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On [CPUs] Estimating actual case temperature with a C2D?     joex444 1 382 CompuTroni​x
03-21-2007 at 10:11 AM
On [CPUs] The Truth About PC Power Consumption
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Duh, P = E / t ... so E = P / t for constant P situations, otherwise E = Integral ( P dt), so you can decrease energy used by making the P/ [...]
    Muk 43 3187 SiliconDoc
05-24-2008 at 09:53 PM
On [CPUs] Biggest Bottleneck
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LOL... what are we debating? HDs don't affect game performance at all. Just load times. That's all it affects with everything -- how lo [...]
2   ShortRef 81 3107 hell_spawn
10-26-2007 at 10:07 AM
On [Power Supplies, PC Cases & Case Mods] Please assess my C2D rig before I buy it.
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2GB of DDR2-800 is like $60 now after rebates, just looking at Newegg selling A-Data RAM. 4GB of 800MHz shouldn't cost you more than $150, [...]
    Kayden 17 675 plguzman
10-05-2007 at 03:36 PM
On [Power Supplies, PC Cases & Case Mods] on a budget
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Hi, Looks like the first replier was confused by your currency. Your 50 pounds is worth more than $89. So, for those shopping on US web [...]
    kriolit 4 306 kriolit
10-04-2007 at 12:12 AM
On [CPUs] What if Your CPU Cooler Fails?
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I think that, mainly due to Patrick's participation on this article, the entire article was misguided. It's good to know that if the stoc [...]
2   Muk 52 2752 chris1979
10-31-2007 at 10:57 PM
On [CPUs] New Pc Spec
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I can tell you that RAM worked with Gigabyte's 965 based boards. Any plans for overclocking? Your cooler seems particularly weak for t [...]
    nelson666 8 444 aevm
09-17-2007 at 06:46 PM
On [Sound Cards] RCA audio to 5.1
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That won't work. It's as good as plugging the RCA into the surround and using stereo. Like the first reply said, you need an optical inp [...]
    DXsocko007 5 704 nukemaster
10-01-2007 at 04:24 AM
On [Power Supplies, PC Cases & Case Mods] PC Power Supplies: More Important than You Think
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Did I miss the benchmark? Or was this just a plug.
    Muk 20 1912 sailer
08-16-2007 at 12:25 AM
On [CPUs] Radical CPU coolers from CoolIT
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Cleeve - If this product competes against water and water is touted as a way to cool an ultra overclocked CPU, wouldn't it make sense to [...]
2   bgerber 61 6201 darklife41
07-06-2007 at 11:00 AM
On [Power Supplies, PC Cases & Case Mods] Should i buy a great CASING with PSU or buy them separately
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A good case and a good PSU both have their merits. Only the PSU will affect your computer's stability and the case can only really affect [...]
    Dark_Place​bo 14 895 randomizer
04-13-2007 at 03:17 AM
On [CPUs] The Gigahertz Battle: How Do Today's CPUs Stack Up?
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There's no right processor to buy. It depends on lots of variables, mainly your budget. I had a budget of about $1200-$1300 when I built [...]
3   pschmid 131 20469 sirrobin4e​ver
04-16-2007 at 05:47 AM
On [CPUs] Core 2 duo or P4?
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To make it totally clear to you I would suggest this (the E4300 is not yet in the CPU charts but it's performance is really close to that [...]
4   Phantom93 167 7995 I_Love_Tac​os
03-28-2007 at 01:01 AM
On [Power Supplies, PC Cases & Case Mods] Need a new power supply but have no idea where to start.
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Though I will admit the Corsair 520W is a very good PSU, from what I've read (it is made by Seasonic), that's not necessarily available at a [...]
    AwsmGy 5 510 dotti
03-23-2007 at 02:05 AM
On [CPUs] Appeal to THG: Rewrite the $300 PC article, please!
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Ah, you just broke like all the rules there dude. You changed the DVD burner, saving some money. You dropped down to 512MB RAM, now you [...]
2   m25 95 6153 m25
02-22-2007 at 08:28 PM
On [CPUs] AMD FX-60 prices quoted by THG way off? what gives?
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These pieces being published on TH are beyond non-useful, they're blatantly wrong. Take this past week's super high price jump of the Pen [...]
    DragonSpra​yer 39 1883 lbax
02-08-2007 at 02:03 AM
On [Other Components] How to make my printer wirless
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I second the wireless 802.11g thing, bluetooth is not going to work well with a printer/scanner. I'll assume you have a wireless network. [...]
    TurkzZ 5 1311 slim142
12-07-2006 at 02:24 AM
On [Other Components] Trying to use TV as primary monitor help plz!!
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TVs work poorly as a monitor, unless its an HDTV over DVI or component (though, in practice, DVI is much much more common and can be convert [...]
    a40ozoe 7 2403 KTev
12-01-2006 at 05:03 AM
On [CPUs] Help me choose a CPU!!!!!
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Top points for a business PC: - Stable motherboard / chipset (Tier-1 board manufacturer) - Decently fast CPU (for business a D915 is mor [...]
    Lockout888 6 694 Heyhey
11-30-2006 at 12:16 AM
On [CPUs] Intel --- Important ---
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To the OP: For example is not proof.
2   danica 98 10717 dean7
11-30-2006 at 04:00 AM
On [CPUs] IDF Fall 2006: From Core 2 Quadro to 80 Cores
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"The remaining 20-30% are energy that is converted into heat and thus is wasted." Ugh...from my thermal physics book: "Hea [...]
    pschmid 32 5614 gm0n3y
10-20-2006 at 11:26 AM
On [Other Components] Disable first 3 gigabyte of a hard disk?
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Another vote for a new drive. Once you get an unrecoverable error in the drive, you'll get another. I have 2 Seagate 120GBs that have been [...]
    2Cb 10 694 2Cb
08-26-2006 at 09:10 PM
On [Other Components] Win Tom's screaming $10,000 PC!
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you guys dropped $10k on something and didn't get it chromed?
6   WGruener 267 30491 Whizzard99​92
10-20-2006 at 08:11 PM
On [Power Supplies, PC Cases & Case Mods] Why SATA power connectors?
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That's an interesting theory. I assumed that since the PSU puts out a certain number of amps on each voltage rail, that it didn't matter wh [...]
    YankeeDDL 7 1071 GTMan25
03-13-2006 at 06:35 AM
On [Power Supplies, PC Cases & Case Mods] My dads PC
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wow, that is retarded. if HP acknowledges they sold crap PSUs to people they should've made it public. anyways, if that's the problem you [...]
    Pengwin 13 594 parlee
03-07-2006 at 11:04 PM
On [CPUs] A Look At AMDs Socket AM2 Platform
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For a second I almost thought this wasn't a half-bad idea. Seeing how they use the same chipsets, it's essentially the same processor b [...]
4   pschmid 186 39543 Clue69Less
03-14-2006 at 04:01 AM

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