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    BSOD help

    I didnt know PSU's had religious affiliations. I'm getting this same error on my brand new Dell Precision M70. Is there anything other than a bad RAM and HDD that could give this error on a brand new computer?
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    XPS M170 vs. Precision Mobile M70

    I know that hte XPS screen is bigger, but I'm not really sure which notebook would be better overall as far as quality and durability. I've been unable to find any documented specs for the response times for either screen. Looking at the WUXGA on the M70 vs the one on the XPS. Any help would be...
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    Best looking OEM cases?

    IBM because Darth Vader would use it, and SGI because they're cool and fruity.
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    Dell XPS 600 Review at PC Mag

    i bet it would raise my electric bill quite a bit.
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    Dell...

    better make sure its got good color before you buy it on that "6ms" rating, which is highly suspicious and seems like a marketing ploy. those numbers are often generated with fuzzy math as GW would put it.
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    BF2 wont allow me on servers for "modified content"

    like the title says. i haven't modified anything though. does anyone know why i get this error? i Googled it and no one seems to know what the deal is but a lot of people have the issue.
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    Which scaling method for my LCD?

    I've got a Dell 1704FPT using DVI from my graphics card as the input. If I'm playing a game at 1024x768 which method of scaling should I use in the Nvidia driver control panel??? The two best options seem to be Monitor Scaling or Display Adapter, which one is preferable?
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    6600 256MB OC's

    does anyone else have this card and how far can you typically push this core/ram from stock speed safely? mine is the fanless heatpipe one.
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    nVidia realeasing the power of 3

    It's PEP from Duck Tales. everyone's talking about it and no one knows what the fuck it is!
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    Need advice configuring a system

    Pentium M is S479. Newegg sells an AOpen barebones that will work great with a 1.7Ghz Pentium M(about the same as a P4 3.0), with AGP and everything you'll need. Its what I used. Its just so energy effecient and silent I have to recommend it after owning nuclear hot P4's. They're pretty rare and...
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    Need advice configuring a system

    screw Pentium 4, go with a Pentium M. I just replaced both of my P4 systems with one PM system and I've never liked a computer more than I like this one.
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    What Is So Wrong With Building An Intel Rig?

    Nothing wrong with Intel as long as you're not talking about the poorly executed Prescott cores. They seem to have made some stupid decisions releasing processors lately, not to their pocketbook and OEM buyers, but to the end user. My computers have always been Intel. I'm a huge fan of the...
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    So the "big" 7800 is a quadro after all

    its his money, who cares.
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    I got carded for buying canned air!

    because its not air. its 1,1,1,2 tetrafluoroethane or R-13 refrigerant. same stuff in AC systems. it's a fluorocarbon that's liquid under the pressure its kept at inside the can, and has a boiling point well below room temperature so it makes a good propellant or aerosol spray duster. stupid...
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    Thermaltake Tsunami vs MGE TITANIUM CA-TITANIUM-S

    if you're looking for something that's not cheaply made then I wouldn't consider a TT. Look into CoolerMaster's, Silverstone or Lian Li's cases. They're MUCH better quality. I've got a computer builder's warehouse store near me and they carry a lot of TT stuff and a lot of other no-name junk...
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    question about the ups

    for a rig that nice you should really get a Liebert or APC SmartUPS that outputs a true sine wave and is line interactive rather than standby. I love my SmartUPS 750.
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    So the "big" 7800 is a quadro after all

    Read what I said again. I'm refering to the room the PC is kept in. With that much equipment making heat, plus a monitor and UPS, it would be like running a small space heater in whatever room the computer is kept in all the time. That thing would be like having 4 or 5 normal PCs running a at...
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    So the "big" 7800 is a quadro after all

    that would still need a separate AC for the room to keep ambient temperatures/rad temps down so WC would be a waste of time on it. HPC environments are almost all going air cooled now because its easier and cheaper.
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    College Headphone Recommendations? (Digital?)

    you'll suck the battery of an iPod pretty quick if you use a set of cans with big drivers. I had some Grado SR-60's and they were without a doubt some of the best headphones I've ever had. My Sennheiser HD 555's have a bit more bass and their trebel is a bit less forward but the Grado's weren't...
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    Need buying advice on best gaming/graphics LCD

