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    WTS/WTT Powercolor 7870 MYST (Tahiti LE)

    WTS my Powercolor 7870 for $220 or trade it for an equivalent power Nvidia card. All of my games run better on Nvidia :( PM me for paypal information!
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    Setting up QOS for online gaming

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    Melted plastic in 4-pin connector

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    Radeon 5850 PSU

    I'd like to upgrade to a Radeon 5850, but I'm having a hard time figuring out how many amps it draws on the 12v rail(s). My current PSU is this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817153052 Will my current PSU be enough to power a 5850, or should i upgrade? thanks!
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    PCI-E 1.0 vs 2.0 question

    I'd like to upgrade my 8800GTS512 to a Radeon 5850, but my motherboard is only PCI-Express 1.0, and i know the 5850 is ver 2.0. I know it's backwards compatible with 1.0, but will I see a significant speed decrease due to the reduced bandwidth? If so, by how much? I'm already having to upgrade...
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    196.75 drivers dangerous, read here

    It seems that the new 196.75 drivers release from nVidia has been causing overheating in video cards due to an error in the drivers that affects variable fan control. The only way to control the fans is manually through another program. nVidia has quietly removed the 196.75 drivers and put the...
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    Q6600 w/ 400MHz FSB

    Right now, at 3.6GHz with a 9x multiplier and 400MHz FSB, my idle temps are around 58-63 degrees C with a CPU voltage of 1.4625, and i have a TRUE with a scythe fan attached in a Antec 900 case with all fans on High. when using IntelBurnTest it gets up to 80C before the chip automatically lowers...
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    Total cascading RAM failure

    A couple weeks ago I installed two corsair 1GB PC6400 sticks into my mobo, bringing my RAM to 4GB, the other two sticks being crucial ballistix PC6400 as well. A few days after I installed the new RAM, i started getting weird errors in windows. ran memtest and saw massive errors that did not go...
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    4x1GB in P35-DS3L

    I recently added 2GB of RAM to my comp, making it 4x1GB. Two of the sticks are rated 4-4-4-12 at 2.1v, and two are rated for 4-4-4-12 at 2.2v, and they are all PC6400 800MHz DDR2 sticks.. I run them at 2.1v. Memtest86+ returns errors in the first pass at those latencies. If I increase them to...
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    Moving from IDE to SATA HD

    I have a 1TB Western Digital Black SATA HD coming in the mail soon and it will be replacing my aging 300 GB IDE hard drive, which is on the same cable as an 80 GB IDE HD. I will also be getting 2 more GBs of RAM in the mail, which will bring my total RAM capacity to 4 GBs. I am currently using...
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    Custom laser etching

    I was wondering if there are any websites that sell computer cases that you can have them laser etch the side of with your own uploaded design or something similar to that. I'm not very handle with a dremel tool and I none of my friends are either. Or perhaps a business that I can send a...
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    Old PSU powering gtx260

    I have a somewhat old PSU, i'm considering upgrading to a GeForce GTX 260 video card, and I'm wondering if my PSU can supply enough amps on the combined 12v rail. Here's my PSU: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817153052 I've read several different figures for how much...
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    Q6600 Burn Test results

    My Q6600 at stock temps with stock cooler with AS5 thermal compound gets up to 71C after 50 runs on IntelBurnTest. Overclocked with FSB at 333 (3.0GHz) temps after 50 runs is 77C. After a long game of TF2 and i look at my CPU temp charts, the max temp i ever see is like 56C. Will my overclock...
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    crucial ballistix RMA

    So a couple weeks ago, one stick of my 2GB dual channel ballistix kit died. today, the other one died. They were both ran at stock speeds and operated at 2.2v that is stated by crucial as their optimum voltage level. Unfortunatly, I don't have the original box they came in or the antistatic bags...
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    GA-P35-DS3L BIOS problem

    Today I discovered one of my Ballistix PC6400 1GB ram sticks had failed, and would not POST while connected to my GA-P35-DS3L, the other stick works just fine, and will post when it is the only stick connected. I used @BIOS to update the mobo's bios, hoping maybe the update would magically fix...
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    Looking for Girly case

    Looking for a case that a girl might think is pretty/attractive, I've found this: http://www.tweaknews.net/reviews/inwin_allure_case_review/ She likes this, but it's not big enough for a regular ATX motherboard, and she wants the option to go SLI at some point, as well as having adequate...
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    6800NU Possible Meltdown?

    I believe I might have melted my 6800 :x Specs: AMD Sempron 2600+ (Socket A) 1 GB PC3200 DDR DFI NFII-400 AL (nForce2 mobo) 40 GB HD 320 GB HD nVidia 6800 (AGP flavor~) This morning, while i was playing Team Fortress 2, i noticed my monitor showing a black screen intermittently...
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    IDE Add-in Card

    I'll be purchasing an X38 motherboard soon, but I have a CD-RW drive, a DVD-ROM, and a 300GB hard drive, all IDE. I'd like to keep all of them instead having to buy new ones, and i recently found a PCI-Express x1 add-in card that gives you an extra IDE port...
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