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    Samsung 830 or 840

    My 3 year computer is feeling a bit old and slow. I'm thinking the best upgrade for me is to add a SSD and move my OS from non SSD to SSD. The price at the computer store for Samsung 256G 830 and 840 is exactly the same, around $195 AUD (computer parts are more expensive here). Anyway I read...
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    HIS 5770 Artifacts

    I bought a brand new 5770 about 3 months ago. Occassionally the card artifacts in games like Wow. Triangle, coloured lines appear around the screen and I have to alt tab and wait a while then switch back to game for the artifacts to go away. This is on stock clocks as well (no...
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    Replacing video card

    Recently bought a core i7 860 but kept my old video card to save money. Its a 7900gt but currently its giving me stability issues, it artifacts at default clock speed. I had a 6600gt lying around and changed it over and my computer became more stable and no artifacts so I think I need to...
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    What CPU should I get Q9400, Q9550 or i7 860

    I have a 4-5 year old computer AMD athlon x64 3200 with a eVGA 7900GT graphics card. Its currently very slow in WOW (especially the new city) and looking to buy a new computer. I know the i860 just came out but its AUD$140 more than the Intel Q9400. I haven't been following the CPU scene...
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    Buying card from US, live in Australia

    Hi thinking of buying a video card from newegg or similar. Video cards in Australia are about $50 more expensive than US like $360 for 7900gt, my parents are going to US for holiday so I thought I can get them to bring it to me. I'll place an online order with address for a US relative...
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    Windows XP Limited User problems

    I created a limited user account for my parents in Windows XP, for security reasons. Anyway when i was using the limited account, about 50% time i start outlook, or double click my computer, a popup dialog box will appear. The dialog box says configuring either 'MS Office' or Adobe Acrobat...
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    Canon lide scanner question

    Hi, Just bought a Canon lide60 scanner. I read reviews on google saying they do fine on photos and pages, not well on objects. I got the 60 model cause its faster, lide25 uses USB1.1 instead of USB2.0 My question is does your Canon lide25/35/60 scanner make quite a bit of noise? When i...
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    ATi R520 Slated For Oct 5th Launch

    Apparently ATi r520 or should i say x1800 is coming out on 5th october according to vr-zone. ATI r520 "ATi will be unveiling R520 officially on October 5th but we do not expect mass production of the cards till end of Oct. So far we heard only 1K of such cards produced for customers...
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    Ad with countdown on nVidia's site

    Just visited Nvidia's website and they have a countdown ad. "So don't buy old graphics for your PC. On August 11th, Nvidia delivers the power of 3." Right now says 2 days 51 mins left. I'm guessing they releasing 3 different graphic cards on August 11th like 7800gt, 7800 vanilla? Or...
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    Ntune and BIOS report different settings?

    Hi, I have a ASUS A8N-SLI motherboard. Its working perfectly now except it doesnt overclock very well. Anyway in BIOS i have set Hypertransport speed to 4x so like 230mhz fsb x 4 is less than 1000mhz. However when i boot to windows Nvidia Ntune program it shows hypertransport speed at 5x...