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Looking for the best ATX 2.0 PSU for SLI + Monitor poll by professor
Ok, I'm planning on putting together a new computer pretty soon and I'm going to eventually go with SLI. It's too expensive right now, but I'm planning on buying one card now and the other when the price goes down. Anyway, I need a ATX 2.0 PSU that's over 500 watts. Anyone have any favorites? ...
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January 17th 06 06:34 AM
by UCLAN Go to last post
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Maxtor hard drives fail too soon. by John Corliss
Most people depend greatly on their hard drive(s) to be (a) reliable and safe media for storing those files. Well, if you have a Maxtor hard drive and tend to not back up your stuff, you might want to think about doing so on either CD, DVD or on a backup hard drive made by another manufacturer....
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June 2nd 05 02:08 AM
by none Go to last post
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Power LED by Bill
Will a bad power led keep the power supply from coming on? Thanks. William
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April 19th 04 10:45 PM
by kony Go to last post
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How to attach leads straight to battery? by micky
It seems my IBM Thinkpad's CMOS battery has died, and it's know that it won't boot wihtout it. I don't have time to wait for a new one by mail, plus I have some CR2032's in my fridge. The flat things that look like litttle frisbees. The current one has the wires connected to metal tabs stuck...
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August 8th 11 12:38 PM
by ~misfit~[_15_] Go to last post
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RAID-1 and bad sectors? by [email protected]
I just used BootItNG to resize the 2 NTFS partitions on my hard disk. I was increasing the size of the C drive, so I had to shrink the D drive and slide it down to the end of the disk. When I did the slide operation, I told it to slide everything including the unused areas. I ended up getting an...
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January 13th 06 01:24 AM
by Folkert Rienstra Go to last post
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Shopping for DDR2 Memory by SRW
Crucial has a 2GB DDR2 kit(Two 1GB PC2-5300 DIMMs) for $25.99 plus $3.99 shipping, for a total of $29.98: http://www.crucial.com/store/mpartspecs.aspx?mtbpoid=13C795F8A5CA7304 Newegg has, what appears to be, the same Crucial 2GB DDR2 kit for $17.99 with free shipping, for a total of $17.99....
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January 16th 09 03:15 PM
by larry moe 'n curly Go to last post
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Pagefile Size by Citizen Bob
I have a 2.4 GHz Celeron D with 512 MB RAM running Win2K/SP4. I am running compute-intensive graphics applications that are taking 100% of the "CPU Usage" and 730 MB "MEM Usage" in the Performance section of Task Manager. Currently I am running a 512MB/1.5BG pagefile. What should the correct size...
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December 27th 06 02:03 PM
by Citizen Bob Go to last post
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How can I make my WinXP Pro PC run faster? (Second HD? SCSI? Dual-Core?) - Budget: aprox. GBP300 by ship
Hi I need some advice - how can I make my PC go faster! e.g. How much faster is a SCSI hard disk compared to a SATA? MAIN APPLICATIONS I USE: DreamWeaver 8 (huge websites), Outlook2003 (1+GB .PST files etc) O/S: WindowsXP Pro (SP2),
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October 12th 06 05:48 PM
by Justin - SYNACS Go to last post
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Corrupted partition table by X
Hi, my hard disk crashed in the middle of Windows one day. I have multiple partitions so i tried to format and reinstall Windows to C: so that i could retrieve my data on the other partitions, but the hard disk will not even boot up from the Windows XP CD because the partition table is corrupt....
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July 3rd 06 05:50 AM
by Rod Speed Go to last post
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Help with Cooling Fan (Question) by Shawn
Two fans in my computer (Dell Dimension 2300) are making noise. One is in the power supply and the other is the processor fan. I know I can replace the processor fan (with a green schroud) if I can find one. But can I replace just the fan that resides in the power supply. Dell says no, but it looks...
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January 20th 06 08:43 AM
by UCLAN Go to last post
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Power Surge by David LeBrun
Greetings I'm currently restoring a system that was hit with a power surge where the following were fried: PSU Motherboard Hard Drive CDROM CDRW Network (PCI) Audio (PCI)
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September 12th 03 02:35 AM
by David LeBrun Go to last post
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Why is Baby Matthew's diaper still leaking **** all over usenet??? by ah
Lady Chatterly wrote: In article chucklyshat wrote: ah wrote in message news:altqd.3194$Hk6.530@trnddc05... Abdul Rajim wrote: For ****sake put us out of our misery already....
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December 11th 04 02:43 PM
by ah Go to last post
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Newbie Question re hardware vs software RAID by Gilgamesh
I'm looking at installing a SATA RAID 5 system in my home PC to provide a means of data recovery in case of hard disk failure (I'm thinking this will be cheaper in the long run than installing a tape drive for a Tb of data). When the 400Gb drives are released I'll be looking at getting 4 for...
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November 22nd 04 11:52 PM
by Curious George Go to last post
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Bootable XP USB? by Ape
I have a ScanDisk Cruzer Blade USB FLASH DRIVE - 8GB. I want to make it a bootable XP USB drive. I have not been successful at all, using 'pe2usb' primarily. My Googling tells me that there is a known problem trying to do this with USB drives over 2GB. Is that true? Has anyone been...
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February 28th 12 11:42 AM
by Ape Go to last post
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AMD or Intel? by Tochiro
Hello, I do not want to start a processor war here. THe truth is that I do not know the first thing about processors. There has always been Intel processors in my PCs up to now. I am now thinking of buying an AMD system because somebody suggested the processor remains cooler than Intel's and I...
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October 22nd 05 08:19 AM
by Bob Go to last post
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Motherboard recommendations by Justin Sane
I need some help please!! I'm looking for a motherboard with sound, network board, and graphic card onboard. The motherboard needs support for an Athlon64 CPU. I also want 2 SATA connections and if possible a "Suspend-to-RAM" feature. I found this link, but I don't understand excatly all features...
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August 8th 05 03:54 PM
by Bob Go to last post
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Quick Poll, how old is your computer. by Bazzer Smith
This is you main computer. I am particularly interested if anyone (truthfully) has a main computer 10 years or more old. (relates to an earlier post). To start the ball rolling my computer is in its first year ( ~3 months old).
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July 15th 06 11:57 PM
by Bazzer Smith Go to last post
43 1,165
How to Undervolt a Fan Inside a Small Device? by [email protected]
I would like to know the way to reduce the speed of a fan inside a small device in order to cut down the noise from the fan. If I understand this correctly, I am supposed to do this by undervolting the fan from 12-volt it is now to something like 6-volt using some kind of "inline resistor" or...
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April 6th 05 09:38 PM
by ric Go to last post
43 3,384
Increasing the speed of dial-up to that of cable -- possible? by Radium[_2_]
Hi: Quotes from http://groups.google.com/group/sci.electronics.basics/msg/0c013cf5371da8dc?hl=en& : Multiple-level quadrature modulation, "constellation modulation", is most common for packing lots of bits per Hz of bandwidth. The more you pack,
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August 18th 07 05:05 PM
by Floyd L. Davidson Go to last post
43 1,230
ethernet hardware question by Someone Somewhere
Skybuck Flying wrote: I have two computers connected to each other via 10 megabit ethernet cards and UTP cross over cable. My question is the following about ethernet : Is ethernet able to send and receive packets at the same time ? Depends whether they are running full duplex mode....
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October 29th 03 02:28 AM
by Guillaume Filion Go to last post
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