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On [CPUs] My internet is running soooo slooowwwww.... help please
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Like the others have said, I'd ensure there are no torrent type things running in the background (on the rare occasion I have used one of th [...]
    Maverick7 24 413 gamerk316
10-14-2008 at 08:44 PM
On [Sound Cards] several questions sblive vs audigy4 vs usb to midi patch cord
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Well there are a few choices on the USB front, but if you are just after the MIDI function you can get some basic fangled USB to MIDI i/f. T [...]
    colonelbla​ke 2 162 Tug
09-16-2008 at 05:47 AM
On [Sound Cards] good Vista-ready alternative to M-audiophile 2496 card?
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Instead of the Creative consumer cards there are the Emu cards. You may be able to find a 1212m for your price range or the 0404 would be ch [...]
    jbourne84 5 406 halcyon
08-22-2008 at 03:29 PM
On [Power Supplies, PC Cases & Case Mods] My Chasis Fans Are Too Loud! HELP!
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Another thing that might contribute to the noise is the grill that the fan sits on.A lot of cases have a pretty basic pre-punched grill whic [...]
    XaeLee 16 587 XaeLee
06-03-2008 at 02:32 AM
On [CPUs] Fixing an HP Computer
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Does your HP have the option to restore the system to factory default? maybe one of the function keys gives the option (or check your docume [...]
    sundial199​9 22 415 rfatcheric
05-17-2008 at 07:57 PM
On [CPUs] Core 2 Duo vs. Dual Core
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Though try and be a little careful with the names, especually when looking at notebooks. Quite easy to read Core Duo instead of Core 2 Duo, [...]
    JPT1 23 3409 JPT1
11-29-2007 at 04:35 PM
On [Sound Cards] Modern machine, audigy2 and gameport
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Well for games the Audigy 2 might be better than the onboard, sound quality-wise that can be a mixed bag with Creative and your onboard may [...]
    San 3 395 Tug
09-19-2007 at 12:58 AM
On [Power Supplies, PC Cases & Case Mods] Could this badboy be causing me problems!?
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Another quick thing to check is that you may have a game that just doesn't like a dual core. I don't have many games here but one certainly [...]
    trigga 6 366 trigga
08-22-2007 at 12:00 AM
On [CPUs] AMD's Smart Strike: Athlon X2 BE-2350
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Well for general purpose these cheap dual cores (and the Intel equiv.) are more than fine. Face it, on the dual core front they'll all run p [...]
2   pschmid 65 12339 scarywoody
06-26-2007 at 02:32 AM
On [CPUs] burning smell only when playing games
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Ouch..sounds rather toasty to me. Well, I'd be tempted to have another stab at cleaning the cpu and graphics card coolers, though I seem to [...]
    xenon6543 8 894 womble
06-15-2007 at 11:46 AM
On [Power Supplies, PC Cases & Case Mods] Will my capacitors go pop
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Suppose it could be something going in the power supply, not that awful high pitched whistle you get when something is going is it? The o [...]
    n00ber 41 2560 blashyrkh
09-04-2007 at 02:40 PM
On [Other Components] Wide screen vs. Normal LCD
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Well I don't game very much, certainly nothing too demanding with my venerable old 9800SE (at least it's running at 9800pro spec). Can't say [...]
    Brume 14 2609 VIC20
05-17-2007 at 09:10 PM
On [Sound Cards] Recording audio
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Hiya Uri The only thing I'd immediately note about the delta 44 is that the inputs don't look like they'll take a guitar/mic direct, they [...]
    uri 9 882 dvmOO7
04-27-2007 at 10:31 PM
On [Other Components] Who produces a PCI card that will speed up CPU's calculating
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Pretty certain there used to be a few cards about for boosting the math, maybe about something along the lines of Remember guys your AMD [...]
    anton_anto​n 27 2038 darkguset
04-26-2007 at 03:54 AM
On [Sound Cards] were vista sound problems ever fixed
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Mercy...I haven't even changed from Windows 2000 to XP yet and can't see any reason too (the only thing that XP seems to have is a slightly [...]
    lo-rez 7 1553 ScubaGeek
04-13-2007 at 02:12 PM
On [CPUs] AMD or Intel
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Well out of the two options you mention there I'd go with the AMD dual cores. P4 - Prescott...Cedar Mill, who cares?...you can polish a t [...]
    coop_12 19 1650 goonting
04-09-2007 at 10:04 AM
On [CPUs] X2 3800 to X26000
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Only other thing to add to Newfs' comments is that you may have to update the BIOS to 0602 or newer, but even then it'll probably work befor [...]
    MrMJS 21 1402 I_Love_Tac​os
04-11-2007 at 02:20 AM
On [Power Supplies, PC Cases & Case Mods] What power supply for the P180?
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Only other thing to mention is wether to consider getting a seperate capture card and videocard. I have an AIW9800SE, still isn't a bad p [...]
    pgrogan 7 436 pgrogan
01-03-2007 at 01:49 AM
On [Sound Cards] I challenge ANYONE to fix this sound problem
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Only other thing I'd try is one of the bootable linux distros a la knoppix or pclinuxos, might be able to rule out a windows driver problem [...]
    IanF 26 2896 acrobuddy
10-05-2006 at 02:40 PM
On [CPUs] Trying to run video Editware
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Well I would have thought that the Celeron D would have enough oomph to pull video over firewire, might take a little extra time to do the r [...]
    Varicam13 18 775 Varicam13
09-11-2006 at 05:30 PM
On [Sound Cards] Dual Sound
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Well you have the platinum version and that's supposed to have a proper headphone and volume control on the front panel. I would assume it w [...]
    AlphaKP295 19 1592 uncle_ben
07-26-2006 at 06:24 PM
On [CPUs] Going from xp2600+ to D930. does it worth it??
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If you can hang on for a little bit I'd be thinking along the lines of what Sidvicious said. WIth the AMD price reductions the 3800X2 should [...]
    xanxaz 28 1627 xanxaz
07-19-2006 at 12:04 PM

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