Recent content by Budee

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    Contrast Ratio Question

    This is listed on sale today on newegg. It has good reviews, but a contrast ratio of 700:1. Does that mean blacks will end up looking gray? http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16824254013
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    Memory speed

    I have G.Skill memory. http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16820231209 This one in particular was written up in an article on overclocking on TH. Plus the newegg reviews are outstanding. This is my third system I've built and my first time OC. I don't know anything about latency...
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    Memory speed

    I just built a budget gaming rig built around a e5200/gigabyte EP45-UD3L/4 gigs of DDR2 800. I have it OC'd to 3.66 with these settings: 11x333. Memory multiplier 2.4, so the memory is running at 800. I raised vcore to 1.356, mch core to 1.16 at the memory is at the upper limit of the...
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    How many connectors do I need for a big monitor?

    I see this 28inch LCD "monitor" being sold dirt cheap on Tiger Direct. It lists a HDMI connection, not DVI and HDMI. I thought I read large resolutions like this, which is 1900x1200, needed two inputs (and 2 video cards). I would use this for gaming, such as fallout 3, Team Fortress2 and...
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    Advice on MOBO purchase

    My computer died and I'm going to replace the MOBO, ram and cpu. Money is tight and I'm trying to get the most bang for the buck. I game as well as work on my computer. I saw the GIGABYTE GA-EP35-DS3L on newegg for 85 bucks. Looks like a decent value, but maybe there is a better choice...
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    Dual Boot doesn't work after servicing

    I had to send my laptop back in. The battery wasn't charging. The computer came installed with Vista. I bought it the day of Vista launch and remember what a pain in the neck it was to get the thing to dual boot. It does not appear that tech support did anything at all to the hard drive, but...
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    SLI / Upgrade Question

    I have an athlon64 3800. Everything in my system is 3 year old tech. It was pretty fast when I bought it, but now it looks kinda pokey.
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    SLI / Upgrade Question

    Would either one of these cards stop things from lagging. I mean how much better are these cards than the 6800? And how do you guys keep track of these things? Is there a website that has a chart for various cards? Thanks
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    SLI / Upgrade Question

    I have a nvidia 6800 series with 256 ram. Frame rates in TF2 are roughly 30fps when quiet to 10 fps when there is alot of action. Things start to stutter and I usually die at this point. This is at 1680 x 1050. I spent alot of money 3.5 years ago on the 6800 thinking that when I needed more...