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    Are there people out there who 100% understand how a computer works?

    Yes. One day junior year as a Electrical Engineer with a focus is computer I realized. I know the physics behind transistors. I know the steps to design transistor circuits into logical functional blocks. I know the process of assembling logical blocks (think adder, register, timer, etc) into a...
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    6870 purchase

    Thanks all! Will probably pull the trigger on this today. =]
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    6870 purchase

    I'm looking at getting an XFX 6870: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814150561 My PSU is 550W, Antec: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817371020 and motherboard is: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813128475 I'm currently running an i5-2600K and using it's...
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    How to support a dual display VGA setup?

    I've got a system with Intel GMA4500 (I believe) graphics on the motherboard, and two VGA-only displays. The rear ports include one D-SUB (currently in use for one display) and a DVI-D port (as far as I can tell it's DVI-D (two blocks of 9 pins and one horizontal flat pin, from memory)) which is...
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    Best bang for buck card for Linux

    I'm prepping to build a new system, haven't been in the loop on hardware for several years, and I'm quite lost when it comes to video card options. I run linux almost exclusively. I play mostly native games (UrbanTerror, quakelive, warzone2100). I _might_ boot a windows partition to play some...