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    Windows Media Player - slow, high CPU usage, won't convert files

    Hi people, having a few problems here and no online source seems to have what I'm looking for :D I have WMP on three different Windows XP Pro systems that are misbehaving. The symptoms include: - Running really slow - High CPU usage when playing some videos and music - Periods of not...
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    Where can you get Geforce Go's?

    Fairly fruitless searching of the interweb is leading me to believe that it's somewhat hard to get hold of graphics cards for laptops. I'm sitting here on an AJP D800T (Clevo, basically Alienware Area-51M 7700) and I want to stick something that can really crunch benchmarks inside it. Currently...
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    What have you broken?

    Thread to measure how clumsy people are... :D I'll go first! My hardware related breakages include, in no particular order: - Coolermaster 3-5000RPM variable speed Socket A heatsink fan - Several Pentium 486DX CPU's and two primitive motherboards - EDO DIMM RAM - 4Mb & 12MB, 2 sticks -...
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    Taking a RAID array to another PC

    To cut a long story short, my motherboard blew the other day and I wanted to get data off my hard disks. Unfortunately they're in a RAID 0 array, and whilst there are other SATA motherboards in the house, these two drives aren't being detected as an array. How can I get this to happen?? I...
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    Acer AL1721 shutoff on overclocked cards?

    Has anyone ever heard of a TFT going wrong on an overclocked card? I'm testing this Acer AL1721 here and it seems to work great most of the time, except strange moments where it turns off. It also seems to do this the more overclocked the system's video card is, since at standard clocks it has...
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    'Lo there

    Hey there! I consider myself enthusiastic about PC's, perhaps not an enthusiast since I don't go out of my way other than occasional mods and experimentation, a PSU, heatsink, graphics card... oh, point of interest: Hard disks. Nothing looks cooler than a hard disk without a cover whilst it's...
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    A64 OC results...

    I'm just curious as to what others have got ;) I was surprised a couple of weeks ago when what I thought was a fairly bad chip suddenly managed to reach 2.5Ghz over the standard stock levels... naturally SuperPI and Sisoft followed... Well the secret for mine was mostly in the RAM, which...
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