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    Symptom of over heating?

    My Sapphire Radeon X1900XT that I've had for about 8 months now is starting to overheat on me in 3D games. The card has been running great up until a couple of months ago where I started noticing graphical corruption after extended periods of playing. Here's the deal though, when I first...
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    Help - Asus P5B Deluxe won't post

    Asus P5B Deluxe 2 x 1GB Cruicial Ballistix DDR2 RAM E6600 Processor ATI X1900XT For the past few weeks my machine has been acting up (BSODs) and after swapping sticks around I think I narrowed it down to a bad stick of memory. However, I don't know what I did to cause this, but when I try...
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    Got my new mobo, unsure about power connection

    I got my Asus P5B Delux today to build my new Core2 system but I've been out of the upgrade loop for awhile and I need clarification on how to power it up. My OCZ 700 GamerXStream power supply has a 20 pin connector along with a little 4 pin connector but the main EATXPWR plug on the...
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    How did I kill my vid card? (PS related)

    Today I recieved my parts from Newegg for my new Conroe rig but before I attempted to put the new stuff together I wanted to test out my new OCZ 700W GameXStream PS on my old system. So I disconnected the old PS (an Antec 550w) plugged in the new OCZ PS. I doubled checked everything to make...
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    How does this look? (upgrading)

    This is what I was leaning towards: ASUS A8N-E ATX AMD Motherboard (I don't need SLI) MSI Radeon X1900XTX RX1900XTX-VT2D512E Video Card AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ 2000MHz HT Socket 939 Dual Core Processor Total: $1,231.98
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    Looking for upgrade advice

    Current rig: P4 3.0 (Northwood) o/c 3.6 (aircooling with Thermaltake Big Typhoon) Abit IC7-G 2 Gigs Corsair PC 3200 XMS memory BFG 6800GT (AGP 8x) 2 WD Raptors (RAID 0) I've got about $700 to spend and I'm not sure where to do it. I was thinking of buying 7800GS which will work with...
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    WinXP: strange problem with folder icons

    Damnit I thought it was fixed. I also tried rechanging the title of my thread but the forum wouldn't let me. I don't know what's going on with my system but I'm having strange things happening to my folder icons. Any idea as to what's happening? AVG shows now viruses and...
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    problem solved - mod plz delete

    Damnit I thought it was fixed. I don't know what's going on with my system but I'm having strange things happening to my folder icons. Any idea as to what's happening? AVG shows now viruses and Adaware and Spybot show my system clean of spyware.
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    Games and overclocking

    I'm runnning: P4 2.6b o/c 2.96 Abit BD7-II RAID 533MHz 1Gig Corsair PC 3200 Radeon 9700 Pro SB Audigy This has me perplexed. With my machine overclocked I can play games like IL2FB, WW2OL, UT2K4, and the FarCry demo for hours on end without any problems whatsoever. But take...
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    What do you use to clean a CRT screen?

    I used to use Glass Plus and some paper towels on my old CRT but I think it left small scratches on the screen. So with my new NEC 2141SB what would you recommend I clean the screen with?
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    Worth upgrading or not?

    Current system which I put together back in October '02: P4 2.66 533MHz (overclocked to 2.9GHz - stability problems at 3.0GHz) Abit BD7II-RAID 400/533MHz FSB 2 sticks of Corsair CMX 512-3200 C2 v1.1 Radeon 9700Pro I was thinking of getting a new mobo with an 800MHz FSB and a C...
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    21"-22" CRT recommendations

    I'd like to keep the puchase at under $600 and here's what I've been looking at. Thanks. NEC/Mitsubishi FP2141SB-BK 22" SuperBright Diamondtron CRT Monitor link AG $599.00 NEC/Mitsubishi FE2111SB-BK 22" Diamondtron CRT Monitor link Aperture Grille $529.00 ViewSonic P220F 22"...
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