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  1. pirate252

    Enough Power???

    Ok heres my -future- system (the one i need to know about for buying the PSU)... MOBO - ABIT KX7-333 CPU - AMD XP 1800+ Video - GeForce 4 (min req. says needs 300 watt PSU) PCI Cards - LAN 10/100 and SOund Blaster Live Value 2 7200 RPM HDD DVD-ROM CD-RW Floppy 4x256 DDR-RAM PC2700 Plus LED's...
  2. pirate252

    Cooling Air Coming Into Case

    I was wondering if anyone had any ideas or know any sites that have things on how to actually cool the air coming into your system via the front intake fans, i came up with my own idea of twisted copper piping with iceswater flowing through them, but i need a more practicle one, any help woul...
  3. pirate252

    Memory Speed Question

    I am going to buy a new motherboard, the ABIT KX7-333 and a new AMD XP 1800+ i need ddr ram for this mobo and am looking for places to buy from, i plan to overclock so im looking for high quality stuff, so i found this company called Corsair that sells high performance memory. The list that...
  4. pirate252

    Overclocking Sites / Forums

    Anyone know any good sites or forums about overclocking the Athlon XP's or Athlons, or anyhting about overclocking, thanks all! Matt
  5. pirate252

    SD-RAM vs DDR-RAM

    I just bought a video card from PNY called the verto GeForce4 mx420 It has 64 megs of sd ram but there is a modle that is just a little bit more that has 64 megs of ddr ram pc2100 i was wondering if i should go through the trouble of talking my parents into taking the other card back and...
  6. pirate252

    Case Fan Placement

    I didnt know where to post this message so ill post it here please go here and look at the pic i drew of my case (yes i know im not a good artist) but just see whats u think is good.bad.ugly, ok thanks Matt go here http://www.geocities.com/pics252/Fans.htm
  7. pirate252

    HDD and Power LED not lighting

    I bought a new case and it came with a different connector for the power and hdd LED's and all that other junk, i pluged everything in and it worked except for the swich that turns it on. So i looked inside and there was a problem. The power light is on pins 1 and 3 and the connector connected...
  8. pirate252

    Mounting Hard Drive Sideways

    I was running a system with 2 hard drives that both layed flat, now i bought a new case that makes you mount them sideways. I was wondering if this would cause damage, or limit the life of the drive, i have searched all over the net and have found different answers, some saying yes, other...
  9. pirate252

    To help prevent system coruption

    I do this with my own system and i thought i should just share it with everyone. Partion your hard drive into either 2 or 3 partions, on C ONLY HAVE WINDOWS and on D (and E) keep all of your backup progam install files, and install all of your things to these drives or drive. This way if...
  10. pirate252

    Ctrl-Alt-Del to log on problems - cant find where to set it up

    I want to make users push control-alt-delete to log onto the computer and in the help file it says to have admin privileges. It says to go into user accounts and click the advanced tab, but there is no advanced tab. I have tried to do this on my account (which is also an admin) and the actual...
  11. pirate252

    Moving Personal Folder

    I need to know if there is a way that I can move my personal folder location to another drive so that I can keep my files hidden from other users. I only want windows on the C drive and I keep everything else on other partions and I want to move this protected location to another drive, is...
  12. pirate252

    Hiding Folders From Other Users

    I want to hide some files and folders on my account so that other acounts CAN NOT see them no matter what they do, i dont want to just hide the files because you can still see them when you do that, i want them blocked out from all other acounts but mine, i am the admin for this computer running...
  13. pirate252

    Tempurature Monituring

    I am going to but a digital doc 5 and it comes with 2 "flat" probes and 6 "bulb" probes, i want to put the flat ones on the processor and the video card, and i am wondering the best place to put them, i already asked the quesiotn that if i were to put it between the sink and...
  14. pirate252

    Thermal Probe Positioning

    I am going to but a digital doc 5 and it comes with 2 "flat" probes and 6 "bulb" probes, i want to put the flat ones on the processor and the video card, and i am wondering the best place to put them, i already asked the quesiotn that if i were to put it between the sink and...
  15. pirate252

    Air pressure inside case

    First just to clarify myself about the air pressure...By positive air pressure i mean blowing more air into the case than is blowing out (EX/ 2 fans in and 1 fan out) or by negitive air pressure, i mean blow more air out than in (EX/ 2 fans in, 3 fans out) My question is...i am buying a case...
  16. pirate252

    Temp Monitoring

    I am going to purchace a temp Monitoring system and it comes with bulb and "flat" sensors...i was wondering if i could put this "flat" sensor in between the heat sink and the prosessor without the following problems... 1. it will swish it and kill the probe 2. the heat...
  17. pirate252

    Video / MOBO chipset coolers

    I am going to buy some chipset coolers and on my video card already has a heatsink on it and it looks like its glued on there, and i want to know how to get it off of there to replace it with a new, better one with a fan, so maybe i can overclock it later...i just want to know how to get that...
  18. pirate252

    Silver Heat Compound

    I am interested in buying some silver thermal compund for my heatsinks...becuase it is made of silver i wanted to put some silicon around the exposed connectors around my chip, like on my video card so that if any spills over the edge it will not bridge connections, will this hurt anyhitng, like...
  19. pirate252

    Hard drive controller card

    I have 2 hard drives, and 2 cd-drives they are both on 2 IDE cables, i was wondering if it would speed up preformance (especially on cd to cd copying if i had each one one its own IDE cable that owuld require me buying a IDE controller card, right? any advise on those would be useful thanks, Matt
  20. pirate252

    Bending capacitors?!? NOOOO :(

    i had an question earlyer (Aluminum or Copper) and i was asking if my MOBO had the right socket for the heatsink i wanted, well i found that out now it does have the socket 370 like i was hoping for, but i was mesuring to make sure it would fit in with all the junk and i read at the end of my...

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