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    Storage drive instead of dvd drive in laptop giving me boot problems

    I recently changed out the boot drive of my Dell Insprion 1764 for a 120GB kingston SSD. Cloned my old 500GB drive on to it and it boots up super fast and is all fine and dandy. Took the old HDD and stuck it in one of these...
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    570 Core Clock Changing?

    I recently got an MSI GTX570 OC and it's brilliant, the only thing is when looking at the graphs in afterburner, i see that the core clock goes up and down depending on how stressed the card is, which i assume is some power saving thing. this wouldnt be a problem, but when folding, the core...
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    New GPU / New CPU?

    so i've just finished my first year of uni and am looking to get my old gaming rig going again. before i left for uni my 5770 broke so i just have a really crap like GT240 or something in right now to keep it usable so i'm definitely in need of a new graphics card. however, another thing is i'm...
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    Hifi CD/DAB combo?

    hopefully some of you guys can help me out. i've currently got quite a nice hifi setup with cambridge audio speakers and a cambridge audio amplifier. the thing is i really would like a CD player but am also really wanting a DAB tuner and was wondering if anyone knew of a combo of the two, as...
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    My Car Got Keyed...

    so i went to a party and there must have been about 20 cars parked in this field at somebodys house, get home the next day and somebody i don't know has put two huge, deep scratches in my bonnet and door, literally at random, probably because they thought it was hilarious so as peeved as i am...
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    Google Chrome and Hotmail

    is anybody else having trouble using the hotmail website with google chrome? it either crashes once i log in or just shows a ton of random writing i've updated chrome, reinstalled it, ccleanered everything and it still happens hotmail works in firefox but not chrome :/ anyone else having...
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    people who think quadcores run at 10ghz+

    take a look at this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAZwHDGz-3I a guy has put 5 systems in to one case. a pretty cool thing. but even this guy thinks a quadcore runs at 4 times what it is rated at e.g. the old ebay special of a Q6600 running at 2.4x4, 9.6ghz! they have all got a 2.66ghz...
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    Pocket HD Camcorders

    So after next Tuesday I will officially leave school having finished all my exams and be freeeeee (until september, when i'm off to uni) got a load planned for summer and thought it would be nice to get a little HD camera, such as the Flip Ultra HD / Flip mini HD/ Sony Bloggie / Kodak Zi8 etc...
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    Program for Backing Up?

    so i've recently come across a couple extra hard drives an di thought i would use them to back up some stuff i was thinking of using a 149gb drive to backup my itunes library automatically, i.e. every time i add a new song and consolidate library, everything in the iTunes folder syncs with a...
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    Your Favourite Freeware!

    thought i'd ask you guys for what your favourite freeware programs are stuff like CCleaner, XBMC, DVD Decrypter, Ninite, Defraggler, IMGburn, CPUZ, MSI Afterburner, TeraCopy :) i look forward to our replies
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    make yourself a custom PC case from rubber in minutes!

    with this mega machine :D:D:D http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5YCF51hInM only a billion pounds!
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    Lapping

    How do you get a mirror finish? i've gone up to 1500 grit, and ive got a semi mirror finish, its still a bit foggy if that is the right term what should i use next?
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    1TB External HDD USB 2/3 no mains power

    do you guys know of/recommend any 1TB external hard drives that don't need mains power to run, like they use 2 usbs or something? also any with usb 2 and 3 support would be good as my pc has usb3 but laptop only usb2 if not, should i go for a mains powered prebuilt one or put a 1TB drive in to...
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    holy batman i am relieved

    tried installing ubuntu and osx on my pc and in the process installed Acronis OS Selector booted up, went in to it, only recognised the OSX install as 'unknown OS' and completely wouldnt show my windows install chose the option 'deactivate os selector', restarted, tried to get in to windows...
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    Laptop Options

    So i'm off to university in september [Edinurgh, to do mechanical and electrical engineering] and I figured the easiest thing to take computer wise was a laptop simply for transport, taking to the library etc and I really want you guys' opinions. I'm looking to spend about £900 absolute max but...
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