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I have an old Dell U3011 30 inch monitor that is still kicking really well. I want to put that thing on a new arm. I think it weighs between 20 and 25 pounds without the stand. The arm needs to be a clamp on and would like it to have lots of movement. The old one has gotten to the point where it...

The real question is which VM software is best or does it really matter? Virtual Box, VM Ware, the app in Windows 10 Pro or something else. ? Will be my first Virtual Machine. Basically the main reason for it is some Windows 7 software I have and want to use that won't install on Windows 10...

So I am going to add a new SSD. Not sure yet but either a 1 TB Samsung 860 EVO or Pro. Looks like the EVO might be the ticket. Though prices look to be dropping some and the EVO does have 1/2 the TBW's of the Pro. Probably not an issue. So on the comp I am dealing with, I built. It has Windows...

So the Intel 6g sata 3 on this board is way better than the Marvel. That is fairly known. I did a test with a Crucial M4 256. Plugged into the Marvel 6g port it gets : Sequential Reads: 352 Sequential Write: 153 Random Read: 43803 Random Write: 26649 Plugged into an Intel 3g Sata it gets...

Have a Samsung 850 Pro 256gb on the way and when it gets here I will be cloning from a Vertex 3 120gb with Windows 7 on it. I will be using Macrium Reflect. I have cloned a few drives but never a C drive. After searching around I read that it is best to unhide all of the hidden files in Windows...

It gets to the Blue Shutting Down screen and then just sits there. If I leave it for a while it goes to the Blue Screen of Death. I usually just hit the power button right before that. Not sure what caused this. Nothing really new installed. But I have narrowed it down to a Service. When I go to...

Have a WD Raptor 600 drive that I took out of an old build and put in a newer one running Windows 7. It worked fine for about 2 years. I go on Vacation and come back to find the drive not showing up in My Computer. In Disk Management it showed as Disk 4 Dynamic Import Failed. To the right of...

I have Windows 7 on this comp. I also have 4 drives in it. 2 SSD's: a Vertex 120, and an M4 256. The other 2 drives are HD's: a WD 2Terrabyte mostly for data, music ect, and I have a Raptor 600 which I moved from and old comp when I built this one. It still has a bunch of games and files on it...

I bought a new Western Digital 2 terabyte drive to replace one that is a lot smaller. Need more storage. I need to clone the old drive to the new one. Same drive letter and all. Is there a good free ware program I can use to do that or do I need to buy a copy of Norton Ghost? Any help or advice...

Hope I have this in the right forum. I have MP3's and AAC's that have been ripped from CD's with a bunch of different programs over many years. I have some that I bought directly as well. What I have now is a big music library with widely varying volume levels. Is there a good program out there...

Just noted a typo in the thread name. The processor is an Intel I7 2600K Never bought a 16 gig matched set before. Looks like either of these will work with what I have. But the Corsair does not specifically say it works in my Mobo. Just being sure. Anyone see any issues with this Memory...

I want to get this Dell U3011 monitor off the desk and claim some more space. Have been searching around for arms that will hold this. There is a Humanscale M8 and an Innovative Heavy Duty Radial that I found. Links below! I searched but there is not much to read here about these. Anyone using...

Have an odd one. Built this system right after the B3 stepping came out. Has been just fine. Couple of days ago I booted up and it did not post, the system clicked, re-started, and still no post, just sat there. Note that I was NOT overclocking. I tried booting a few times and it finally got to...

At this point it looks like the Dell U3011 is the ticket if I can whittle the price down on the phone with a sales rep. I sure would like the the 35 percent off that happened at the first of this year. But I thought I would ask, is there anything new 30 inch wise from any manufacturer about...

They have had the Crucial M4 256 gig SSD for $419.00 for some time. But today June 13th there is also a coupon worth $20.00 you can attach. It looks to be good for today only and is a Fathers Day thing. The Code is: LION2320 The code brings it to $399.00 total including shipping. At least...

Looking for a new USB flash drive and want a USB 3 version. Probably 32 gig but possibly more. The only one I have seen with pretty quick speeds is the Patriot Supersonic variety. Are there any others out there? Looking for choices and the faster the better.

Am just wondering if it is advisable to put some locktite or thread sealer on the screws when installing just for a bit more holding strength and security Anyone ever had one come loose?

New build in the works. I have a HAF X case and an Asus P8P67 Deluxe Motherboard. You probably know this motherboard has a connection for usb 3 and they provide a box with two usb 3 ports you can mount into a front drive slot in the case. My question is: Is there any way to connect this usb...

Never owned an arm before. I have an oak desk with a 2 inch lip around it. What is better, more secure, or more stable; the clamp or bolt through? Not sure I like the idea of drilling a hole through my desk but if it is a small hole................! Any thoughts or info? Am shopping...

