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    E4300 Core Voltage

    I've got my e4300 at 1.4625v and it's rock solid stable at 3.25GHz with a Zalman 9700 cooler. I've tried to juice a few extra % out of it and can get it up to 3.5GHz but it gets too hot (had to go to 1.55v).
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    giga n650-sli, sata trouble

    The WD250 gig drive doesnt support Native Command Queuing. The 680i, reasonably assuming that a drive that says it's SATA II actually does support the whole SATA II spec, but the WD 250 & 320G drives don't. They speak at 3G/s (which is part of SATA II spec) but they don't do NCQ. So they get...
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    RAM recommendations for EVGA nForce 680i SLI 775 A1 Version

    Corsair XMS2 PC2-8500. Certified 5-5-5-15 at 1066 MHz DDR2, and only cost $119 for 2GB at Newegg. SLI certified (ie. they have EPP profiles). Easy to OC up to 1300 MHz, or to squash latencies down to 4-4-4-12.
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    Intermittent issues with P5B Deluxe

    Are you running Western Digital 250GB or 320GB hard drives? If so, they don't support Native Command Queuing, and you need to make amends because the P5B + Vista combo thinks the WD's do support NCQ. This leads to lockups on boots where there is a large xfer of data. Easiest solution (the one...
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    EVGA 680i board Owners! (HSF Question)

    On 680i boards, the CPU is closer to the edge of the board than on say the Asus P5Bs. As a result, in some cases where the MB is close to an internal divider (eg. Lian-Li PC-101), you can't fit a Tuniq Tower in a horizontal direction. It has to blow air vertically, rather than toward the back...
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    8gb (4 x 2gb) on EVGA 680i Motherboard?

    Note that if you install Vista x64, you need to start with 2GB, install the whole OS, and then download a patch from Microsoft - KB929777 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929777), and then you can up the RAM to 4GB. This is because the 680i boards have a 32 bit ACPI controller. Only Microsoft...
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    EVGA 680i help

    The A1 is the full retail board, the T1 is the same product but minus the printed manual and extra cables. Also, the A1 has a lifetime warranty as opposed to the T1's 2-year warranty (provided you register it within 30 days). I've RMA'd a T1 before, and found that both had T1 serial number...
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    8gb (4 x 2gb) on EVGA 680i Motherboard?

    Yes but be careful of heat. And don't let it go into S3 suspend-to-ram state, because the memory i still fully powered, but the fans are turned off. And if you've overclocked & overvolted it, the problem is exacerbated. Other than that, it works fine. Provided you're running a reasonable OS...
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    Dell PowerEdge 2800 server + MS Small Business Server Premium

    I have a Dell PowerEdge 2800 server: http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/pedge_2800?c=us&cs=28&l=en&s=dfb which still has till Dec 2007 under its warranty and on-site service contract ...together with full version of Microsoft Small Business Server 2003 Premium edition...
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    Best card for system without PCIe x16?

    You're right, I should probably sell the server as a server. It is very loud. Any idea how I might figure out a price to ask for it, and where to sell it? The specs are: single 3GHz Xeon, 2GB, 3x76GB 10k rpm SCSI hotswap drives with some fancy RAID card I can't recall the name of, Dell...
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    Best card for system without PCIe x16?

    Alas, I don't think this is right: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/tips0456.html
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    Best card for system without PCIe x16?

    That would certainly make the choice a lot easier! Any way you might know of confirming this? The specs for most PCIE x16 cards just don't seem to mention the subject. Where did you read that or learn it from?
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    Best card for system without PCIe x16?

    I'm repurposing a Dell PowerEdge 2800 server to act as my desktop machine. It comes with a wimpy onboard GPU (it's a server) so I need to get a card & monitor for it. It only has PCI, PCI Express x1, PCIe x4 and PCIe x8 slots. Any thoughts on what the best card is for this setup? Many thanks.
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    Virginia Tech Shootings

    Geez it's just remarkable how at a time like this, the gun lobby sticks its chest out and says that MORE gun ownership would have limited this tragedy. In the UK, the statistics are telling: UK: 0.1 murders by handgun per million people US: 41 murders by handgun per million people Source...
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    Virginia Tech Shootings

    Isn't it amazing how the assholes of the NRA react to the massacre Virginia Tech. Well, no I guess it's not amazing considering the depths of depravity they plumb, but it pisses me off to a very serious degree nevertheless. Stephen Griffin of Tulane University wrote on his blog: "After mass...
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