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    Power Supply Requirments for EVGA GTX 260

    I have just purchased the same video card and have an 3 year+ old Enermax Noisetaker as well EG701AX-VE SFMA 2.0 http://www.enermaxusa.com/cata...nfo.php?products_id=66 It has dual 12 V rails 18 Amps each. I'm hoping others are right and that Nvidia has overestimated the current...
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    2x Socket F AMD Opteron Barcelona quad cores, what to do with them?

    Peter that's very good info and advice on going with server mobo instead of the shiny Asus ;-) o1die I know exactly the board you're talking about. I saw it listed on their promotions page if you buy a mobo, and case combo. I think that promotion ended Yesterday or today but still it was...
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    2x Socket F AMD Opteron Barcelona quad cores, what to do with them?

    Those threads are a gold mine. Thanks!
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    2x Socket F AMD Opteron Barcelona quad cores, what to do with them?

    I got these two Socket F (1207) AMD Opteron 8358 SE Quad-Core CPUs OS8356WAL4BGD Here is a picture of them (I'd put this inline if I could figure it out) http://img229c.imageshack.us/i...9/2860/dsc06649aq9.jpg Currently I have a MSI K8N Neo4/SLI board with Athlon 64 X2 3800+ based system...
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    Club-going ATOTers, have you experienced "the sassy girl" phenomenon?

    This might be similar. I was working with this girl out at some athletic fields at my university, we both worked for the recreation dept at that school. They had the womens soccer team out there.. when they finished their drills they took of their shirts only with their sports bra on, some of...
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    Good case deals?

    Where is this "I wanna" thread. I am looking for suggestions similar to this guy. I want at least 4 internal 3.5 hdd bays, no doors, ideally aluminum case w/ PSU for around 60-80 or 30-50 w/o PSU. I am using it to run a 939 based fileserver and game server for use at LANs and such. I'd like it...
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    OCing in Winter (20 degree Fahrenheit)

    I would love to find this thread. I searched a bit for it but couldn't find it. I remember someone did something similar on these forums by putting their rig outside on their porch and closing their sliding glass window on the cables partially and got some pretty cool OCs..
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    OCing in Winter (20 degree Fahrenheit)

    ya I quickly realized that my vcore limit was holding me back.. kind of dissapointing. I guess a DFI board might be better for OCing like I was trying to do.
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    OCing in Winter (20 degree Fahrenheit)

    Specs MSI K8N Neo4/SLI Athlon 64 X2 3800+ (2.0 GHz stock) 2x1Gb Corsair XMS DDR 400 NVIDIA eVGA 7800 GT highest boot was 2580 MHz wasn't stable much past 2500 MHz, I didn't have much time to really mess with it cause I spent 2 hours in the 22 degree fahrenheit weather and...
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    MSI K8N chipset fan

    I was just messing around with some overclocking today and I realized mine was stuck! Wow I just turned it off. Hope I didn't damage it. MSI K8N Neo4 SLI Is there are replacement or an upgrade heatsink and/or fan combo someone could suggest? I'm going to try and fix it for the time being if I...
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    My Ti4600 is fried - what's equivalent these days?

    I think in the future I will just create a new thread for a question like this. I laid out everything in my first post yet people responded to the original post and still some people asked for information I already gave.. so they read some of my posts. I don't know, on most forums people always...
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    My Ti4600 is fried - what's equivalent these days?

    I do need an NVIDIA card because I'm going to use it in Linux a lot and ATI drivers are crap in linux. Thanks for the comments guys I think you've made it clear that the Ti4600 is a better deal than the FX5500 as far as performance goes. I'll be on ebay now ;-)
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    My Ti4600 is fried - what's equivalent these days?

    Thanks for the experience report that makes me want to get the NEW FX5500 over a used Ti4600. Anyone care to elaborate on the technical pros and cons of teh ti4600 over a FX5500? ie Directx8 vs 9 hardware support, clock speeds, and the fact that the Ti4600 only has 128 MB memory vs the 256...
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    My Ti4600 is fried - what's equivalent these days?

