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Vid card died, looking for upgrade advice

Ok, got the card today. It has a separate connection for power, with two plugs (one for each 12v rail I assume). My power supply has a dedicated plug for pci-e. Show I use that or use the one that hooks up to two different rails?
- clange50
- Post #9
- Feb 22, 2007
- Forum: Computer Building
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Vid card died, looking for upgrade advice

The evga one isnt OC'd nearly as much. I guess I could do it myself, but not only do I run the risk of messing something up (which may or may not matter with the warranty), the OC'd evga in anandtechs test barely matched the 600/1600 anyway. Both have a lifetime warranty it seems. What are...
- clange50
- Post #7
- Feb 20, 2007
- Forum: Computer Building
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Vid card died, looking for upgrade advice

Ok I'm looking at the 7900GS. How about http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814150209 Am I missing something? Speeds are listed as 600 core, 1600 memory. Thats a ton faster than any other 7900GS on newegg..
- clange50
- Post #5
- Feb 20, 2007
- Forum: Computer Building
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Vid card died, looking for upgrade advice

12x10LCD is a set of resolutions on LCD monitors I assume? Don't have an LCD yet, just an old 17" CRT. I don't even know what the maximum resolution is. If I just went with a lower range card and more ram, would the 3000+ I have now be a bottleneck at all?
- clange50
- Post #3
- Feb 20, 2007
- Forum: Computer Building
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Vid card died, looking for upgrade advice

6600GT bit the dust. I basically started out today looking at video cards and ram, since I need both. Current specs before I go further.. A64 3000+ winchester VNF4 Socket 939 motherboard 2x512mb PC3200 value ram 6600GT (dead) 400W smartpower PSU 2 hard drives, dvd burner, floppy I...
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- Feb 20, 2007
- Replies: 10
- Forum: Computer Building
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Options for laptop car chargers?

I'm wondering what you guys use to charge your laptops in a car. I'm going on a trip tomorrow and the drive will last a lot longer than 2 hours, I'd like to be able to watch movies and do other things. Thanks.
- clange50
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- Jan 11, 2007
- Replies: 10
- Forum: Laptops
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6600GT 95* core temp?

Cool, thanks guys. Yes, I remember reading about that when I was looking at different cards. I dont think mine was one of the notorious ones, but you never know. I'll check it out.
- clange50
- Post #6
- Dec 28, 2006
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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6600GT 95* core temp?

I havent checked what this card was doing lately (it used to hit ~80 IIRC with 3dmark and the like), but something about eve online (when the lights pan up and down in a station) really kicks this cards ass. It was hitting 95 over and over, but in game was ~75. I thought this high of a temp...
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- Dec 28, 2006
- Replies: 7
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Odd problem with text disappearing, cant open task manager

I guess I could have elaborated on kaspersky not finding anything. I ran like 10 virus scans in the past week. I did the online microsoft one, the online kaspersky one, another online one from a thread here, etc. If it was a virus, its something that was very very well hidden. Another forum...
- clange50
- Post #9
- Dec 13, 2006
- Forum: Computer Building
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Odd problem with text disappearing, cant open task manager

Any ideas before I restore this thing?
- clange50
- Post #7
- Dec 12, 2006
- Forum: Computer Building
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Odd problem with text disappearing, cant open task manager

This is fun :( http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y49/clange/notcool1.jpg http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y49/clange/notcool2.jpg http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y49/clange/notcool3.jpg http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y49/clange/notcool4.jpg I reboot and its perfectly normal.
- clange50
- Post #6
- Dec 7, 2006
- Forum: Computer Building
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Outlook Sent items contains emails that were...

If he was sending it himself, why ask you about it? Something is sending it I suspect, but like I said I have no direct knowledge of it, and if it leaves things behind in sent items its pretty crappy malware. Who knows.
- clange50
- Post #5
- Dec 4, 2006
- Forum: Computer Building
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Outlook Sent items contains emails that were...

