Recent content by ghendricks

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    What is the best freely available Linux game

    Hi Linuxator, I gottta go with dopewars. Dopewars is a UNIX rewrite of the MS-DOS program of the same name, which in turn was inspired by John E. Dell's "Drug Wars" game. You have one month to buy and sell drugs on the streets of New York, the aim being first to pay off your debt to the loan...
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    looking for non-gaming laptop

    Hi wpeng, If you want a good performance laptop under the $900 range, then look for the Averatec AV3270-EE1 PC Notebook. I came across this laptop recently - it runs on an AMD Mobile Sempron 2 GHz, has 512 MB of RAM and a 60GB hard disk. Sure, the brand is not well known, you get what...
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    X2 4800 vs FX57

    The Athlon FX-57 is a very good high-end CPU. On CPU-intensive games, Athlon 64 FX-57 is the best single-core CPU available on the market today. For overclockers, this CPU is also dream, since it has its clock multiplier unlocked. Of course, the only problem with the Athlon 64 FX-57 is its...
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    Performance-oriented Windows tweaking

    Hi Fresh Daemon Very nice work there. I never had time to try these out, but I should someday.
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    X2 4400+ loads windows slowwww

    Earsly, Sounds to me like a network problem. Go to Start -> Settings -> Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Services and right-click on DNS Client, choose Properties, and set the Startup type to Disabled on the General tab. Reboot and see if there's a difference.
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    Day of Defeat: Source! Awesome graphics! HDR and all

    Very nice. I went exploring in some of the maps. Framerates are amazing!
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    Which Socket 939 budget mainboard do you recommend?

    Hi friends, I'm looking for a good Socket 939 motherboard which is not too expensive. I don't need SLI so the motherboard shouldn't have that. It can be either AGP or PCI-X. The most important factors are stability and compatibility. Thanks. :)
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    Just one SINGLE dead pixel on my new laptop... Sony is fixing it!

    I'm not sure about Sony laptop support, but I've had a bad experience with PSP support. I bought a playstation when it first came out 2 months later it stopped working. Sony said it would be 125 to send it to them and have them fix it . They already knew what the problem was - it had been...
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    Dual Monitors

    Are you running Gentoo Linux? If so, I came across an article here which may help you out. It uses dual monitors on Gentoo Linux. The two monitors are side-by-side physically and it is as if I have one large 2560x1024 desktop. Both monitors are running the same resolution of 1280x1024. Check...
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    Getting My Computer to Work

    Here's my advice. Try removing the IDE drive completely, and leave the SATA drive inside. Install Windows on the SATA, then add the IDE drive after Windows is installed. Let me know how it goes.