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Recent content by bionic

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    doom3 killed my vid card...literally

    I don't know if anyone is still interested in this, so if I'm bumping this too much, let me know and I'll shut up. I did a bit more reading and found that card failures with doom3 are a bit more prevalent than expected: Anandtech reported that a 6800U died during testing...
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    doom3 killed my vid card...literally

    When you got your RMA#, did you have the receipt? I don't have that anymore (it's been over a year!) But yeah, I can play games again for now-- my friend's ti 4200 works fine in the place of the one that just died. Now I can take my time and try to get this other card fixed, maybe sell it...
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    doom3 killed my vid card...literally

    PNY is retarded...they offer a "lifetime" warranty but in order to get replacement it has to be a current piece of hardware AND you have to still have the receipt. Guess I know what company to avoid in the future... I talked to one of my buddies, and he's hooking me up with his old ti 4200...
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    doom3 killed my vid card...literally

    Running stock speeds, stock bios, everything. Everything on my computer is running at normal speeds. I've overclocked the video card once a long time ago, but it was maybe like 20mhz with everything working fine (and since the performance increase wasn't worth it, I brought it back down to...
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    doom3 killed my vid card...literally

    I can't believe this...I installed doom3, and loaded it up for the first time. Everything was working ok in the main menu, but when I went to start the actual game, it did the intro and then the screen went blank. I rebooted, and it was still blank, no beeps from the computer or anything, and...
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    Painkiller demo = PAIN!

    I really wasn't impressed with this game. Really linear and repetitive....I don't think you're missing out on much.
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    Recommend me a quiet power supply

    Thanks for the suggestion! Actually, I was browsing around directron and I found this OEM 350W Smartpower Antec for $35. So I got that instead...
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    Recommend me a quiet power supply

    Yeah, so my 420W powerlink power supply decided to call it quits, so now I need to find a new one. I'm looking for a quiet (or at least quieter than the 2-fan setup this thing had) power supply of similar wattage. I should also mention that I'm poor, so if someone could recommend a...
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    removing Athlon XP thermal...stuff?

    Yeah, the thing is that I'm not worried about the heatsink (I can scrape it off that without damaging anything important)...I'm more worried about the CPU core. I'm gonna try heating it up with a hairdryer and seeing if it'll melt this wax crap off. Is there anything to worry about...
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    removing Athlon XP thermal...stuff?

    I have an Athlon XP2100, and I recently had to remove the stock heatsink for the first time since installing it. There's some nasty light pink hard waxy substance that was used as the original heat conductor, but I can't get it off now without chipping it off with my fingernails, which...
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