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    Antec P182 se at Newegg

    Is it any larger than a 180? The 180 was a PITA to mount a larger power supply and my 8800gtx card blocked the space for a second hard drive in the upper drive bay. The little doors that cover the fans on the front are also made out of cheap plastic such that the hinges on them broke after...
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    Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme

    @Jediyoda I agree with you that the reviewer probably did not change anything in the bios. For some tests. That said how did they overclock the an X6800 cpu by 1ghz+ without disabling speed step and other throttling settings? Anyone who has disabled these settings sees a much higher CPU temp...
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    Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme

    @Jediyoda The reviewer of the product does not state what they did in the bios. I see no problem asking for this informaiton. What I said stands, the bios settings significantly affect the core temps under load and since quad cores put out a great deal more heat than dual core cpus it there...
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    Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme

    Here are my thoughts of the Anadntech Heatsink reviews, while helpful, there is a growing body of end user discrepancies in temperatures realized. This post is to stimulate discussion to determine why end users are not acheiving the same results (degrees C at idle and load) as reported in so...
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    tuniq tower bent?

    I am not running vista. The MB supports a quad cpu fine, it suffers from the same problem all other 975 and 680i boards have with the quad cpu regarding the fsb. I got mine up to 305 mhz and then it became unstable. I had a similar missing driver, I loaded the marvel driver from the asus cd...
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    tuniq tower bent?

    @ sparky, You are right. Load temps should be shown. I updated my tuniq fan for a thermaltake smart fan II, Temps running 4 simultaneous sessions of superpi to 4m digits, both cores were at 100%, Temps were b/w 48 and 50 degrees celsius. When the applicatoins finished core temps...
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    tuniq tower bent?

    Hi, I recently purchased a tuniq t-120 tower from newegg. Mounting it the copper plate is flush to the cpu, but the tower portion of where the fan/cooling fins are appears to be bent, like the heat pipes on 1 side are longer than the heat pipes on the other side of the tower. Is this normal...
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    Intel D975XBX2 SATA HDD Recognized as DVDs???

    Did you set the drive configuration to raid? On my Bx2 build this was necesary to get everything recognized. But I also updated the Marvel driver and, after talking to intel tech support I also did a cmos reset by removing the battery for about an hour and then restarting with yellow cmos...
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    Intel D975XBX2 Bad Axe 2 BIOS Freezing - Initial problem solved (?)

    424 FSB sounds out of reach for me, but I think my multiplier is too high. I did try an overclock yesterday and got a stable 3.6 ghz overclock of my quad core processor. I then ran 4 instances of super pi 1.1e each to 2 million places and the average was about 44 seconds. Next I ran aquamark...
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    Intel D975XBX2 Bad Axe 2 BIOS Freezing - Initial problem solved (?)

    Thanks backwardsman, I downloaded it this morning.
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    8800 GTX in an Antec P180 - blocks HDD bays?

    Thanks for the comments on dust guys. I found a solution for this case and having extra hard drives. I am using the p180 case with an intel bx2 motherboard and the 8800gtx graphics card. I had a coolermaster 4 in 3 hard drive cage left over from a server build. This part can be ordered for...
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    Intel D975XBX2 Bad Axe 2 BIOS Freezing - Initial problem solved (?)

    Hi backwardsman, I figured out that the intel desktop utilities was freezing because it did not like the fact that I had set up a raid on the marvel controller without setting the sata drive option in the bios to raid, it had it set to ide. So IDU could not figure out what that "drive" was...
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    Intel D975XBX2 Bad Axe 2 BIOS Freezing - Initial problem solved (?)

    Hi I have finished building my system around a bx2 board. Qx6700 cpu, evga 8800gtx, 4 crucial ddr2 ram sticks. I had the exact same problem with the usb keyboard and mouse working and then not working during my install of the operating system. I switched to ps/2 mouse and keyboard. Very...
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    The Super Pi Mod Score Database

    I cant seem to get superpi 1.5 to run on my system, I made sure there were no files other than the superpi program and help file in the folder. I run it and after the third step, I get the windows has encountered a problem issue. Any suggestions?
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    8800 GTX in an Antec P180 - blocks HDD bays?

    I am just starting to figure this out. I have a 8800gtx and a p180 case. I too like the look and lower noise level (when fans are set to low) of this case. Yes the upper drive bay is blocked. The other complication with this case is that larger sli power supplies are too long to keep the...
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    intel bad axe 2, hdd led problem?

    The HD light on is discussed in another forum, it has to do with the marvel controller. I have a bx2 and no drives on the marvel controller and the hd light is not on.
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    Quad Core Temperature confusing.

    Hi I am running the zalman 9700 cooling solution. I overclocked by increasing the fsb to 300, this makes my speed 3.00 ghz. Temps before and after the overclock were -45C, I am using this machine as a work station so I am only going to OC a very conservative amount. So far so good. I still...
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    Quad Core Temperature confusing.

