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    nvidia gtx 560 fan replacement

    My Zotax gtx 560 fan is driving me crazy! So I'm looking for a replacement to improve the cooling and noise. I've been looking at some Arctic Cooling because of positive experiences with those, but are there any other fans worth looking at? My priorities is as silent as can be! Thanks in advance
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    weird performance with intel x25m 80gb 1st gen

    I have a intel x25m 80gb 1st generation harddrive attached to a gigabyte GA-X38-DS4 alongside with two samsung f1 sata spinpoint 1tb hds and 2 nec sata cd/dvd writers When im burning with both dvds at the same time (one thread from each samsung hd) the read speed from my ssd goes absolutely...
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    memory question regarding asrock G43Twins-FullHD

    windows 7 64bit says "4gb installed 3.19gb usable" I tried checking the manual but i couldnt find anything informations regarding the motherboard can be found here thanks in advance
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    Lian-Li PC-A17 question

    I've been reading reviews about this chassis on some sites, they all agree that it is a very good chassis, and I like it so ive been thinking about buying it. There is one thing neither of the review ive read cares to mention, which is whether or not the vibrations from the harddrives are...
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    power on pc through usb

    im not sure this is the right section for my question, but ill give it a go anyway i have a spare ibm t60 laptop which i want to use as a media center instead of my noisy slim line shit - only problem is that the space doesnt allow the laptop to open - so i have to find alternatives ways for...
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    ibm t60 cpu upgrade

    hello to all and a merry christmas i was wondering if my ibm t60 which has a t2400 core duo processor, can be replaced with a core 2 duo processor ? i havent been able to find anything about it so im hoping some of you guys knows it both cpu's has the same socket so if it isnt possible it...
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    geforce 6600 go drivers

    this is annoying ;( i said yes to fix a friends computer (isnt it like this always) and it doesnt go as planned the driver for the gfx card is not on medions site, it isnt on nvidias site either, after googling it it sounds like nvidia stopped making those drivers or god knows why, buttom...
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    ibm t60 issue

    im in quite the pickle, some time ago i helped one of my mothers friends pick a laptop, she travels alot so i suggested she would go for ibm for stability, which she did, she picked the t60 (not my call though) well good enough now she suddenly passed away (cancer) and my mother enherited the...
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    new fan on powercolor x1950pro

    the included arctic cooling accelero x2 fan sucks, its noisy, alot more noisy than the zalman i had on my 850xt-pe - and since the x1950pro uses less electricity i would also think that it would be easier to cool however, my concern is, the original fan cools down the memory blocks on the...
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    what corsair memory to get?

    im about to upgrade my old 3500+ to a am2 5000+ 65nm with ASUS M2N32-SLI Deluxe in the QVL it says that both CM2X1024-6400PRO and CM2X1024-6400C4 are OK but which modules would you guys reckon to be the best? im buying 2x1gb ofcourse
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    abit IL-90MV question

    does anyone know if this motherboard supports booting from usb devices? eg memory sticks il-90mv thanks in advance
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    im looking at a new motherboard but confused

    im about to upgrade my computer a bit, and for that i need a new motherboard it must have 8xsata onboard, have pci-e (ofcourse) and it has to be a socket 939 motherboard i have been looking at the gigabyte ga-k8nxp-sli, it looks nice, good chipset and nice features - and it fulfills the...
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    about to buy a new gaming pc

    i dont have much knowledge about what is the fastest and most reliable hardware around at the moment, i do know i need atleast 2x512 or 2x1024mb memory modules and i want a sapphire x1900xtx graphic card my main concern is that im not 100% sure of what motherboard and memory modules i should...
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    pci-e gbit nic

    im wondering if a pci-e 1gbit nic will perform better than a 32bit pci 1gbit nic? im about to build a small file server, i got a p4 for that purpose, buying the following motherboard http://www.asus.com/products4.aspx?modelmenu=2&model=771&l1=3&l2=12&l3=230 pci-e nics are a bit more...
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    some weird problem

    i got a very strange problem and it is starting to irritate me quite a bit i got an asus a8v-deluxe motherboard with a 74gb raptor and 3x300 seagate sata attached, 1 on the via onboard controller and 2 on a promise pci sata controller - further more i got 2x250gb maxtor sata attached to the...
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    dont know what memory modules to buy ;(

    hello folks, i need your expertice ;) im about to buy the Asus A8N-SLI Premium motherboard, but im so confused about what memory modules to buy, price is not relevant, i want the best modules possible for this baby, 2x512. I dont oc so any modules that has outstanding performance running with...
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    what pci-e x800xl gfx card to buy?

    there are so many different cards and i dont know which one to buy ive been looking on sapphire, because my last 3 gfx cards are from sapphire which has worked just perfect, but are there brands that are better? thanks in advance
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    Aeolus 6600GT and zalman dual heatpipe vga cooler

    im having some real problems with getting the small blocks mounted on the card. Its like the holes on the card is too far from each other . Am I the only one with this problem or is this card just not supported by the zalman cooler?
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    asus a8v problems

    seems like i cant have my promise ata133 pci controller and my onboard via raid controller enabled at the same time, i think its because of irq conflicts, but i dont exactly know how or if its possible for me to define those manually whenever i insert the pci controller when my raid...
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    asus a8v deluxe problems

    it seems like im having problems with running with all my controllers at the same time. When i try to boot with my promise ata133 pci controller the raid controller doesnt work, it sucks ; does anyone know a solution to this problem?
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    cant find a driver that xp setup accepts during xp install

    I just got my asus a8v deluxe motherboard today, and i started installing windows xp sp2 - or atleast trying to. I find out that xp cant see my sata drive, so i need to find a proper driver for the via sata controller (not raid) but whatever im trying to do it doesnt seem to accept the drivers...
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    what p4 to buy?

    ive had it with amd, ive been trying to get it to perform properly, trying to reach the 6 gb/s on the memory but i cant, i just cant. tried 3 memory pairs 3 different brands - no luck. I even drowe 300km today so that i could get my msi neo2 platinum motherboard replaced today and now i just got...
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    im running out of ideas please help ;<<

    1 week ago i bought my very first amd, the amd64 3200+ 0.09nm and the msi neo2 platinum motherboard - it was the obvious choice, it has won all the tests and awards here on anandtech 4 weeks ago i bought some new memory modules for my p4, some GeIL 2x512 Ultra-X PC3200 DDR400 2-2-2-5 modules...