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Building a PC, Part V: Upgrading

Last summer I posted a four part series on building your own PC:   * Building a PC, Part I: Minimal boot * Building a PC, Part II: Burn in * Building a PC, Part III: Overclocking * Building a PC, Part IV: Now It's Your Turn My personal system is basically identical

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Building a PC, Part III - Overclocking

Now that we have Scott Hanselman's computer completely built up and stable -- or at least that's what our torture tests told us yesterday-- it's time to see how far we can overclock this system. Overclocking a computer sounds complicated, but it really isn&

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Building and Overclocking a Core 2 Duo System

It's been over a year since I built my last PC, and all those killer Core 2 Duo benchmark and overclocking results were making me anxious. I just pulled the trigger on the following Core 2 Duo upgrade: * ASUS P5B Deluxe motherboard, $195 * A-DATA 2GB DDR2 667 memory,

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