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    OS for new rig?

    I recently finished building my new rig, and now I'm ready to buy the OS and get up and running. Now.....the guys at the local computer parts shop have confused me a bit. I had pretty much decided to go with Vista Home Premium 64 for these reasons: ultilizing all 4 gigs of ram installed, and...
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    How long is the GTX 280?

    I believe it's 10 1/2" long. I think this was on Nvidia's web site. Don't think they mentioned width.
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    Hard drive opinion for new rig?

    I'm currently looking at hard drives for my new gaming rig, and for my budget of around $100 (spent all of my money on other components), I'm looking at two drives: Hitachi 750g SATA 32mg cache 7200 WD 640g 16mg cache SATA 3.0mg 7200 Looking for reliability mainly. Only seems to be slight...
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    need advise on this setup

    Thanks for the input Urtho. My budget is 2k for the box and hardware, and $500 for the monitor. I realize I'd be buying some stuff that isn't fully utilized yet, or at all for that matter, but am trying to future-proof the system for a few years anyway. I'm not going to have the funds to put...
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    need advise on this setup

    I'm building my first new system, and with the budget I have, I've picked the following components: Does anyone know of any conflicts or potential problems with the hardware I've selected?? Will this hardware all play together nicely? This will be my gaming rig. I've had Crysis sitting here in...
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    The ultimate AGP video card today?

    FYI.......you can use an 8x card on your 4x system. It just runs at the slower 4x speed.
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    which 24" LCD monitor to buy

    After reading the article/review on 24" monitors, I'm wondering if the input lag mentioned on all of these monitors matters if you just play single-player games? Seems you need to go with a TN monitor, and sacrifice color quality and viewing range, to get the least amount of lag, according to...