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    Intel Core Duo -- MS Dual core hotfix needed?

    I am purchasing a Core Duo (not Core 2 Duo) notebook and need to know if the MS dual core hotfix is required or not. I am coming from the AMD world, where it was pretty standard to use the hotfix along with the processor driver (now the processor driver and the "AMD dual core optimizer") but am...
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    ASUS P5B-E Up and running!

    Rev 1.01g. Don't let this concern you, though. The thing is stable and fast. I just ran it through 24 hours of Orthos and then launched SuperPI from time to time to really put the screws to it and there was not a hiccup. Setup as follows: 1. ASUS P5B-E with latest BIOS (flashed first...
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    Foxconn P965 motherboard

    Ok, so I get my new Foxconn P965 motherboard and go to replace the stock NB heatsink with a Zalman NB heatsink. I unloop one side of the wire clip and the heatsink comes up...very easily as if there was no thermal pad, but grease used. I notice that HALF OF THE P965 CORE came up with it...
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    Did something gutsy, but nuts

    Well, I did something pretty bold. I used to be a Project Manager making $55,000 per year with benefits. The job was about half sales and half Project Management. It was a highly charged political environment--working for a Central Nonprofit Agency aligned with the Federal Government. The...
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    My Review of the Creative SB X-Fi

    After having chucked anything Creative since the SB Live! debacle and Creative's lies and misdirection, I finally felt it *somewhat* safe to go ahead and buy a X-Fi Xtreme Music soundcard. I got it at Best Buy for $99, so could not pass up the deal. That beats even Newegg's price.... First...
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    Weird issue with Catalyst 6.3 drivers

    I noticed when I loaded the ATI Catalyst 6.3 drivers that the desktop was "swimming" on some colors--usually gray. Hard to describe, but to suffice to say it was like watching the pixels in a river going from right to left, and was most discernable on lighter colors, but oddly especially light...
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    Need a math wiz

    Ok, this will probably sound like a dumb question, but I have a math problem. If you have a final result result number, such as $20, and need to know what the original number is (X, I guess, because the original number is unknown) to get $20 by adding 9.5% to "X", then how do you get get...
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    Wireless minipc card question

    Does anyone own a notebook that uses the MSI MP54G4 wireless minipci card? If so, does this card support AES type encryption? I can confirm that it is WPA compatible, but that does NOT mean it is necessarily WPA-AES compatible as I believe AES requires hardware support. Thanks.
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    Considering ABS

    Anyone here own an ABS Mayhem F15 Turion64 notebook? I am considering the F15 A30, since it is the cheapest on NewEgg and I want to throw 1Gig Corsair Value Select PC3200 in it, along with a Fujitsu 80Gig 5400rpm high shock tolerance HDD, and then a Buffalo High Power PC Card for the wireless...
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    NewEgg down for almost two days?

    Going through NewEgg withdrawl! Anyone else having trouble? Thanks.
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    Holy crap--I am getting 22Mb/s on my cable internet

    From dslreports.com to a Chicago Speak Easy server: Download Speed: 18280 kbps (2285 KB/sec transfer rate) Upload Speed: 736 kbps (92 KB/sec transfer rate) I checked the speed against my local RCN server and got these results..... File size transferred : 3.02 MB (3167484 bytes)...
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    Creative up to their old tricks?

    Is anyone having problems with their Creative X-Fi on a nForce4 based board? I just corresponded with another AT poster who is having boot issues with the card simply installed. Creative's response to this person was "well, all of the nForce4 board makers have to issue a compability fix for...
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    Need someone who knows NYC area subway system real well

    I think the title says it all. I need someone from the NYC area who knows the subway system inside-out. I will be flying from Chicago into Long Island MacArthur Airport (ISP) in Islip, NY and need to get to Hoboken, NJ. It is about 55 miles away by car. Can it be done by subway?? Thanks!
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    Foxconn K7S741GXMG-6L Motherboard Report

    I just recently rebuilt someone's machine with the following mobo: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813186029 This is, obviously, a Micro-ATX SiS741GX chipset based Socket A motherboard that happens to only be $44 at NewEgg. The person's system I rebuilt had an idiot...
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    Love/hate relationship with Microsoft

    Ya know, I really do like WindowsXP. It is a good OS, and the best Microsoft has put out. The thing is, I often change my hardware. I don't usually go more than a month without changing *something*. My last change resulted in a re-activation message that indicated I had activated "too...
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    Choose the mobo!

    I am building another PC for a friend, and he is stuck on either ASUS or ABIT. I cannot convince him to go with either the 9NPA+ Ultra or the AOpen board--even those are proven stable solutions. No need for firewire. Possibly dual core down the road. He games. He is not going to do SLI...
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    I LOVE IT

    Ok, just installed the Bluegears card. OH MY FVCKING GOD. Totally annihilates my old Chaintech AV-710 and my on-board ALC880 sound. Listening to Trance has never been so good. My neighbors hate me...it is hooked up to a Klipsch Promedia 2.1 speaker set. The driver has a significant...
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    X2 and CPU Cycle Priority--Foreground/Background

    I am currently running a single core A64, but will upgrade to an X2 when the prices come down a little more. I know that priority for CPU cycles can be given for foreground or background tasks in WindowsXP (as well as 2K, but who cares about 2K...). Anyway, so with two cores, would one be...
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    VIA seriously screws up AGAIN!

    Well, in the typical VIA fashion of FUBARing everything they touch, the latest Envy24 drivers, 4.73b, have done the following: 1. Removed the QSound option (and therefore any kind of 3D sound support) when used with the most common Envy24HT-S card, the Chaintech AV-710; and 2. Reintroduced...
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    AOpen nCK804Ua-LFS Motherboard report

    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813137066 The above link is to this motherboard that I have recently installed into a new system build. Basically, this is one VERY stable motherboard and is not quirky in any way. Pleasure to work with--easy build. I put it through...