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    Vid card died, looking for upgrade advice

    6600GT bit the dust. I basically started out today looking at video cards and ram, since I need both. Current specs before I go further.. A64 3000+ winchester VNF4 Socket 939 motherboard 2x512mb PC3200 value ram 6600GT (dead) 400W smartpower PSU 2 hard drives, dvd burner, floppy I...
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    Options for laptop car chargers?

    I'm wondering what you guys use to charge your laptops in a car. I'm going on a trip tomorrow and the drive will last a lot longer than 2 hours, I'd like to be able to watch movies and do other things. Thanks.
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    6600GT 95* core temp?

    I havent checked what this card was doing lately (it used to hit ~80 IIRC with 3dmark and the like), but something about eve online (when the lights pan up and down in a station) really kicks this cards ass. It was hitting 95 over and over, but in game was ~75. I thought this high of a temp...
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    Odd problem with text disappearing, cant open task manager

    I've had this happen 3 times now. I have a new laptop and I was searching for wallpaper. After 20-30 minutes of this the text on the page disappears, or changes to a more basic font. I closed firefox and that 'fixed it' the first time. I opened it up again and kept browsing. This time the icons...
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    HP dv6103nr = DVD only?

    Picked one of these up last week and its not reading cds properly, if at all. Two install cds arent recognized at all, a couple music cds are recognized, one skips/ freezes during playback. I fired off an email to HP and they said its dvd only? It says compact disc on the front of the drive...
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    Upgrades to new laptop, thoughts?

    I ended up with the HP dv6103nr from best buy last friday, and I'd like to at least add some ram to it. I read over quite a few threads here, and I think the following will work. I just want to make sure I'm not missing something. PNY 512MB 200-Pin DDR2 SO-DIMM DDR2 667 (PC2 5300) Notebook...
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    How do you carry a few floppy disks, CDs?

    I'm not looking for something to carry 20 of each. Ideally I'd like something that would hold both 3.5" disks and CDs, just 2-3 of each for daily trips to work. It would be as small as possible, and in a perfect world it would be made out of aluminum or something else really strong? Anything...
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    Trying to bring back old PC from the dead, freezes after startup

    I've got an older P3 933 that started freezing at random times, then eventually got so bad that it was seconds after startup. Its 'death' years ago motivated my to get the PC I have now. Anyway, I'd like to figure out whats wrong with this thing, if nothing else for a learning experience...
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    Problem with my chaintech vnf4u board

    Ok, its a small problem, but annoying as hell. The small fan has started making some pretty bad noise. It comes and goes, but i had enough screeching and grinding on my old dying P3, i dont need it on my new build. So, what are my options here? I looked around on the chaintech site and didnt...
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    New EVGA 6600GT running hot?

    Well like the summary says, it idles at 44C. I was ready for some cool temps, but as soon as i put any load on it the temp rises a lot, and fast. Within a few seconds it was 65, and it gradually rises to 79-80 where it levels off. This was with atitool, which reported no artifacts for 10...
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    Need help with reading system temps on new build

    Hey all, i built my first PC a couple weeks back. I looked at the temps in bios and in a program called nv monitor, or i tried to. The 'system' and 'cpu' temps are switched, or worse because someone else said they looked too cool. nv Monitor yields 19-21 for CPU and 34 or so for system...
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    Need some help overclocking a 6600 (non-gt)

    Ok, well i didnt think when i bought all this stuff that i'd want to overclock, but i'd read the 6600s are good for it. I read this thread. The guy claims he got to 514/655, so i was getting my hopes up. Anyway, i was messing around with it last night, reading while downloading aquamark3, and...
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    Finished building my first PC last week (few pics)

    Here it is. :) Pic 1 Pic 2 Pic 3 Athlon 64 3000+, chaintech vnf4u motherboard, geforce 6600, 1 gig of RAM, 160 & 200GB seagate drives, nec 3500a, and an antec TX640 case with 400w PSU. Got a lot of help in this thread. Thanks a ton to everyone that chimed in there and helped with the...
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    Building new system

    Hopefully another newb thread today wont drive anyone to suicide. :) I looked through the guide and lined up what would appear to be a decent system. I'm looking for something mid range, around $600 or so. Well, i was thinking less, but 600 would work. I dont need anything crazy, and money is...