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    integrated video

    im going build a new pc, i heard new integrated video chips are getting better. i want to buy a mobo/cpu for the same price as a video card that can play a game like farcry in high settings. i search google but can't find any reviews of todays integrated video chips. if anyone can link me to any...
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    Death by OverClocking ?

    I have no idea what this sentence means, but I'll take a guess and suggest that you not mess with hardware or post in forums when you're stoned. swim = some one who isn't mean. make any more sense? I'm not making anyone read this, so don't deny my rights to free speech - I'm not breaking...
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    Death by OverClocking ?

    SWIM IS HIGH!!!!!!!!!!!! THIS SUX I CAN'T GET SUPER SONIC SPEEDS ANYMORE =[ THANKS FOR THE FISH!
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    Doing RAID with a SATA and IDE?

    deleted by admin for stupidity
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    Please help, Hard Drive falls asleep every 10 seconds!

    boy was i wrong about the benchmarks. ran pcmark05 on p4 2.8 lap and on 2.8hgz athlon xp desktop and the desktop was 177% faster on cpu and memory tests. seems prime95 for some reason showed close benchmark times for some weird reason
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    Please help, Hard Drive falls asleep every 10 seconds!

    been there, done that, no help
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    Please help, Hard Drive falls asleep every 10 seconds!

    I solved the problem for now. I fired vc++, started a win32 application, and made a loop in main() to write a binary byte to a file on one second then overwrite it on the next. doesn't look like it hurts performance, but feels like a half-assed way to solve a problem. does anyone else ever...
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    Please help, Hard Drive falls asleep every 10 seconds!

    I just got this HP zv5160us SPECS it had a dead hard drive so I went to newegg and got a HITACHI Travelstar 7K100 HTS721060G9AT00 (0A25022) 60GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache ATA-6 Notebook Hard Drive - OEM after about 5-10 seconds after the hard drive activity light stops blinking, from most likely...
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    Looking for gaming/DVD movie wide screen LCD screen

    heres what i think about response times for LCD's (_(_) 5ms WOW thats 200 times persecond. my CRT is at 85hz at 1600x1200 thats 85000 times per second. i better not hear no 'but you cant see more than 30 times persecond' or ull be shot dead
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    outlook express sux0rz

    i dont know what the deal was with the rr email and oe.. but i signed up to gmail, and am using gmail's pop and smtp servers and no longer drop photos
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    trackless browser

    sweet, i love opera.. why couldnt ie have a simple off feature for history and cookies.. opera looks better
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    trackless browser

    i need a win32 browser like http://oembrowser.com/ that doesnt leave any history, chache, or cookies. im tired of having to remember to delete everything when i get done with the pc (pun intended, if any found) edt: i need one thats freeware. THANK YOU
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    outlook express sux0rz

    if thats true then the only thing i can blame is norton internet security 2007
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    outlook express sux0rz

    umm yea.. anyways, i use rr email. i can see the emails fine if i use the rr web mail, the pics are about 40kb. as soon as oe downloads them the photos are lost forever because it deletes from the server too
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    outlook express sux0rz

    i got her to resend. 8 out of the 9 emails had their pictures linked/attached stripped showing (0 bytes). only one email showed its pictures
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    outlook express sux0rz

    i think i fixed it by selecting "internet zone" instead of restricted zone.. man outlook express is a pain i lost all those pictures, i never told it to remove them in the first place
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    outlook express sux0rz

    hi, in outlook express sexurity tab i have unchecked "block images and other external conten in html e-mail" yet so far its stripped the pics out of like 20 emails sent to me by a friend :( can someone help this n00b thnx
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    Looking for gaming/DVD movie wide screen LCD screen

    i have an ol 21" sony trinitron.. i went to circuitcity the otherday and they were playing a movie on all their top LCD brands. every one of them was fuzzy pixalated garbage.. oh well.. there was a XEROX one that look better than the others but still not as good as a crt
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    Looking for gaming/DVD movie wide screen LCD screen

    ok every year I buy the best consumer LCD screen to replace my CRT. every time they say will play games and show videos just as good as CRT. other comment on these products say they produce a better image than CRT. and every time they go right on ebay and I lose a couplehundred dollars as I stay...
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    overclocking X1950PRO

    too bad.. any over clocking freezes
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    overclocking X1950PRO

