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    Storage enclosure makes annoying buzzing sound

    I recently bought a Silverstone/Teratrend TS231U 3.5' 2xbay enclosure that exhibits a really annoying buzzing sound when turned OFF. Yes OFF! When you switch the power off on the front button it will start with the buzzing. The only solution is to pull the plug at the rear end. Anyone...
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    RAID1 2-bay enclosure - dangerous?

    I recently ordered a SilverStone Teratrend TS231U 2-bay enclosure, capable of RAID0/1/JBOD/normal mode. Planned to do 2x4TB in RAID1 mode mirrored. Read up on lots of horror stories of the RAID controller in these kind of boxes reconstructing the RAID from an empty & newly inserted HD if one...
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    Benchmark list comparing really old & brandnew CPUs?

    Tried to find an all-encompassing master list that used the same benchmark over the years where you can clearly see FPU/prime/whatever benchmark performance progression. I know that CPU architecture from different ages and additions like AVX cannot truelly be compared against each other but I...
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    Alan Wake - PC "up in the air"??!

    Apparently Sam Lake from REMEDY has spoken and said that the PC version for ALAN WAKE is "up in the air". Source: EDGE http://www.edge-online.com/new...up-in-the-air%E2%80%9D They must be smoking some good stuff up there in the north. First they made some deal with M$ to make it VISTA...
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    Gap between desktop and notebook workstation widens?

    I have been searching for a good mobile gfx/animation workstation for some time now and just realized that the performance gap between desktop workstations and notebooks gets wider with every year it seems. I was ready to pull the trigger on a Precision M4400 but then heard lots of customer...
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    GTX 260 worst overclocker ever?

    Am I doing something wrong? I bought a POV GTX 260 with default clock at 576 Core, 1242 Shader, 999 MHz mem and even a slight overclock to e.g. 610 core seems to be pretty unstable. Crysis MP often starts to give me yellowish polygons or streaks of triangles and then crashes to a black...
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    Should I use my TAGAN480 to cook eggs?

    I just built myself a small leftover gaming pc with my 3,2Ghz P4 (PresHOTt) and my "old" 8800GTS 640MB. In addition there are 2x 1GB modules, 2 harddrives and 1 DVDrom Everything seems to run fine, Orthos runs stable, I can play games like Vegas2 etc, but the PSU is hot as hell. I can barely...
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    Argh! PC building isn't good for my bloodpressure!

    So my uncle is over with his broken PC (which I built years ago). Says the thing just stopped working after some electric sparks came out of the front panel USB or something like that (but you can't trust the guy and his recollection of events AT ALL) So we changed the chassis...nothing. We...
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    Nvidia quadro nvs 160m

    I'd like to buy a new DELL Latitude E6400 /E6500 and they seem to come with a Nvidia NVS 160M. Is this G98 based? Anyone know if we can expect similar or better performance than e.g. a XPS M1530 with a 8600M card? I really hope those cards aren't slower than that.
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    Holy! My new GTX260 is longer than my...

    I just got myself a GTX260 from Point of View. Didn't even think about the possibility of it being any bigger than my trusty old 8800GTS 640MB! It's 4 cm longer! Argh. Of course I'm only using Sata now for my HDs and DVD and Asus was so clever as to put the 6 connectors right behind the card...
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    Is it even worth going to GTX260 from 8800GTS?

    I have my 8800GTS 640MB OCed to 960,640,1482 and it pretty much runs every game perfectly. Not at the resolution of my 24'' Samsung (1920x1200) but e.g. @1440x900. For me - coming from the jaggieworld pre 1995 of 320x200 - this is no big deal. :) My question is: Should I even consider...
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    New info about Dell Latitude E series?

    Does anyone have new info on the Latitude E series (E6500)? They were scheduled for a late June release but with Montevina delays, I'm not sure anymore if I should continue to wait. When can we expect them or at least read more about E series than those scoops from February? I'm still on a...
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    GTA 4 for PC ?!

    I have to admit I found myself reading all of the new GTA4 previews despite me not owning a PS3 or XBOX360. Now I know that all GTAs have been ported to PC (GTA and GTA2 were on PC first) and all ran better on the PC. But how long will we have to wait after April 29th to get our GTA4? Here...
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    Dell XPS M1530 + Penryn = kickass machine?

    After my Dell D600 broke (probably due to a short circuit on the MB), I began the tedious search for a new laptop. I was reluctant at first to go with a Dell again, but the XPS 1530 seems to be a sweet design, with pretty solid build quality and an overall powerful machine. Now I'm just...
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    Dell D600 shortcircuited! Plz help me find a new notebook!

    While surfing the net on Christmas Eve my Dell D600 from 2003/2004 finally died on me. The power just went out and now it can't be turned on again. When I plug the AC power adapter into a power socket, the green light is on and as soon as I connect it to the laptop the light dies and nothing...
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    A 4GHz Quadcore on it's knees? Crysis physics demo!

    This just made my day: http://youtube.com/watch?v=VaHS-y_mapQ Some guy toyed with Crysis own physics engine in the sandbox editor. He stacked thousands of boxes and used tornadoes on them. Beautiful music too. Due to the nature of the physics lagging when the CPU can't keep up with the...
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    Crysis best DX10 effects for XP DX9

    For all of those "poor" souls like me who are still stuck with the 100MB footprint OS XP 32-bit and not marvel at the nice looking 500MB Vista juwel, I've made a small list of "DX10" effects that aren't activated on HIGH settings in Crysis and must be enabled manually. It's really better to...
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    Crysis + Rivatuned 8800 core temps reliable?

    I just OCed my Leadtek 8800GTS 640MB for the first time with Rivatuner 2.05 from 513 -> 630 Core 1188 -> 1458 Shader 792 -> 945 Mem I then played the Crysis Beta a little bit. My fps went from ~30 to ~35 after this which is pretty cool and the temps never exceeded 73°C for the core...
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    Crysis QuadCore Performance

    Dunno if this would be better suited for CPUs forum but anyhow: Some guys from Intel and the programmer headhoncho from Crytek did a developer presentation about the multithreading capabilities of Crysis yesterday. Data-Streaming, audio, network physics, particle system are computed in...
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    Good cases+preinstalled watercooling?

    I'm in the final stages of planning my Q6600 Build. The only thing left is the case. I'd like to try out watercooling for the Q6600 to OC it to 3Ghz. I know I could probably do it with a good air cooler but I've been burned by my Idle 38°C/Load 70°C P4 Preshott that I never managed to get...