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    U2410 too hot. Looking for replacement with same quality.

    Hi Everyone, I own a Dell U2410 and it's a great looking monitor, but it runs WAY too hot. It heats up my home office to the point where I need to shut everything down for a few hours in the afternoons just to cool the office down. I'm looking to replace the monitor with an LED backlit...
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    Looking for DD-WRT capable N router

    Hi Everyone! I'm looking to replace a dying WRT310 router with something newer that's DD-WRT capable. I can also do Tomato, but I don't have any experience with it. So far, I've narrowed the choices down to a few routers, but I'm not 100% sure which is the best choice. I may have also...
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    Odd Video Problem at Boot

    Hi Everyone, I just purchased a new video card about 2 weeks ago: BFG 8800GTS OC2 640MB and ever since I installed it in my system, the information on the screen at boot time scrolls in a jerky fashion and the screen refreshes very slowly. Once I get into Windows, things are ok. Performance...
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    Vista + Intel 965 Drivers

    Before I start, let me just say that I do know that most drivers are in horrible shape at the moment. I'm just trying to confirm that it is a driver problem and not a problem with my system in particular. I'm running Windows Vista Ultimate 32-bit. When I did the initial installation (clean...
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    PCI Ex Speed

    Simple question (I think). Is there a way I can tell what speed my PCI Express slot is running at? I've heard that sometimes it can run at 1x when it's really supposed to run at 16x. I've also noticed a choppiness in my games lately and I don't know if it's because of this issue or something...
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    Vista + Video Card Fan

    So the main thing preventing me from running Vista at the moment is the way it taxes my video card. As soon as it loads the GUI, the fan on the card goes into high gear and the noise is annoying. In XP, the fan would not run at that level unless I'm running a game. So it seems I have a...
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    Vista + Video Card Fan = Noise

    I've been running Vista for a while. First RC1 and now RC2. Everything seems ok except for the fan on my video card. When I run Windows XP, once the driver for the video card loads, the fan would slow down to a nice level and would only speed up when I used a game that required its services...
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    IRQ Problem?

    Hi Guys, I'm having some odd problems with USB ports and my DVD Drive. Generally the computer is stable, but if I attach a storage device via USB or use my DVD drive, the computer starts to stutter. If I'm listening to music in iTunes or just watching an avi file, things will freeze or...
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    SATA HD and NCQ

    I bought a new hard drive about 2 months ago. SATA II, Western Digital 250GB, 16MB cache and I thought it would have NCQ capabilities. However, when I look at it through the Intel Matrix Manager, it shows the NCQ field as "no". So, my questions are: a) Will NCQ make a difference for things...