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    psu compatible with mobo?

    psu that was smoking and has 1 melted wire and the mobo that it was hooked up wrong too both seem to still work! alls well that ends well, windows is on it now, going to go dl all the windows updates
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    psu compatible with mobo?

    think im getting it now lol, i there seem to be two 4 pin connectors from the psu, i must have hooked up the wrong one
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    psu compatible with mobo?

    think this one is compatable with the msi socket 754 k8n neo? gonna try and find the same mobo and maybe this cheap psu: http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16817152019
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    psu compatible with mobo?

    plugged in a new psu http://www.newegg.com/Product/...16&Tpk=rp%2b550%2bpcar smoke came out and a wire is melting, and the mobo seems broken too mobo = msi socket 754 k8n neo http://www.marketworks.com/hi/57/57246/msi_k8n_neo.jpg any tips for finding compatable psus for different...
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    Nvidia Provides More Details on 8800GT 256MB

    the 8800 gt 512 meg cards prices are way jacked up to like $350, kinda waiting till these cards come down to around $200, hopefully less than a year from now?
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    3870 $207 at Dell.

    $219 for sapphire 3870 at newegg http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16814102713
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    Crazy Cheap and SOLD OUT 8/24! OEM e6600 2.4GHz 4MB L2 for $129.99 + ship at Microcenter! e6700 for $189.99.

    i'm surprised there aren't more posts here about this, huge amount of posts about this on some other forums trying to check it out because deal seems to good almost i paid this for my 4300 i think just a little while ago
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    ASRock 775Dual-VSTA

    my asrock shipped with and im on bios 1.50P or something like that running E4300 in it not sure if i should upgrade the bios - doesn't seem like it will change much if i do
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    Time Lapse of Rig Built from Scratch

    hope you enjoy your new rig!
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    Best retail builders?

    if you buy parts at newegg i would try and put them together yourself. I really doubt you will break the parts doing it yourself if that is what you are worried about. if you hit a snag though there is a chance the computer won't work straight away and it could take a few days to figure out...
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    ASRock 4CoreDual-VSTA

    i just installed a core 2 duo e4300 there was some paste already on the bottom of the heatsink where it contacts the c2d
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    QUAKE WAR BETA A DISSAPOINTMENT ??

    missed out on beta because my new parts arrived in time but i couldn't get xp to install for several days :( wanted to try this beta
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    Upgrading socket 754 for last time: Need advice.

    i just upgraded my socket 754 amd 64 3000+ went with the ASRock 4CoreDual-VSTA mobo e4300 and i ended up getting ram but you may not need to kept my IDE drives, my AGP card, my psu, optical drives, case, fans, etc. you may only need to get the asrock mobo and the e4300 making it under...
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    ASRock 4CoreDual-VSTA

    ah thanks PG! i didn't know those pins worked like that i'm on my core 2 duo now! its up and pretty stable so far! After switching out almost every piece of hardware including hdd cables, i found on another forum a guy with the same problem as me and he said after hours of research that it...
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    ASRock 4CoreDual-VSTA

    yup i just built the system again without a case just loose parts on a desk and put different hard drive that never had vista on it and now i can intall XP bad software that you cannot uninstall is worse than any virus i made a cd with a program called "ultimate boot cd" hopefully it can...
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    ASRock 4CoreDual-VSTA

    did some googling it might be hdd after all - i installed vista and had a hell of a time uninstalling vista and i suspect remnants of vista could be the problem
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    ASRock 4CoreDual-VSTA

    need some help new 4coredual VSTA when i plug it it and turn it on i can get to bios and see the e4300 at the right speed (1.80) and see bios version P1.50 and change some bios settings etc. then when i go to boot from windows xp install cd it says something like: "inspecting your hardware...
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    3 Aggressive Price Cuts in One Year ?!

    Its funny when i saw the title of the thread "3 aggressive price cuts in one year?" i assumed you were asking why AMD was cutting prices so low. Both AMD and Intel reacting to each other i guess. Good time for us to buy ;). I recently was looking at the $179 AMD 5600+ and in the gaming...
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    socket 754 3000+ to core 2 duo "upgrade"

    Upgrading my current system because recent demo and beta games i've tried have been unplayable. My last system was based around a new chip at the time the athlon 64 3000+ and an ATI 9700 pro. I chose these by studying AT benchmarks and these parts served me well for a long period. Been out of...
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    Confused: SATA, IDE, SCSI .....what is all this, what Do I need?

    im in similar situation have 2 ide optical drives and 1 320gb hdd + 1 400gb hdd i see only 1 ide connector on the "GIGABYTE GA-965P-DS3 (rev. 1.3) LGA 775 Intel P965 Express ATX Intel Motherboard" (seems to be the popular mobo right now) so i think what i will do is buy a 38 dollar...
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    Do i need to format???

    with a new mobo it is recommended that you format i believe in fact i think it may not even boot with a new mobo easiest setup i know of is to have a partition on a hard drive that has only your OS that way if you ever need to format you can just format that partition and you don't really...
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    Compatible components

    buying components for your computer tech to build? maybe give your computer tech a budget and then let them buy the components & build? from the other recent threads on system builds you can get some ideas maybe
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    E4300 vs. E6600

    not a huge risk of frying your core 2 duo if you step up the speed slowly and don't keep it maxed out to the limit all the time i'm not a huge propenent of oc'ing either though - for example, in the very graph shown above: http://images.anandtech.com/gr..._01090750127/13877.png the 4300...
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    What do you think of this build - Need Advice!

    im making a wishlist right now too, my system more budget than yours so i won't comment on the rest but i have an idea for the video card if you look at the numbers from anandtech you see that the nvidia GeForce 7950 gt actually is faster than the 8600's such as here...