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    Airtunes wireless speaker

    I'm a PC user with iTunes and want to use the built in Airtunes to broadcast over my wireless network (using Netgear WGR614v4 wireless router) to a wireless speaker. My neighbor has a mini mac, likely an Airport Express, and this fake rock wireless speaker with D batteries and auto-shutoff to...
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    8800 with a slot cooler?

    I've been trying to find a flat pic of the Antec Super Cyclone. It's only $15 at Compusa or orderable from CircuitCity. I think it's air intake is a bit closer to the bracket. Folks seem to get a 5C drop from it, so I'll try it tomorrow.
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    8800GTS cooling...improved....

    the HR-03 is a nice heatsink, but with an item putting out 65-75C almost double my cpu in heat, I want a solution that gets it out of the case also. Blowing the heat all around the case doesn't help the system.
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    8800 with a slot cooler?

    Yes, elmo I read your posts. very good. Was also hoping someone might spot a flaw in my overall setup, or have specific opinions about the Blitz slot cooler. I'm leaning towards this cooler, since its a double thick 80mm fan, but 10CFM isn't stellar. The Blitz has a CFM range of...
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    8800 with a slot cooler?

    I understand the 8800 can handle the temps, my concern is with the additional heat it's putting on the rest of the computer by not pushing it all out of the case. Thanks! I may try this to help drop internal temps 5C.
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    8800 with a slot cooler?

    I just installed an evga superclocked 8800 GTS yesterday and was shocked by the temps. (core 576Mhz, mem 1700 Mhz stock OC) 65C idle, and 75C load. Until some good aftermarket coolers come out for the 8800 GTS, has anyone considered a slot cooler? The 8800 has raised all my system temps by...
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    8800 gts normal temp?

    I saw 65C on my 8800 GTS that I just installed and shut it down to read up on what is normal, heh. My 7900GT would be 40C idle, and 45C load. Also this is the EVGA 8800 GTS that comes stock OC'd to 576Mhz core, 1700Mhz mem, so I should probably expect a touch higher temps. Still...
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    Soundcard and IRQ HELL

    Tried Creative tech support again. Was hoping they could help me change the IRQ, but was told their card will not work in all systems. Despite my SBLive and other cards working in that same PCI slot. They told me to go ask my motherboard manufacturer for a BIOS to change my IRQ's per PCI...
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    Soundcard and IRQ HELL

    Asus A8N-VM CSM bios 1001 The only option I saw was to change select IRQ's to reserved, which the detail says is for legacy ISA.
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    Dual core affinity control

    Thanks that makes sense. Still when I play a game, one core is 100%, while the other is 0-8% utilized. Hence the question.
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    Dual core affinity control

    Using an AMD Opteron Dual core 175 cpu, and the AMD/MS affinity patch, you can move processes/games to either core using taskmaster. Would there be a benefit shifting a game to core 2 which seems to sit mostly idle, with the assumption XP and other programs would be consuming cycles on core...
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    Soundcard and IRQ HELL

    I thought fighting an ISA soundcard and the IRQ setting was a thing of the past with XP and ACPI managing IRQ's. Got a new Creative XiFi gamer PCI sound card. I have a micro ATX motherboard, from an old SFF build so PCI slot 1 is covered by Video card cooler, and that leaves me PCI slot 2...
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    Multicore support for XP

    Your cpu has 2 cores. Using the affinity patch, you can in taskmaster tell a process/program which cores to use. If most of winXP and other programs use core 1, would there be a benefit to games to tell them to use core 2 which site mostly idle. A game written to use multiple cores would...
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    Multicore support for XP

    How well does Win XP SP2 support multicore cpu's? I'm currently using an AMD Opty 175. I installed the AMD multi core driver and I believe all it did was add the ability to choose program affinity and select core 1, core 2, or core 1 + 2 Playing EQ2, cothe 1st core goes to 100%. If I...
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    I think I may stop Gaming and upgrading

    I sometimes think I play games mostly just to have a reason to upgrade my PC hardware. Play WoW, with their cartoonish graphics, you won't need to upgrade.
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