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    Noob question about battery info in vista

    ok, on my xp dell machine i could click the battery icon in the system tray, and 2 batteries would show up (i have an optical bay battery) now when i click on the little icon, it shows me lots of info including manufacture. i tried a live ubuntu cd and ubuntu gives me TONS of info, even...
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    suggestions for new gaming rig?

    im in canada and these parts i already have Tuniq Tower :) Antec 900 Case Corsair HX1000 PSU 2x WD 320GB HDD's (will be in raid 0) TSSTCorp lightscribe burner (ill be using my NAS to mount imgs anyways) the parts im looking at (semi-budget) are MotherBoard: eVGA nForce 750i SLI FTW...
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    Wake on Lan problem with 630i board

    i have both an EVGA 630i/7150 and an XFX 630i/7100 board, both have the same WOL problem WOL/PME is ENABLED in the bios in windows i have wake from shutdown = ON wakeup capability = magic packet and pattern match under the power management tab i have allow this computer to turn off...
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    power needed for this setup?

    Quad Core Q6600 OC'd probably to around 3-3.2ghz dual 8800GTS 512MB G92 Core in SLI 4GB OCZ PC2 6400 ram 2 seagate 120GB in raid 0 ~7x 110CFM 120mm fans (0.53A Each) (Scythe Slip Stream (Kaze-Jyuni) 120mm Case Fan, Ultra High Flow) i have access to these PSU's Corsair TX 650W Power...
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    will this rig work?

    Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131013 AMD Phenom 9500 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103226 4GB OCZ Ram http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227199 8800GTS 512MB...
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    Mac book air? biggest rip off ever?

    1.6GHz C2D? WTF thats slower than the regular macbook for $600 LESS and $1200 less than most x86/x64 laptops 2GB of generic ram? WTF, for the price you can get laptops that accept 800MHz ram (PC2-6400) 80GB PATA DRIVE?? WTF!!!!!! most cheap garbage notebooks come with 160GB 4200RPM...
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    Pc hardware unrealible compared to Macs?

    not sure but recently a Mac user said Pc hardware is all unrealible and home built systems are utterly crap. (see sig) you think this is true? i personally think my SLI setup runs pretty good, i havent had it crash yet even with the 7800GT's OC'd to GTX.
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    FS: DFI LanParty UT NF4 SLI-D NIB

    CONTACT INFO: email "pr5owner (AT) gmail (DOT) com" (change the obvious, no spaces) The Mother Board is in Calgary AB Canada but i can ship to the US I have a BRAND NEW DFI LanParty UT NF4 SLI-D w/ DualDDR400, 7.1 Audio, Dual GB Lan, SATAII, PCI-E x16 SLI mother board for sale, this...
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    Number of CD/DVDs burned?

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    FanBox of DOOM! (56K Warn)

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    X-Dreamer F to C Mod

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    best notebook to buy?

    im looking at the Acer travel mate 8204 and MSI 1039, are there any better ones? i specifically need good battery life, +3Hrs good screen resolution (screens lower than SXGA/WSXGA will be laughed at) good GPU speed (X1600 or above, basically + 3000 3DMark05 good CPU Speed (T2300 or...
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    MacMini Vs MiniPC?

    im looking for a 2nd HTPC for my hometheatre room (already have a huge one for the TV room) thinking ill get the aopen http://minipc.aopen.com/us/ Lowest voltage/speed Pentium M (maybe 1.5GHz) so i can minimize heat. the 1.5GHz is MORE than enough to play xvid/dvd/etc, hell i can play...
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    does netgear encourage WLAN attacks?

    why is the laptop outside the house? strangely enough i bought this WLAN card for packet injection lol
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    Mushkin XP4000 Black Series DDR SDRAM any good?

    about to build a new system, anyone have expirience with black series? going to OC an Athlon 64 3000+ to ~2.4 - 2.6GHz with an eVGA SLI motherboard, config below... Antec SLK3000B Enermax 535W EG565P-VE All In One ATX 12V v2.0 eVGA nForce 4 SLI Edition Mushkin XP4000 Black Series...
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    eVGA SLI board and OC?

    how good is the evga board and overclocking a 3000/3200 to somewhere around 2.4? im planning on getting the following Antec SLK3000 $65CAD (i want a sleeper look not bling bling lights) 535W Enermax PSU $105CAD evga NF4 SLI board $110CAD A64 [email protected] (if possible) $150CAD $100CAD...
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    extreme cooling

    http://fulltech.manufacturer.globalsources.com/si/6008800240908/ProductDetail/Cooling-fan/product_id-1000517745/action-GetProduct.htm 2 of these in your case and you should be able to cool anything off UF25HC11-H Rated voltage (V): 115 Frequency (Hz): 50/60 Input power (W): 95/125...
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    anything more powerful than this 120mm?

    http://www.allelectronics.com/cgi-bin/category.cgi?category=220&item=CF-152&type=store if theres nothing that can push more cfm than this in the 120mm category then ill get 3 of these
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    who makes dell LCD tvs?

    i was thinking of using the new dell 37" LCD as a display for my HTPC, i was wondering who makes the panels. any one know?
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    X-Dreamer F to C Mod

    as some of you know aspire was too cheap to implement the F <-> C Switch on the back of the front bezel, if any of you have a gen 1 or 2 xdreamer you can mod the board to say C, 1) take off front bezel 2) remove the 2 screws holding the LCD display in 3) carefully pry the plastic cover off...
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    1000w Psu

    http://www.hexus.net/content/static/enermax_galaxy.html i doubt my system really needs this but hey who knows maybe i need to power 10 HDD's in raid 6 one day
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    how to play DVD files?