ISPs shut people down for this constantly. That PC needs to be cleaned.
- clange50
- Post #2
- Dec 4, 2006
- Forum: Computer Building
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Some ISPs are marking my email as SPAM

http://www.comcastsupport.com/rbl Do you get any kind of error email back?
- clange50
- Post #5
- Dec 4, 2006
- Forum: Computer Building
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Some ISPs are marking my email as SPAM

If you've actually been placed on a black list, someone should get an email detailing what needs to be done to remove you. Either yourself or the recipient. It could also be domain blocking for something like att not having reverse dns set up (not saying thats the case, but who knows). Have your...
- clange50
- Post #2
- Dec 4, 2006
- Forum: Computer Building
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the ultimate screwdriver!!!11

Thats exactly what I had before, thanks. OP, you could get a bending extension I suspect, to use with any screwdriver that uses bits.
- clange50
- Post #9
- Dec 4, 2006
- Forum: Computer Building
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the ultimate screwdriver!!!11

Yeah, bending does not go well with telescoping retriever. I had one that did everything he said but bend, it was pretty badass. Hopefully someone knows of something similar, because my old one also broke like the OPs.
- clange50
- Post #6
- Dec 4, 2006
- Forum: Computer Building
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Odd problem with text disappearing, cant open task manager

It happened on a few different sites FWIW, and one time it happened I was just browsing a thread on somethingawful. I'll take your advice for the future, and assuming its software I'm not too worried about it. Its new so I could restore it and not lose anything but time. I'm just hoping its not...
- clange50
- Post #5
- Dec 3, 2006
- Forum: Computer Building
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Odd problem with text disappearing, cant open task manager

I guess its not the memory. When this happens graphics are all screwed up, errors trying to open task manager or other windows apps. Virus scan (aol kap) is done, found nothing. What would you try next?
- clange50
- Post #3
- Dec 3, 2006
- Forum: Computer Building
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Odd problem with text disappearing, cant open task manager

There were also dll errors when I tried to open task manager, and other programs.
- clange50
- Post #2
- Dec 2, 2006
- Forum: Computer Building
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Odd problem with text disappearing, cant open task manager

I've had this happen 3 times now. I have a new laptop and I was searching for wallpaper. After 20-30 minutes of this the text on the page disappears, or changes to a more basic font. I closed firefox and that 'fixed it' the first time. I opened it up again and kept browsing. This time the icons...
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- Dec 2, 2006
- Replies: 8
- Forum: Computer Building
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HP dv6103nr = DVD only?

Reinstalled drivers and it seems to be working..
- clange50
- Post #2
- Nov 29, 2006
- Forum: Laptops
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HP dv6103nr = DVD only?

Picked one of these up last week and its not reading cds properly, if at all. Two install cds arent recognized at all, a couple music cds are recognized, one skips/ freezes during playback. I fired off an email to HP and they said its dvd only? It says compact disc on the front of the drive...
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- Nov 29, 2006
- Replies: 1
- Forum: Laptops
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Anyone that bought the HP dv106103nr from BestBuy today...

Mine does the same.. http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/docu...&dlc=en&product=3289548&dlc=en&lang=en
- clange50
- Post #3
- Nov 29, 2006
- Forum: Laptops
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Upgrades to new laptop, thoughts?

Well i figured out why i couldnt find the thread, it was on another forum. http://bfads.net/forums/viewtopic.php?p=9651& Honestly its something I never even considered until you brought it up. I havent reached a point where I feel I need it on my other pc so I was just going to go to 1GB...
- clange50
- Post #6
- Nov 28, 2006
- Forum: Laptops
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Upgrades to new laptop, thoughts?

In the other thread people said it should be possible depending upon chipset, etc, but I dont remember any of and I cant find it. Like I said, this wouldnt be something I'd do tomorrow, just maybe in the future after the warranty is gone. I tore apart some Playstations back in the day and...
- clange50
- Post #4
- Nov 27, 2006
- Forum: Laptops
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Upgrades to new laptop, thoughts?

