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    WTF Wendy's Burgers got smaller?!?!?!

    I think that the only Wendy's burgers that have shrunk are the value menu ones. Also, this seems to have happened at about the same rate that the dollar has fallen. I guess it's just impossible to get enough beef for a dollar to make a decently sized burger any more. Most other fast food places...
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    Post the funniest video you know.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AXPnH0C9UA
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    Firefox's Automatic Updater actually did the reverse

    Okay, so last night Firefox asked me if it could install the update from 2.0.0.10 to 2.0.0.11, and I selected for it to wait until the next time I restarted. When I started up Firefox this morning, I got a message stating that it had updated itself to version 1.5.0.2 and disabled all of my...
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    Two different simultaneous audio outs?

    I don't know if your onboard sound can actually output two different audio channels simultaneously, but the easy way to do this is to get a USB soundcard and set whatever program you want to output through the second set of speakers to use that device for the audio. Geeks.com sells one for...
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    Negative Effects From Formatting Thumb Drives?

    Honestly, unless you're trying to run Windows off a flash drive, you're probably going to destroy the drive before you even come close to the write limit on the flash. Even if you were running Windows from it, it would take at least a year of constantly paging out data to the drive to wear out a...
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    Time to upgrade my failing 2yr old system

    Thanks for the suggestions, everyone. Raven's right, though, I'm not looking for a spectacular upgrade. My current system's pretty adequate for now and I wouldn't be upgrading right now if not for the instability problem. I'm considering going with an Intel setup this time, but I do have a few...
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    Time to upgrade my failing 2yr old system

    My old gaming machine recently started crashing in Source games, so I decided to crack it open and dust it out to see if that would help any. When I removed the heatsink, I was greeted with 5 or 6 leaking capacitors in the CPU socket area. Since I've dealt with leaky caps before and I'm...
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    Can I fix this no-boot issue?

    Check the capacitors on the motherboard, especially the ones around the CPU, for bulging/leaking. If you find them, the motherboard is the most likely culprit.
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    Old Computer Starts Working Again?

    I had an old Mac laptop that went completely dead one day, wouldn't boot even when plugged in. I tried to get it working but couldn't and put it away for a few months. The next time I tried it it worked perfectly, but a few weeks later it was completely dead again. The problem was that the...
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    help me build a cheap SFF pc

    Intel just released the perfect motherboard for you, it's called the D201GLY. It's a Celeron 1.33 Mini ITX board for under 75 bucks from mini-box.com. Add 512 megs of DDR2 for about $30, and an old PATA hard drive to put Windows on, and you have a decent cheap web system. For a case, you have...
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    what's inside a heatpipe

    It's normally some mixture of water and ethyl alcohol, although the exact composition will vary wildly depending on the temperatures the heatpipe is designed to work at.
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    Case Clean Out Time

    Just be careful with a compressor if you use one, they have a bad habit of blowing unwanted moisture into sensitive electronics, and they're powerful enough to take a capacitor off the board at short range.
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    how can i silence my geforce 6600?

    If it's an AGP card, you'll probably have a hard time finding an aftermarket heatsink that will fit. I'd recommend just removing the plastic cover on the top of the old heatsink and the old fan as well, and then somehow positioning an 80mm fan to blow directly on the exposed heatsink fins. You...
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    P4 3.0GHz with 8600GT

    Oh, sorry, I thought you were going to be reusing a Socket 775 processor instead. Disregard the part about upgrading this to C2D later. The 8600gt is overpriced for how well it performs. I'd look for a used 7800gt or 7900gt or possibly get a new Radeon X1900GT instead of the 7600gt, though...
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    Ok guys, i am looking for a new case that can hold a PA120.3 on the inside.

    In the case of the radiator, I know a single 120mm rad is good for about 150 watts with high speed fans, so that would give you 450 watts max for a 120.3. Assuming an overclocked quad core draws ~200 watts and the GTS's draw ~100 watts each, you should be able to run such a system on an 120.3...
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    P4 3.0GHz with 8600GT

    Your CPU might be a bottleneck, but it shouldn't be too severe; My Athlon 64 3200+ was bottlenecking my 7900gt a bit while I was running it at stock, and your CPU performs slightly worse and that video card will be more CPU intensive since it's a bit more powerful. I'd recommend replacing the...
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    Do you like hearing your hard drive?

    My computer is quiet enough that I can hear the hard drive seeks over the other noise, but only if I'm right up next to the case. Western Digital drives are pretty quiet.
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    In the computer case, what part makes the most noise?

    In the system I'm using at the moment, the power supply fan is the loudest. In my main rig, though, the title of loudest keeps passing to different components as I replace the noisier ones. In the beginning, the northbridge cooler was the loudest, so I replaced it with a passive heatsink. Then...
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    Dumbest thing you've ever done

    The most moronic thing I ever did was when I tried to reformat my XP partition by booting from a DOS floppy. At the time I didn't realize that NTFS partitions don't show up in DOS, and so of course I typed Format C: and erased my entire data drive. Now I make sure to check what's on the...
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    What do you guys recommend?

    2 8600's in SLI will cost more AND perform much worse than an 8800gts (64 shaders total vs. 96 shaders.) So yeah, sell them and get the GTS.
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    What's your closest major city?

