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With regard to LCD's.... the price of 17-inch / 19inchers is very nice, BUT, as i understand it, the 1280x1024 messes things up if you're picky about graphics. And i'm going to be workng with photos and stuff. I don't want my circles to turn out ovals. Is there any solution? Are there any...

I was assembling a new computer (AMD proc in soltek barebone), and was installing drivers and such after a successful install of WinXP. After one set of drivers had been installed i went into my system to redo a jumper (so FSB would be 166 instead of 133), and upon restart the computer shut off...

i don't think i'd actually attempt raid, but, how intense is video editing on the HD? Would it significantly boost performance to have one small HD for the system, and one large one for the files? Any other advice regarding the processor / ram / mb would be appreciated.... is 1gb of memory...

oy, also, any tips on the harddrives? I was thinking of just going with a typical 160gb hitachi... has anyone found dual hard drives useful? or faster ones? raid? etc..

Build computers for friends, and someone wants a good video editing system. Usually I build budget computers, y'know, Semprons/AXPs + SFF w/ integrated video. I've been somewhat out of the loop for the past year, and have never payed much attention to intel... After doing a bit of...

so, kington value ram should work? has anybody actually tried this?

Girl I know wants a real basic, cheap computer for downloading mp3's, movie's, etc.. I was thinking: $185 Soltek barebones w/ NF2 $25 ASUS CD-RW $25 ASUS DVD-ROM $94 160gb Hitachi $45 Sempron 2200+ (Doesn't seem like she'd benfit from a $130 Athlon XP 3000+, right?) Any comments on...