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    Vista SP2 Results in Increased Free Disk Space?

    pretty cool... went from 112gb free to 148. now i just limit the shadow copy to 5gb
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    Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3R Won't POST.

    mine did this too last week... i ended up RMAing it i gave up after switching out everything... seems like a bios bug or something... at least yours beeps mine just turns on for 3 seconds and shuts off then repeats.. though the last time it turned on said something about searching for secondary...
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    asus 4870 fan dead?

    OP here it's ok... it's been 5 months then.. the card was still under warranty so i RMA it back to asus and they sent me back the 1gb DK so i'm quite happy with it i got away with a 4870 1gb for real cheap
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    gigabyte p35-ds3l help

    tried... well the new ram has the same voltage as the old 1.8v.. i'm not sure what's wrong really... replaced the power supply still does it... turns out that the new ram is dead it wouldn't post with my other mobo either but this mobo just won't stay on anymore
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    gigabyte p35-ds3l help

    opps i forgot cpu : q9300 rams are ddr pc6400
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    gigabyte p35-ds3l help

    Hi, i've had this setup for awhile now.. mobo: gigabyte ga-p35-ds3l vid: asus 4870 DK 1gb ram: 2gb(2x1gb) gskill 2 hd & 1 dvdr drive power supply: coolermaster igreen 500W it's been running great for a long time now.. but today i went and bought 4gb of ram corsair xms2(2x2gb) i put...
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    Question regarding Asus 4870

    that's the PCIe power plug from the power supply make sure yours have those connectors then you won't have to use them..if your power supply is over 500W it should have 2 of those connectors for you already and you have to plug in both or the card might not even run.. i'm waiting for the same...
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    gigabyte p35 ds3l mobo questions

    i have this board as well it's a good board... when i first got it i ran it with nvidia 8500gt i picked it up for 40$ i think. it did the job for half a year now i have the 4870 :)
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    asus 4870 fan dead?

    Hello... i just bought a used asus 4870 everything looked fine.. so i took it home installed it... but i noticed the fan never turns on.while i was installing the drivers...it got quite hot so i turned off the computer... waited 15 mins turned it on again.. in ATI's control panel.. it even saids...
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    Another Upgrade...

    i got the gskill ddr2 800hmz from newegg... and yeah reinstalling isn't that fun.. i did it twice in a week once for the ECS mobo and again a week later for the gigabyte mobo.. oh wells ... you should just wait then reinstall it's hard to get your desktop the way you like it again.
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    Another Upgrade...

    hey i went almost the same route as you... i got the q9300 deal at frys and then bought a p35-ds3l board. i'm very happy with it.
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    Before I hit CONFIRM...

    well i have the almost the same motherboard GA-p35-ds3l with the q9300 and same gskill ram but in 2gb(2x1gb) .. and it's been running great for me... no problems....
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    Q9300 idle temps

    for me coretemp reports 55C while real temp reports 40C.. that's a wide range .. i don't know what to believe
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