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I've been shopping processors for week or two and I wanted to verify my thinking before making my purchase. I'm looking for something that will be a drop in replacement in a Gigabyte board which has an X2 7750 BE w/ 4gb of DDR2. My major use is for transcoding Blu-ray files w/ x264 codec...

OK, I'm making some upgrades to my main gaming rig, and thusly I have lots of bits and pieces to get rid of. All prices include priority USPS shipping, and if you want it shipped another way, I'll just subtract 5 bucks from the price and add the actual cost of your preferred method. All prices...

Hey guys, I was playing some quake 4 the other day, and my temp monitoring program flashed me a warning that my CPU was over 55c. I opened up the case, and sure enough my pump was hot as hell, but not making any vibration. I shut the machine down and took the pump out of the loop to see if...

Hey guys, I searched around for a while, but couldn't seem to find any pertinant info here or on google, so I figured I would throw myself into the lion's den... Last night I was doing an upgrade from my 2x512mb HyperX sticks, to a set of 2x1gb PDP LL modules to give me a boost in BF2. My...

EDIT: SOLD Picture of the modules, running in my system. I'm building a new rig which will be based on ECC/Registered RAM, so I'm selling the dual channel kit out of my current system to help pay for that stuff. I have 2 pieces of 512mb Kingston HyperX PC4000 DDR Memory. They are...

I'm thinking of trying out VoIP for my home number. I've just about settled on VoicePulse (mainly because they are the only one around that both looks reasonably good and has a rate center in my area which would allow me to keep my current number). Has anyone tried VoicePulse and been...

I'm generally pretty well informed about wireless and wired networking, but I can't seem to wrap my mind around a simple problem I want to solve. I run a standalone firewall router (a piii-600 running smoothwall linux) and would like to add 802.11g wireless clients to my network. Right now...

Silly question: Can I use a windows based front end like sagetv to interface with a linux-based backend such as mythtv? I want to setup my HTPC as a backend using mythtv, and then provide some kind of windows based solution to all of my housemates so that they can schedule recordings and...

I'm an HTPC n00b, and I have kindof a quirky question. I've done a little searching, but can't seem to find info that specifically answers this question. I have a digital cable, and have built a pretty decent HTPC, what I want to do is setup that HTPC as a backend with either 2 tuners, or a...

<--- SOLD ---> <--- Price Drop: $290 Shipped ---> I have a BFG Tech 6800GTOC AGP (runs at 370mhz instead of 350 by default) that is about 3 months old. It has the OEM Heatsink on it (which isn't tooo loud once the system passes post). The card has been well cared for, and never been...

The time has come, I'm upgrading to a venice core setup for my gaming machine, which means I have to get rid of my BFG 6800GT AGP. I'm going to sell it to a friend of mine so he can play BF2 with us. He's probably gonna give me about $325 for it, which may be a little low, but that's ok with...

Hey guys, I was wondering if anybody could give me some information about TV-in cards based on the brooktree 848 chip. I'm considering a hardware trade with a guy on another forum (hello to him if he happens to be an avid [H] reader as well) and one thing we're talking about my getting in...

<--- I posted this in the Intel MoBo subforum, but thought it might fit here as well ---> Hey guys, I'm no n00b when it comes to o/cing, but its been a looooong time since I juiced an Intel product (since I had a celron 533 running @ 800). I have a CelronD 2.8Ghz (socket 478) that a friend...

Hey guys, I'm no n00b when it comes to o/cing, but its been a looooong time since I juiced an Intel product (since I had a celron 533 running @ 800). I have a CelronD 2.8Ghz (socket 478) that a friend has given me. I'm trying to sell it in the FS/FT forums, but if nobody bites I'm gonna play...

<--- All prices are shipped via USPS --- I am posting this in multiple forums ---> I bought a few things from a local computer parts place that was going out of business last month. I bought the stuff that I didn't find in that sale at fry's and built up a full system. I've been running it...

These are the silent models which push only about 45CFM, but at around 20dba. I was looking for cheap fans for a w/c project that requires 6x 120mm fans, and these are $3.99 plus shipping, which makes them the cheapest I could find by far. They are only available in the purple color at this...

Hi guys. I built a waterchill kit into my main rig about a year ago, and have really enjoyed the cooling capacity and silence that came with it. Recently I've built up an HTPC for my livingroom and have undertaken to watercool that PC for the same benefits. I've gotten started by buying a...

Has anyone handled one of the shrouds they sell at DangerDen for their double heatercore? I was wondering how it was attached to the core, because I'd like to order one and fix it to a 77 bonneville heatercore that would be small enough to fit in the top of my drivecage. Any other ideas for...

I'm planning to install fedora core 3 and mythTV on the HTPC specced out in my sig below, and I have a pretty simple question... I want to know if it will be possible to use 2 different input sources to control 2 different interfaces running on that one machine. For example I want to be able...

