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Is This power supply good for a fully loaded Athlon 1.2 or more GHz system ??

It Should be more than enough. But, what do you mean by fully loaded? If you only have 1 or 2 hard drives, 1 to 2 cd drives, sound, video,modem,NIC, Floppy, up to 3 case fans, and the CPU HSF you probably only need a 300w at most. You want be taxing it at all. If you have more drives, like I...
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- Post #4
- Jul 22, 2001
- Forum: Cases & Cooling
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Riva TNT2 won't run games in Win98

With all NVidia chip based cards that I have used, it is better to throw the CD Driver disk that came with the card in the trash and then Download the most current driver straight from NVidia. The good thing about NVidia based cards is that there is only one software program for all of them...
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- Post #2
- Jul 22, 2001
- Forum: Computer Building
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Decent Printer? NON EPSON

BUy a refurbished Canon BJC6000. It is refurbished by Canon, comes with a 90 day warranty, New Cartridges and heads, upto date software, and you can get one for $60. Additionally the Canons have great print quality and you can use aftermarket cartridges which sell for as little as $3.99 ea. This...
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- Post #6
- Jun 29, 2001
- Forum: Peripherals & Components
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epox 8K7a+ help!!!

The only thing I got to add is that when trying to install the AMD760 Miniport Driver you may have to manually copy a file named "sucatreg.exe" from your Windows disk
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- Post #18
- Jun 29, 2001
- Forum: Motherboards
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P4 or 1.33 AMD - That Is The Question

Unless you want a collectable to sell on E-Bay, avoid the P4 until the DDR Ram version hits the stores later on this year. RAMBUS isn't all it was cracked upto be, and with the infringment suits going against them they will be history shortly. AMD is still more bang for the buck
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- Post #17
- Jun 29, 2001
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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UPS (Uninteruptable Power Supply) help me choose.

I think that this is an add on option for that APC unit. I have a S.L. Waber that sets under the monitor and lets me have about ten minutes of time and it does come with Auto Save/shutdown.
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- Post #16
- Jun 29, 2001
- Forum: Computer Building
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CD-RW and CD-R discs

I have probably burned 4000 disks since 1999, and I use the cheapest generic disks I can get (I got 1200 at the house now) and have had no more problems than people I know who swear by brandnames at 5 times the cost. For burning audio disks for palying on CD_Players you want to get some of the...
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- Post #7
- Jun 19, 2001
- Forum: Peripherals & Components
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Epox 8K7A users: Has your data gone "buh bye" yet?

What would you expect to happen if you pushed your car off a hill with nobody in the driver's seat? The very first thing that you install after the Operating System is the AmD Miniport and VIA 4 in 1 drivers.
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- Post #4
- Jun 19, 2001
- Forum: Motherboards
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ATHLON DDR Motherboard Woes =(

Yes the Epox board does. It is a really well laid out board with lots of room around the CPU socket for Heatsink installation. The only problem I had with my installation was that I load everything into Windows 98 before upgrading the operating system to ME. As such when I loaded the AMD 760...
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- Post #11
- Jun 19, 2001
- Forum: Motherboards
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Newbie question about fans

CFM or cubic feet per minute and RPM are interdependant. For a fan to move a large amount of air there are two ways to do it. The first is to increase the pitch of the fan blades (Angle of attack. This will move a lot of air but will be noisy and prone to vibration. The second way is to increase...
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- Post #3
- Jun 19, 2001
- Forum: Cases & Cooling
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Weird win98 problem

Two thing you can and should do: One > Uninstall Crashguard it's junk and will cause more problems than it is worth. The other parts of Norton Are OK and useful. Two > as far as you boot up problem goes, Open Norton anti-virus and enable the Start-up scan. The reason your computer is locking...
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- Post #5
- Jun 19, 2001
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Dead HD?

Have you tried to FDISK and Format on another machine. I have seen times that I couldn't FDISK on a machine a drive was installed in, so I hook it up as a slave on a differant machine as a Slave and do it.
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- Post #4
- Jun 19, 2001
- Forum: Computer Building
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Is it *really* worth to buy an "expensive" harddisk? Please read

What ever you do, DON'T BUY THE FUJITSU, THEY ARE SLOW PIECES OF JUNK USED ON REALLY LOW END COMPUTERS. BUy the IBM, remember you get what you pay for and this is very true with computer parts.
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- Post #2
- Jun 19, 2001
- Forum: Computer Building
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When setting the registry for fixed swapfile, what do U set the drop-down window at? Managed by Windoze or Let me?

Go here > This site has a really great guide for setting a permanant swap file http://www.rojakpot.com/Speed_Demonz.htm
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- Post #12
- Jun 5, 2001
- Forum: Computer Building
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Anyone heard this RUMOR?

I have read article on the price going up also. BUt I haven't seen it yet, as a matter of fact the sale prices have been so good lately I have purchased 1000 blanks.
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- Post #16
- Jun 5, 2001
- Forum: Computer Building

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