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    Want to run a Linux distro and WinXP on the same system

    I've been checking around the Linux distros lately and many of them have caught my attention, (the beryl pluggin is especially useful looking). I was wondering, in an AMD AM2 system, if I dedicated one hard drive to one operating system and the other OS to another drive, will I be able to run...
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    Ok to run Linux and WinXP in seperate hard drives?

    I've been checking around the Linux distros lately and many of them have caught my attention, (the beryl pluggin is especially useful looking). I was wondering, in an AMD AM2 system, if I dedicated one hard drive to one operating system and the other OS to another drive, will I be able to run...
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    Does using a RAID card offload CPU usage?

    Lets say I'm using one of these, it's a PNY PCI SATA storage card, will this offload CPU usage compared to integrated SATA solutions? If storage cards do help, how much of a performance increase should I expect over integrated [Silicon Image] SATA controllers? Will it be noticeable?
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    Sukotto Swordworks Christmas fever sale!!

    Sukotto Swordworks Their Sukotto Swordworks line of swords are on sale for $89.99 from $249.99. Picked me up 2 of them. They shipped it next day after payment received and surprisingly, on a sunday! I'll update this post once I've checked out the swords. ETA Wednesday.
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    LG 48x24x48 CDRW & 16x DVD-ROM IDE combo Drive (Black)

    LG burner and dvd-rom Bear with me if this is a reposting, this is my 1st ATHD posted and I checked for a repost prior to this. Anyways, for those of you who haven't subscribed to geeks.com newletter here's a big portion of it. Entering the code LGBURN upon checkout will get you: Red...
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    G. Skill Extreme series RAM trouble

    Hi, I'm running an ABIT NF7-S mobo with an athlon XP-M 2600+ and I seem to run into numerous errors when I ran memtest. I didn't do any overclocking whatsoever, in fact, I'm underclocking below manufacturers specs. My sig has the complete system. I'm currently running the processor at 220 fsb...
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    Anyone ever try out them Xkroma cases at geeks?

    http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=XK-BL1&cat=CAS Anyone ever tried one of these? How's the airflow? Spaciousness? Sharp edges found anywhere? And what about surface quality?
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    Advantages to having a dedicated server??

    This might be a noob question but, what are the advantages of having a dedicated server for example, a game like counterstrike? Also, not sure if this belongs in this topic but, is there a way to have two operating systems in one hard drive? Does it involve creating a new partition on the HDD...
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    Can anyone recommend me a good brand router?

    I'm gonna go for wireless and wired internet. Can anyone recommend me a good brand? I plan on connecting two computers. One for internet surfing and shopping (which I'm going with wired, not ready to trust wireless technology with my sensitive info) and one for gaming which I'm going...
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    SATA Hard drive trouble

    Ok. I just bought a SATA Hard drive from someone here on AT forums. The thing checked out fine, formatted fine and worked WITH my ATA hard drive very well. I managed to install WinXP and transfer everything I needed from my ATA HD to my SATA HD and now I'm planning to sell the ATA to my...
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    SATA don't work for NF-7 S V 2.0

    For some reason, my NF-7 S Revision 2.0 mobo can't run SATA through a SATA to IDE adaptor. I use a Samsung 80 gb HDD that's ATA133. I made sure that the SATA is enabled in the BIOS, and with the original BIOS (the BIOS that was installed from factory) windows detected that there was a SATA...