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    Help me justify (or not justify) buying an i7 over an i5

    I can tell you that I've been playing ARMA 3 a lot and regardless of what people are saying out there I can assure you that my i7 is showing activity on all "8" cores. I haven't checked anything else but this was brought up by a friend of mine while we were playing and we checked it out, we had...
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    ATX 12v 8 pin and 4 pin connectors question

    Got a Asus Maximus VI http://i.imgur.com/PIfAUFt.jpg My question is that the item labeled "3" at the top left is a 12v ATX 4 pin and an 8 pin. In the manual it says connect either 4 pin or 8 pin so which do I want, and it say the 4 pin can be plugged in to the 8 pin socket so why both...
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    Can't install Steam

    I bought my grandfather a new computer the other day. I set it up, it works great, and I figured I'd buy him some games from Steam to mess around with. Well I downloaded the Steam installer from their website just fine, but after it downloads, it wants to run the Steam update to finish the...
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    Router Advice!

    Thx so much
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    Router Advice!

    I have a Netgear WNDR 3400, and have had Comcast extreme 50/15Mbps with 66 down and 17 up... so very happy. I just got the 105 down and 20 up now but only get 75-77 down and 21 up when running through my router. I'm wired to the router. If I remove the router I'm doing 115+ no problem. so...
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    Show off your speed

    http://www.speedtest.net/result/2618644287.png
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    An Unauthorized Change Was Made To Windows...

    Thats what I thought, well I guess what I knew. Just kinda hoped someone would tell me otherwise
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    An Unauthorized Change Was Made To Windows...

    I got it from bitdefender directly. I can't get in to safe mode the computer yells at me when I try during boot. I wanted to select safe boot from msconfig but I'm having trouble getting msconfig to open.
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    An Unauthorized Change Was Made To Windows...

    I just installed BitDefender and performed the first scan, after I shut down and turned the computer on today I got this message. At first it wouldn't even boot to my desktop it was just a black screen with the option to view info online. After I rebooted again it took me in to windows but that...
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    Can't use USB thumb drives...

    Thanks for the advise I will check that soon. Would I be looking for all motherboard drivers, or just USB drivers or something else specific? I'll check USB drivers first.
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    Can't use USB thumb drives...

    Awhile back I was copying files to my thumb drive and it was fine. I ejected, removed, and then remembered I needed one more so I put it back in but the drive wasn't listed. It was listed in device manager but I couldn't see it in my computer. When I plugged it in, Windows played the new device...
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    Installed new HD but can't see it in MyComp

    I couldn't find the drive to format, but when I looked closer in Disk Management the window was too small for me to see the new drive lol I feel special. I just found it and got it going. Thanks all!
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    Installed new HD but can't see it in MyComp

    I checked their website and manual, and said no jumpers are needed but I went ahead and tried it anyway, with no benefit. Before I put the jumper on, I did see it now lists my drive right under my SSD as connected to SATA 6Gb/s port just not showing up in My Computer now.
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    Installed new HD but can't see it in MyComp

    I have 2 internal drives, 1SSD plugged in SATA8 that I boot from, and 1 HDD in SATA4 that is storage. I just ran new cables for a 2TB Seagate I picked up yesterday and it doesn't show up anywhere in BIOS or My Computer. The 2 TB is plugged in to SATA7 and when Windows (7 64) loaded it said it...
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    Suggestions on build

    Thanks for the suggestions, I'm on my phone so I will look in to it a bit more as soon as I get home. I like the idea of the unlocked processor but I really don't know if I will be overclocking. I just want an extra computer at my place for friends to game on with me. most likely we will just be...
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    Suggestions on build

    Let me know if you think this looks solid, or if I should change some stuff around I'm ordering all from newegg... Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound Item #:N82E16835100007 - - $11.99 ASUS P8Z77-V LK ATX Intel Motherboard with UEFI BIOS Item #:N82E16813131837 - - $144.99 Intel Core...
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    Skyrim wont launch...

    Verifying through steam worked. Thanks!
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    Skyrim wont launch...

    When I double click the icon on my desktop it brings up the splash screen, but then when I click play, the splash screen quickly turns off and back on and the game never launches... Anyone know what is going on? I just played the other day and haven't used my computer since so I don't know what...
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    Cities XL 2012 no display problem...

    I just bought it last night and played it for about 4 hours. I closed it and when I came back to play it I have no display. The screen goes black, I can hear the into but nothing ever shows up. I've tried pressing escape to take me to the menu incase it was the intro vid but no luck there...
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