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    how do I stop my addiction to soda?

    Diet sodas really don't taste that bad, and after a while of drinking only diet you may find the real thing is actually too sweet. Try buying only diet soda for a few weeks and see if it grows on you. Coke Zero Cherry is very good and remarkably similar to the real thing. Some other...
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    Xbox 360 and my HDTV issues

    Did you select HD on the AV cable? (the switch)
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    Logitech MX518 Gaming Optical Mouse $30 @ Buy.com

    I switched from a mx500 to a g5 and i wish i got the mx518 instead. Laser is not as refined as optical technology imo as this mouse skips on surfaces my mx500 had no problem on (such as a func pad). ESreality did a mouse round up recently here and the mx518 did much better than the g5.
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    Counter Strike Source Beta BEGINS!

    Shinei graphics and physics aren't everything. Halflife 2 will most likely have a much better story line than doom 3 along with some features such as character interaction? way smarter AI :D Anyways saying HL2 could bomb is total bs, it more than likely will be the game of the year. That...
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    DOOM3 Refresh rate 60hz ??

    Download Refresh Force for a quick fix! I've been using it for over a year and had no problems.
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    DOOM3 - a word about the game...

    Yeah the game is well, scarey ;P I was a little disappointed in the gun department. Am I the only who feels that well, the pistol, machine gun, chain gun, and shot gun were made under powered? Not to the extent of the amount of damage but they just look and sound like weak guns. I play a lot...
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    ALERT! Lookalike NF7-S floods market!

    I looked through every single option in the bios and i assure you there are no multis. Think this board would ebay very well ? If newegg wont take it back that is.
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    ALERT! Lookalike NF7-S floods market!

    This board gets even better... There is no CAS 2! lol, only cas 2.5 and 3! I ended up putting my old 1800+ in here for now! Way to go abit, last time i buy your product. Go asus! ;P But do you really think newegg would let me return it if i was "confused" and thought it was a NF7-S Version...
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    ALERT! Lookalike NF7-S floods market!

    Yep, its at 200Mhz FSB and 1.2Ghz... This coming from Abit! :( and Newegg has "return for exact item" crap on it. There better be a driver update soon.
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    ALERT! Lookalike NF7-S floods market!

    Wow i bought a abit nf7-s2 or whatever and WOW, no mutlipliers..... wtf talk about a waste. Now my mobile 2600+ is running at a whooping 1200Mhz, good job abit for using the NF7 name which is notorius for overclocking then giving me this piece of crap. Just a little mad ;)
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    Does Your CPU, mess up your 3dmark03 score?

    Who cares, its 200 points on 3dmarks 2003..
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    Power supply sizing bull

    I plugged in some equipment in that and got 300 minimum (athlon 64, 2 sticks of ddr, 6800 gt, hard drive, dvd burner). Now that configuration is known to run VERY WELL on a shuttle with a 240-250 Watt power supply... seems a little strange.
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    LCD Vs. CRT

    CRT monitors have better image quality in my opinion if you get a nice one :D I'm using a 17inch Sony Trinitron and it looks great, much better than your average crt. For gaming a CRT wins due to high refresh rates, I'll take 120Hz at 1024 over 75Hz anyday. Save some money if you don't need...
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    x300se vs 9600pro

    By the time HL2 comes out.. hah. Don't buy a new card untill it does FINALLY go gold at least, should be end of August if its on schedule (only god knows) Maybe by then some PCI express x800 series cards will be available.
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    Is it ok to use wheel bearing grease over thermal grease?

    ONLY 65 C!!! Are you crazy, are you trying to fry the processor! I don't even want to know what its at under load.
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    $900 budget : Gaming rig

    Do not get that 9800 pro 128bit card, the memory is crippled serverely with only half the bandwidth. Buy the $199 version. That power supply also is really weak on its +12v line with only 13 amps. The 3000+ barton is a rip off! Get a mobile 2500/2600 and a quality heatsink and overclock it to...
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    $900 budget : Gaming rig

    Newegg. Are you sure you need more case power? Antec's are quality power supplies and the included power supply even has 21 amps on the 12v rail which isnt too shabby ;P Get the 9800 over the 5900 if you are going to be playing Halflife2. Doom 3 in theory will run better on the Nvidia hardware.
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    $900 budget : Gaming rig

    $185 athlon 64 2800+ $65.00 Antec Solution Series Quiet Black Mid Tower Case with 350W Power Supply, Model "SLK2650-BQE" $61.95 Western Digital Special Edition 80GB 7200RPM IDE Hard Drive, Model WD800JB, OEM Drive Only $77 A-DATA 184 Pin 512MB DDR PC-3200 - OEM $77 A-DATA 184 Pin 512MB DDR...
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    How will an X800XT help my rig?

    double post! Load next time
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    How will an X800XT help my rig?

