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Rate my motherboard and processor purchases:

it's good for the asus a8n-sli/6600gt, plus you can always clip a few pins that are in the way
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- Post #20
- May 27, 2005
- Forum: Computer Building
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Heatsink/Thermal compound question

oh, and the point of my relating my misadventure was: no need to return it, it'll probaby work fine as it
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- Post #8
- May 27, 2005
- Forum: Computer Building
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Low end to Mid range recommendations

VGA?
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- Post #3
- May 27, 2005
- Forum: Computer Building
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Why is my AMD64 3200+ so hot??

yep, perfectly normal, once it gets into the 60s, worry
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- Post #7
- May 27, 2005
- Forum: Computer Building
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Rate my motherboard and processor purchases:

good for you! chip fan can be problematic after a few months, just replace it with zalman heat sink tower thingie. mine posted fine with 1002 bios but you need an upgrade to at least 1006 to get some overclocking capabilities (unlocking the fsb, to be precise), it's finicky with memory so...
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- Post #16
- May 27, 2005
- Forum: Computer Building
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If I use PartitionMagic (or something similar) to resize a drive...

to be on the safe side don't do that... yes, pm has an option of resizing a partition and most of the time it works *most of the time* now, for the reasons why i think partitions are good: i always have at least fat32 and an ntfs partition on my 250 storage drive so that different os have...
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- Post #4
- May 27, 2005
- Forum: Computer Building
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If I use PartitionMagic (or something similar) to resize a drive...

pm is the best one, if you want to save current file system, just tell it to make the free space into a seprate partition and it won't touch your C partition. you don't want a 250 hd to be on one partition anyway
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- Post #2
- May 27, 2005
- Forum: Computer Building
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Rate my motherboard and processor purchases:

well, that's a config i have and shopping for vga now. nothing wrong with sli, just upgrade later (don't wait too long or the gpu revsion will change and sli no longer work) or save the second pci-e slot for something else that will come along (may be some fancy tv/cable card... i don't what...
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- Post #8
- May 27, 2005
- Forum: Computer Building
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Heatsink/Thermal compound question

those athlons are hardy bastards, here is what happened to mine: 1) big mistake on my part as I haven't built a pc since the P3 days: I didn't put the processor in right and then proceeded to try to jam the heatsink on top of it, obviously it didn't work and the whole unit got stuck instead...
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- Post #7
- May 27, 2005
- Forum: Computer Building
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*#!@$% ASUS DONT EVER BUY!!!!!!!!!!!

anyone know what actually happens to the fan? mine will start making noise like two cats killing eachother in my pc. i turn it off for a while and then it's ok for a day or so... so random. anyone know what's wrong with it? is it the heat?
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- Post #50
- May 27, 2005
- Forum: Computer Building
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building new everything machine

p4 run hot and eat a lot of power, go with amd, asus makes stable (but on the pricy side) mobos that work great with amd
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- Post #2
- May 27, 2005
- Forum: Computer Building
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problems with external hard drive

i had that problem and it turned out to be an irq conflict. i fixed it by installing/uninstalling it several times (on laptop). also try assigning it it's own irq in bios if it lets you (mine doesn't). in my desktop the conflict was with a card in the pci slot so if you have anything in the pci...
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- Post #7
- May 27, 2005
- Forum: Computer Building
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SLI certification ?

more info (this is too weird): on the asus site... duh, when in doubt go to the manufac. site the specs for the 6600 ?GT? don't mention anything about sli-capabilities (yet the sli link is there) here it is listed as 6600 GT: http://usa.asus.com/products/vga/vgaindex.htm whereas 6800GT...
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- Post #10
- May 27, 2005
- Forum: Computer Building
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refurbished CRT's?

there is not much wrong that can go with a crt if it turns on and no pins are missing (which I'm sure the refurbs are fine with that), so go for it
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- Post #9
- May 27, 2005
- Forum: Computer Building
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Is firefox actually worth it?

what's not to like?
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- Post #3
- May 27, 2005
- Forum: Computer Building
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Help! Video card screwing up.

if you want cards that are more forgiving overclockers go with the nvidia 6XXX series
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- Post #5
- May 26, 2005
- Forum: Computer Building
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CPU Temperature

could also be under "power" settings
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- Post #6
- May 26, 2005
- Forum: Computer Building
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PCI Express Mobo

asus a8n-sli dlx is a good mobo for that, not very good for ocing memory and max volatge is too low (ie can't use some sticks that need <3.0V). but it has nice features, had it for 3 months no complaints yet
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- Post #7
- May 26, 2005
- Forum: Computer Building
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SLI certification ?

any ideas, folks? thanx
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- Post #7
- May 26, 2005
- Forum: Computer Building
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SLI certification ?

i came across several forum discussions a few days ago where ppl were having problems with a 6600/6800 BFG board and they resolved the problem by calling BFG and finding out that that particular model is SLI-capable in a BFG mobo only. Now, I cannot vouch for them and how right they are, but i...
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- Post #6
- May 26, 2005
- Forum: Computer Building
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laptop help please

i have in ibm with (what looked like) a similar problem. mine is an ?irq conflict between audio and something else, which I had trouble identifying. what may have also happened is that you uninstalled/deleted a codec. try installing "Theoretica" codec suite, they have pretty much everything...
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- Post #4
- May 25, 2005
- Forum: Laptops
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XP Install wont let me delete main partition

when you do a clean install from hardrive, it will run for a bit, reboot and then give you an option of continuing the started install. Just go along with it and you will finish instralling the new copy of windows. Don't try to boot from the CD and let it do it's thing. If that for some...
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- Post #4
- May 25, 2005
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Windows 2000 **FIXED**

have you tried the HD on another system and/or with another OS? How many gigs do you that way?
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- Post #3
- May 25, 2005
- Forum: Operating Systems
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laptop help please

what brand is the laptop? if you try to play mp3 in winamp does it give you an error?
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- Post #2
- May 25, 2005
- Forum: Laptops
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Some questions

for graphics programs you need a gig or so of memory for smooth sailing and you may also not want the integrated graphics card. there are good cards for graphics app users out there
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- Post #7
- May 25, 2005
- Forum: Computer Building
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bench testing a mobo & cpu

beeps mean that it's not posting (you don't need HD for it to post). check that your memory is compatible as this is the most common cause for this problem
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- Post #3
- May 25, 2005
- Forum: Computer Building
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my revised build

if you plan on upgrading to dual core cpu at some later time, get 939
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- Post #10
- May 25, 2005
- Forum: Computer Building
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SLI certification ?

need to figure out which card to buy this week... so bump
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- Post #4
- May 25, 2005
- Forum: Computer Building
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Why can't i burn any DVD's?

did you remove copyrights (if they were there). Try burning a bunch of regular, non-protected files and see if that works.
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- Post #7
- May 25, 2005
- Forum: Computer Building
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About to leave town for 2 months, leaving my system home.

i dismantle my computer and hide different parts in different places of the house... but then I've good reason to be paranoid about thieves where I live
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- Post #3
- May 25, 2005
- Forum: Computer Building
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SLI certification ?

if some BFG GPUs only work in SLI on BFG mobos, then anything is possible.... including the fact that just because there is a connector don't mean that it actually works
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- Post #3
- May 25, 2005
- Forum: Computer Building
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SLI certification ?

some 6600 and 6800 (non GTs) have the SLI link on their cards. on some sites the specs say that they are compatible and on some sites it says that they aren't. On nVidia site, these cards are not listed as certified. Do they work or not, is the question. Any one got any of the following cards...
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- May 25, 2005
- Replies: 9
- Forum: Computer Building

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