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    New battery & alternator.

    My alternator recently kicked the bucket and my battery is seven years old so I?m replacing both of them. For the alternator I went with a rebuilt, 3g, 200 amp, Ford OEM style unit. My car came with a 110 amp unit originally. I never felt this unit was strong enough for the car even though I...
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    Is anyone else annoyed by the lack of 4:3 LCDs and notebooks?

    I prefer 1600x1200 but these days there aren't any notebooks that I can find which are that resolution. The main stream resolution for notebooks these days seems to be 1400x900. Ugh. I'd prefer to have a notebook/docking station hooked up to two 21.3, 4:3, 1600x1200 monitors and also have...
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    Temperature variations? Normal?

    CPU is an Opteron 185 with a ZeroTherm BTF90 cooler. Idle temps: Core 1: 39C (average) Core 2: 31C (average) Load: Core 1: 55C (average) Core 2: 42C (average) Is it normal for the cores to have that wide of a temperature difference? I'm running stock clock (2.6GHz) and voltage...