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    Aftermarket Batteries

    I have a high capacity battery ordered for my new budget laptop from mdsbattery.com, I haven't heard much about them so I guess that I will have to report back when it arrives.
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    Stuck at 3.55ghz--E6600

    It's quite possible that you have hit the practical overclock limit, there are plenty of e6600 that won't do 400x9, you just don't hear people bragging about them. That CPU will likely go higher with more voltage, but the diminshing returns and rapidly increasing heat load will make it...
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    LCD Monitor Resolution

    I usually change my fonts to larger sizes or increase the desktop DPI when text is small enough to cause eye fatigue. - Tip - Hold down Control and scroll your mouse wheel in and out to change zoom/text size in many apps like MS Word and Firefox
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    Video Card and Native Resolutions

    Anything from around the 6800 series and up should handle most games with playable framerates no problem, but it depends on how much "eye candy" you want to turn on. I have been running 1600x1200 LCDs for a couple of years now, first I had the Dell 2001FP and now I have a Samsung 214T. My...
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    HardOCP Needs Your Input!!!!! Please Read!!!!

    Around 27-30 C, my PSU is at the bottom of the case so it pretty much exhausts unheated air, however my setup is pretty atypical.
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    Why are video cards so expensive now?

    This 8800GTX is the first time I have ever purchased the highest end card available, I have always been one to buy the next to highest card, ie Ti4400 instead of the 4600, 6800GT and 7800GT instead of GTX, 1900XT not XTX. I think I would have been satisfied with a GS but I have no regrets...
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    Why are video cards so expensive now?

    I think it's pretty damn expensive, but I still paid the price for an 8800GTX, and don't regret it a bit :D I can't remember the last time I bought a PC component and didn't overclock it because it was fast enough out of the box. If you want to be an early adopter who is riding the bleeding...
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    Keeping Outlook synced on a dual boot rig

    Well, Vista incompatibilities have been few and far between but I am hesitant to fully swap over yet. My newspaper's website doesn't work under Vista right now, so that's one annoyance. The main programs I am a bit iffy about are my Palm hotsync software and Motorola phone tools. My XP...
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    Depressing FSB

    What kind of voltage are you feeding the RAM? How's the cooling on the memory and northbridge? Could also be you need more voltage, I am not sure how much droop those boards have, 1.4 bios could be only 1.35 actual.
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    Keeping Outlook synced on a dual boot rig

    I have been hunting around for a while for an easier way to keep my Outlook mail and calendar synced between my Vista and XP installs. Right now my method involves manually exporting my personal folder to a .pst file on a different drive. I have two files in the backup folder, xpversion.pst...
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    will vista continue to be this slow?

    I am suspecting that with mature drivers many programs will perform better on Vista than XP. Vista uses more memory than XP - which is a good thing IMO. XP thrashes the shit out of the page file when there is plenty of memory available. I bought a 2Gb kit to use it, not to have half of it...
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    will vista continue to be this slow?

    It isn't slow at all for me, it is actually quite responsive and smooth. This week I got my free copy of Vista Business from school, and replaced my RC2 install with it. I have yet to find a program that won't run on it, some require using XP compatibility mode, but that's only a click or two...
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    How to setup dual boot

    With a tri-boot setup the Linux OS is the last one you install, otherwise the M$ operating systems will overwrite GRUB. You just need to add the Vista location as another OS under GRUB, selecting it will chain you off to the Vista loader where you can choose from Vista or XP. GRUB has worked...
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    How to setup dual boot

    I use multiple partitions on one hard drive, I delete/create partitions for both operating systems with the XP disk partitoner at the beginning of the XP install routine. I actually have a triple boot going with Linux but anyhow back on topic... Windows XP MUST be installed first. If you...
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    is there any vista driver for any motherboard yet?

    My whole Badaxe 2 based system can install Vista perfectly, in fact there isn't a hardware item without drivers after the initial install of RC2. That's right, native support ever since beta versions :D Getting a copy of Vista Business this week, should be a smooth install this weekend.
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