Recent content by iamfalcon

I used to say the same thing, until I got myself a 19" widescreen LCD. I play tons of FPS titles, and they all look absolutely amazing on my display. This coming from a guy who had never used anything other than a CRT prior to this. To each his own, but I think you can't justify not getting an...

Just picked the monitor up and I'm quite happy with it. It took me a little while to get the colors just right (default settings sucked), but once I tweaked them, it looks really nice. I have a hard time telling the difference between this model and my CRT when gaming, which is pretty sweet. My...

I believe their dead pixel policy is 8 or more. I should know better, since I used to work there! I do know that if you buy their replacement plan, they will replace the monitor for even one dead pixel. I'm sure the replacement plan is ridiculously overpriced though, so I don't know if I'd...

I'm finally taking the plunge and trading in my clunky old CRT for an LCD. This model is on sale at CompUSA for $159.99 this week, which seems like too good of a deal to pass up. Specs are as follows: Resolution: 1440 x 900 Refresh: 8ms Brightness: 300 cd/M2 Contrast: 700:1 Viewing angle...

This might be a dumb question, but I can't find an answer anywhere! Does anyone know how to make Windows Media Player shuffle between folders? I like to burn a whole bunch of mp3s to a CD/DVD and bring them to work. However with shuffle on, WMP will play all the songs in one folder on shuffle...

Can you give more information about your system (i.e. power supply, number of drives, cpu, etc.)? If your power supply is near the minimum, that could be part of the issue. The other thing that sticks out is that you're dealing with a refurb, which might be the problem. Iamfalcon

I've been a big fan of my XFX 7900GT that I got for $300 a couple of months ago. You can get a factory overclocked model from EVGA or XFX for less than $300. The ATI alternative in a similar price range would be the X1800XT or the newly-released X1900GT. In the reviews that I have seen, the...

Alimoalem, why would you go with the Western Digital? I need more info if you're going to convince me one way or the other :)

I have Googled for reviews, and all the reviews are against the top-of-the-line models (i.e. the 750GB Seagate and 500GB Western Digital). In this case, the Seagate wins in every review that I have read. What I cannot find however, is a review which would give me a good idea of the performance...

I am trying to choose between two hard drives. One is the 250GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 with an 8MB cache. The alternative is the Western Digital WD2500KS with a 16 MB cache. Both hard drives are 7200 RPM and SATA II. The question is whether the perpendicular recording technology and NCQ...

How do you enable both HDR and AA? Whenever I try to enable both of them, it says that they can't be enabled at the same time (I'm running a 7900GT, FYI). Iamfalcon

I had trouble finding a 7900GT when I went to buy one as well. All the usual suspects were sold out (Newegg, ZipZoomFly, Monarch). I was able to find an XFX 7900GT Extreme Edition at TigerDirect however. It was $309.99 (only a few bucks more than Newegg was charging). Check it out, I think they...