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    Join the Alliance -- the Socket 939 Alliance!

    Hello fellow 939 owners! My Opty 144 1.8 is still churning away happily at 2.9. it's been about 2 years since I built it, maybe 3, I don't remember. I'll be on 939 for a while. I may eventually upgrade to a used dual core processor, but not thinking of building a new rig for a few years, I...
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    The Opty 140s

    I built my opty 144 about 6 months ago and I love it. I clocked 2.7 Ghz on the stock AMD heatsink and I'm at 2.9 now on a TT Big Typhoon. Been like that since the 2nd week with no issues. That's on an Epox 9NPA3+ board, with a crappy power supply that came with my case and 2gb of cheaper GSkill...
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    Whatever happened to Alpha?

    I was thinking that earlier last month when I moved my old K6-III 400 aside in the basement. I can remember the excitement when my alpha came in the mail.
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    UPS delivered the goods

    Haha, I didn't even notice that!
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    IDE cable that supports 3 burners?

    How many hard drives are you running? Does your Mobo have SATA connections? IDE only supports 2 drives per header as stated earlier. Master and Slave on primary header, Master and Slave on Secondary header. If you've got one HDD you can do PRI: HDD-Master, Burner 1 - Slave SEC...
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    Program to Fix Dead Pixels!

    I've had pretty good luck just simply poking them a bit with my fingernail, dosen't always work, but has worked 3 out of 4 times. I had a dead pixel on my Gateway laptop when i bought it. I poked the dead pixel and it started working again, hasn't died again in over a year. Same thing with...
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    UPS delivered the goods

    Parts for my new build where shipped from newegg yestarday. The goodies arrived today, and the case will be here tomorrow. AMD Opteron 144 CACJE 2GB G Skill RAM 2.5-3-3-6 EPOX 9NPA3-Ultra mobo NEC Black DVD Burner AS5 Thermal Paste It's my first build since a K6-3 400 (oc'd to 450!)...
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    Friends gaming system

    f*ck.. Did you log in with your newegg acct? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Here's a copy and paste Antec PERFORMANCE TX TX1050B Black Steel Server Computer Case 500W ATX12V v2.0 Power Supply ASUS A8N-SLI Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 SLI ATX...
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    Friends gaming system

    https://secure.newegg.com/NewVersion/WishList/WishDetail.asp?position=HISTORY&ID=1864224&WishListTitle=pc+2 Click "pc 2" It's been a few years since I've built a system, I'm helping my friend build this system as a gaming rig. Any comments? Does anything suck for new games such as...
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    Need Help/Advice --> Laptop LCD

    It's very possible that the backlight has gone out. I used to have an old laptop and when I pushed the button that was activated when the lid was closed, all it did was turn off the backlight, and the screen image was still kind of visible, but it was realy dark, so it does sound like the cold...
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    laptop screen

    The hinges are worn out, get new / used hinges, try ebay.
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    Speedstep on my laptop

    Thank you! Downloaded it and it works great!
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    Speedstep on my laptop

    I got a new laptop the other day and re installed windows xp home SP1 on it to get rid of all that useless crap that comes with it, but I have one question. I can not get the speedstep function working. The cpu is constantly at 2.8Ghz which only allows for a little more than an hours worth of...
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    Big ooooops, fdisked wrong hard drive!

    ok i was in a rush to get my laptop going and I tossed the hard drive into my main computer. I wasn't paying attention and i deleted my fat 32 and my linux partitions from my main drive, THE WRONG ONE! So I've lost a lot of crap I had on there. I backed up a while ago and was actually thinking...
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    Windows media player Sucks

    I hate windows media player, it is the biggest piece of 1/2 assed crap I have ever used. I have a collection of .wmv and .mpg car videos on my computer and they only work 1/2 of the time I want to play them. I can click on one and it will only play the sounds, and then i can close media player...
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    noob battery recharging Q

    Should be fine, the higher mah batteries will just take longer to charge, and 1.2 volts is normal for rechargable batteries.
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    Just curious....

    There's always that 1 person where you work or go to school that refuses to take a shower and wear deodorant, what makes it worse is when they use a whole tube of gel to keep the flakes down.:rolleyes: I had to sit next to that kid in my computer tech shop, I was always getting in trouble for...
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