Recent content by pcrig

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    Lots of money on PSU = Lost of wasted cash!

    Here s a fundamental ERROR in your statments. UL DOES'T RATE or approve any equipment. UL is a testing laboratory which only LISTS equipment as complying with various specification. UL doesn't accept liability for design or performance of the equipment. UL by listing...
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    Need help deciding best route

    If you can't bother with building your own system, cause you are to lazy to spend two hours on building own PC why bothering others? There is NO best quality systems such as DELL, HP, SONY or other .. that is only a crap sold to morons at retail chains! Get yourself great AMD X2...
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    Keeping up with the wife :D

    With wife and two PCs at home it is hard and ready to overcock .. so let it be!
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    AMD states K8L aka Barcelona faster than all Intel cores

    Thats like saying a car with 2 V6's is the same as a car with a V12. Not saying that the 2 V6 car would be slower, just that it is not the same because of the design. Why do you think that V12 would be faster than V6? What number of cylinders have to do with the speed of a car...
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    Need help with hdd data recover.....plssss!

    The problem you might have is with the drive which was RAID 0, because when it was placed as RAID the drive volume was rewritten. So the data is available and is on that drive. You might reformat the drive and later recover the data using software like : get data back fat get data...
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    Why I'm furious with Seagate!

    That's the most utter bullcrap I've heard this month. Well ...... looks like all you have never learned, every fact for you is always nothing but a crap. It just show how damn you are! Seagate Press Release SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY TO ACQUIRE MAXTOR CORPORATION Combination...
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    Open letter to AMD

    AMD is moving to 65 nano dual core and quatro cores with Opterons, Athlons64 and Turions 64. The capacity of the plant is limited and AMD is really not interested to continue production of CPUs in low volumes. Retooling the plant to meet just low...
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    what is the best format of audio music ? mp3??

    Successor to mp3, m4a (M4A) is the new replacement for the older MP3 audio format and includes many enhancement and improvements. MPEG Layer 4 audio. A fileformat generally used with music files that is higher in quality for about the same filesize. Files ending in .m4a are audio content...
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    what is the best format of audio music ? mp3??

    m4a! :roll: @ 320 bips! easiest? rip with Winamp CDs from wave to m4a!! :twisted: M4A is the new replacement for the older MP3 audio format and includes many enhancement and improvements. Many popular applications and hardware devices already support M4A. The m4a is dedicated...
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    My wife's computer evalutation

    There is nothing worse like getting a DESKTOP for wife. You will wait cold in the bed when she is killing the electrons. Good IBM laptop is a lot better than Desktop for your needs Instead of Intel Duo AMD 5000+ X2 will do a better job. For tasks you've described building desktop...
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    Any ATI Employees here?

    Defective, returned and reconditioned and / or stollen cards you can get for about that price!
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    Build Issues, need help!

    Suggestion fry your Knoppix 5.01 CD and start with it. This might be your best shoot. Knoppix DVD For download use a download manager: Flash Get
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    confused swedish gal

    Ok HONE! It happens I am flying to Europe so I can stop in Sweden not a big deal! :) For me it would be only 26 hours flight any way ... BLONDS are very smart girls but they do need a man whom they would hold by the hand! :) I believe that blue color of RAM is better for blonds than...
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    3800 venice vs. x2 3800 manchester? which is the best bet?

    actually on July 24 the price of AMD Athlon X2 will be cut Athlon 64 X2 3800+ will price drop down to somewhere between US$152-161 ! Buy then not now Athlon 64 X2 TOLEDO core for about U$ 169.00 after July 24! Athlon 64 X2 5000+ (socket AM2 only) $696 price cut to $403...
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    More is less? (psu question)

    So if my calcs are showing I need 776 W I should multiply it 1.5 times to get 1164W? Man you REALLY RANT! Rule of the game: If you do not know what you are talking let others talk, than listen and learn! You never lean by talking! The general rule of buying PSU is never buy...