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    Is this enough power?

    So, building a new system. I need to know if an Antec TruePower 380W PS generates enough juice for the following setup: Athlon64 3500+ (Venice) MSI K8N Neo4-F motherboard Kingston Valueram 1GB dual-channel DDR400 Samsung 160GB SATA HD GeForce 6600GT Chaintech PCI sound card (VIA Envy)...
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    How to remove thermal grease/paste?

    What the title says. How do I safely clean thermal paste off of a processor and heatsink? I managed to seperate them without incident, but now I need to clean them off before I install the processor in its new motherboard. I want it to be polished nicely when I put on a new coating of Arctic...
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    50% off REBATES on hard drives @ Circuit City

    Western Digital 160GB Internal HDD for 59.99 after rebates Seagate 120GB internal HDD for 49.99 after rebates Good prices while they're available.
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    Where's the rest of the RAM?

    Sooooo, I just installed a second stick of RAM in my parents' computer. It's an old Slot A Athlon with 650MHz, and now it has 2 x 256MB PC133 RAM DIMMs. According to both the Windows 2k control panel and the BIOS at startup, I have 327MB of RAM. So where's the rest of it? How can I get the...
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    Socket A Sempron vs Athlon XP

    So, I'm getting ready to build an "El Cheapo" computer. I'm using a Socket A motherboard, and want to know what the difference is between the Socket A Semprons and Similarly-priced Athlon XP's. I was under the impression that the Socket A Semprons were just rebranded Athlon XP's, but I know...
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    ECS PF88 Extreme

    http://www.tomshardware.com/motherboard/20050427/index.html So, it's a Pentium 4 motherboard. Unless you buy a special expansion card and insert it into the special PCI-Express slot. Then it becomes an Athlon 64 motherboard! You cannot run both processors at once, nor can you run either...
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    So, just how much game can the 9600 handle?

    In my new system, I'm using a scrounged Radeon 9600 as my video card to save cash. I'm not a hardcore gamer who has to have the latest video card to play Doom 3 or to compete in UT2k4, so I'm sure I'll be satisfied with it. However, I am curious: what's the limits of the card? How...
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    Just PC Gazelle Question

    Greetings. New member here. I need an question answered before I build my system, and this looks like a good place to ask. I'm planning on using a Just PC Gazelle as my case, and I need to know: does the included power supply have a Serial ATA-compatible connector? That's all I really want...