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Que 24x10x40x CDRW burner drive at CompUSA - good deal?

Here's one review: http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/article/0,aid,65161,pg,6,00.asp from PCWorld of the Que 24x10x40x CDRW drive. It sounds like I can't really go wrong with this drive, or the Lite-on 24x10x40x, or the Cendyne 24x10x40x that's on sale at Office Max for $90 (after $20 rebate)...
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- Post #3
- Nov 24, 2001
- Forum: Computer Building
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Que 24x10x40x CDRW burner drive at CompUSA - good deal?

My current 3 years old CD ReWriter drive has been producing CDRs that can't be read by other CD drives, so I decided to upgrade to one of them new fangled CDRW burners with the burnproof buffer underrun protection. CompUSA has these $80 CDRW 24x10x40x drives (you have to send in for the $30...
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- Nov 23, 2001
- Replies: 4
- Forum: Computer Building
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Is this a normal CPU temp with (no heatsink/fan)?

Well, I snuck a few fans home from work (they were pulled out of some server cases, and were just junked). I put a 120mm fan on top the power supply blowing outward, an 80mm fan underneath the power supply blowing outward as the heat exhaust for the CPU, an 80mm fan blowing on top of the CPU...
- Patman
- Post #13
- Dec 12, 2000
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Is this a normal CPU temp with (no heatsink/fan)?

Okay, I got the heatsink installed, and that totally fixed the CPU overheating problem. Instead of starting out at around 95 degrees Celsius, at its nominal running speed of 566MHz, the CPU's temp is now 47 degrees Celsius. Now, since I'm a glutton for punishment, I decided to overclock the...
- Patman
- Post #11
- Dec 11, 2000
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Is this a normal CPU temp with (no heatsink/fan)?

Thanks for the replies. I went on my lunch hour and picked up a heat sink/fan for the CPU. If I've fried my CPU, well, I guess it's an excuse to buy an even more powerful CPU at a lower price. So ther's always some upsides to bad things, plus, I will have learned a valuable lesson.
- Patman
- Post #6
- Dec 11, 2000
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Is this a normal CPU temp with (no heatsink/fan)?

Okay, let me pose this other question: On the Cel2-566MHz CPU, there is this little bitty square in the middle of the chip, is this where the heatsink needs to make contact with chip with the thermal grease? That's the only place were I could see the Golden Orb making contact with the CPU...
- Patman
- Post #3
- Dec 11, 2000
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Is this a normal CPU temp with (no heatsink/fan)?

This weekend was the time to upgrade my PC, so I bought a Asus CUSL2-C MB and a new Enlight tower case with a 300W PS. The CPU is a Celeron II 566MHz and the RAM is 128MB PC133. (I'm migrating all the cards and drives to the new case). Originally, before I bought CUSL2-C MB, I bought the...
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- Dec 11, 2000
- Replies: 12
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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What am I doing wrong - OCing C566 on Abit BH6.0 Rev 1.0

Well, I've decided to shelve the C566 CPU upgrade for now because I need to have my internet access up and running, and I need my PC to act stable and predictable because I have some webpages to churn out. I've tried so many things, my head is swimming w/r/t the C566. But what was killing me...
- Patman
- Post #13
- Jul 4, 2000
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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What am I doing wrong - OCing C566 on Abit BH6.0 Rev 1.0

Well, I tried disabling the speed hold error, and I was able to boot up without getting the error, but I could only do it with FSB of 66. If I jacked it up to 100, the CMOS BIOS settings for the Soft CPU menu would revert back to the initial 233(66) setting (not the user setting), and I'd be...
- Patman
- Post #8
- Jun 30, 2000
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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What am I doing wrong - OCing C566 on Abit BH6.0 Rev 1.0

Hi, I have jumped on the OC bandwagon with the Celeron II 566 CPU. Currently I have been using a Abit BH 6.0 Rev 1.0 (the original rev) and a Celeron 300A OC'd to 450MHz. Have 192MB of PC100 RAM (no problems on the stability with the CPU/RAM combo - 1 64MB and 1 128MB RAM DIMMs) I bought a...
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- Jun 29, 2000
- Replies: 12
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking

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