    I got a HIS Hightech Radeon X1950PRO and I googled for 100 pages and could not figure out how to overclock this thing. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks.
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    copy office 2003 contacts ¿

    im trying to get my contacts from one pc to another. i did the archive option and selected the pfc folder that included all subfolders.. it made a archive.pst and i put it on the other pc and when i imported it i had all my email but no contacts.. so then i went into the outlook folder and...
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    fast dvd/cd players

    i increased speed significantly by installing a program that limits it to 8x speed. no more waiting to spin up.. i still dont like the seek time
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    how secure is EFS

    i just downloded steganos 2007. i have a 50character password and it says that the secret service cant break into it.. it also has 256 AES.. the funny thing is, it encrypts files almost twice as fast as EFS
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    memory wont run at addvertied timings

    I got CORSAIR XMS 2GB (2 x 1GB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200) Dual Channel it was advertised 400Mhz 2-2-2-5 but it would only run a 3-2.5-3-7
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    Upgrade to 3 gigs of RAM?

    yea yea, but the time u need 3 gigs ull need a faster cpu to run the app that needs 3 gigs
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    Strange behavior in Vista after latest updates

    yea.. #1 dont use vista. #2 dont do upgrades, its lame.
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    Vista BSODs when playing videos

    i dont know why everyone is tripping over 64bit. there are like no 64bit apps so all your software will run slwoer on it.. please install 32bit vista before complaining.. actually dont use vista at all.. and dl the latest drivers for all ur chips
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    Appalled with Vista

    I agree, VISTA IS TERRIBLE. actually I would of kept it if my sound didn't crackle, and no its not my sound card. I have a soudblaster x-fi extrememusic (on board disabled in bios), I got the latest drivers, and it crackles when theres cpu or hdd activity. and its not the sound card because I...
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    how secure is EFS

    i'm just curious. I have XP all updated. is it possible for anyone willing to spend enough money to get into encrypted files? can the fbi crack it?
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    fast dvd/cd players

    thats bs, screw you
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    fast dvd/cd players

    I've become impatiant with these drives. every time I put in a cd or DVD I have to wait 15 seconds just for it to start spinning and autorun. when switching a hundred unlabbled cds to find data those 15 seconds start adding up to minutes and hours. I am willing to pay up to $300 on a drive that...
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    restore partition?

    well b4 u replied i found active partition recovery, dled it off usenet and got my crap back..
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    restore partition?

    i the main partition on my backup drive by accident. i havent done anything else yet. is there a way to access the files on it? thanks.
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    overclocking 7800 gt sli's

    it turned out that the second card i bought, used from ebay, was a bad card. even though it was the same modal number as the first card i bought new, this ebay card could not be over clocked. in fact i have just tried it all by its self and any clock speed test including default fails.. so i...
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    overclocking 7800 gt sli's

    yo guys this thing is weird. why is it when i move the core clock from 450mhz to 650mhz the test doesnt fail? i can enter a game with no fps change.. its as if the settings hgave absolutly no effect
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    The World's Fastest GPU

    back when i was a complete noob tigerdirect would make me buy things 2 years obselete making me think i can play all the games with no slow downs with it
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    overclocking 7800 gt sli's

    thanks for the replies. so far no luck. my psu = OCZ GameXStream OCZ700GXSSLI ATX12V 700W i managed to find the allow low power 3d and clocked that and high power up to 495 core but to no avail. i couldnt find how to turn of the test clocks. yet to say again, whenever i overclock a single...
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    overclocking 7800 gt sli's

    ok, both cards were up to date with the firmware. they both had 05.70.02.13.12 which is the same version as the rom i downloaded.. overclocking in any interval does no help, just crashes
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    overclocking 7800 gt sli's

    hmm this bios stuff interests me.. theres nothing about it on the xfx site.. on your link i got the nvflash 5.38 and XFX.7800GT.PCIe.256MB.Rev.01.rom. i have not went into dos to upgrade it yet.. first i want to know how can i find my current firmware version second, do i have to plug in...