Trying to decide where I'm going with my storage solution... Which would you rather have? 1. A single 36gb raptor for OS/Games, and say a 200gb 8mb SATA drive for storage OR 2. 4x 80Gb Maxtor 8mb SATA drives in a raid 5 array I figure the formatted capacity of either would be...

SALE PENDING I have the 9800pro from my main machine which I just replaced with a 6800GT that I'd like to sell. It has an Arctic Cooling HSF on it, and if you want I still have the original ATI HSF as well... OC's to just over 9800XT speeds in a properly cooled case, but has spent most of...

My folks told me they want to get me a new digicam for graduation in December (wahoo for badass parents). I'm a Scuba-diver so I want to get a canon because they have excellent/inexpensive underwater housings available, and also because I'm generally impressed with their quality/feel. I...

I posted a thread here last week about my first attempt at water cooling. At the time when I finished my setup the only available BIOS revision for my board (K8N Neo) was unable to properly read system temps. MSI finally released a BIOS that seems to get the temps pretty close to reality (I...

I'm getting ready to build an asetek system into my case. Was wondering if anybody had ever put a Black Ice Pro into an Antec Sonata. I know it's gonna be really tight, but the CPU on my board is pretty far from the back plate, and I have a dremel - I figure I should be able to shoehorn the...

I'm looking for a Desktop CPU to put into my MSI K8N Neo. I just sold the DTR 3200+ Which I purchased with the board about a month ago. I would prefer a ClawHammer Core, cg revision 3200+ that came retail. But, I'm entertaining offers on anything that's socket 754 at the moment. Others...

I have 2x 9800Pro 128mb cards to choose from, and I want to pick the better of the two. Both are 128mb, 256bit 9800Pro cards, with stock cooling. They both have 350mhz rated memory chips, and they share a common PCB revision. One has hynix ram chips, the other samsung - other than that...

I'm selling my TruePower 380s in favor of something with some more hoss on the +12v line(See sig for why). I was just wondering if anyone had read any good scientific reviews on this, or actually owns one. I'm of course primarily concerned with it's ability to perform under load, but also...

Forget for a moment about the differences in storage space and price. Which would you rather have: A single 74gig raptor, or two maxtor 80gb 8mbcache drives in a raid 0? My main use is gaming, with a 2nd place slot being taken by encoding/transcoding. Thanks for any suggestions...

I'm getting ready to build an A64 system with most of the parts I'm using in my current 2500+ rig, but I have some question about compatibility before I drop the dime on the CPU/MoBo/HSF I'm looking at. I want to use the 3200+ DeskTop Replacement CPU for sale over at newegg, mostly because...

WTF? I called them to ask, spoke with 3 different sales guys who all said, nope that info is correct. I think it got into their database incorrectly, and they are all just looking at the same info page I am. But, what's with that wattage rating on a DTR chip?

A matched set of platinum colored Corsair XMS TwinX 256mb 3200 sticks for a total of 512mb. I have been using these for a while in the system in my sig, without any trouble. I'm getting ready to go from the dual-channel nF2 to the single-channel socket 754, so I don't need the TwinX anymore...

I'm going to be building a system based on the nForce3 MSI K8N Neo and I want to replace my XMS 3200 TwinX sticks with a single 512mb stick of something better. I'm thinking more headroom for O/Cing calls for DDR500. Am I wrong here? My current thought is This stuff. The major problem...

I've been looking at building a socket 754 system sometime this summer. I know that I need to wait on the nF3 250Gb boards, but when they become available the question is - which cpu to get? I was browsing over at newegg the other day and saw some A64's they had labeled as "mobile Athlon...

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Hey guys, I've been trying to iron the wrinkles out of the system in my sig for quite some time. I think I've finally isolated the problem with a run of memtest86. I'm wondering who can tell me what this means: test pass Failing Add good bad error bits ct...

OK - I have sorta a wierd problem, so I'm gonna have to go into a little detail here. It seems like I'm currupting data on the raid0 setup listed in my sig. I have a generally stable setup which can run prime95 for 24 hours. I don't have any problems with crashing etc. However, when I try...

I was wondering what you guys with NF2 boards have done to get that last few FSB out of your setup. Right now I'm trying to get my rig to run prime stable @ 200FSB. I feel like I have tried everything. A few weeks ago I got my system to run [email protected] 24 hours stable in prime95 and I was...

I have an Antec 350 Watt "solutions series" Power Supply I want to sell. Make me an offer... The PSU is in top condition. I bought it about 4 months ago and it has been a champ performer for me, but it's just not meeting my needs since I got my second HDD. Look at the system in my sig, and...

I just replaced my Gigabyte 7n400pro with an Abit NF7-S the other day. What's the difference you ask? Well besides the fact that the Abit works and doesn't suck - it has those neat little mounting holes for heavy HSFs. Which leads me to wonder how much performance increase I'd get from...