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    x58 motherboards, 3-way sli, will tv tuner and sound card both fit?

    if you go tri sli with a dual-slot cooler video card, the cooler on the bottom card will cover the ports and switches along the bottom of either board and you'll need a case with at least 8 expansion slots or mod your case to allow the last slot to vent to the outside. the only board that I know...
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    Beware - Newegg "Egg Saver" Shipping

    I'm not suprised by the package taking longer than 7 days given when you ordered. anything thats says 7+ days as the max time is only being flown around when there is extra capacity on the plane(s). since it is the holiday season(and ordered right before a very busy shopping weekend), there...
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    New Intel i7 vs. duo E8400

    http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/overclocking-core-i7,2063.html this rumour about limiter being hard-wired was caused by tom's hardware because they didn't turn off the switch and report on it. this article is their correction to that first article. core i7 can overclock just as well...
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    Bigger Hardrive = Better Performance?

    "7200 rpm 160gb = 5400 rpm 320gb" in pure thoughput, this statement is probably pretty close to being correct. pure thoughput for is when you do long sequential read/writes like reading a large unfragment file. but there are other aspects of a hard drive other than pure thoughput. like...
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    Upgrade (MB?)

    first question what model p4 do you have because the p4 family of processors span over 3 different socket types. and if you got an early one there is no way to get a motherboard with a pcie x16, let alone a sli board. you are better off forgeting 9600gt sli for now and get a new processor...
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    Gigabyte Super-computer????

    16 core is old school. there is already a 24 core machine you can buy see here . it has four 6-core dunnington processors.
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    Is everyone purchasing the I7's using just stock cooling?

    I'm sure some are using the bolt kits that allow you to use a lga775 cooler on a lga1366 like this one it isn't as good as a true lga1366 cooler because of the different sizes.
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    X58 motherboard estimated prices

    according to article, msi x58 platinum was 306 but according to google shopping it is more like 235 (look here) a lot of other ones that they said would cost over 400, are showing up in stores for 300 to 400. not cheap but not as expensive as the month old article is reporting. to Cleric7x9...
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    Gaming Build (None Prebuilt)

    you can view the links if you replace the ... with t.aspx?Item=N Is there a reason why you chose that motherboard over this one? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813138123 it can be combo with your ram for additional $17 savings. I'm not a fan of using power...
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    Need a card with Shader 3.0

    I would look at either HD4650 or HD4670 - low power, shader 4.1, decent performance.
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    Low Budget (500USD)

    antec 300 + EA500 combo for $70+free shipping http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811129042 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817371007&Tpk=antec%20EA500 Recertified: EVGA 8800GT - 110 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130412
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    newegg getting ready for Nahlem

    newegg also has the triple channel ram sets on sale already.
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    Any New Core 2 Duo come out?

    there are plans to release an e7500(2.93ghz version of e7400), e5300(2.6ghz version of e5200) and q8300(2.5ghz version of q8200). as far as I know, intel is just going to fill in the lower end more and let nehalem take the high end, so I doubt there will be an e8700.
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    Super Flower 201T3 (2004)

    have you just tried to move your current motherboard over? as far as I can tell the emachine's motherboard is mircoATX and the case is ATX/microATX.
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    Is this build alright?

    I would try to get 4gb of ram, but other than that it is fine. buy the combo of these two parts and you won't spend anymore money, get twice as much ram and an extra $30 MIR. HIS HD4850 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814161235 OCZ 2x2gb ddr800...
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    Folding@Home: CF Official Discussion Thread

    I don't think it is possible for your computer to use 800+ Kwh. there is only 720 hours in a 30 day month, which means your computer is using more than 1,000 watts an hour. I can see it being more like 300 to 400 Kwh for 24/7 usage but not more. that is the same as your computer using ~ 400 to...
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    New desktop

    ignore bcoffee20 comment, you can use any graphics card that use pcie x16 of pcie 2.0 x16 with that motherboard. make sure you have an OS ready when you finishing building.
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    How many watts does a monitor and laptop consume?

    my 24in monitor specs at 55 watts and if you have a non-gaming laptop it will use definitely under 100 watts. so I think you will be fine. why don't you test it first before you go, just to make sure.
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    Xeon comparison

    the law of diminishing returns can deal with as you increase the number of cores, you don't get proportionally more performance. think about sli or crossfire. when you have two cards, is it twice as fast as one? ... no. when you have 3 cards is it 3 times faster than one or 50% faster than two...
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    Yet another HD problem

    first you must realize you will lose some "space" because your Hard drive has 160 billion bytes but in binary a gigabyte is 2^30 or 1,073,741,824 bytes. So your hard should show ~149 GB in windows. the reason why you have only 127 GB or 137,438,953,472 bytes is because in the orginal XP...
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