I ended up with the HP dv6103nr from best buy last friday, and I'd like to at least add some ram to it. I read over quite a few threads here, and I think the following will work. I just want to make sure I'm not missing something. PNY 512MB 200-Pin DDR2 SO-DIMM DDR2 667 (PC2 5300) Notebook...
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- Nov 27, 2006
- Replies: 6
- Forum: Laptops
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(Dead) Best Buy 7 hour sale

At our place they were checking people out EVERYWHERE. We only had one person in front of us at the customer service counter when we finally checked out around 5:50.
- clange50
- Post #138
- Nov 25, 2006
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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(Dead) Best Buy 7 hour sale

I went at 9pm and got the $380 HP. There were easily 80 people in front of me, and it only got worse since people kept joining their friends/family. There were a few times a van pulled up and 6 people joined the line, all the way up until 4. Some people towards the front had a generator and a...
- clange50
- Post #106
- Nov 24, 2006
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Trying to bring back old PC from the dead, freezes after startup

Trying stuff on the ultimate boot cd and nothin gets very far. The CPU tests wont even load, the memory tests all fail at some point. I dont think it would be heat when the memory tests fail at the exact same point. I would assume its the motherboard or CPU? Any way to narrow it down between...
- clange50
- Post #11
- Nov 21, 2006
- Forum: Computer Building
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Trying to bring back old PC from the dead, freezes after startup

Froze at 79% on each stick of ram. Whatever is bad doesnt like that part of the test. Not sounding good I guess.
- clange50
- Post #9
- Nov 21, 2006
- Forum: Computer Building
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Trying to bring back old PC from the dead, freezes after startup

Finally got some more time to work on this. It freezes regardless of hard drive, so thats not it. It just froze during memtest86. It was 79% done with no errors. I'm going to run it again with one stick of ram at a time.
- clange50
- Post #8
- Nov 21, 2006
- Forum: Computer Building
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How do you carry a few floppy disks, CDs?

Hmm best option so far, maybe some small metal cd case that only holds 5 cds, if I can find something like that. Thanks.
- clange50
- Post #9
- Nov 20, 2006
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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How do you carry a few floppy disks, CDs?

Boot disks, nothing more. I have a 1 gig USB for real uses.
- clange50
- Post #4
- Nov 20, 2006
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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How do you carry a few floppy disks, CDs?

I'm not looking for something to carry 20 of each. Ideally I'd like something that would hold both 3.5" disks and CDs, just 2-3 of each for daily trips to work. It would be as small as possible, and in a perfect world it would be made out of aluminum or something else really strong? Anything...
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- Nov 20, 2006
- Replies: 11
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Burned DVD--freeze, (unrecorded?) ring on DVD

Sony D21? I dont have the packaging, but thats what DVD identifier says.
- clange50
- Post #6
- Nov 8, 2006
- Forum: Computer Building
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Trying to bring back old PC from the dead, freezes after startup

Nothings added to it now, but I used to have another hard drive and a radeon 9100 pro in it. Its an old compaq presario like this. http://cgi.ebay.com/Compaq-Presario-P-I...8QQcategoryZ140072QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
- clange50
- Post #3
- Nov 7, 2006
- Forum: Computer Building
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Trying to bring back old PC from the dead, freezes after startup

I've got an older P3 933 that started freezing at random times, then eventually got so bad that it was seconds after startup. Its 'death' years ago motivated my to get the PC I have now. Anyway, I'd like to figure out whats wrong with this thing, if nothing else for a learning experience...
- clange50
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- Nov 7, 2006
- Replies: 10
- Forum: Computer Building
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Burned DVD--freeze, (unrecorded?) ring on DVD

I just had this happen with sony DVD+Rs from best buy. I got a 100 pack and every single one of them had a defect that caused a line just as you describe. People rail on memorex, but I have yet to end up with a coaster from them (both PRODISC R03 and RITEKF1). So far 50 of the prodisc and about...
- clange50
- Post #4
- Nov 7, 2006
- Forum: Computer Building
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Problem with my chaintech vnf4u board

Ok, its a small problem, but annoying as hell. The small fan has started making some pretty bad noise. It comes and goes, but i had enough screeching and grinding on my old dying P3, i dont need it on my new build. So, what are my options here? I looked around on the chaintech site and didnt...
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- Thread
- Jul 14, 2005
- Replies: 6
- Forum: Motherboards

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