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    Think I made a boo-boo

    I am putting together a new PC with an e6600. I wasn't paying much attention while I was assembling it last night as I was going 50 things at once. My question is, does the c2d come with some sort of thermal pad/past already applied to the retail heatsink? I recall seeing 3 gray stripes on...
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    2gig RAM Suggestion

    I am looking to bump up to 2GB of RAM (2x1024 has been recommended to me). I have been running a gig of corsair PC3200LL leftover from an intel system and it has been doing me well. But I would like a 2 stick solution for 2 gigs of RAM, I don't have much interest in overclocking, but I would...
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    Mixed Corsair RAM = BAD. Help?

    I have been running 1gb (512x2) of Corsair TWINX XMS PC3200LLPT memory in my machine for sometime now, love the stuff. However I had the infamous Battlefield 2 problems and some wants for speed in other areas so I decided to up the ol' RAM count to 2gig. Instead of purchasing from a retailer I...
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    Motherboard won't POST

    I built a new computer about 2 months ago now, and have recently run into some trouble concerning my hard drives. This is the first time it has happened, and I have not had trouble like this before. My system specs are: Windows XP Pro w/ SP1 Coolermaster Wavemaster Alum. Case Antec...
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    Games hang every few seconds

    System specs below. I built a new computer and finally got a fan for my heatsink today, so I was anxious to fire up a couple games and other assorted benchmarks. I can run prim95 fine and that's all I've realy done so far. However today I installed HL2/CS:Source and SWAT 4. I can load both...
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    Import Existing IDE Raid?

    I recently (see: an hour ago) put together a new pc. I have 2 160gb IDE WD 160gb drives that i was running in a raid 0 on my old system, and want to import onto my new system. Can this be done? All my RAID stuff seems to do is want to create an array, not recognize an existing one. New...
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    asus a8n-e no agp? 939 alternative w/AGP?

    I see the specs listed for this motherboard do not include AGP, and everyone says there is no AGP slot on this board. However I am confused as all the pictures I see of this board, and it's SLI variants clearly show an AGP slot above the PCI-e! Can someone confirm whether or not AGP is...
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    Internal Media/Flash Reader

    I know this has been asked before but I couldn't bring up the threads. I am building a new machine and was looking for a good, namely reliable internal 3.5" drive for my digital camera cards. namely sony and compactflash. all i see on newegg are some generic ones with no reviews. i am wary...
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    New PC, what RAM to use?

    Alrighty, come October, Intel kicks their Retail Edge Purchase Program back in, and I can get the Pentium 4 3.0C Ghz and the Intel Desktop D865GBF Motherboard, with a retail copy of WinXP Pro for $200. I can't pass this up, but it's time for a whole new system to be built and I just can't...