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    Thermaltake Core X9

    What do people think about this case? Or are there any other cases in this price range that will take a full ATX motherboard horizontally? http://www.thermaltakeusa.com/products-model.aspx?id=C_00002562 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811133275
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    Upgrade advice

    My current system: Core 2 Duo E6600 Intel D975XBX2 4 GB DDR2 800 GeForce GTX 460 1 GB 250 GB WD Velociraptor Antec EarthWatts EA650 My suggested upgrade: Core i5-3570K Intel DZ77GA-70K 8 GB DDR3 1600 I'm gonna keep my hard drive and get an SSD later. I can get another GTX 460 1 GB on eBay...
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    WTB: Q6700, QX6800, or X3230

    Looking to upgrade my E6600 system to last a bit longer. I can do PayPal. Thanks!
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    SATA controller card

    I'm looking for an SATA controller card (PCI or PCI-E) that fully supports optical drives. The SATA controllers on my motherboard (Intel ICH7R and Marvell 88SE6145) support reading CDs, DVDs, and Blu-Rays, but not writing to any of them. Can anyone recommend a controller card that does? Support...
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    Do I need a new power supply for a GTX 260?

    My system: Core 2 Duo E6600 Intel D975XBX2 Geforce 7950GT 2x2GB DDR2 800 5x7200 RPM SATA and IDE hard drives (not in RAID so they aren't all going at once) Antec Earthwatts 650 (one 6/8 pin and one 6 pin PCI-E power connector, 12V1@22A, 12V2@22A, and 12V3@25A) I'm thinking about getting this...
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    Firestix back in stock

    Here. Although compared to all of the Crucial deals, I don't know if $160 for 2x1GB is still very attractive.
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    Which 500 GB hard drive?

    Which of these should I get? They're all SATA 2, 7200 RPM, and have 16 MB of cache. I'd be using it for storage now, and maybe as a boot drive next time I reinstall XP or Vista. I'm a fan of Seagate, but is the 7200.10 really worth the $60 more than the Maxtor?
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    Need a PCI or PCI Express IDE controller for Vista x64

    Is there such a thing? I have four IDE hard drives but no way to access them in Vista because it doesn't have drivers for my Promise Ultra133TX2.
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    P5B Deluxe PS2 KB port fails above 300 MHZ FSB

    I just put together this system: E6600 with retail heatsink (I bought an SI-128 but it's not compatible...) P5B Deluxe w/ WiFi 2x1GB Crucial DDR2 1000 EVGA 7950GT I put in my current power supply, a Fortron 700 watt, so I don't think it's that. I have the PCI frequency at 33.33 MHZ...
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    E6600 Build

    I'm going to upgrade the system in my sig in a week. I was thinking... Core 2 Duo E6600 ASUS P5B Deluxe/WiFi-AP Thermalright SI-128 and SILVERSTONE FM121 120mm EVGA Geforce 7950GT 512MB I'm not sure about the memory, but I was looking at these... Crucial Ballistix 2 x 1GB DDR2 1000...
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    Bestbuy Seagate 250GB PATA 16MB 5YR $60

    This looks like a good deal for anyone looking to pickup a PATA HD. http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=8004679&ref=39&loc=01&st=8004679+&type=product&id=1155848396138
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    7800GS+ AGP?

    I was thinking about giving my brother my 6800GT and getting one of these from here. It's £214.74 or ~400 USD shipped to the US. I know I could get a PCI Express 7900 GT for $125 less, but then I'd have to get a new motherboard, CPU, RAM, heatsink, power supply (mine is low on the 12V rail)...
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    3x512MB or 2x1GB? (single channel)

    I want to upgrade my RAM. Half-life 2 w/ a 3rd party high res texture pack and the demos for Battlefield 2 and Fear put my commit charge anywhere from 1.1 to 1.4GB. From what I've been told, I could add a 512MB stick of OCZ Gold GX...
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    Wtb 512mb Utt-bh

    I'd like to add another 512MB stick of memory to the two I have in my sig. All the UTT I've seen for sale has been 2x512MB, but my motherboard only has three slots and I'm probably going to sell what I have and go to DDR2 whenever I replace my MB/CPU. I want a stick that can do at least what's...
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    Need 512MB high voltage, low latency DDR

    I have 2x512MB Mushkin Blue Line UTT running at 220mhz at 2-2-2-6 at 3.1V on an Abit AN7. I'd like to get another 512MB that will run at those timings and that voltage, so I can play Fear and Battlefield 2. From what I've read, Mushkin Blue Line is no longer UTT and Redline is no longer in...
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    HP P1130 focus