    Colorado Springs is about 40,000 people short, so ~60 miles away from Denver.
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    Installing an AMD Opteron 165

    Just flash the latest BIOS and clear the CMOS before booting up with the new processor. The CMOS clear isn't always necessary, but some boards store processor specific settings and won't boot until the CMOS is cleared.
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    The great ball-bearing fan conspiracy.

    For one, sleeve bearing fans are actually quieter than ball bearing fans, even if they don't last as long and tend to fail without indication, but I think you may be mistaking ball bearings that look like this for sleeve bearings.
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    Noticed bad caps on motherboard

    With dual-core CPU's going for under $65, there's really not much of an excuse to repair your old system, unless you're great with a soldering iron, since a new motherboard's going to be extremely hard to find. You can get a new motherboard with onboard video, CPU, and RAM for about $200.
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    What wattage power supply would I need for a 8600 or 8800 Videocard ?

    The power supply you have now should be fine for an 8600 if you're running the x1600 off it already, but for an 8800 you'll need to upgrade it to something around 450-500 watts minimum. I'd recommend the Enhance 5150GH, it's cheap but extremely good for the price.
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    Are my PSU rails messed up?

    I think it's got the sensors arranged wrong, what you have for Vcore2 should be for the 3.3 volt rail. I think that you're suffering from some temperature related problems because PSU problems tend to result in consistently random hangs that go away after the machine's been rebooted, not after...
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    Which kind of connection to go from PC to TV (50 ft cable distance)

    HDMI is digital, so the picture doesn't degrade with cable lengths or quality like an analog signal. The picture will stay perfectly clear until the signal degrades enough that there are errors in the digital transmission, which tend to be very noticeable and often cause the picture to become...
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    Help with Partition strategy for 3 Hard Drive System

    The swap files are going to be fine where you put them, but you don't necessarily need separate partitions on each drive for them. Also, you can already reinstall the OS without reinstalling all your programs, it's called a repair installation.
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    Help with Partition strategy for 3 Hard Drive System

    No, you really want the swap files on the drive that Windows isn't on. I do agree that it's a bad idea to partition the Raptor, since it'll just slow things down and there's no reason to back up your programs since you can always reinstall those.
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    Need to cool down my Duron a bit - what heatsink to use?

    Spire WhisperRock/FalconRock/whatever they're calling it now, it's their aluminum heatsink with a copper base and a blue LED 80mm fan. Here's a Newegg link, but it looks like they're out of stock for now, so look around. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16835151120
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    Computer Hang Without Reason?

    I know that FSP makes a 300 watt replacement for that size of PSU. That should be plenty of power. MSI's recommendations are to cover their butts when people use an ancient generic power supply with very few amps on the 12 volt rail and wonder why it doesn't work. I'd be surprised if your...
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    Tuniq T 120 Copper Pipes not heating

    For one, there's no fan on the motherboard heatsinks. Also, from my experience, heatpipes don't really start heating up until the temperature's higher than 50C and even then they're just warm.
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    Will a LIAN LI PC7B plus II hold a Micro ATX board?

    There's an extra set of holes for the 3 places that the MicroATX board doesn't match up to a full ATX one. You just need to put the standoffs in the correct holes and you'll be fine.
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    So I'm looking for a computer - Granny Build!

    Just remember that ATI cards are not really well-supported in Linux. My backup machine (which I'm running Ubuntu on) has a Radeon 9550 and I still haven't gotten it to work properly in 3D. Also, my system's probably pretty similar to what you'll be building. AMD Sempron 2600+, 512 megs of...
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    need help finding budget mb-cpu-ram combo for son's pc

    I have had trouble getting my MSI VIA chipset motherboard to work properly with any ATI card (tried a 9550 and a 9800 Pro) It would constantly lock up after about 30 seconds in 3D no matter what I did to it. This actually seems to be a pretty common problem. I'd recommend that you get a Geforce...
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    hooked up new video card

    Before you get a new PSU, reinstall your old ATI card. Go into the Control Panel and uninstall ATI's drivers. Then, download and run Driver Cleaner Pro to get rid of the bits of files the uninstaller tends to miss. Next, shut down your computer and put the 7900gs back in. This time, it should...
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    Help I'm freezing!

    The best solution for this kind of problem is cardboard and duct tape. Seriously. Get yourself a sheet of cardboard, cut it and fold it to make some baffles to direct the air away from your legs, and tape it to your case. I'm running my backup machine this way right now, since my PSU has an...
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    How long do your PSU(s) last? Branded or cheap PSU(s)?

    Really, it depends on the brand, but some cheap PSU's are worse than others. I've seen people use cheap PSU's for years perfectly fine, and I've seen ones that expired after 15 minutes of use. Still, from my experience, it seems like it's more about brand than price. I've had 2 Rosewill power...
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    Post Your First Computer!

    Apple mac Plus 8 Mhz Motorola 68000 CPU 4 megabytes of RAM 2 floppy drives 50 megabyte external hard drive Strangely enough, the one thing that it didn't do was word processing since someone had deleted it before it was given to me and no one had the disks anymore. Still, it had plenty of...
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    witch case lighitng? cathode ray or ultra violet?

    You'll definitely get sick of the lighting after a while, especially if you leave your computer running while you're trying to sleep. I still have 2 sets of cold cathodes in my case, but I haven't even turned them on in months. The only glowing objects that are always on are the blue LED's in my...