, can you ask the memory for any random address, and the memory will have the data ready 3ns later, or does the 3ns figure only correspond to the reading of sequential locations?
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    PSUs... all lies! (maybe)

    My question really is why do I need a 400W+ PSU such as the ones featured in the Anandtech roundup, when I can use a 300W one listed as P4 compatible? Intel recommends a +12 volt current of "at least 8 Amps" [ http://www.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/12v2x2.htm ], and all of the 300W...
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    2.4C or 2.6C?

    Hi. I was planning to get a 2.4C on p4p800. However, looking at the overclockersUK website, the 2.6C retail is cheaper than the 2.4C retail! (http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/Online_Catalogue_Intel_CPUs_15.html) I thought maybe the 2.4C is somehow a better overclocker (like when the...
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    Switch keeps disconnecting me

    Just got Cable 2 weeks ago, we didn't have a long enough piece of cat5 to go from the router to my PC, so I am conencted via a 12 port stackable switch. The problem I am having is that every now and then, I get the message (in windows 2000) 'The Network Cable is unplugged', imediatly followed by...
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    Zilinx ISE

    As part of my degree, we are about to start using this software which apparently is used to design microprocessors. I was just wondering if this software is used in industry at all, or whether it's just a rubbish student program. In particular does anybody use this software at work? Sorry if...
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    help with tv-out

    Hi I bought a Geforce2 GTS second hand and it came with a couple of s-video leads, it all works well but I am having trouble getting the tv-out feature to work. One cable is an s-video extension lead, and the other is a Y-cable, going from a s-video plug to a s-video socket and what looks like...
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    cpu power usage

    Hi, I was wondering if anybody could tell me where I can find the official thermal output specs (total power usage specs would do) for recent AMD and Intel Processors. I looked on google as well as on both their websites but couldn't find what I wanted. Thanks!
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    ASUS CRW-1610A - your thoughts?

    Hiya. I was reading this article: http://www6.tomshardware.com/storage/02q2/020617/index.html which is basically a review of 4 CD writers. I am looking to buy my first CD writer (yes, I am behind the times), and in this review they said that this ASUS drive is "one of the best drives that we...
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    AVI audio compression for home made CS vid.

    Hi. I am working on a CS movie made from demos recorded by some of the players on our network. It has all worked out perfectly, excpet there is one problem, I do not know how to get the soundtrack I am using to be compressed. The final video works fine, but has a rather large filesize due to...
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    Does anybody have an ASUS CUBX motherboard running win2K?

    Hi I have a setup problem with the CMD controller and was wondering if somebody could help me. Thanks.
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    Slow transfer between HDDs

    Hiya I have two maxtor drives, one is a 5400 RPM 60 gig, and the other is a 7200 RPM 20 gig. They both support ATA66, and are running on a controller that allows ATA66 operation, but transfers between the drives are slow. Copying a 100 meg map pack from the 20 to the 60 today took minutes where...
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    Telnet FTP assistance needed :)

    Hiya I am trying to upload some files to my website from my room at university. This is fine, I have to first FTP those files to my user space on my department server, then I use telnet to connect to my ftp server and upload the files (I cannot ftp direct from my room). However, telnet doesn't...
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    sblive + win2K help

    Hello, I recently 'upgraded' from windows 98SE to 2K, and overall I am very pleased with it. however there is one big problem I am having, and that is that my sound card isn't working properly. Anything I do that emits sound will 'jump' about 1 second after starting; winamp, a movie, etc. At...
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    LAN filesharing software

    Hi Here at university we have a very big LAN with everybodies computers plugged into it. Many people have got files shared using windows filesharing, or using an ftp program, but this makes it very hard to find the files you want (programs like sharescan take forever to scan the network since it...
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    IE error pages / Wav file specs

    Hi A very annoying website or activeX thing seems to have changed my windows error pages so that when I get the 'The page cannot be displayed' error, I am taken to a different page with a search form (and links like 'entertainment', 'computers' etc), and there is a popup advertising some online...
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    stereo swap

    Having broken my headphones by trying to run out of the door whilst wearing them, I got one of the technicians in our department to fit a new jack. Now it works great, only the left and right channels are the wrong way round. I have been searching for about an hour for a program to simply swap...
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    Network bridge on 2Kpro?

    I currently have the following setup: I have one network connection (LAN) via a port in the wall. This goes into a machine running 2K pro with 2 NICs. The second NIC goes to another machine, running widnows 98, which can access the interent properly, as well as ICQ and IRC, as the 2K machine is...
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    IRC server

    Hi I am planning on setting up a private IRC server for the use of people on a LAN. I was hoping that anybody who wanted to join the server would be able to just point mIRC to scaryjeff (my computer name), and away they would go. I am not sure if this is even possible (to have the clients...
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    Switch Alternatives.

    Hello. I am planning on running a dedicated game server on the LAN that I am a part of. To do this I will need to connect two computers (this one and the server) to one network port. Getting another port is not an option, and hubs are not allowed on the network. So I realise that the ideal...
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    Graphics hardware is no longer exciting

    I have read a few reviews of the GeForce4, and I can't help thinking that although it is faster than everything else, has improved memory technology (note I don't try and use any technical words), a new AA system, and a great twinview stylee implementation, everything it does is kind of...
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    winXP wrong drive letters

    I have the CMD ATA66 controller on my Asus CUBX (I don't know if this is relevant). I just installed windows XP on what DOS thought was my C drive, with my archive drive as D and my CD-ROM as E. Now when I go to 'my computer' in winXP, it displays the archive drive as C, the primary drive as E...
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    Linux partition setup

    I have a 20 gig drive on which I plan to run a dual boot setup with win98SE and Red Hat 7.2. I want to give linux (the first) 8 gigs and windows 12 (I have never used linux before so I don't want to dedicate too much of my space to it). At the moment the drive is FAT32, and I was wondering how I...
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    which is better?

    Maxtor 536DX or Maxtor D540X. You may (although you probably won't) remember that I was debating what hard drive to get. Well I decided on the maxtor, and went to dabs.com to buy it, but then I saw there are two different 5400 RPM, 60 GB drives from maxtor, and the difference in price is only...
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    which HDD?

    I am getting a 60 gig HDD for storing files on (i.e. not for running programs from), and I am having trouble on making my decision. I think I have narrowed it down to either a Maxtor or an IBM, but I'm not sure which will be best. I have heard that IBM drives are not so reliable, but that could...
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    Slow Lan

    I am at university and we have a network that links everyone's rooms together and to the internet. It is usually very fast, for example internet downloads go at around 500 Kb/sec (dependant on server), people can download from my shared folders across the network at more than a meg a second, and...
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    colour shifting

    I noticed the other day that my monitor seems to display a pixel in a slightliy different position depending on it's colour. I noticed it whilst on http://www.overclockers.com/ , and when I put the mouse on the tips index items on the left and they changed from blue to red with the rollover...
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    Sorry but another fan noise q :)

    I am looking at panaflow fans to blow through the radiator I haven't yet. On tweakbox.com, it gives the CFM and DbA for each fan, and for the '92mm low speed' model, it gives the CFM as 42.7 and the noise as 27 DbA. I can understand the CFM, but how loud is 27 DbA? I have heard a delta fan and...
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    Water Cooling Qs

    You may remeber I while ago I was trying to find out what HSF to get. I thought and thought, and never actually got a new one because If the CPU (a celeron 566) didn't overclock having got the new heatsink, then it would have meant that all I would have acheived would have been to make me poorer...