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    6600GT and driver/Dualview issues

    I bought a new Leadtek A6600 6600GT AGP video card today. My system specs are: Athlon XP 2500+ Asus A7N8X Deluxe 1GB Corsair XMS DDR400 Win2K Professional SP4 DirectX 9.0c The 6600GT replaced an old Radeon 9600 card. I've got the Dualview feature enabled. The primary display is a...
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    How's this for a budget gaming rig?

    I was going to replace only the video card on my current Athlon XP 2500+ setup, but decided to go for a new system. How's this setup for value/budget gaming? Athlon 64 3000+ Venice Soltek SL-K8TPro-939 Corsair ValueSelect 1GB (2 x 512MB) DDR400 Leadtek A6600 6600GT 128MB (EDITED: changed...
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    Need better gaming performance--what should I upgrade?

    My current setup: Athlon XP 2500+ Barton Asus A7N8X Deluxe mobo Corsair 1GB PC3200 Radeon 9600 128MB (regular 9600, not XT, Pro, or SE) Maxtor SATA150 boot drive + 2 ATA133 HDDs I'd like to get a little bit better performance while playing games like Dawn of War and Codename: Panzers...
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    SCSI RAID transfer speed/throughput giving me grief and gray hair!

    OK, guys, I need some help. I've got a dual Xeon 2.4GHz on a Tyan i7500 motherboard with 2GB of Crucial DDR1600 memory. That part works perfectly. The storage system is as follows: Boot: Maxtor 40GB 7200RPM UMDA/133 hard drive booting up with Win2K Server SP3 Adaptec 3210S RAID...
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    NT Domain Printing problem/question

    I am having an inconsistent and intermittent printer problem. I hope someone here can help me. I have 20 networked printers in my WinNT 4.0 domain. The printers are set up on a dedicated printer server (a Pentium III 1GHz box running WinNT 4.0 Server, SP6A, 384MB memory, 40GB hard drive) via...
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    Can you mix 10K and 15K SCSI drives...

    ... in the same channel without performance degradation for either speed drives?
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    Will Intel Link Aggregation work with Cabletron/Enterasys switches?

    I'm wondering if Intel Link Aggregation (either through Intel Pro 100/S dual port NIC or dual gigabit ports through 82546EB on-board controller) will work with non-Intel switches. We are using Cabletron SSR6000 chassis with 6H252-17 fast ethernet blade. Thanks in advance for any help.
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    Need recommendations for a dual Xeon motherboard

    I know Intel is coming out of 533MHz FSB Xeons soon, but I am looking for a dual Xeon motherboard solution now... I've so far checked out Intel SE7500CW2 (based on Intel E7500 chipset), Tyan Tiger i7500 (also based on Intel E7500 chipset), and SuperMicro Super P4DL6 (using ServerWorks GC LE...
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    Need advice for a dual Xeon setup

    I'm in the process of spec'ing out a dual Xeon-based system for my work. Up till now we've been building our own dual Pentium III-based rackmount servers, but want to see what kind of performance we can get with the Xeons. The server will become either a SQL server (30 users) or a file server...
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    Athlon, heat, and human psychology (personal musing and sorta long)

    Well, I just gotta shake head at myself. I did something today that I felt was totally irrational, unnecessary, but felt compelled to do so. Two weeks ago I purchased my latest setup--an Athlon Thunderbird 1.33GHz on Asus A7M266 motherboard. The 300W power supply has two fans--one sucking...
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    Does anyone know of a screen utility to enlarge display area?

    I know some video card drivers have that feature built it. The reason why I'm looking for such an utility is because at the given refresh rate that I am using (which I'd rather not change), the hardware (monitor) control to position and size screen area is maxed out yet I'm not using the full...
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    Monitor won't standby in power save

    Hi folks, I use Win2K both at work and home. I've got a minor that's got me stumped. At work, I've got monitor to go into power save mode after 2 hours. When that kicks in (usually overnight), the monitor turns itself off (the green ON light goes amber) until there is keyboard or mouse...
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    Asus Probe 2 - 3.3 volt meter going crazy!

    I have an Asus A7M266 motherboard with a 1.33GHz Athlon. It's running great--however, I'm having a bit of problem with the Asus 2 Probe utility. I keep it running in the background when Win2K starts up. When I installed the software, I accepted the default settings for voltage monitoring...
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    AGP x4 possible under NT with VIA Apollo Pro133A?

    Hi folks, I was wondering if it's possible to set AGP slot in Asus CUV4X-E motherboard to use x4 speed under WinNT 4.0. The video card is GeForce2 MX-400, which is x4 AGP rated. The BIOS Is set to x4, but according to Sandra and WCPUID, I'm only getting x2. The debate of whether 4x is any...
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    Thinking about an Athlon system... any comments?

    Hi folks, I'm thinking about getting the following setup locally. I'd appreciate if you guys could take a look and let me know if there are any obvious problems/conflicts. Or any other comments would be welcome. Thanks very much in advance! Athlon 1.3GHz 266MHz FSB Asus A7M266 DDR...