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    Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 - is mine loud?

    I just got an Arctic cooling Freezer 64 for my s939 cpu. I was expecting complete silence, like the Arctic cooling vga silencer i just fitted, but no, this cooler is actually quite loud... Its about the same as the stock cooler for my Athlon 64 3500+... Is that how quiet its meant to be or are...
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    Performance difference under raid-0 vs normal (and Intel Matrix raid?)

    I assume a few of you use raid configs in your setups? Now that HD prices are so low, i was thinking of going raid-0 (160GB sataII hdd's only £35! maxtor tho...). Did you guys notice much difference in things such as windows boot time when switching to raid (from single disk)? Also, would...
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    Allow new members to see other people's rigs?

    Hi - i understand why new members are banned from PM's (to stop from spamming) but is it really necessary to ban new members from looking at other people's rigs? I'm really curious about other people's setups as am planning to do an upgrade, but am unable to access this info due to being below...
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    Difference between "value" ram and "premium" ram

    The following quote is from http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=2797&p=19 My question is, is it really worth spending all that extra money on top of the range ram, which costs lots more but for so little extra performance? Also, does it matter if i use for example ddr2-800 in a...
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    ASRock 775Dual-VSTA (AMD->Intel upgrade advice)

    Hi, I'm currently an AMD A64 (s939) user, and am feeling the slowness of my PC. I was thinking of doing an all out upgrade, but i currently have an AGP graphics card (9700Pro) and DDR ram, which would mean i would litterally need to upgrade everything (i.e. buy a new PC). This wouldn't be...
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