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    Quick question about Core2 processors

    Thanks for all the input! I'm going to go ahead with the quad processor. Especially as I've been itchin' to play Crysis.
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    Quick question about Core2 processors

    Alas, my choice is only between these 2 processors. It's a pre-built system I'm getting from my company at a price I just can't refuse.
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    Quick question about Core2 processors

    The question I'm wondering about is whether the dual core E6850 which is clocked at 3.0Ghz would have any real world performance advantage over the quad Q6600 running at 2.4Ghz? Will mainly be using the system for gaming and media encoding. I know the quad should be the prime choice for the...
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    My network connection squeaks?

    In case anyone reads this post in the future, it was the nvidia firewall causing the noise from the port, I removed it and it was gone! Yeah!!!
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    My network connection squeaks?

    veddy interesting, I wonder if this is common or not? Love your sig btw
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    My network connection squeaks?

    yeah, that's just what it's like, really irritating. Off to RMA, at least I have my Athlon 2500 system to keep me going til the new board gets in.
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    My network connection squeaks?

    I posted earlier thinking my new hard drive was making a squeaking noise, it isn't the drive, it's coming from the LAN port from an Asus Crosshair mobo, I was already going to RMA the thing because the first lan port didn't work at all. I've just NEVER heard of a LAN port making noise. What's...
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    Squeaky hard drive that just came in from newegg

    I just had a Seagate 320 GB 7200.10 drive come in from Newegg yesterday and it has an irritating squeaky sound coming from it. Not loud but highly annoying, what makes it worse is that as long as the LAN is connected, it constantly makes the noise, if I disable the LAN it quits doing it...
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    Building new system

    I'm in the process of building a new system and am trying to find that right balance of performance between the cpu and vid card, I'm going with AMD on this one and am trying to decide between an A64 5000+ with an ATI x1950xt or an A64 4400+ with an nVidia 8800 GTS 320MB card. Either way the...
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    Issue with browser hijacking of Google search results in IE

    Thanks for the input everybody, believe it or not, it was fixed by the latest Microsoft update that came out today. Now who would've thought that??? :)
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    Issue with browser hijacking of Google search results in IE

    I've read about this exploit from other forums, basically the first 3 searches get redirected then all others go the page that was intended, until you start a new browser session. There appears to be variants of the same issue, and any that I've read of that fixed others with the same problem...
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    Issue with browser hijacking of Google search results in IE

    No, I haven't posted the log file yet, I really don't see anything suspicious from it either. But I may have to have someone else look at it who has more insight into these types of issues than I do.
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    Issue with browser hijacking of Google search results in IE

    The system has Norton AV on it, but it's not detecting anything. Then again, it usually doesn't :) I'll give Antivir a try. I'll let you know if it works. and it found nothing... I'm going to have to do some research on this.
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    Avi crashing explorer problem

    I had the exact same problem my issue was the xvid codec as well, even when videos weren't thumbnailed and you just clicked on the file name explorer would crash. To remove codecs you need to go in the control panel, go into audio devices and click on the hardware tab, scroll down to video...
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    Issue with browser hijacking of Google search results in IE

    Trying to fix an IE issue where google search results are hijacked and displaying pages that are not the ones that should have displayed. I've already used hijack this!, a coolwebsearch remover software and ad-aware, so far none of them has fixed this particular issue. Host file is clean...
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    Which 20.1" LCD?

    LCD's aren't quite at that level that they offer image quality as good as a CRT but they are gaining ground fast. Screen size between 19" and 20.1" is hardly discernable, however as another poster said, the 20.1' usually have higher resolutions. I wouldn't want to go less than 1600 by 1200 res...
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    What's my system worth?

    Actually, I'd love to keep the system, but I can't afford to go to a new proc and pci-x if I don't sell this one. I apologize if I went against forum rules. I've checked online on similar systems but nothing quite matches up to mine spec wise. The parts are good quality stuff I think, best I...
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    What's my system worth?

    Hi all, I've got an Athlon XP 2500+ with 512 MB of OCZ Gold memory on an Abit AN7 board. The system includes a 120 Gig WD 7200 RPM Hard Drive and an ATI 9600 Pro All in Wonder card in it. The case is a green Aspire Super X-Alien with 500W 'see thru' power supply and a 16x DVD writer. I'd be...
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    Blocking websites on a small business network

    great ideas, thanks so much for your input
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    Blocking websites on a small business network

    I work at a small business running Windows Server 2003 and 6 workstations running windows XP. I need to have internet access on the office systems, but they want the sales workstations to not have any internet access save an online credit authentication address. Does anyone know the best way to...
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    Can my computer business be profitable?

    As someone who has worked for a couple of small computer shops, there is money to be made but it's largely based on competition and the area you live in. I live in a small rural town and I can assure you, no one has ever run a computer shop around here made anything more than enough to get by...