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    FS: Home Theater Parts(popcorn hour, subwoofer, amp, Yamaha Receiver)

    Hi everyone! Work is relocating me from the US to the UK for a few years. Unfortunately, that means some of my electronics will not work as they're not dual voltage. Plus, my wife has taken this as the opportunity to gut my closet :( Prices as listed, plus shipping to your area code in the...
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    WTB: ATI 5850 Reference Cooler

    Morning, The fan on my 5850 is very very angry. Before I think about RMAing it, was curious if anyone that upgraded their card's cooling had an extra reference cooler laying around that they'd be willing to part with for some cash. Let me know! thanks!
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    Hyper V - i3-540 enough or need x3440

    Hi everyone, about to pull the trigger on a new build but i'm hung up on if i'm going to be underpowered or overpowered with my choice of CPU I'm planning on building a system that will serve primarily as a file server. As follows 2008R2 w/ HyperV as host 1 VM - WHS for Storage -- at...
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    How important is VT-d for non critical use?

    Hey guys, trying to consolidate some systems i have into 1 box, and learn virtualization in the process. I was eying the i3-530 as a probably choice for processor, as I was only planning on running 2008R2 as host with 3-4 VMs max - (1 windows 7, 1 WHSv1, 1 WHSv2, maybe 1 linux distro)...
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    Hyper-V or ESXi PCI-E passthrough?

    I know, this should be obvious, but i'm just starting to dabble in virtualization and ran into a roadblock and need some advice. I'm looking at trying to consolidate some boxes into one and virtualize most of it. Windows home server Random services OS - torrent, ftp, apache...
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    Outlook 2007 instant message integration?

    Quick question: Looking to get my team of 20-30 people onto an instant message client. Some will be remote, but connected via vpn. Main problem: We're integrating networks with 4 other companies as part of a merger. There is no way I can get IT support on this -- thus office communicator...
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    Windows 7 and ATI x600

    Was not able to find compatable drivers for my laptop's ATI mobile radeon x600. Doesnt look like it is officially supported by ATI for use with windows 7. I could not get the windows 7 beta drivers for newer cards, or the vista drivers to work. anyone manage a workaround yet?
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    Raid 5 performance?

    I want to impliment a software raid 5 array for my linux server box thats going to be serving a media frontend like linuxMCE. I was going to use mdadm to create the raid on 3 320gb 7200.10 seagate drives. I know that reading is not really a problem, but ive heard that writing to the array...
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    How to better optimize my o/c, +700mhz on air, now what

    Hi guys, I did this overclock about 2 years ago and i have been itching to buy a new Q6600 and go apeshit on it, but until then, im looking to better optimize what i currently have I seem to be limited around 2.5ghz, it is prime stable at 12 hours, and has never crashed on me. If i go any...
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    How should i setup my new disk storage

    hey guys! just bought 2 new 320 gig 7200.10 seagate SATA drives, im going to put them into raid 0 for games and storage i currently have a 80gig WD SE pata drive which is being used as an OS and application drive for best realworld performance, how should i set everything up? Solution...
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    first time overclocking this rig, Windows crashing at boot

    Just got a bunch of new parts in and wanted to see how far i can crank out my A64 3000+ The problem is that the damn thing is crashing on windows boot well before i think it should Theres plenty of screen shots of people doing 250+FSB on their ram and 2.8-3ghz on their 3000+ with air Im...
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    Confused as to what this connector is for

    Just moving my old computer to a new case since i know a little bit more about building computers now than i did then, i noticed this on my X800GT the little connector right above the chick's head. is this a power connector? do i need to hook this up to anything?
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    is backlight bleed always going to be a problem?

    just picked up a gateway 2275 and i have bleeding across the top and bottom of the screen it is only noticable when i play videos full screen with black bars across the top and bottom im wondering if i should return this one and see if i can get another one with less of a problem its not...
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    Trying to future proof my rig, need some help :)

    ok, below this is my current rig ive been adding to off and on for about 4 years Asus A8N-E Athlon64 3000+ single core @ stock 1.87ghz ANTEC trupower 430w 2x512 Buffalo tech Pc3200 ATI X800GT - 256bit 256meg Im not looking to do a huge revamp, mostly because i just spent a ton of cash...
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