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    Switching to a different case from a Corsair Air 540

    I need some more floor space and looking for a full/mid tower case, any suggestions for a replacement? Need to fit a 360mm and a 240mm radiator plus a full size reservoir. I really like the look of the Phanteks Enthoo Evolv but I've heard the airflow isnt that great and I'm not sure it would fit...
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    SP120s clicking while mounted horizontal?

    Not sure what the issue is here, they are mounted on top of an alphacool 240mm ST30 rad, at 100% they are fine but as soon as I drop to ~80% or lower they start clicking. I had another set of these that I RMAd back to amazon because I thought they were bad, brand new set is doing the same...
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    Gigabyte Z97 Gaming GT won't boot

    Just got my new i7 4770k and new mobo today. Got everything installed and it's powering on for about 10 seconds then powering back off. The code on the led is C0 but all the manual says is "reserved" for that code. Any ideas what the issue is? I've taken the ram out completely which throws...
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    Does this Z97 board not exist? Cant seem to find one...

    Looking for a new Z97 board that allows for PCIe 3.0 x8/x8 Crossfire using the furthest spaced PCIe slots for better cooling. Everything I've looked at is only x8/x8 2 spaces apart, which may be a design limitation I'm not aware of. This is the only I can find that appears to be 3 spaces...
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    AMD Catalyst 14.6 brings Eyefinity with mixed resolutions support

    http://videocardz.com/50583/amd-catalyst-14-6-brings-eyefinity-mixed-resolutions-support
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    R9 290 Crossfire heat, what to do?

    Recently picked up two MSI R9 290 Gaming 4G cards with the twinfrozr coolers. The top card keeps overheating and throttling itself, probably because its recycling the hot air onto itself and there's almost no gap for it to breath and get cool air. I have the fans running at 100%. First...
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    Could my PSU be causing my GPU to overheat?

    Recently upgraded to two R9 290s and I noticed today after some BF4 gaming my top card was at 94c. Yikes. I'm currently running an XFX 750w black edition(about 3 years old I think) and I'm thinking it's not enough power for both of those plus my other parts. 2 SSDs 1sata drive 5 120mm fans...
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    Why wont my Dell monitor display properly in this surround setup?

    I've been at this for a few hours now and I'm losing my mind. Just got a new benq 2420z and wanted to setup 3 monitors for triple desktop. I have my setup like this: ASUS VG236 (DVI) ---- BENQ 2420Z (DVI-D) ---- DELL U2311H (DisplayPort) I had the asus and dell working fine in dual...
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    Windows 8, Vertex LE SSD, what happened?

    I recently installed Windows 8 and was happily using my Vertex LE for an extra gaming drive, I noticed my other RAID array wasnt working so I installed the Marvell drivers from Gigabytes site and now the Vertex SSD is gone from Windows. It still show up fine in the BIOS and Intel Storage...
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    AMD to nVidia for 3d vision, which card(s)

    Well since AMD seems to have dropped the ball on their 3d implementation, its time to jump ship to nVidia. I was going to go for 460's in SLI, but the micro stutter issue is kind of scaring me away. I currently have a 5850, so I would like to get something similar in performance for under 300...
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    Cheap upgrade for parents PC

    hey all, looking to add a small upgrade to my parents PC to give it a little more boost. Its starting to show its age and is slowing down a bit. I was planning on a core 2 duo along with a faster HDD, any other recommendations on the cheap? Current specs: Intel Pentium D 930 @ 3.00 ghz...
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    Strange issue with new XFX 5850

    I just bought a new XFX 5850 and when I first dropped it into my machine it booted fine, I downloaded the new 10.4 cats and rebooted which then froze after loading windows with a black screen. I switched PCI-E slots and finally got it up and working but the desktop didnt look "right", not...
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    I5 overclocking. Need some help.

    I just put my system together last night and it posts and is stable at 189 FSB(can't remember what's it's called on the new i5's off hand). As soon as I bump it to 190 it refuses to post. What can I change? I'm using a xigmatek heatsink and at 189 (3.78 Ghz) my temps don't exceed 61c so it...
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    Do I have a Core 216?

    I bought this card off newegg 11/25/08 and always assumed it was just a regular 260. Here is the old listing on newegg which says "192 Stream Processors". http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130370 Did I just get lucky and get a 216 by mistake? Here is my GPU-Z...
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    Help me decide! Some part upgrade advice needed.

    Here are my 2 options: 1) 64GB Super Talent SSD, and a Q9550. ~$400 dollars The more im thinking about it should I scrap both of those and go with an i5 build for about 50 dollars more? i5 750, MSI P55-GD65, and some DDR3 ram. What would net the most performance increase? I primarily game...
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    Best non SSD mechanical drive?