I have been looking for a couple of these for some time now. Every site I go to is out of stock in this one and most of the other versions. The only site that had an ETA was New Egg and that came and went with no stock. Is it just that these fans are that popular and sell out or is this fan...

Just thought I would post in case anyone is interested. Looks like they just popped up in stock

New build in the works here. Gathering parts. I want to up to a 30 inch monitor, probably the Dell U3011. The vid card is the question. GTX 580: will one card run this resolution well enough considering there are some new titles in the near future that may push it. Have considered just going SLI...

Is there anything else under the hood in Windows Ultimate other than Bit Locker and being able to use multiple languages that might sway me in that direction? Right now for a new build it looks like Pro will do about everything I want for about $40.00 less. Doesn't look like Bit Locker is...

Looking at three different selections here and wonder if there are any opinions on them pro or con. I have used Corsair Dominator in the past but there's not much there for this build. Am looking at 1.5 v memory. If it matters the build will have an ASUS P8P67 DELUXE Intel P67 Rev 3 B3 Here is...

Basically this Western Digital drive has gone down. I got a couple of failed write errors on the screen and then a Smart Drive warning at bootup when the machine posted. It halted there and I had to choose to continue or go into the bios. If I continue, I get a pretty good wait and then the...

Well my Raptor 74 gig OS drive has apparently hard crashed. I have installed Windows XP on another dive and hoped that I could connect this crashed drive and use a data recovery program to save some data. But when I have my crashed drive connected the bios sees it but windows will not even boot...

This could go under several topics but I put it here since I don't know the trouble. First Specs: Asus Striker Extreme Mobo 2 gig Corsair 8500 RAM BFG 280 OCX Vid Corsair HX620 power 74 gig Raptor boot drive 150 Raptor drive 640 WD aaks drive Samsung dvd E6700 processor Tuniq Tower...

I built this comp about 13 months ago. Been running fine. Today I rebooted and no post. Fans and drives do run. What I get on the case speaker is a very long sustained beep. The long beep will stop after a bit for a couple of seconds then start again like before. What does that code mean? Do I...

The topic name says it all. Slightly older games use dithering. Without it they look a bit odd especially in shadowed areas.

Is there a good registry cleaner program out there that will let me input an application name and have it delete all references from the registry? Such as wanting to remove all AOL entries. Am running windows XP SP2

This is the relatively new Nvidia control panel that is in Windows XP control Panel. Under Manage 3D Settings and the Program Settings tab I made a profile for a game and was trying different settings. For some reason now everytime I highlight that game in there to tweak it some more I get the...

Is there a way to tell the 8800 gtx to use an older shader model for an older game?

Is it true that the new Nvidia cards have limited 16 bit rendering backwards compatibility in games? More specifically the 8800 series.I have a GTX. The older game Thief 2 is a 16 bit game with 16 bit textures but the 8800 gtx seems to render it in 8 bit only and the shadows are very dark...

Have a Raptor 150 that all of a sudden popped up with corrupt data. I had copied a bunch of photos from my camera to it to burn to a CD which I did. Left the pics on the drive. Got the little windows corrupt files error and it wanted me to run check disk. I did! It found errors and cleaned it...

Well WD is canning the 74's from what I am hearing and there have been some nice deals on those drives. Makes me wonder if there is something new Raptorwise in the near future. Any real facts or even believable rumor? They have about doubled in size each time a new one comes out. To my...

I am looking for a couple of 80 mm fans for my case that have LED's and fairly high cubic feet per minute air flow. Meaning maybe 60 to 70 CFM but anything over about 34 is better than what I have now. I can find them in plain orange and black at 70 or so CFM but I want some color. If I can't...

Basically a new build. Have Bios 0702 Right now everything is set to auto in the bios. No overclocking or tweaking at all. This memory is speced at 5-5-5-15 2T if I have it right. On post it shows up as 5-5-5-18 1T. 1T? Voltages show up in Asus Probe as 1.87 and in the Ntune monitor as...

The ASUS PC Probe II is giving me an alert on this. Normal is 1.2 but mine is showing 1.5. Have seen a post on here that had another probe software show a reading at 1.46 or 1.48. Is this 1.5 anything to be concerned with. What exactly does HT stand for?

Am about to upgrade this rig. I have two Raptors in Raid 0 now. Is my boot array with Windows XP. I want to just plug these two drives as they are, data and all, into the new Striker in SATA 1 and 2 and configure them as the Raid 0 array they are now. I want to retain all of the data and boot...

My Raptor 150 has been getting a bit weird the last few days. Windows keeps popping up saying there are files corrupted and I have to run chkdsk. A couple of days ago I copied 277 pics from my camera over to the raptor. I was able to search through them over two days and even burned some CD's...