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    Tips on using Carbon Fiber

    I've used some toys made of it & they broke off into slivers, so I couldn't see putting my Mac into it, but maybe it's more strong in a different form.
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    MacBook battery: how to treat it?

    You definitely need to cycle the battery (need not be all the way down and back again). Leaving it fully charged all the time will dramatically shorten battery life.
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    Can overclocking CPU damage HDDs?

    When you increase your CPUs FSB you increase the speed of every other part of your PC (PCI cards, AGP card, HDD). Your motherboard will divide the CPU FSB by its divider to determine your PCI/AGP bus FSB i.e. If your AGP/PCI bus gets above 40/80FSB then you can damage your hardware (most often...
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    Overclocking virgin, some basic questions

    First, torture your system at stock, cuz if it's not stable at stock, well, overclocking is pointless. You then need to determine what each part of your machine can do, separately, and thorougly test as you go. Once you get that figured out you can try pushing the entire system to the determined...
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    anyone know danger den maze 5 dimensions?

    Danger Den does not list the Maze 5 as G80/R600 compatible. This could severely harm the sale of these blocks. Swiftech is likely to be the only company that will have G80 blocks shortly after the G80 release. The MCW60 should be compatible, as all that is needed to make the block functional is...
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    Thermal Paste - Any preference?

    AS5, like the earlier Arctic Silvers, is only trivially electrically conductive, though it's a bit capacitive. This means that an overlooked splodge of it across a couple of chip pins isn't likely to cause any problems, but painting your CPU with it is still a bad idea.
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    CMS Websites ?

    Why Don't You Have a CMS Website Yet?
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    Great Website Standards

    What does a "great" website look like?
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