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    DD: The Official "Post What You've Found" Thread (pics!!)

    If I were you I'd either just throw that hard drive away, or open it up, use the platters as coasters, and have some fun with the magnets. Its only 40 gigs, and if it's noisy, it's likely on its way out
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    DD: The Official "Post What You've Found" Thread (pics!!)

    Found This at the dump electronics section while getting rid of a couple of older computers. 37 inch polaroid TV, was making a really loud sound from the speakers and wasn't detecting inputs(video of it here. I opened it up, and found 2 blown capactiors, and 1 buldging ones. I replaced them...
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    Dead hard drive

    Hi, My friend has a Western Digital 1TB external drive that suddenly stopped being recognized by the computer, it started showing up as an Unknown Device. I opened the case, and inside is a Caviar Green model number WD10EAVS, so I plugged that directly in through SATA, into both a PC and a...
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    Can't find Gateway T1623 Windows 7 graphics drivers

    I have a Gateway T1623 laptop that I installed Windows 7 64 bit on, and all the other drivers work fine(sound, networking, etc), except the graphics where the highest resolution I can use is 1024x768. The graphics card is a Radeon X1270, but the drivers on Gateways site is for Vista 32 bit, and...
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    How many USB devices do you have connected all the time?

    Mouse. Sometimes my Droid or iPod. Keyboard is PS/2. I think the total number of USB ports is 10.
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    So who still has a floppy drive installed?

    I would have put my black floppy drive in my current rig(about a week old), but, motherboard has no floppy controller, and case has no 3.5" external bays. Old rig(3ish years old) has a floppy drive.
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    Portable monitor?

    You can get a 7" touchscreen LCD or something. Don't have any recommendations on monitoors.
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    When overclocking is the stock thermal paste enough?

    Hi, I have an AMD Phenom II X2 550 that I unlocked one of the extra cores so it's an X3(fourth core is bad). Right now I have the thermal paste that came on the heatsink, but should I remove that and put some AS5 on it?
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    First new build in four years, did I make any mistakes?

    Is your current HD a decent speed?
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    Building a $250 -300 computer

    Buy a 360, and with the leftovers if he needs a new computer he could buy a nettop
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    Just built PC, no POST, no video

    Motherboard: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131406 CPU: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103680 RAM: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231274 Motherboard and CPU came in a combo bundle. I put everything together in...
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    Do you remember your first graphics card?

    First card I remember my dad installing was a TNT2 that was put in a Compaq AMD K6-2 . First card I bought on my own was a Radeon 9200 AGP that I put in my eMachines Athlon XP 2400+.
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    Shipping computer

    I would take the hard drives out and bring those with you separately if you can. Also UPS might be able to insure it.
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    Budget $600 build

    The one I linked to was a Blue. I'd prefer to order everything from the same place.
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    Budget $600 build

    Western Digital Caviar Blue WD5000AAKS 500GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive How's that drive? Same specs, same price, except it has free shipping. I've heard the WD greens aren't exactly the most reliable drives out there.
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