    I recently upgraded my system and now I have my old rig that I was thinking into making a guest gaming rig so that people could come over and play UT2004, Counter Strike/CS:Source, etc and I wanted to upgrade the video card to a something that would cost between $40-$60 Ideally around $50...
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    do all of you actually run SLI?

    I am planning on buying the MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum SLI board. I am getting one BFG NVIDIA 6800GT. I want the mobo for its features, dual SATA II, Dual Gigabit(one provided by nforce chipset, the other marvel, as opposed to both being marvel on the Ultra mobo) The Soundblaster Audigy onboard sound...
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    MSI NF4 A64 4200+ NV 6800GT etc. .. suggestions?

    Ok I had more time than I thought before class ;-) I updated my wish list: http://secure.newegg.com/NewVersion/Wis...60942&WishListTitle=JB%27s+Nforce4+SLI I now have the Athlon X2 3800+ for about $100 less than the X2 4200+ and I have added a Crucial 2 GB PC 4000 (1GB x2) kit instead of...
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    MSI NF4 A64 4200+ NV 6800GT etc. .. suggestions?

    I want the features of the SLI board. You are right about getting X2 3800+ instead of 4200. I think I will switch this. I will use the saved money to get better memory. X800 and all ATi vid cards are out of the question because of the worse driver support in linux compared to nvidia. I will look...
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    MSI NF4 A64 4200+ NV 6800GT etc. .. suggestions?

    Hi everyone. I'm building a new rig for the first time in over 2.5 years and I've done a bit of research and decided on these parts. I'm not finalized yet and I would like to hear some suggestions. I am going to run Gentoo linux on this mainly but I will also have Win XP 64 bit to run some games...
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    What are Your Mobile Althlon Overclocking Results and Details?

    I have an Asus A7N8X deluxe. My revison number printed on the mobo is 1.84 I'm wondering if I would have the same problems as you in regards to the getting to 200 MHz + FSB. I haven't purchased a Athlon Mobile chip, yet. Do you have voltage stability problems when you increase voltage much...
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    JB's First Case Mod

    Got a blue cold cathode tube from work today. I think it looks nice. http://152.10.254.214/box/case_mod/dsc04056_1024x768.jpg
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    JB's First Case Mod

    Thanks for the comments. I just installed a cold cathode tube, it's blue. It seems to be emitting some UV light too, because a flourescent green piece of plastic in the case is glowing :-D I'm not going to put the side fan back on. I just moved it down front blowing on the hard drives and added...
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    JB's First Case Mod

    Hi people, don't post here much but wanted to show off my first case mod to some appreciating people. I'm doing a case mod on my computer of 1.5 years. Since I started working at a computer repair shop I have been thinking about working on my own computer much more than I used to. So I had the...
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    Best way to set up 4 ide drives

    I have two hard drives on my primary IDE and a CD/RW and a DVD reader on the secondary IDE. This is the way I've always done it, never had problems. Transfering files in between the two hard drives I can get 30MB/s-45MB/s if I remember correctly.
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    Why I should've gotten a Dell, Dude! A.K.A. "My first year as a computer geek"

    Nope none of the options listed 66Mhz, they were all higher than that, in the 100Mhz range I believe. and Eug said to make sure it's at 33.3Mhz. Do I want it at 66Mhz or 33Mhz?
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    Why I should've gotten a Dell, Dude! A.K.A. "My first year as a computer geek"

    Ok I went into my Pheonix BIOS and looked around for PCI Bus speed. I couldn't find it. I looked in the manual too, either it isn't adjustable or I'm blind. I did find AGP speed/frequency which was set to auto. I assume this is how you overclock your video card. So what am I missing?
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    Why I should've gotten a Dell, Dude! A.K.A. "My first year as a computer geek"

    Whoa. Those last specs that I thought were stable, way wrong. I downloaded SETI@home, because I've always liked the idea of the project and I wanted to see how fast my system could complete units. Well as soon as a I ran it, it crashed, so I ran the program again and IE crashed, then the...
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    approximately $400 to spend on something nice . . . suggestions?

