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    More Opteron 165 results..

    Just got mine from ZZF on friday. Here's the stepping: Here's the stock heatsink which I gave a little lapping love. And here's my results. I'm pretty sure the board is my limiting factor here.. I can't get it stable at 290mhz for the life of me.. Tried upping the LDT and NB...
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    new 6800, new headache

    So today I upgraded from my 9600XT to a 6800 vanilla. so happy as can be im gaming away and BAM my screen goes black. no response from the system at all, so i have to hold the power button to get it to turn off. I get back into windows and there's no "system has recovered from a serious...
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    SN25P - Dual Core Support confirmed!!!

    I'm in the market for an Athlon X2 this summer and I was hoping for the SN25P. Well I went and checked the BIOS revision history and sure enough... FN25S01K Checksum: FA00 Date: 2005/05/11 Added "LED Bright" function Added Support of Dual...
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    Trip to vegas, grand canyon, helicopter ride!

    A recent trip to vegas, enjoy. On the floor of the canyon. Helicopter ride, hoover dam. Awesome waterfall. Dolphin! Enjoy. Comments welcome. Matt
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    Found a cool barn.. pics inside.

    My friend found this while driving to work one day.. never really noticed before. So we went to snap some photos.. Here are a couple and the rest can be found here There are full size images there as well. Onto the pictures. I took a bunch of black and white and a couple color...
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    80gb 4200rpm goes CLUNK

    Well lately (last 2 days) my hard drive has been making some strange noises. Mobile drives in my experiences aren't usually that audible.. This thing has been making some pretty loud CLUNK kinds of noises. I was planning to upgrade it eventually because it's only 4200 rpm but uhh... I wasn't...
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    New seagates with NCQ

    I was checking out the new seagates with NCQ, I did a little reading on them but I still want to know something.. Does this require a special controller or can I use any old SATA controller and still see the so-called performance gain? Is there anything else I'm missing that I'd need...
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    Old gateway doesn't accept memory upgrade.. please help

    Ok I do freelance computer repair and I've been doing it for a few years now.. I thought I had saw it all until now. I have been messing with this computer for 3 days now and I've exhausted every possible option that I can think of, including googling for answers. The computer itself is a...
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    My college says no Athlons....

    So I get an email today from the college I will be attending as a freshman next fall.. I'm going to be attending NJIT (New Jersey Institute of Technology) as a Computer Science major. They send me an email stating they have a strict requirement for the computer you can have. Thinking nothing of...
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    Emachines M6809... sparks and pictures "Fire Plug"

    The reason behind the subject of this thread will become apparent pretty soon here. First, let me start with the story. I was sitting around at a friend's house, not much to do.. Someone gets an idea that they want to watch a movie that I had on my laptop. My friend has a 53inch Hitatchi...
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    IC7-MAX3 voltage issue

    I searched around a bit but I did not see a similiar problem. First, system specs: IC7-MAX3 2.8C One optical drive One hard drive 3 80mm case fans 1 92mm tornado 430 watt trupower antec radeon 9700 Heres the problem.. I'm trying to overclock it a bit and seem to be having some...
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    Emachines M6809 -- Personal review

    I received my laptop Monday morning from JandR.com. The packing was pretty good, no room to move around. In the box I found the laptop and a box of accessories. Contents: manuals, phone cable(yay), AC adapter, and the lovely battery. The real goods: This laptop is not a...
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