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    ACER 5100 LAPTOP SERIES EPIC ENGINEERING FAILURE

    So right now, My acer laptop that I use for directx 8 gaming finally went out on me, IDE devices are not recognized. I unscrewed the main cpu access panel to check inside to discover the destructive culprit. The copper heat sink that's connected to the amd x2 dual core cpu is also connected...
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    Home made WIFI extender antenna ideas

    HI, does anybody know any creative and interesting ideas on how to build up an external wifi extender antenna without paying the extra costs and buying the actual retail products. Thinking of something universal, I can just plug it in or TWEAK IT into the plugs of the wireless card.
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    Pentium 4 Extreme edition Error 3.2ghz locked at 1.6 ghz

    I have a sager notebook d900t series running an intel pentium 4 extreme edition cpu clocked at 3.2 ghz with hyper threading with the code name Gallatin. I ran the recent version of cpu z and on the specs side, it says Intel Pentium 4 extreme edition 0mhz "0 Mhz" lol core speed is at...
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    different RDRAM speeds on the same board

    HI, i have an intel 850 chipset motherboard that has 4 slots of rdram that i'm kinda planning to stick in 2 sticks of rdram 600 speed non ecc 64mb sticks and another 2 sticks of rdram 800 speed non ecc 128mb sticks so all 4 slots are filled i just need to know if that...
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    WARNING TO ANYBODY USING A BESTEC POWER SUPPLY

    Just giving everybody a warning and a heads up that the taiwanese company the produces the low quality cheap power supplies with the brand name of bestec is a complete danger to motherboards during the time of function and malfunction. my best advice is toss it and get yourself another branded...
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    What is this pci MATROX POWER VR???

    no external ports or connectors on the power vr pci card made by matrox. i think its old technology but just checking if anybody knows about what its used for. Is it like a physics processor such as an ati fire gl or nvidia quadro??? just let me know if anybody has a clue about it
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    Can anybody verify and test a Gigabyte GA-8I945P-pro

    Hi, i'm having some serious draw backs to my switch to core 2 duo I need to know if my motherboard Gigabyte GA-8I945P-pro supports intel core 2 duo can anybody physically try it. the gigabytes web site confirms that its no compatible but i really want to see if its true. i've noticed...
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    OFF TOPIC ANANDTECH BLOGS/JOURNALS OF ME

    If the anandtech moderators dont mind, I would like to have an off topic journal/ blog of my interesting endeavors.
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    P4 2.4 (478) motherboard or bios glitch

    I seem to be having trouble with my motherboard. I just need a quick explanation why this occurs 2 motherboards with p4 2.4hz clocked down to 1.7ghz 1 that i know is intel 865 chipset has pentium 2.4 ghz but its clocked down to 1.7ghz. the multiplyers are 166. i'm running ddr 333 512mb...
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    Windows Virtual Memory on a memory stick

    I'm planning to conduct intensive tests to see how well a memory 2 gigabyte sd stick with 10 mb pers second read and write would do as virtual memory. It will be connected to a usb card reader and i'll configure windows to rely virtually on the external virtual memory. I'll be running and...