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I took off the hsf and washed out all the dirt in it as well as took off that shitty thermal past from the processor and memory and replaced it with some articsilver. after doing this i now have a 20c drop in idle temps, so it sits around 62c and running furmark when i would be hitting 108 i am...

thanks for all the replies, ya i think i will take it out and see if i can remount the heatsink with some ac as well as clean out the dust bunnies. thanks again.

when playing games my 8800gt is hitting 108c and at idle sits at a cozy 81c is this normal? also the fan is ridiculously loud when playing games, but acceptable while at idle. when i get some extra cash i might try and pick up a new card, maybe one of those new amd 6000 series cards that's...

i end my crawling to post this once, let me win!

ya when i saw that boat named privacy i nearly fell on the floor laughing. all those condos seem like a voyeurs paradise.

i guess you are right, but it has alot of qualities of those online rpgs that some people play.

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i like how when he first installs the drives he gets like 2gb/s of throughput then after he defrags them (stupid) and does the test again at the party the throughput is a fraction of what it was just a little while ago.

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i live in canada, and even though it is inflated that is the going price for it. update: i just went online and i could actually get the hp for 347 if i price matched at bestbuy that could possibly affect the decision a little more.

I am debating on which of these two monitors would be better. I can get the hp for 399 and the westinghouse for 429 at bestbuy. as for the use of the screens i would be using them to watch tv shows and play games on them as well both of my computer and my xbox 360. I saw the w2207 running in...

well i was thinking about it and the files that would be backed up are totaling around 500gb in total but that is rapidly expanding so i was thinking about getting a 1tb hardrive and putting it in an enclosure and backing up the data that way. if i went with raid-0 would i be able to upgrade the...

I was thinking about using an onboard controller too but it would be harder to replace the array if it where to fail on me, but i guess that would not be a problem since i plan to do backups to an external drive anyways. thanks

cant anyone at least point me in the right direction as to where to find the answer? I have already tried to search to no avail.

Hi, i am thinking about making a nas for my mom's work(she works at home). The nas would be used as a central server for all of her work files that would be uploaded at about a gig at a time. i would also be putting some of my video files on the system(no not pron :P) and be streaming them to my...