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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?

    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

    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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    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

    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...