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Okay then found some people vouching for the KFA2 and a review of it as well. Seemed like a good purchase choice till I discovered a little prerequisite that nvidia has for 2D surround vision. I just found this link and it boils down to that if you don't have DVI/HDMI/Display Ports natively on your ...

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I just realized I might have two problems if I want to upgrade my GFX. 1) My PSU is a Cooler Master Extreme 650W . The requirements for either of the two mentioned cards are 30 - 38 amps on the 12V output. From the link to my PSU the 12v is split into a 12v1 @ 18amps and a 12v2 @ 18amps. I'm ...

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Hi I'm looking at upgrading my old ATi 5850 that has served me well and is still going strong be it overclocked to the max on watercooling. I'm looking at the KFA2 GTX 670 OC as a possible replacement as I find I need to start to compromise a bit more on quality settings with some new title, still ...

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I've always ran in landscape mode, never bothered with portrait. I do know from an ATi point of view there was some issues with compatibly of menu screens on some games in portrait mode. Also the fish eye effect on the side screens is not there if I recall correctly. It seemed to turn the screen ...

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If I was going to run a 4th monitor, how would I connect it? With an HDMI cable (hooked to the 680) and a dvi port adapter (to connect the other end of the HDMI cable to the monitor, which has no HDMI connection)? My monitors have 3 connectors: DVI-D, VGA, DisplayPort That would be my guess is to ...

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BTW doesn't Nvidia have some new AA tech on these generation of cards that is better then the current AA at half the performance loss as well. So I think it is doubtful that there would be an advantage with 4gb over 2gb. I think it is like Krom said 2gb should suffice. Basically what I take from ...

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Well what I've read is that more memory is better for triple monitor gaming but this is only true in the sense of frame buffering I think, don't quote me on this but don't expect a significant performance increase the processing power is still the same. Point in fact is I'm still running a 5850 1gb ...

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Okay so I’ve taken the plunge and gone with the components as listed. The build is done and I’m rather happy with the result as this is my first Water Cooling system. Some notes I’ll take from this is: 1) Yes the tubing that I got was a rather pain for tight corners but it worked out in the end (the ...

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The 680 has four connections if I'm not mistaken. 2x DVI's 1xDisplay Port 1x HDMI. I believe it will be a similar connection setup as to how the ATi cards does it. I have a 5850 on 3 screens and I use the 2 DVI's and an active display port adapter on the display port the run the third screen.

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@Flip I am presuming you are talking about the cost? If so here is the prices converted from ZAR to USD. Keep in mind that PC components are pretty expensive compared to US prices over here as it has all the customs and what not added to it with the local shops markup as well. I've never bought ...

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Hey everyone As the topic says I'm planning on going water cooling in my system. This is something I've been wanting to do forever but never could budget it in with an upgrade so I'm now going to do it in a mini upgrade. What got me sparked on this was I had to start looking for a new case as this ...

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Uhmm yes if these new titles I've ordered arrive and they work with now hassle I might opt to get a decent PSU instead, say 900W+, as it was one of the components I had to compromise on to fit the budget by getting what would give me enough power with just a little bit of flexibility on my previous ...

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Haha probably true too as it was the first and I think only game that required me to OC my pc to get smooth gaming at that quality settings the bonus thou is the other games didn't moan about the boost :P But in all seriousness I know that game is a killer on the PC but would my rig stand up to the ...

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Hi all I'm looking for inputs as to what might be a future bottleneck in my system. Setup: Asus P7P55D-E Intel Core i7 860 2.8 running OC'ed at 3.37 CMX4GX3M2A1600C9 XMS 2GBx2 MSI 5850 1GB (OC'ed GPU clock 775mHz and Mem 1100gHz) 650W PSU The above OC'ed settings is the most stable with no problems ...

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So I was sitting in my PC room last night and I spotted an old busted pc case just gather dust when the idea of building a custom Test Bench Case out of it sort of hit me :idea: Question is what type of layout would you all suggest (best practical layout no need to be fancy or anything just ...

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Closest I've had to deal with this was setting up my bosses Samsung LED TV that is allshare enabled with a native LAN port. So I just had to setup the allshare or I found that I could can just import it into the window media player library and it dropped it on the pc's Media devices and enabled the ...

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Okay so Daisy chaining is a big no no and it would then most likely be better to just work that little ups out of my setup in total and put the network gear on the 1000va I already have instead. My other question now is how much difference would there be between the APC 2200/1500 vs another brand ...

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I'm looking at getting myself a descent UPS for my file server and networking gear. Ideally what I would like to achieve is maximum up-time for my file server and the network gear to keep the server, wired LAN, WiFi and internet up during power outages. The power outages isn't your regular power ...

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Great thanks for the info, should have known I was missing something when I bought it. So I'm boned using this cable as it won't work as I intented it too (the ability to work on any pc with e-sata seeing as I will need that output source unit for each pc). Guess the best solution then is to rather ...

