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    Dell Studio 17 Display Resolution!

    Thanks for that info.
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    Dell Studio 17 Display Resolution!

    Will the picture quality still be decent at 1440x900?
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    Dell Studio 17 Display Resolution!

    My sister is buying a new laptop for work (her boss is buying it) and she's interested in the Dell Studio 17. I'm not sure what screen resolution to recommend for her 1440x900 WXGA+ WLED or the 1920x1200 WUXGA with webcam. I've got the Dell XPS M1710 and find 1920x1200 great for gaming but...
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    Vista 64-bit auto update question...

    I've got a copy of windows vista home premium 64-bit on it's way and this is my first try at a 64-bit OS. What I'd like to know is when I install windows and it searches for hardware updates will it find the correct 64-bit driver version or will it find the 32-bit version? I know I have to...
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    Creative X-fi Platinum, hardware detection issues!

    well after all that we sorted the problem out. we shifted it from pci slot 5 to pci slot 2. why would this cause sound card detection issues?
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    Creative X-fi Platinum, hardware detection issues!

    still can't get windows to detect the card even after fresh install of windows. it does show multimedia audio controller under other devices in the device manager. we haven't got the front platinum panel hooked up to the x-fi sound card. could this be the problem? does the card need power...
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    Creative X-fi Platinum, hardware detection issues!

    we've done the uninstall drivers twice and both times used driver cleaner and driver sweeper in safe mode.
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    Creative X-fi Platinum, hardware detection issues!

    I've just upgraded my sound card to the Auzentech X-fi Prelude 7.1. I had the Creative X-fi Platinum before. I ended up giving my Creative X-fi card to my brother-in-law and he replaced it with his old Creative Audigy 2 ZS. When we put in the X-fi card in his PC after removing the old Audigy...
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    PCI Port Sharing Question!

    Thanks Jack, that's all I wanted to know.
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    PCI Port Sharing Question!

    What's DOS? Lock-ups during 3D game play with Win-XP. Plus the crackling issue with X-Fi and certain games. I'm also going to switch to Vista OS. What PCI slot would you guys pick???
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    PCI Port Sharing Question!

    Please Help! ^
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    I've just purchased the ZOTAC NVIDIA 8800GT AMP! 512MB...

    I've just purchased the above mentioned card. Will I notice a slight improvement on my current setup or will will it be bottlenecked by my current CPU (check my signature for system specs)? I've been sick of the problems with my current crossfire setup and waiting on driver fixes to sort my...
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    PCI Port Sharing Question!

    I'm getting rid of my ATI crossfire setup (thank god) and fitting a single slot Nvidia 8800GT in my ASUS A8R32-MVP Deluxe motherboard. My question is which would be the best PCI port to put my Creative X-Fi Sound Card into which would create less conflicts. It confuses me when I look at the...
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    Did I buy the wrong Memory?

    Even though I bought the 800Mhz memory and my CPU runs at 1066Mhz? and do you really think I can get it to 3.6Ghz on air?