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    Can videocards in pre-built machines be upgraded easily?

    If only it were that easy =P With school right now it's a little hard, and it's one of those things where "when a girl wants something, she seems to want it at the next possible moment" ;) Yeah, otherwise the PSU is the thing that would be worrying me too. I think I'll just try convincing...
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    Can videocards in pre-built machines be upgraded easily?

    Thanks for the prompt reply! So far all the reviews and information I had found on the desktop state that it's a full PCI-Express 16x slot, but I'm not sure if there's anything else about it I would need to take a closer look at. The reviews I've read also point out that the eMachine is...
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    Can videocards in pre-built machines be upgraded easily?

    Short version =p : I'm looking at this T6536 eMachine desktop specifically and would want to pair it with this X1900GT. I was unable to find the power supply rating, which is what worries me. Does anyone have any idea if mainstream purchaseable desktops are easily upgradeable with a decent...
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    Changing Login screen background in Windows 2000?

    At work, our network consists of computers mainly running Windows 2000 and Windows XP. Myself and most my coworkers are on Windows 2000 machines. Even though we each use our own computer, because of the nature of our business we are required to lock computers and log off of them when we are...
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    AGP 8x card in AGP 4x slot?

    Actually, yeah, I was impressed myself with what she ended up grabbing for $100. One of our friends down there had actually upgraded his computer and figured it'd be easy enough just passing it off to us for a quick sum rather than trying to get rid of it some other way; thankfully, the rest of...
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    AGP 8x card in AGP 4x slot?

    Thanks for the reply. I did realize that the rig she had just picked up was old and so not going to take full advantage of a newer card; still, I tend to overspend on my girlfriend sometimes (when it comes to tech stuff at least, for what was our shared computer) so I guess it was force of...
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    AGP 8x card in AGP 4x slot?

    My girlfriend recently purchased an old, not-so-great computer; thankfully, it was at least cheap and much better than her old computer. However, she's getting a lot of hitching and pausing while playing some of her favorite games, such as The Sims 2. I plan on building her a new computer...
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    DDR400 booting as DDR333 on SL-K8AN2E-GR

    Thanks for the reply! I actually wasn't aware of the limitation with the controller, but that appears to be exactly the problem. I tested the computer with 1 stick of the Corsair at a time and they would both indeed boot at DDR400 separately; I know that the Socket 754 Motherboard I have...
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    DDR400 booting as DDR333 on SL-K8AN2E-GR

    I recently picked up a gig of DDR400 Corsair XMS ram to replace some DDR400 Patriot ram that ran at abysmal speeds. The pair is supposedly a matched set, says PC3200 2-3-2-5 (I believe) on it.. I wasn't expecting much as my Patriot promised something similar for 400mhz speeds and the speeds...