    The issue was discussed on another forum here is the quote from that forum, "I went to Intel`s site and looked up the QX6700 CPU and on page 71 under Thermal Specifications it says,The temperature reported over PECI is always a negative value and represents a delta below the onset of thermal...
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    Intel D975XBX2 (Badaxe2) Problem Marvel Controller

    I found found on several raid set ups that the bios reconfigures itself when you set up a new raid and will select the new raid as the boot device. I have not used a bx2 motherboard yet (on order!) but this could be your issue, I would make sure the correct raid is designated as the boot hard...
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    wahoo computers?

    Hello Case forum, I purchased a Wahoo Stratagem for my dual Xeon system over 1 year ago. It took a little while to arrive (approx 3 weeks), but I was pleased with the product. Now I am building a second work station and ordered again on the 27th of September. I have not been able to get...
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    seriously, what use is bluetooth for my laptop?

    Having this option on your notebook means taking advantage of what you have, next phone you get see if there is a BT option.... etc. My T41p is bluetooth enabled. I too had little use for it until I started using my notebook to do powerpoint presentations. I purchased a logitech blue tooth...
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    pre-built small desktop solution

    Monarch Computers sells a pretty nice prebuilt SFF. I think it is called the hornet pro. www.monarchcomputer.com
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    Delete me

    Thanks for the follow up post regarding the source. T4X models with active protection may also be affected, numerous posts over at thinkpads.com have stated that their T41p hard drives with the hitachi 7200 rpm drive have been mysteriously failing. I own a t41p so until this sorts out I see...
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    Delete me

    Can you tell me where you got your information from? Several owners of T41p models that use the same hard drive and active protection are curious if the unusual number of hitachi drive failures in their machines may be related to this same problem. If you have a contact person at IBM could...
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    T41p defective again!

    OK I tinkered for about two days now and here is what I believe is going on: I tried the system restore from the hard drive again and watched very carefully what was going on, the setup is so fast that you never see all the stuff going on, particularly when the notebook is connected to the...
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    T41p defective again!

    Hello, I am on my second T41p, the problem I had with the first notebook is the same as with the replacement which has been a month in coming. Briefly, the notebook ran fine until I hooked up the network cable to it. Immediately it reconfigured itself and now most of my desktop icons such as my...
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    Replacement t41p arrived help with battery mode processor speed

    My T41p replacement arrived yesterday. Having waited almost a month, I was very nervous about starting it up. So far none of the problems with the icons under windows XP not responsding have occurred. I have installed my usual compliment of software and all seems well. As soon as I...
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    T41p Feed back

    Would people who currently own IBM T41ps models 2373-GEU provide some feedback? I and at least one other individual received these notebooks and experienced very odd problems with the system not responding when you click on My Computer, Control Panel, etc. What has been the experience of...
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    3 problems with t41p

    I had a T41p that exhibited the exact same not responding problems. Clearly something is wrong with these notebooks. I restored twice from the Hard drive and the same problem happened each time. I called IBM and they sent the restore CDs and when I tried to restore from the CDs the DVD/CDRW...
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    new widescreen from Samsung

    I came across this offering from Samsung today: http://www.samsung.com/Products/NotebookPCs/SamsungXseries/NotebookPCs_SamsungXseries_NX30.htm Its a pretty impressive notebook. Weighing in at a little over 5lbs. Samsung screens are pretty good. Why this vendor will not sell this model or...
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    Help with t41p

    This is the first notebook of 3 I have purchased that has had this many problems. Not what I expected for an IBM T41 machine. If the replacement sucks I have to consider an alternative, such as a Dell 8600 or a Voodoo Envy.
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    Help with t41p

    I did the reformat and tried to reinstall using the CD roms from IBM . The CDRW/DVD drive starting giving this terrible noise like something was hitting then the notebook gave a read fail drive X abort retry fail error and starting beeping three times. Time to RMA.
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    Help with t41p

    Hi My new T41p arrived an it has some weird problem with its Win Xp pro. I click on icons like My Computer and the hourglass sits there and eventually I get the message My Computer Not Responding. I spoke to "Tech" Support who said that the HD may be bad but PC Doctor found no errors. I...
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    t41p arrived yesterday

    I paid $3410 for it. This was with a University Discount. I started to configure it today and noticed that many of the icons were "Not Responding" when clicking on them. Called IBM Tech Support who said to restore it once with the Preload on the hard drive. Hopefully it will not have this...
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    t41p arrived yesterday

    Hello my T41p arrived yesterday. I would like to post a review. Can the forum members please suggest a few benchmarks? Fit and finish, This model has a 1.7 GHZ centrino with the ATI Fire 128 mb graphics card and the Hitachi 7200 RPM hard drive. I am using XP Pro and have 1 GB pc2700 ram...
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    connecting Bluetooth devices to my t41

    I have an IBM T41 with the ibm wireless a,b,g card and bluetooth wireless included. I also have a logitech cordless presenter which uses a usb blue tooth device to connect to the mouse/presenter. I have tried turning off my WiFi, and removing the USB blue tooth item from logitech and turning...
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    Seti freezes my notebook

    I was running the GUI, but my notebook does use a Microsoft Plus screen saver (the aquarium).
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    Seti freezes my notebook

    I have a new T41 with 1 GB PC 2700 ram. I installed Seti today version 3.08 and had some major problems with the machine locking up and programs not responding. I had no problems before seti was loaded. This is my first experience with Seti doing bad things, at a previous time I had it...