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    1st attempt at lapping

    I had an old processor lying about from an update and decided to lap it, mainly for fun. It took me 2 hours solid because it kept scuffing badly on the last sheet, so i had to start from the middle again. . .annoying. The candidate After a Quick clean Grid drawn on Concave! starting...
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    noob question. . .

    I know this may seem like a very noob question to most of you, infact probobly all of you. . . But, on ATX motherboards are the PCI/PCI-E cards mounted upside down? and if you had a single slot card (8800GT) could you still use the slot above/below it, or would it be inacessable
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    Which card?

    Im planning on upgrading my graphics card but im not quite sure about what makes one better than the next (apart from price:yumyum:). so i was wodering if some of you could give me your opinion and some tips on picking one of these cards (or any others in the below £90 range)...
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    Nvidia 8600 GTS

    Hey again:wavey:, so, i'm going to get a new graphics card, an nvidia 8600 GTS. I was wondering how well it would run COD 4? I have a vga monitor but it outputs dvi, is it possible to get a cable or adapter to convert it over? my psu is, well, not so good, its about 305W, would this cause a...
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    some help please

    hey:wavey:, im new to the whole replacing processors thing and i was wondering if you could help me with a few things: when buying a processor is it only the socket type i need to worry about or is there other things, if so what are they? when i put in the new processor do i just turn my pc...
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