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    SSD Management with SCM

    Setting up a new computer, my first time with SSD. OCZ Agility 3 240GB and 16gb ram, dont think the rest matters wrt this question but can provide if needed Major concern is SCM, we use svn and git. Projects are normally lots of text files (source code) could be hundreds to thousands of...
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    Does PC cooling lower overall room temperature?

    This is probably obvious.. but just need a confirmation. If my goal was to just have my office cooler, would extra cooling components help? I don't overclock or anything I'm guessing that heatsinks/fans just move more heat away from components but dont lessen the overall heat of my office...
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    Cold boot ok; warm boot locks up

    I have Win XP SP3 and I can cold boot into windows fine, but if I have to restart for whatever reason (I want to, hardware install, windows update) the loading screen of windows freezes and the computer reboots. Sometimes it will do this 4 times in a row before getting back into windows...
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    How to find a good monitor pairing?

    Trying to find a way to know before I buy if a monitor will work for my setup or not. I'm going for 1600x1200 - 1900x1200 - 1600x1200 I like my middle monitor to be wide for various IDEs, movies, and games, I dont plan on replacing my other 2 monitors. Right now my middle monitor is...
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    View a graph of CPU usage by process?

    Sometimes I'll notice my cpu spike for no apparent reason (likely some background service doing an update or something to that effect...) but by the time I get to task manager and sort by CPU all is well again are there any apps that monitor cpu usage by process over time. Like I could...
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    Best 32bit AntiVirus program?

    I had been using AVG Free for a few years due to their coverage and low resources/bloat on the system. However recently it's prompted me to install 8.0 and with it came a bunch of bloat. Part of this is a LinkScanner than installs itself into FireFox and IE and will scan every link on a...
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    Multitasking and video cards

    Does your video card have anything to do with performance in multitasking? I'm a developer and run various IDEs but also play games on my box too (TF2/WoW mostly which I run in windowed mode so I can keep an eye on other monitors) Just wondering if there's anything to do with 3d rendering...
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    A PC for a developer + gamer

    I'm trying to figure out the best system for me. Games I play are pretty limited to CSS/TF2 and WoW. I also run a bunch of IDEs for developing various apps, Visual Studio, SQL managment, Flex Builder 3, Flash CS3, photoshop CS3, illustrator CS3. Any of those can go up to 400-500 meg of...
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    A Myriad of Boot codes play *sometimes*

    I am getting a very long sequence of boot codes, normally its only when the computer has been off for a few hours. When I turn it off for 20 min or so, it will boot back up normally w/o any boot error codes. I've tried reseating the vid and ram, also all fans are spinning (they will do an...
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    Partioning still worth it for performance?

    I havent had any luck finding any recent guides/reviews on partitioning modern hdds. All of the ones I found date at least 5 years back. Is it still worth it to partition for performance? Aside from being a fraps'n/video editing/photoshop whore, is there any reason to partition with modern...
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    Remote Desktop stopped working this week

    Hello all, my remote desktop ability went dead this week for some reason... I have 3 computers on my LAN connected to a Linksys router. XPHome (dhcp) Win2k3 Server (.250) and XPPro (.200) I have Linksys forward 3389 to .200 and 3390 to .250 to access those machines from work, I run...