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    Azureus Problems - Even with ports open getting not connectable

    This has been really bugging me for some time. At my house we have ADSL shared with a router blah blah, have opened the ports for Bittorrent on our routers inbuilt firewall, however my torrents still sit on yellow and never go green, the weird thing is, my flatmates ones do. Neither of us are...
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    Explorer.exe using 100% of CPU, extreme slowdown

    Hey On one of my flatmates computer explorer.exe is using 100% of the CPU according to task manager, as soon as it boots it does it. Tried restarting lots of times, takes a couple of minutes to open task manager after you press alt-control-delete even. Any Ideas? Running Windows XP Pro...
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    Is a 6800 Ultra really worth it over a GT?

    I have finally saved up enough money to get a new graphics card, looking at a Leadtek 6800 Ultra for $1060 ($NZ) and a Leadtek6800GT for $814. I only have a Athlon (Barton Core) 2500+ (Running at about 2700+ now) so the CPU is definetly gonna be the limiting factor, taking into account my...
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    Who likes heavy metal?

    What are your favourite heavy metal bands? Mine are 3 Inches of Blood 8 Foot Sativa Amon Amarth Anthrax At the Gates Black Sabbath Cannibal Corpse Carcass Children of Bodom Damageplan Dark Tranquility Death Deicide Dimmu Borgir Entombed Frankenbok In Flames Iron Maiden...
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    6800 Ultra PSU Requirements

    I think I'm finally going to treat myself to a much needed graphics card upgrade and get a 6800 Ultra as the AGP ones are coming down in price quite a bit (over here in New Zealand) and I was gonna get an Antec 480W PSU at the same time cos my 300W no-name one isn't gonna cut it. Is 480W...
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    HL2 Review, is it Authentic?

    I have a copy of what is supposedly a PC Gamer HL2 Review here. It has quite a few screenshots from that new 45 that was released recently, and I was wondering if its something someone has photoshopped together. I was wondering if it was authentic or not, does anyone know? PM me if you...
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    Forceware 66.00 Performance?

    Can someone please report performance of Forceware 66.00 to me? Any increases in 3DMark03, Doom 3 etc? Thanks
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    HL2\Steam Questions (Steam Mainly)

    OK a couple of questions here that I hope someone answer. At my hostel we have internet. Shared internet. Consequently, there is a firewall. Even with the ports for Steam open, it will not work, we cannot figure out why. Valve Tech Support has no answer for me. When I open Steam, it gets...
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    Bulletproof FTP Server speed problems (On LAN)

    At my hostel we are all on a LAN, and a few of us use FTP to transfer files between our computers becuase it's faster than Windows shares, and anyway, one of us is having troubles with speed of transfers. He can transfer off me (or others) fine at 7+ MB/s, but when anyone tries to download off...
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