    Looking to upgrade my main drive WD6400AAKS which will become a new storage drive. SSD is not really in my price range for storage amounts. I was looking at the velociraptor but people are saying they aren't worth it with the newest drives that are out.
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    Having problems with networking 2 vista ultimate PCs

    Im at my wits end here. Ive got both machines in the same workgroup, I can see them when I click on networking, but I cannot seem to get any file sharing working. Here is what does work: I can ping each machine from each other I can remote desktop both machines I have a shared printer...
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    What should I upgrade?

    ok, I've been out of the hardware loop for about a year. My bday is coming up so I have about 300 or so to spend but I can't figure out what to get. Here are some of my ideas: Pick up a velociraptor and faster ram for a better overclock. A gtx260 or 4870, not sure how much better...
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    The new 45nm stock heatsinks are tiny

    Wow I opened my E8400 today and was shocked at how much smaller they made the heatsink. Heres a couple pics: Next to the old 65nm sink: Looks like they also removed the copper portion of it: I guess with the reduced power consumption they could reduce the size of the heatsink...
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    Can my XLCIO Goodpower 500W handle this?

    edit: biffed the name of the PSU, should be XCLIO Doing a small upgrade to the rig in my sig: E4300 @ 3.0-3.2 ABIT IP35 2x WD Raptor RAID 1x SATA 320GB drive 8800GT 2GB ram (possibly 4GB in a 2x2 configuration) 7x low speed 120MM Yate loons (5 case fans, 2 on a CM gemini II) 2x...
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    Performance question regarding old vs new raptors

    I have a pair of the original 36GB WD360GD raptors in a a RAID 0 array. Would getting one of the new 74GB ADFD drives give a NOTICABLE improvement with game loading and day to day tasks? My dilemma is this: Buy the IP35-E mobo on the egg right now, for $59 after rebate, sell my 2 old...
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    Good P35 mobo under $100 with RAID?

    Does such a board exist? Id really like to keep my budget under $100 but I cant seem to find anything that really looks good in this price range. The gigabye DS3L would be perfect if it had RAID. I'll probably just spring the extra 20 bones and pick up the DS3R, but I thought I'd post...
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    Best case for under $100?

    Looking to upgrade this POS i have my machine in now with 4 80mm fans with something quieter. I see the antec 900 is $89 after MIR at newegg right now, is there anything cheaper out there that is better? Looking for a a FULL tower with some larger fans to reduce some noise.
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    Question on dual 12v rail PSU

    I have an x1950Pro currently and my aging Antec 430W PSU doesnt seem to power it very well. I saw the XClio 500W Goodpower on newegg and would like to upgrade to this. Question is, the x1950Pro recommends 30A on the 12v rail, but this PSU has 2 12v rails @ 16A and 17A. Does this mean the card...
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    AS5 at Circuit City - real stuff?

    2 of the CC reviews says its "not the real thing". Is this some bogus crap they are selling here? From the tiny picture the tubes look the same (comparing to newegg)...
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    Question for ASRock 4CoreDual-VSTA owners

    Has anyone got this board working in Vista with RAID 0? Checking their website it only shows the driver available for RAID 1 unless I am mis-reading it. So owners of this board with Vista, has it been stable enough to make it your primary OS?
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    Better upgrade option?

    My current rig is in my sig and it needs a little more life until I build a brand new rig from scratch at the end of the year. Please keep in mind my video card is AGP which is why im going with the ASRock board. ------------------------- Upgrade option 1: With this option I keep my current...
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    Nforce3 RAID drivers for Vista

    Ive been trying to install Vista on this machine to try it out, but cant get my RAID array working. I did some googling and found out nVidia is not supporting the Nforce3 chipset for Vista. Are there any hacked drivers out there that will make this work?
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    E228WFP please chime in (banding issues)

    I've been noticing some serious banding in my games on the darker colors and was wondering if anyone else had the same problems. It looks just like the issue the 2007WFP owners were having with the original revision after doing some googling. Here are a couple of screenshots demonstrating the...
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    Upgrading from 19" WS to a 20.1" WS monitor

    Would this be a worthy upgrade? Im kind of on the fence if I want to go and exchange my 19 inch 940BW for the 205BW at sams club (50$ difference). Does anyone have a comparison shot of a 19inch and 20 inch together? Ive searched but cant really find what im looking for screenshot wise.
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    Uhhh, is this normal?

    I just purchased a K8N Neo Platinum from a local shop here and its missing the SATA 1 and 2 connectors. They arent broken, they are just gone. Every picture ive seen has all 4. Ill only ever need 2 but I just want to make sure nothing is wrong with my board.
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    Botched BIOS flash on K8TNeo FIS2R

    I was flashing my BIOS and had a disk read error. I rebooted and I knew it wouldnt post so I followed the instruction for recovery and holding ctrl+home to force the old bios back does nothing. Is there ANYTHING I can do to get this working again?
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    I can't get the the left speaker working on my 700m

    I just got this from dell about a week ago and noticed the left speaker isnt working. I reformatted it right after I got it to wipe off all the crap dell puts on it so Im thinking maybe I broke something when I did driver wise. Ive set the speaker settings to stereo in windows and it still...
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    Still having problems with 6800GT

    I still cannot get my card to work properly. I'm pretty sure I've tried everything besided buying a new motherboard and powersupply, which is where I think the problem may be. The problem seems to occur when I turn on Ansiotropic filtering, as soon as I turn it off my framerates fly up...
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