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A while back I bought this e-SATA II cable with the idea I could use it to connect SATA HDD's via e-SATA without the need to have an external enclosure or dock to do my backups. Now I've been trying to get this thing to work but no luck. The two motherboards I'm trying it on is a MSI 790FX-GD70 and ...

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Well if I knew now that software RAID is the more robust option I would have setup my system a bit differently as I've already rebuild the arrays (2 RAID0 arrays in the BIOS which I'm mirroring in Win 7 with Disk manager). I did firstly try to set this all up in Windows disk manager but I could only ...

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Reviving this topic for some help quickly. The faulty drive was send back for RMA and I finally got a replacement yesterday. Tried installing it today and rebuild the array. As I understood I'm supposed to just be able to plug in the drive and boot up set it up in place of the faulty drive and all ...

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Another quick question a bit of the topic but PoE? I understand the concept but if a unit is PoE capable you will still need a converter in the lan cable to supply the power unless your switch can provide it natively or am I off the mark here. Basicly what I'm after is if the unit states it is PoE ...

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Yes there is a wired network and the majority of the PC's are on the wired network except for the few mobile devices and the slates that can't be connected to a wired network as they are wifi only. I was think down the line of an AP with POE so that I can just lay 1 lan cable to the centre of the ...

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Yes I do realise from al my previous questions around the 500 meter setup the changes of me achieving it is basicly none. (and that the one I did achieve has many unknown factors that I'm not aware of that make duplicating it impossible) Hench why I said I'd rather start focusing on expanding my ...

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Okay so I’ve been up and down this road of “upgrading” my WiFi/AP at home for a while besides the fact no one can tell me with any guarantee how to achieve a 500 meter plus WiFi connection with only a strong transmitter and standard onboard WiFi in my Laptop/Slate as I know I was able to do this on a ...

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Okay I'll go check on their procedure of firmware updates and if there is any reports off a firmware update for these drives that adresses the issue otherwise it was just luck of the draw I guess, rotten luck that is. :x Currently the array is functioning so the Server is up and running in "critical ...

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Okay so it's probably just a month now that I have my RAID 5 setup in my server up and running. All was going fine until I got home today to find my server moaning about something. Investigated and found it to be some of the HDD's (instantly I thought of what Krom said about the more HDD's you have ...

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There are other options out there for MS OS tablets. The question is what is she going to use it for mainly? There was also this hybrid type of Netbook/tablet I saw in my research were it is a netbook but you can flip over the screen in its frame and then it functions as a tablet sort of best of ...

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Thanks for the info, forgot that the raid will effectivly increase the transfer rate. Will make a point of checking the warranties too. Also it would seem to me that I also need to steer clear of these "green" drives as they don't go well with raid setups. So I be looking more towards the WD Cavier ...

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Hi everyone Well the time has come for me to expand my storage space as I just filled my 1.5TB HDD on my file server. Now with my server rebuild I was always planning on building up a RAID 5 setup for my file server storage needs (redundancy and overall space vs number of drives needed). I've been ...

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So I'm looking at expanding & upgrading my Wifi setup at home & have ran into some Questions. 1) I have Mostly wireless G & 1 wireless N device. 2) I have some deadspots in my wifi Setup I'd like to eliminate. Now I've done Some research but not much & am a bit confused by some of what I've read so ...

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I didn't have slow downs but I had the browser crash on me from time to time, but disabling hardware acceleration also seemed to do the trick for me been running rock solid since then. Just putting it out there

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Did some more digging as I really do not want to (can't) setup an AP at the off site location and will be limited to the build-in wifi of the tablet pc's. If I'm able to just get my internet shared to that location to access my emails and the internet for quick searching and access to my research ...

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Okay let me clarify this a bit. I've got wired ADSL at my home and at the office. The off site location is our court and their is no way they will allow me to setup anything permanent there nor am I willing to do that as the stuff will just vanish without a trace :roll: That said they will not have ...

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Haha my bad, yes colleague not college. English ain't my first language but still can't believe I missed that :oops: The direct line of sight is a bit of a tricky part I'll have to check exactly what all the obstacles from the most likely transmission point will be in the daylight tomorrow but the ...

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Guess the best would be to get an Router/AP that is multi SSID enabled and just experiment with that, I smell Guinea pig :P Another question that is a bit off topic that came across my desk today was setting up long range WiFi. The situation is like this: Pretty soon a college and myself will get ...

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Thanks Thenior I'll check if there is any local suppliers of EnGenius gear. A bit of a side request and not directly related to this setup. I'm looking at expanding the range of my personal wifi setup as well thus my willingness to help this guy out as I can test the gear I get for him first to see ...

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Yes I second Krom scan with malwarebytes. I personally don't leave my home network to wander the fast realm of the internet without spybot and malwarebytes running 8) Once had an internet browser hack that did something similar and I've seen an other user mentioning something like a googleredirect ...

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I feel the need to point out that pirating software and other intellectual property is both illegal and means that the creator of said property isn't getting paid for his work. .....Usually people aren't so concerned about viruses/etc. on the legitimate torrents, especially when the publisher ...

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