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AS5 or Dow corning T340?? by
A. Cowan
I have ordered a new heatsink for an XP2600 266FSB I managed to find, its a
Thermaltake Volcano 11+ Xaser XP 3400+, really hoping itll be compatible
with my Socket A ECS K7VMM+ mobo, as far as i can tell it should be, anyway,
Also ordered Artic Silver 5 compound and a Thermaltake Crystal Orb to...
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November 17th 03 08:08 PM
by Mad Ad
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Any experiences with Medion or Systemax PCs? by
Al Puzzuoli
Hi,
Tiger Direct has decent looking deals on either of these, but I haven't
heard anything as to experiences with these brands. Just wondering if
anyone can offer any opinions or reviews?
Thanks a lot in advance.
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ATX12V connector on MSI KM4M - what for ? by
[email protected]
The KM4M has both a standard ATX 20 pin connector and a 4 pin ATX12V
connector. Manual says the 4 pin connector is "used to provide power
to the CPU". Can someone explain what this means ? Which AMD Socket A
CPU requires this ?
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biggest bang for buck by
eng
my current system:
P4 1.6A o/c to 2.133, 512mb ram, GF4 Ti4200 128mb video card
which upgrade will give me higher framerates and higher resolutions, a
processor or video card upgrade (not both! due to bugetary constraints)?
appreciate your feedback
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November 17th 03 01:55 PM
by Ancra
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Incompatible RAID controller? by
@drian
Recently as some may have read, I have been having trouble getting XP to
boot onto a RAID 0 array, using the onboard RAID controller on my Intel
D875PBZ motherboard (ICH5-R). I have two SATA Western Digital (WD) Raptor
36GB drives, hooked up to the Serial ATA ports of my motherboard.
I created...
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November 17th 03 04:38 AM
by @drian
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Built puter .. now HDD won't boot.. BIOS Settings? by
Nicki
Ok ...
I had a puter which either my motherboard or my cpu died on me. So I bought
an AthlonXP2400+, Asus A7N8X, and a stick of Kingston RAM to go along with
the Western Digital drive that was already in there.
I had to know if it was the chip or the board that died, so I installed the
Athlon...
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building an "auxiliary" tower to house extra drives by
the dead comedian
I currently have a laptop and would like to build a tower to house
additional hard drives and a DVD/CD writer. How do I go about this? I have
looked around the web & newsgroups and have not found anything that
discusses how to do this. My laptop has both firewire and an Adaptec slim
scsi PC...
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optical mouse dpi problems by
\(\) |V| 3 G /-\\
hey all
got a microsoft intellimouse explorer v3.0, USB and it seems i`ve lost the
resolution of the mouse movement.
it's not major, but it's rather 'grainy'. using asus PC Probe as an example,
the time graph gives temp vs real time. it gets refreshed every 30secs. i
cannot always see the 30sec...
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Help!! looking to upgrade my 7990 by
J C
HI everyone, I have a compaq 7990 with a k7 800 athlon, 512 ram. I'm
looking to upgrade the computer but dont know where to look for parts
that will be compatible with this system. I was told that there are no
chips that will drop in place of the 800, as it is a "Slot A" I beleive.
now does that...
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November 16th 03 10:40 PM
by DaveW
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Cpuidle v6 and Tualatin CPU's by
JoeS
Cpuidle has worked great for me with my old CPU PIII e 800
I recently upgraded to a PIII Tualatin and see little if any effect
on the temp.
Anybody had any experience with this.
Here is my CPU info:
Processor 1 : Intel(R) Pentium(R) III CPU - S 1400MHz / F2E86C2D
: Intel(R) Pentium(R) III...
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November 16th 03 09:18 PM
by Spajky
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SanAntonio Tx show?????? by
[email protected]
I was wondering if anyone knew the time for the next PC Show
in San Antonio Tx??? thanks in advance.
I had a website that usually gave the time,,, but it is 'acting up'.
cl
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DDR and Dual Channel operation by
Wolfi
Does a JEDEC conform 6 layer DDR (f.e. DDR433, DDR400, DDR333) memory module
and SPD Ram need to meet any additional requirements in order to work in
Dual Channel mode with nVidia nForce2 Ultra400 or Intel Canterwood 865PE/G
and 875P chipsets?
Or can any pair of modules specified as DDRxyz be...
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November 16th 03 04:53 PM
by Wolfi
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Suggestion for Socket A mATX motherboard using PC133 RAM by
NOS
I have enough parts to put together a computer for a friend except for the
motherboard. I have 2 sticks of 258MB of PC133 RAM, a 1.13 Athlon (the
133Mhz bus one), mATX case, hhd and etc. So I am looking for a motherboard
which supports 133 fsb and memory. Current or past model will do. I...
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Computer freezes by
Alex
Hello,
I recently built a machine from spare parts but it is very unstable.
Usually within half an hour to an hour from booting Win2K it will =
totally freeze. The only thing that will continue working is mouse =
pointer positioning. If I immediately reset it, the situation will =
repeat after...
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November 16th 03 11:06 AM
by Keith
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Cleaning up inside by
Patty
I'm currently refurbishing an old computer. The computer was used at a work
place and the inside of the case and all the cards are coated with a fine
brown dust. I've tried using compressed air, but the brown dust just stays
on the cards. I'm wondering if there's anything I can do to removed...
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November 16th 03 05:29 AM
by Justin
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P4C 2.4GHz vs Barton 2500+ Same RAM? by
News
Hi All,
I'm looking to get a new system together by the new year, and I'm debating
the AMD/Intel route.
Without getting into the Intel/AMD religious wars, it seems that the
overclocked Barton is close enough to performance of the overclocked P4C
that I think that I'm comfortable in saving the...
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November 16th 03 04:13 AM
by News
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RAM by
[email protected]
On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 18:08:44 -0600, "philo"
NONphiloNONplazaearthNONcomNON wrote:
"DaveW" wrote in message
news:RTytb.207625$Fm2.202544@attbi_s04...
To use DDR you'd need a new motherboard if you're using SDRAM now.
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Hard Drive Speed?? by
PawsForThought
Right now I have a 5400 rpm 30 gig hard drive and I'm thinking of upgrading to
a 7200 rpm. I saw a Maxtor Ultra ATA/133 with 8 mg cache and also one with a 2
mg cache. Western Digital also makes one with an 8 mg cache.
So my question is will there be a noticeable difference between the 5400...
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first build by
Kaz
I am in the market for a new PC and was wondering if building it myself was
a good idea it would be my first build how difficult is it ????
any recommendations weather to buy a bare bone system or case/motherboard ?
any help appreciated how would i know if the parts would be conpatable
I was...
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