    IBM T221, 9 megapixels, 22in, virtually indistinguishable from reality(it's been proven). yours for 12,000 dollars. It's TRUE professional quality. You'd need Quadro 4500's in SLi to run games at its native resolution and push its 60Hz refresh though.
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    Is she gonna blow cap'n!?

    the CPU uses next to no power. its everything else that does in this stupid PC. if i'd known that i never would have bought this damn thing. thats so stupid of them im fuming mad at it.
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    Is she gonna blow cap'n!?

    and that AGP voltage going to be coming off of the same rail that powers the CPU? i was thinking this is the case since the one dedicated to the CPU is plugged into the motherboard, correct?
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    Is she gonna blow cap'n!?

    does the 6800 also pull power through the AGP slot? its AGP 4x but the card is 8x so i don't remember the voltage differences between AGP specs.
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    Is she gonna blow cap'n!?

    man thats a crappy thing of them to do. the cpu is a pentium m that consumes 21W max!!! it's got 1 IDE HDD, 1GB of RAM, one DVD drive and thats pretty much it other than the GPU.
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    Logo and Company Name

    or interslice
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    Is she gonna blow cap'n!?

    now that i got your attention, i've got an AOpen Pentium M barebones with a 270W passive PFC PSU with these specs.. AC Input 115 / 230 VAC, 50-60 Hz DC Output +3.3V +5V +12V1 +12V2 -12V -5V +5VSB Current (A) 17 18 8 14 0.3 0.2 2 Max Power 115W 96W...
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    Some questions about my X-530

    you will get really crappy imaging if you have all of your SURROUND channels in front of you. it's what a lot of people do, but it makes for a nasty sounding setup. you'd be better off running only the R,L and Center speakers and forgetting the surrounds if you can't put them behind you. also if...
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    whats the best video card i can run with this psu?

    if it fits in the case you can probably use it, but they typically wont fit anything thats not exactly the same class of psu, i.e. ATX, AT, SFX. that's SFX so it is precisely SFX sized and will have screw holes for SFX case mounting, and an ATX one will have different holes and will likely not...
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    whats the best video card i can run with this psu?

    enermax makes some good SFX PSU's. wattage doesn't matter all that much once you break 350W, the amperage and the actual accuracy of the specificaltions are the things you have to worry about.
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    Should I?

    unless you absolutely must have a modular i'd recommend a Zippy, Fortron, Sparkle or PCP&C PSU.
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    Honest Opinion how much is it worth?

    if its in good condition and runs stable you could likely get about 400 dollars for it, depending on how old all the individual parts are.
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    Should I?

    If you buy an Ultra you won't be getting a "better" PSU.
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    what is a really good power supply that doesn't cost a lot?

    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817103706 will likely outperform most other brand's 500W units. It will be more than enough to run what you have.
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    Is the Ultra X-Connect Bad or Good?

    JUST GET A ZIPPY ...and be done with it. Power supplies come in all sorts of pretty packages but when it comes right down to it, nothing will beat a Zippy or a PC Power & Cooling. Zippy is designed for server use, constantly on, high load, made to last with tight tolerances. PC Power &...
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    OMG OMG I FOUND A CASE!!!!

    Has anyone actually seen and touched an Aerocool or Tsunami? I have and I was disgusted at all the bits you can just break off with your finger. You'll want to get some serious axle grease for those hinges too. *squeak squeak* Not to mention the gap spacing regularity is on par with a Yugo. I've...
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    Physics Card?

    cellular architecture is different than this. cell seeks to make generic processors that can switch task modes to do all of these things and connect to each other via high bandwidth interprocessor and interdevice networking. this is actually a step to the side not forward in my opinion.
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    Physics Card?

    ...which is why my CPU is about 2.6GFLOPS but my GPU is about 80... I was asking specifically about FP performance so its not really comparing apples to oranges as far as the comparison method goes. I'm just asking how many GFLOPS the orange has compared to the apple. I realize the difference...
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    Physics Card?

    how many GFLOPs will this PPU have dedicated to physics processing? how much do modern CPU's have?
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    need a motherboard for this....

    i need to find a motherboard for 4 p3 Xeon 500mhz at once if such a thing exists... can someone please help me out here?
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    My masterpiece

    who is that guy? he's cute.
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