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    Help with dir655 and bittorrent.

    This router cannot handle bittorrent. Though it's better than some other routers (doesn't drop the connection frequently), running bittorrent throttled will slow the router down to a crawl and make it difficult to browse the internet. I have two torrents downloading right now and two seeding...
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    Background won't change from solid color?

    No ideas, anybody?
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    Background won't change from solid color?

    Yeah a few times. I mostly use xp though.
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    Background won't change from solid color?

    Lol <3 windows. It's gonna be funny if I end up having to reinstall to fix this.
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    Background won't change from solid color?

    No, nothing like that. Not unless there is something like that packaged with vista that I inadvertanly activated somehow.
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    Background won't change from solid color?

    I changed my desktop color to a solid color and now I can't get it to change back to a normal background. :confused: I can see the background I select through the transparent part of the window/task bar however, the background is sitll a solid color? :confused: I got the...
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    Building a workstation for my dad, advice?

    Heh, regardless, whatever I put together for him will be better then the dell xps he wanted to buy. He's going to be compiling/debugging software, running a webserver, his company's software ("really heavy stuff"), plus "a bunch of other shit". That's all I know. He told me to build him...
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    Building a workstation for my dad, advice?

    It's a gaming system because it has sata drives and a good vid card? I'm lost at that; I'm no expert but it seems fine? The hard drive setup is fine, it doesn't need some uuber expensive, low storage 15k rpm scsi drives nor is it a server that needs multiple xenon processors. As I've been...
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    Building a workstation for my dad, advice?

    45nm kentsfield should suffice.
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    Building a workstation for my dad, advice?

    Workstation for a lot lol. There will be a lot of multitasking involved. As I said, the e6600 is just til the 45nm quad cores come out, the mobo has a raid controller built in (will be running raid 0+1), and he doesn't need a specialized graphics card.
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    Building a workstation for my dad, advice?

    Budget for this build is about $4000 including monitor/keyboard/mouse. I'm at under $2200 and overkilling components if anything, is a good thing. Rock solid mobo and fcking overkilled PSU is good lol, not to mention those components are fairly futureproofed. Remember, this is a workstation.
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    Building a workstation for my dad, advice?

    Here's what I have so far: psu........http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817153043 mobo......http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128037 or http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131074...
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    New build, am I gonna need a new XP serial key?

    Vista is just around the corner. This is stupid. grrr. What's it looking like an XP ----> vista upgrade is gonna cost?
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    New build, am I gonna need a new XP serial key?

    This is what I wanted to know, thanks. So is one copy of windows only good for one computer? I know one of my friends used his father's key on his computer, would I be able to use my friend's key on my new one? Or am I fucked into having to purchase another license? <edit> I'm just gonna...
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    New build, am I gonna need a new XP serial key?

    I have a few other retail machines that have XP on them, I'm trying to avoid having to buy another license. One of them doesn't even have a hard drive anymore so it's not like that serial key will be being used on multiple machines. I just wasn't sure if the keys that came with a...
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