    I just got an HP P1130 (21") on ebay. Supposedly it's the same as the Sony G520. I'm running it side by side with my NEC FE991sb (19"). To me, the text on the NEC looks sharp at 1600x1200. However, the text is noticeably blurred at 1600x1200 on the HP and very blurred at 1920x1440 and 2048x1536...
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    6800GT refresh rates

    I have an eVGA 6800GT AGP and am planning to get a Dell P1130 monitor. However, according to the spec sheet here http://www.evga.com/products/pdf/N344.pdf it can only do 60hz at 2048x1536. Is this true? If so, is there an AGP card with comparable performance that supports 80+hz at 2048x1536...
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    AN7 CPU temp sensor

    How accurate is the CPU temp sensor on the AN7? I'm running an XP-M 2600+ at 2.42ghz at 1.788v. I have a Thermalright SP-97 and a thin layer of AS5. On top of the heatsink I have a 92mm 80cfm Delta blowing down. On the side panel I have a 120mm 130cfm Delta blowing down onto the 92mm, along with...
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    Free firewall for WinME?

    Does anybody have any recommendations for a free firewall that will run on WinME? I'm trying to help out a neighbor who won't upgrade to XP. I tried Kerio but it wouldn't install. Zonealarm did install but made the PC reboot every few minutes.
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    Interpreting CHKDSK log file

    My PC froze with a 0x000000f4 stop error. I was just browsing in Firefox and chatting in AIM at the time. I rebooted and checked the event viewer and found this: The file system structure on the disk is corrupt and unusable. Please run the chkdsk utility on the volume C:. I ran CHKDSK, but...
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    Help with ATI TV out

    I can't get TV out working the way I want it on my brother's 9700 Pro. His primary display is a 17" CRT and I hooked up a 27" analog TV to the video out. He's running Catalyst 5.7 w/ CCC and XP Pro SP2. With my 6800GT I can just right click on a file and select play on my TV. It then comes up...
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    Error 1406 help

    I get error 1406 whenever I try to install Symantec Antivirus 10.0 or ATI Catalyst 5.6 on my brother's computer. Error 1406.Could not write value xxx to key \SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run. Verify that you have sufficient access to that key, or contact your support personnel...
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    eVGA sent me a bad card

    My eVGA 6800 Limited Edition died after all of 3 and 1/2 months. I RMAed it to them over 3 weeks ago and finally got a replacement today. I installed it and ran ATItool. It started accumulating errors as soon as I hit the "Scan for Artifacts" button. So, I ran Coolbits and found out the default...
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    NF7-S replacement

    When I first got my NF7-S v2.0 (Aug 2004) I could run my Mobile Athlon XP 2600+ at 20 * 133 (2666) at 1.95v. It was prime stable for as long as I ran it, which was a little over an hour. I've run it at 19 * 133 (2533) at 1.8v for the past several months. About a month ago it lost the ability to...
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    Better than prime?

    I found this thread over at the XtremeSystems forums. Now that the ambient temp here is about 60F, my CPU (mobile Athlon XP 2600+ at 133 * 19, 1.9v) idles at 42C. It hits 48 while priming and 51 while running CPUburn. Running the program linked to in that thread, my CPU errors out within...
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    Mobile Athlon XP voltage

    I've got a mobile Athlon XP 2600+ and an Abit NF7-S v2.0. I have an SP-97 and a 92mm Tornado on it. With the Tornado and all of my case fans at 7v, it ran at 37C under load with stock settings (133*15, 1.45v). This is when the ambient temp was in the low 70s F. I had it set to 133*19 (2533) at...
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    TV interfering with monitor

    Whenever my roommate watches the TV in our room, the picture on my (CRT) monitor starts shaking and vertical lines start running up and down it. As far as I know, all of the outlets in the room are on one circuit. Might a line conditioner like one of these help?
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    16MB vs 8MB cache on USB

    I'm debating whether I should buy a Maxtor 250GB 7200RPM 8MB cache IDE drive for $140 at zzf, or the same but with 16MB cache for $160 at Newegg. I plan to use the drive in my Vantec Nexstar USB 2.0/firewire 400 enclosure and the only time speed really matters to me is when I'm copying tens...
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    EVGA 6800 LE memory clock

    I just got an EVGA 6800 LE that I ordered on Monday from Zipzoomfly. I uninstalled the ATI drivers and removed my ancient 8500LE. Then I installed the 6800 and loaded up the 66.81 drivers and coolbits 3d. However it showed the core and memory clocks as 325 and 700. I spent $330 on this card...
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