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wow, I just heard about dual processors, what is it used for? Is it only when you have upgraded your ram to the max and still arent getting the performance out of your computer you want? It sounds kinda nifty, but expensive :eek:

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My friend has a 3 year old compaq with a Pentium 3 in it, right now its running a 128MB PC100 stick of ram and I let him borrow a PC133 sitck of ram (256MB) I know that both stick s are only running at pc100 right now, but will …

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I just build my system, and I dunno whether or not if it's my case or mobo or my own ignorance -- but I can't seem to get my power or hdd led's to work. -- Everything else works perfectly I have a lian-li pc-6070A case and I believe that …

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Hi, I'm thinking of buying this laptop, do you think its good value for the money or are there better value ones out there? [url]http://www.tiny.com/packages.php?prodid=11175[/url] Thanks alot, Wil

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Hi, I was wondering if anyone might be able to help out with a problem I have. I recently purchased a Pentium 4 2.8GHz processor, but for some reason when I check my system properties; it says Pentium 4 2.8GHz, then directly underneath it says "1.4GHz". Does this mean my …

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Hi, I am planning to buy a server. I want to know which one is best. Pentium based server or Xeon based server. Thanks Venkat

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Hi, I want to help out my friend, he wants to build a pc which he can play games on, doesnt need to be the best just play games on it. what can he build with $500? Now I mean from stratch, Ill lend him my windows XP cd but …

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Ok, I have narrowed it down to these builds for my upcomining computer. Before I list them, however, I have a couple of questions. I know very little about RAM and how it works, sadly. Right now I have some inexpensive Rosewill pc3200 RAM picked out. It looks fine and …

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I have a computer running 2 hard drives and 2 DVD devices. I think I saw a while ago a motherboard that allows you to run 8 devices from it. If anyone knows if this is correct and what the make/model is it would be greatly appreciated.

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what cpu does the Mac G5 use? is it better then the amd fx-55? i dont know anything about macs

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Here's the scoop. I recently went to clean out my computer and decided to take out the RAM. After cleaning the slots out I put the RAM back in, so I thought. I went to power back up and a blank screen appeared, then I started to smell something frying. …

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I had a couple of questions. First off, has anyone seen what the expected retail price of the upcoming A8N-SLI Deluxe Asus mobo will be ([url]http://usa.asus.com/products/mb/socket939/a8nsli-d/overview.htm[/url])? Also, I noticed that I won't really NEED a lot of the features it has, can I expect them to come out with a …

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Last time when same problem occured ,i replaced its processor, but now i did every thing not working properly. other parts are P3 600MHz ,128Mb,20Gb Quantum i need repairing level help

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Anyone able to help me out with the drivers for win98se I checked MSI but did not find the intel drivers needed... Any help as always is appreciated

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Hi All, Just picked up a shuttle ab60r from microcenter and this thing will not post. No beeps no nothing, check all connections. good. running a p4 2.0 400bus, this is supposed to be a temp scratch build for my mom (not that you care, but you can imagine the …

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Hi All. I have an HP 762n Pavilion. It a little over two years old. I am interested in upgrading the processor which is P4 at 2.26Ghz 478 pin, 533Mhz FSB. I am pretty sure the chipset is an Intel 845e. Does anyone know the fastest processor I can put …

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I bought a P4 3.2E Presscott 1M cache and i have a Intel 875PBZ model 303 but I think thats board doenst work with this CPU, could anyone help me with this and tell me, but if you have experience with both cpu and mother, what is the best motherboard …

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ok guys thanks for all the help, I got everything and installed it and let me say OMG! the amd 64 kicks ass! NFSU2 runs on full settings perfectly and my FPS on CS:S went from 20 to 90-130 Now I just need to tweak my AMD 64 my ram …

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I have some computer parts that are fairly but not old! All of these parts have been tested and known to work but not have been used for a long period of time. It is known as far as they are sold that they work. THERE WiLL BE NO REFUNDS! …

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ok, im going to ask a totally amatuer question, but this is what this forum is for. I hear alot about chipsets, what are they? Are they included with the motherboard when purchased? haha, and yes this is completely ligit.

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I was just wondering what a good motherboard would be, a decent one, to run some highend games and such. I know my Intel Celeron is a piece so im searching around for a better one, but not too expensive.

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I have an asus A8V, which has a small passive heatsink as the cooling element for the northbride. I am currently into overclocking, and by doing more research I find it highly likely that my overclocking has hit a wall because of instability in the system bus. I want to …

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Hi, I have an Asus P4S533X motherboard, which has two DDR slots and two SDRAM slots. My original setup was one 256MB SDRAM chip. Something went bad, and that chip stopped working. So I replaced it with a couple of old 64MB chips I had while I waited for the …

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Hello again, same computer, new problem... (A little precursor - dont think this is related but just for good measure... I just bought a UPS for my machine and had plugged my computer into it, turned it on, and it booted up fine. I let the scsi devices load and …

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when I boot up the bottom of the screen says: Press F1 to setup, F2 to resume. When I hit F1, it takes me into the setup screen (bios, I think?). It allows me to navigate for about 3 second then locks. If I hit F2 instead, it goes to …

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hi all, just wondering... my sound card (the 1 thats built into the mb) is making strange hummin noises n stuff, and its really annoying, i wonder if anyone knows how to fix this? or if not then do u kno why it happens? have i done somthing to it? …

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I have an eMchines Intel Celeron 1.4 Gig computer, running XP, with only 128MB RAM. Computer was a little sluggish and so I went out and got more RAM. 512MB of RAM today, that's the max amount of RAM for the CPU. I took out the 128 and put the …

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Hi, I currently have 512MB of RAM, 128MB of which is "Shared Memory" (whats is shared memory?). So it seems i have 384MB of RAM which seems enough to me, but the games I play are jumpy and slow and I'm sure its because I do not have enough RAM. …

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Hey everyone, I am building a computer, and I simply can't decide what mobo to get, anyones recommedations (socket 764 and 939, try and include the best mobo for BOTh sockets ;) Price cap is 150) would be greatly appreciated! Thanks for the help.

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