    definitely get an LCD display. I found an old bank account my family set up for me when I was much younger wit h 400 in it and I got this: Dell E171FP It's very very nice. I found some 15% off deal which brought it down to about $415, it was $440 including shipping and tax. I'm very happy with it.
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    Why I should've gotten a Dell, Dude! A.K.A. "My first year as a computer geek"

    After reading half way through that I decided I'd go turn down my "CPU external speed" from 164mhz to something lower. I rebooted, but instead I turned it up 1 mhz. :) I'm new to all this. I have an ASUS A7N8X deluxe with an Athlon 1800XP. Right now the system clock is 164mhz and the bus is...
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    Best way to change out motherboard in XP

    Backup your hard drive first, or at least important files. I did exactly what you're describing for a friend recently. He ordered some no name computer from a TV shopping channel(!) The motherboard was some micro ATX board, the computer would turn off randomly. So I helped him out. We picked out...
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    XP1800, is this a good overclock?

    I have an Asus A7N8X and Athlon 1800XP. I am just now experimenting with overclocking for the first time. I've got my core voltage set to 1.750. I set my System clock at 163MHz. I set the multiplier to 12 and I tried 12.5 too, but I don't think my CPU is unlocked because WCPUID only shows it as...
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    ASUS A7N8X "CMOS checksum error"

    I have the A7N8X Delux. I was adjusting multipliers I rebooted and it would not reboot(It displayed a blank screen wouldn't turn off), so I turned the computer off and turned it back on. All the CD/DVD drives turned on, the Hard drive spun but there was no beep as usual. Nothing displayed on the...
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    allstarshop.com Abit TI4200 64MB $112 w/ shipping

    sweetness, i'm going to order it!!
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    allstarshop.com Abit TI4200 64MB $112 w/ shipping

    I don't know about that clocking, but this thing has DVI, regular connector and S-Video output, with a DVI to VGA connector adapter, so it supports dual monitors, which would be sweet!! I guess allstarshop.com is a winner!! thanks for the link I didn't know about them
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    allstarshop.com Abit TI4200 64MB $112 w/ shipping

    Okay I found allstarshop.com using priceline.com. They are selling an Abit Siluro GF4 Ti4200 64MB DDR AGP TVO/DVI for $112. Is allstarshop.com a reliable place to buy from? I've never heard from them before I want to order this but I'm not sure about them. UPS ground shipping is free too...
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    New System, parts list what do you think?

    Why will having 2 sticks of 256MB DDR be better than one 512MB stick? I don't really wanna spend $73 on that power supply either, but I want a good one that will shut off if I draw to much current. Tomshardware.com did a review of 21 power supplies and found problems with a lot of them. That $73...
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    New System, parts list what do you think?

    Hello everyone. I didn't see a "building systems" place so I gues this is the best place to post. I am about to build my first personal system. I have built systems before. I am not a big gamer but I will play some games occasionally. Here's my list of parts I've picked out: I plan on ordering...
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    dead pixel on my lcd

    I just got a Dell E171FP which I am pleased with. It has one problem that I'm going to call Dell about. In the lower right corner there are odd, semi dark horizontal lines. They are most visible from thin vertical lines in an image, or from a solid dark color, like the gray taskbar of windows...
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    Are all T-Bred 1700+ and 1800+ procs unlocked?

    Hi I'm new here, and hoping to learn a lot. I was wondering this myself. I am considering buying a AMD Athlon XP 1800+ Thouroughbred from newegg.com. I was reading the new article that tests 6 nforce2 motherboards here:http://anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.html?i=1759&p=9 This is what it said: Is...
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    Nvidia Nforce chipset networking question

    I saw on TechTV once someone saying that people would often see that their ethernet adapter wasn't operating at full duplex(I think by the OS's status indication) and that they would manually set it that way. The guy said not to do that. If you know it's supposed to be in full duplex then I...