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    Cord went to h*ll

    Wow,didn't know people were still using PS2 keyboards :) Any way to connect a USB lead to that connector on the kb?
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    1kw enough for this build?

    Well I bit the bullet and ordered a Dell U2711 27" jobbie,should be here Monday.My new rig is here already and working great....just hotswapped in my old HDD's and now have 6 HDD's sitting in there transferring old data onto the new 2TB HDD (Fear not,they shall be removed once the data is...
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    Washed Mobo and Video Card

    Any updates on the washed board?
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    All 3 case fans quit working...wtf?

    It's not lookin' good is it Pete? ;)
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    1kw enough for this build?

    Still gonna have the 21" NEC as a socondary monitor of course. Or what would you recommend to make the most of those gfx cards? For an extra £100 I can get a Iiyama PLB2712HDS-B 27-inch LCD (the 24" is backlit LED).......I just get the feeling that 27" may be too big as I'm only sitting...
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    1kw enough for this build?

    Nope,this is going to be a totally new build .....24" monitor included,I toyed with the idea of a 27" monitor but I'm pretty sure that would be too big considering I'm only sitting 2ft away from it,maybe even 18" away.
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    1kw enough for this build?

    Well my choices were between a Corsair 800HX or a 1500w Thermaltake ....I decided on the 800w but then was talked out of it.I know it doesn't need 1.5kw but it seems silly to use the 800w for 2 x GTX850's and have to run the PSU close to max.
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    RAM upgrade questions

    I'm old enough to remember saving up to buy the 500k memory card for the Commodore Amiga A500 ....If memory serves me right it was £200 - £250,can't comment on A1000's (I remember the A1200,was the A1000 the ones with the internal HDD? )
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    All 3 case fans quit working...wtf?

    Try removing each fan in turn,might be a bad fan affecting the mobo fan controller/power. Always better to take a component out of a faulty system and try it on a known working one as Pete suggests.If the PSU is what fragged the fans then adding a known working fan to that system could easily...
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    White monitor??

    BenQ V2400ECO 24" comes in white (maybe only in white,not sure).
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    [Retired] The LCD Thread

    Going from a 21" (or is it 20.1"? I forget now tbh) NEC Multisync20WGX2 to a 24" BenQ G2420HDBL.I'll be using the NEC as secondary monitor. Now I've been happy with most things on the NEC apart from a "cascade" of shadows (burn?) that's been creeping down and along from the very top right...
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    1kw enough for this build?

    Busy building my new rig and getting a GOOOOOD deal from a supplier of parts but limited to what he has in stock. I'm building: Corsair Obsidian Series 800D case Watercooled CPU block 360 rad +3 fans,pump,750 res etc 8GB Corsair Dominator GT with DHX and Airflow Fan (If I go for 4 cores) 2 x...
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    2 x GTX580's watercooled and in SLI OR 1 x GTX590 watercooled?

    Cool,that's what I wanted to hear,Thanks guys
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    2 x GTX580's watercooled and in SLI OR 1 x GTX590 watercooled?

    2 x GTX580's watercooled and in SLI OR 1 x GTX590 watercooled? I ask because I've just noticed that the Asus Maximus IV xtreme has 2 x PCie 16x but they only work x8 x8 with 2 cards. I'm wondering how big an effect running a dual card x16 over 2 cards at x8 x8 will have? Will it be...
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    Swap my P5-KC for a Asus maximus formula?

    My friend just did an upgrade for a client and got to keep the old Asus maximus formula as part payment.He can't use the mobo but could use his old cpu on my Asus P5-KC mobo so offered me a straight swap. Anyone got any suggestions as to whether it's a good swap,better than my current mobo...
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    2 DVD RW'ers both showing as CD ROM drives

    Strange problem,my ASUS SATA DVD RW D/L started spitting out DVD's when I tried to write and it told me to insert the correct media.I checked and it appears in Vista 64 as a DVD Ram drive (but only reads CD's) I inserted the DVD into my 2nd Asus IDE DVD RW and it wrote ok. I then went to bed...
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    Seagate Barracuda 500GB HDD

    I have,it's definitely the HDD.You don't think I'd have just RMA'd it on the off chance that might be it do you? I've run with just this HDD in and get the problem,disconnected the Seagate and get NO whine's or problems.It's only when this HDD is installed,my 2 other HDDs Maxtor (250GB and...
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    Seagate Barracuda 500GB HDD

    Ok,about 3 or 4 weeks ago I bought a new Seagate Barracuda (ST3500320AS) 500GB HDD and installed it in my system (see sig for specs) running Windows Vista Home Premium 64.All was fine for 2 or 3 days until I used utorrent to download,to one of my other HDD's,and left it running overnight. I...
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    How to Wipe HDD When Click of Death Comes?