    on mylaptop i have a folder with a 1:1 copy of one of my dvds (used dvd decrypter) now how can i use Windows Media player 10 to open a dvd backup on the HDD? with power dvd you just go open dvd file on HDD, is there a way WMP10 can do that? cuz i know WMP10 can play dvds off the DVD drive. im...
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    Best Media Player?

    im trying to find the best media player out there than can play anything which means it must be able to do MP3 (obviously) Video (xvid, divx, rmvb) - i have the mega codec pack installed DVD Shoutcast Radio Streams Other internet radio skins (most do anyways) small foot print in memory...
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    FanBox of DOOM! (56K Warn)

    i was bored ok.... :P had a bunch of spare parts laying around so i decided to put them to good use! (at 2:50 in the morning) 1 80mm Sunon Fan (32 CFM) 2 80mm OEM Case fans (30 CFM x 2) 1 80mm Thermaltake smart fan (76 CFM @ 8.43H2O) 1 80mm Coolermaster Blower (27CFM @ 20.2 H2O) 1 AT...
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    Good Tv to mate with an HTPC?

    im looking for a Tv that can handle a bunch of connections (PSX, Xbox using RCA A/V, HTPC using DVI/SVideo/VGA and either Svideo/RCA AV for a DVD player or some other hot swapping peripheral (laptop maybe) im kind of on a budget, looking for a TV around $1000CDN. i wanted to get a DLP projection...
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    Record number of viruses on 1 system?

    i was cleaning out a friend of my parents computer and it was not a good sight LOL i didnt think 1 computer could have this many viruses and still boot up normally
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    Best Wireless Keyboard and Mouse?

    im looking for accuracy and Range, my current microsoft bluetooth kb and mouse has a range of half a city block (line of site) while that is overkill it will be used for my HTPC so i change the vol or radio station from anywhere inside the house. for my desktop i still need one that will work...
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    what ever happened to NT Wolfpack?

    are there any new versions of clustering software for W2K3? or is it built in?
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    networking guru's 56K Warn

    would it be better to utilize the router's built in switch ports or have all the computers connect to a massive switch and then to the routers? in order to use the telus connection to the fullest we can have 3 sepeate mac addy's added on. (which is why there is 3 routers) see picture
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    are my v's a little low?

    Specs are in my sig with an antec 480w PSU, my computer doesn't boot right untill it warms up for about 15mins, keeps saying my raid drives are not responding
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    SD Card Benchmarks!

    once again Scamdisk sucks... but heres the story, i had a 256MB lexar 32x for my axim which is a nice card but i wanted to go with something a little faster so i can copy movies back and forth. so i went out an bought a sandisk ultra II 512MB SD card. this is hella expensive compared to the 32x...
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    another computer that wont boot 480w antec

    i have the antec trueblue power supply rated at 480w when i upgraded my 80GB to120GB the computer does boot right anymore, i can hear the drives trying to spin up but then they stop and try again. if i take the drives out the computer can boot, if i plug them in and turn off the fans it boots...
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    ^&@#$ing hp scanner drivers

    WTF can POSSIBLY make it be 209MB to download? http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareList?dlc=en&lc=en&product=298540&lang=en&cc=us&os=228 i have the 3670 scanner and the drivers are rediculously big, my last acer scanner drivers were only 25 or so MB and thats including a simple...
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    match and unmatched drives in raid 0

    big diffrence, so if you are going to raid anything make sure they are the same Dual MATCHED 120GB Seagate Drives SATA 8MB Cache 7200RPM NCQ Dual unmached 80GB Seagate Drives SATA 8MB Cache 7200RPM 1 with NCQ, 1 w/o NCQ
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    Diffrence in performance 32K and 64K Stripe

    pretty big diffrence here, ive noticed that 32K is WAY faster than 64K for stripe size 64K 32K
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    what do you people use to backup?

    i personally use DVD-Rs and CD-Rs, ive never used tapes before for my own data but i have used it for work. also i use my laptop to backup my desktop and vise versa (as well as a thumb drive for my documents which is under 150MB)
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    Windows XP SP2 Bluetooth stupidity

    i have 1 laptop with bluetooth via dlink BT adapter 1 desktop with a MS bluetooth KB/mouse combo transciver 1 friends laptop with same dlink adapter 1 pda w/ bluetooth 1 phone sony z600 w/ BT 1 moto 551 phone between computers and laptops file transfer works flawlessly (cant do anything...
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    thoughts about this system i threw together?

    im about to buy these parts, anyone have any better suggestions? i am getting this from www.memoryexpress.com A64 S939 3000+ (will OC it to 200FSB) Zalman 7000CU fan Asus A8n SLI Deluxe (dual SLI) 1GB Micron PC3200 Ram Thermal Take Black tsunami tower case with window Enermax 480W PSU...
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    Things ive noticed about dell...

    building a 600m laptop i noticed to go from 1.6GHz to 2.0GHz (both Dothan) its an additional $400CDN, how can this be? the 2.0GHz CPU is less than $600CDN in a retail box, the 1.6GHz is $300. they are charging $100 more than the cpu is worth, that is rediculous oh wait! in the inspiron...
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    External 2.5" Enclosure Tests

    found something disturbing today Test machine Asus M6BNe Laptop Enclosure #1 Kingwin 2.5" Aluminum external enclosure Enclosure #2 Vibe 2.5" Cheap plastic garbage enclosure Kingwin 2.5" + 40GB Samsung 5400RPM 8MB Cache HDD MAX transfer rate = 13MB/s (Dead solid on 13) Vibe 2.5" + 20GB...
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