    Gen is just talking about his own experiences since he's lucky enough to have one :) Lucky guy. Anwways onto your post. The x800XT is even held back bya 2.8Ghz p4 and 512 ram + x800xt will stop give you choppy results. I would buy another stick ram, such as just a stanrd kingston hyperx...
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    Which game are you looking more forward to? **With Poll**

    Halflife 2! You plop down $50 for HL2 and you get what should be one of the greatest single player games ever and thats just the beginning. Halflife-2 also will include Counterstrike and DoD running on the source engine. So essentialy you have a great game with the most popular multiplayer...
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    CG?

    Are all newcastles CG? Such as the newcastle 2800 and 3000+. Also does anyone know of an athlon 64 2800+ review with a nforce 3 250 board, im curious to see how well that can overclock.
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    This sucks.... :(

    heh i've had everything for my system come on a friday... Then one box did't come. What did it contain? Oh just the heatsink for the processor :) That was anoying :D
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    New and Improved AMD Gaming Rig

    I just built someone a system using the Chaintech VNF3 250 motherboard, amd 64 2800+ retail, and 2x512 A-Data 3200 ram (cas 2.5) I set the fsb to 223 to get 2007Mhz on the processor and 446Mhz on the ram and so far no problems. That was $88 for mobo, $185 for processor, and $152 for the ram :P...
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    So what are nvidia and ATi going to release in the fall?

    Maybe in the fall Nvidia will release the 6800s and ATI will release the x800 PE to retail stores accross the country!
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    OEM VS. Retail

    Cleaning off a processor isnt that hard if it has a heat spreader :P Anyways everyone knows overclocking "voids the warrenty", but its not like AMD or Intel can really know if you overclocked the chip ;o So whats to stop you from sending it back besides a good conscience ;)
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    AMD Procesors

    Newegg now has newcastle 3400+ processors with 512K cache and 2.4Ghz clock speed. Wouldn't that be faster than a 3500+? since the 3400+ was right on its tale, the increase of 200Mhz will more than overcome the reduction of cache. Heh im sure you could get a 2.6+Ghz plus out of one of those...
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    Best Over-clocking Value-RAM

    you won't get a very high fsb overclock with an athlon xp board, so ram should'nt be that much of an issue. Just change the multiplier since there is no working lock on the agp/pci bus.
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    Refresh rate override not working in 5900.

    I have found the driver refresh rate over rides aren't the best. For a very simple solution that sets your max refresh rates all the time download Refresh Force. Its a very simple program and does just what its name says well. Refresh Force
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    900$ 64 rig questions

    1. A 9600 Pro can handle most games but a better buy would be a 5900 xt for $170 2. The Corsair XMS isn't really needed since this isn't a gaming computer. You chould downgrade the ram to some Cosair Value series or Mushkin Green line or whatever it is. Uping the memory to 768 or 1024 will...
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    best cpu/mobo/ram combo upgrade for $450

    $223 athlon 64 3000+ retail http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=19-103-424&depa=0 $92 Chaintech VNF3 Nforce 3 Mobo http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=13-152-043&depa=1 $77 Mushkin 512 pc3200...
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    cas latency?

    Remember the difference in performance between cas 2 and 2.5 is going to only be noticed in benchmarks for the most part. Ram speed is becoming a much bigger factor than cas in my opinion. Plus as OCZ is showing, balanced timings can give you nearly the same results as 2-2-2 ram with their eb...
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    2GB of Yahoo! mail for $19.99/year

    just checked my sbc yahoo dsl mail hehe, a full 2 gigabytes! Now how in the world could you ever even use close to that! Maybe if you signed up for every mailing list on the internet ;) welcome spammers
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    Looks like a 12 pipe 6800 is pretty gimp

    Ok the primary game im going to be playing will be Halflife2 and its CS mutliplayer. Now one would think ATI might perform a lil better in HL2 as they have the deal with Valve going on. Im wondering do you guys think the 9800Pro or the 6800nu will be better for that sole game. (not with FSAA...
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    Looks like a 12 pipe 6800 is pretty gimp

    Then again it is quite a bit better in some tests such as FarCry once u crank up the resolution, stiill, i expected better out of that card :/ The call of duty framerates r kinda sad, u would think 12 pipes with not significantly lowered speeds on the core or memory would not fall to 1/2 the...
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    Newegg ATI 9800pro 256MB

    Newegg has their ATI 9800 pro's 256MB, 256bit cards for sale for ONLY $223. This is actually cheaper than the 128MB version. The link is here http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=14-102-361&depa=1 Now im wondering, is there some kind of scam going or or is this just a...
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    Overclocking AMD 64

    The ASUS K8V Deluxe SE doesn't have agp/pci lock correct? If so the highest overclock will only be around 215 FSB if i am not mistaken. Anyways newegg is selling MSI's NEO featuring Nforce 3 250GB for $150ish so if you really plan on doing any serious overclocking i would trade in that board...
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    X800 Too Fast for Me?

    This is what i'd recommend. 1. Sell the 2600+ on ebay or post an ad somewhere. ( you should get at least $60, Don't take my word for it though) 2. Buy a mobile 2600+ for $99 off of and overclock that to 2.5 Ghz 3. In a month see how prices are and go for the x800 pro or 6800 GT! BTW if you...