    Aint nothing as paranoid as the Navy,they'll be worried that someone might find proof of "what sailors get up to at sea" ;)
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    What the heck is going on

    Is that being recognized in the BIOS or in Windows? I know my Asus P5Kc had a problem "seeing" some SATA HDDs depending on which of the SATA ports they were in,but this was only in the BIOS once I ran Vista the drives were all there and accessible. Remember that (if your mobo is same as mine)...
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    Second Hard Drive

    Yeah,adding an extra HDD is just a matter of installing it,formatting it and then you can access it just as easily as a DVD/CD drive.You'll be able to use your old HDD as the boot drive and keep the OS you have installed.
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    Seagate 650GB goes to sleep

    I have this exact thing.Only noticed it on my System HDD since I installed Vista 64 on my new rig (see sig),was actually wondering if my boot HDD was dying on me as this old 120GB IDE HDD has been the most reliable/stable HDD I've ever owned. Wonder if the power management of the E8400 could...
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    Buying 2nd 500GB Barracuda for RAID 1

    Ok,buying a 2nd 500GB Seagate Barracuda HDD and going to install 1 x 100GB partition on each drive to be used as RAID 1. I'm running with a Asus P5KC mobo which has a RAID controller onboard BUT I've been told that this isn't a TRUE raid controller by some and others disagree. Would I be...
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    Can't get into BIOS

    I had the exact same problems with my G15 on my old Abit Fatal1ty mobo,I had to use my old keyboard to access BIOS commands and also whenever I reinstalled windows (Had to use the USB to PS2 adaptor for this as my USB seemed to be inactive til windows started up). On my new Asus the G15 is...
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    HP 42inch LCD as Computer monitor?

    NOOOOO Radioshack is the Devil of overpricing!! Check out online retailers such as Newegg,they're reliable I'm told and almost always cheaper than stores.
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    ASUS P5N-T Deluxe and DDR2 800 ram issues

    Odd you should mention this,I had the exact same problem.Vista 64 would get up to a % installed (saw from 0% to 89%) and then give me the error message after sitting there for 20 minutes pretending to install.I was installing from a NEC IDE DVD RW but my friend brought his LG IDE DVD RW and a...
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    Penryn Temperature Software Discussion [update]

    It seemed to support Vista 64 for me.....just copied the .dll and .sys files to the appropriate directorys in windows and voila. Sadly it looks like my CPU has stuck sensors as it reports 0 movement on either core of my E8400 :( Now to the BIG question,if the temp reporting is screwed up...
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    how much time it takes to contruct a processor?

    Makes you wonder how they can produce chips so cheaply,under £200 for an E8400 @45nm seems like an even better deal than I thought :)
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    Scythe Infinity Thoughts

    Try looking at the Thermalright Ultima-90i (or extreme?).It accepts either 90mm or 120mm fans and it may be a little lighter than the Scythe.Also the 90/120mm option allows you to fit the smaller fan if (like me) you can't fit the case cover with the 120mm installed :(
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    Random Broadband Disconnects

    I have cable and for around 8 months I was getting this exact problem.Micro-disconnects which cause little problem except in online games where I'd be booted because of them.I found that disconnecting the power to the modem for 10 seconds and then reconnecting it forced the modem to reacquire my...
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    HOWTO: Overclock C2Q (Quads) and C2D (Duals) - A Guide v1.7

    Thanks for all your help and advice graysky.Your guide has been my first time OC manual and gospel ;) As I say,it's my first ever successful OC,I could never get any stability out of my old AMD CPU's but I'm now running my E8400 @ 3654.4 Mhz,FSB 406x9,RAM 4.0-4-4-4 4:5 2T and it's Prime...
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    Sandra reporting wrong RAM?

    I've got my stable overclock up to 3.7Ghz (E8400) and started trying to tighten my memory timings (see sig).I'm using Sisoftware Sandra to check my timings after each tweak but for some reason it's reporting my RAM as DDR3. Was wondering if this is a problem between Sandra and Vista 64,my...
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    1988 vs 2008

    Cost me a darned fortune (£750) to buy my first PC....an Elonex 486 sx 20 (25?) with 256k RAM and a huge 125 MB HDD and a floppy drive and a 14" monitor!! Then I spent almost £200 on a 2x CD reader. Next was upgrading the CPU to a 486 DX2 100mhz .................I just binned that system last...
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    HOWTO: Overclock C2Q (Quads) and C2D (Duals) - A Guide v1.7

    Time for a newbie OC question about my rig: I managed to get my rig (see sig for details) 3.66Ghz stable for 2 hours on Prime95 BUT when I run CPUZ the speed fluctuates madly between 3645 (405x9 FSB) and 2430 (405x6 FSB). This is my first ever overclock and I'm unsure whether the variation...
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    better CPU to last me 2 to 3 years

    Come on,Everyone needs shoes,just ask my Fiancee ;) I may have got a quad if the new 45nm quads were out when I was upgrading and had the cash for it. BUT,on the other hand, I much prefer to stay a step or 2 behind the bleeding cutting edge as it's usually cheaper and also tends to have...
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    better CPU to last me 2 to 3 years

    I decided to go the E8400 route and buy a Mobo that can handle quads and DDR2/DDR3 as well.Hopefully I'll be able to upgrade both CPU and RAM as and when the prices make it more attractive.
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    Screen Flickers Randomly

    Or more easily,swap DVI leads and see if it's the cable at fault.Saves you lugging his whole PC to your place if it's not necessary.
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    Can't Partition my 500GB SATA II Seagate Barracuda

    This is starting to look a little irrelevant (for now) as I'm gonna have to RMA the Seagate Barracuda 500Gb HDD now ,yesterday it started making a noise like a jet engine and almost as loud,decided to reformat just to make sure and it froze at 40% format . Think I'm gonna call it a bad idea...
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    Can't Partition my 500GB SATA II Seagate Barracuda

    Are you sure about this? The manual claims the mobo supports RAID,there's an option to setup a RAID system in the Bios (JMicron) and it also creates a RAID DOS disk. Plus it also see's some of my SATA devices as RAID devices.
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    Can't Partition my 500GB SATA II Seagate Barracuda

    Thanks for the replies,I've figured out how to partition (needed to shrink the drives by 100GB each to partition). I always assumed that you must have 2 HDD's same size and preferrably same make/model in order to setup RAID 1 but my friend is certain that you can set it up using same size...