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    dissapointed with HL2

    Personally, I find myself wanting to play NFSU:2 more than HL2. While I won't yet say it was a waste of $50, I find it kinda funny that I'd rather play a riced-out car racing game than the latest and greatest FPS for PC. HL2 isn't a bad game per se, it just doesn't have anything that keeps...
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    Far Cry trumps Doom3 and HL2!

    And now for my $.02, worst first: Doom 3 - Scary, but redundant. Kinda short, good weapons, absolutely no desire to play it through again. HL2 - I've had the game since the day it came out, and I've probably got 5 hours of gameplay so far. I'm just not that excited about what I've played...
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    Win 2k trying to reinstall hardware at every boot from power off?

    I haven't tried choice #1, though that sounds like a good idea #2 - It's just a dialog box at startup that says "Add new Hardware - The user does not have permission to install devices. Please contact your SA..." No mention of what it's trying to install, and nothing in the event logs that I...
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    Win 2k trying to reinstall hardware at every boot from power off?

    Ok, this problem is driving me nuts (even moreso that the user keeps complaining about it). Here's the situation: A month ago, I get a ticket to fix a printer that wouldn't work (local, off LPT1). I uninstalled the printer, logged into Administrator account, reinstalled. Everything was fine...
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    Build a "dream machine" and need help picking video card.

    Mmmm... no ya don't. It's called a bootable CD-ROM, and they work great for doing those sorts of things. SATA drivers, can't help ya there, but neither of my NF2 or NF3-250 boards have needed SATA drivers for my Raptor, so I can't relate. I dunno, I just hate floppy drives with a passion, and...
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    Why is it no one learns Fortran or COBOL anymore?

    I work at the CitiGroup Development Center and we have about 200 programmers in the building and my preliminary guess is that probably 160 of them do program development and maintenance in Cobol. The sad fact is, though it may be outdated and "clumsy" by today's standards, it just plain works...
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    Really low ATTO bench on Raptor/MSI K8N Neo

    Hey everyone. I'm kinda stumped on this one. Both my reads and my writes are a lot worse than on my previous system, an XP2600-M. At the 256 level, I was at 58138/57288 read/write on a 32M test/Neither. Now, I'm at 43389/41323 with an MSI K8N Neo Plat. running the latest Forceware drivers...
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    Raptors...Really Worth It???

    I've had mine for about 8 months I think and to this day I don't regret buying it. Lightning quick bootup, app loading (from .exe files on HDD, OS), level loading in most games, etc... I would probably splurge for the 74G if it were out when I bought mine, but my 36G still keeps me happy. But, I...
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    Problem with MX700 and stuttering in games

    Hmmm, well it sounds like interference then, it does sit right next to my monitor but it's a ViewSonic VP171b LCD. Thanks for the suggestions though, I'll try some other things! Todd.
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    Problem with MX700 and stuttering in games

    Not sure how or why, but just recently my system started to show a lot of lag or delay in kb/mouse feedback, especially in games. It acts like the frames are choppy, but when i have an FPS counter going or if I run through the benchmark tool in UT2K3 (one of the games i notice the lag in), I'm...
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    Critique my A64 setup.

    And for any of us who have done research on A64 and memory timings, we all know that A64's favor tight timings much more than FSB. For instance, my OCZ runs 3-2-2-5-12-15 at 239 FSB... if you don't think that makes a difference over "cheap" ram, you are sadly mistaken. That was the point I was...
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    Critique my A64 setup.

    You can't be serious.... That memory will probably be usable in his next two upgrades. I just dropped $300 for 1G of PC3500 EB from OCZ and it's the best memory I've had to date. Very worthwhile. Maybe I screwed up though because I paid $200 for my processor... :rolleyes: EV.
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    New AMD FX-53 and Prime95 failure..

    If it ran for 3 hours with no errors, I would say that a.) the timings should be OK, b.) the vdimm should be ok, and c.) your modules are probably OK. I suppose from there I would try to up vcore a tiny bit and see if that gives you a little more stability with Prime. For 3DMark03, just make...
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    New AMD FX-53 and Prime95 failure..

    It depends on your RAM. The way I would test it if I were unsure, set Tcas (or Cas Latency) to 3, set Trcd (or Ras to Cas delay) to 3, set TRas (forgot the actual name) to 8, and set Trp (Row Precharge) to 3. Leave the rest alone. Leave the rest alone. Leave the rest... you get the idea. 3-3-3-8...
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    New AMD FX-53 and Prime95 failure..

    Well, I had sorta similar issues with my new NewCastle 3200+. First things first, establish which component is causing the failure. Since your FX has 1M cache, failing on the 8xx test could be either mem or CPU. My newcastle is only 512K so basically, if I'm running a stress test that has units...
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