Recent content by KnightPalatine

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    LCD Buyer's Guide

    Correct. My only games are MS FlightSim & Combat FlightSim. FPS games make me ill. Many thanks for your work and advice, xtknight. Happy New Year!
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    LCD Buyer's Guide

    Ditto, and then some! I need a new display now, as my old Samsung 955DF CRT is starting to get blurry on me. I'm not wedded to the idea of a LCD display, but they seem the only game in town these days. My requirements are the same as Luddite's, but I'm considering the 2005FPW for about $420 +...
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    17" LCD recommendation

    Too late! I was checking out TFT monitors at Fry's this morning. They'd just gotten a new shipment of Sony SDM-HS95P 19" monitors. Love at first sight! I'm typing this now with the monitor hooked to the DVI port of my fx5900 card. 1280x1024 on 19" display seems about perfect for these old...
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    17" LCD recommendation

    I'm about to take the leap into LCD, from my current 19" Samsung SyncMaster 955DF. I'm also thinking about going dual-display. My vid card is a GeForce fx 5900, which supports DVI. The Eizo L568 looks to be a superb monitor, but they sure don't give them away. The Dell seems nearly as good...
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    ~~~~ Rebate Tracking Thread ~~~~

    I created a cash (asset) account in Quicken. I enter the rebate in the "receive" column on the day I submit it, with the company name in the "Payee" field. I enter a transfer to Checking, again with the company name in the payee field, when I deposit the check.
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    Damn you, Windows Messenger! Why won't you die?!

    There's a free plug-in available for Ad-aware 6.0 that turns off Windows Messenger.
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    Selling a hard drive. What's the best way to completely clean it?

    You can get a 15-day free trial of CyberScrub. This is what the (expletive deleted) Feds use. If you find it useful enough to keep around, the purchase price is $49.95.
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    Athlon64 Upgrade Questions.... Plz help =)

    I've had A64 3000+ on AOpen AK86-L mobo for a couple of months now. I'm very happy with the combo. See my sig for full details. The AK86-L currently is $88 at mwave. It lacks onboard Firewire, so I bought an inexpensive controller card.
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    Win 2000 Pro and AMD 64 3000+?

    I'm running Win2K Pro on my new Athlon 64 3000+ system now. It works fine. The only problem I had was that the version of 2K Pro I have is so old (pre-SP1), it locked up when installing the SCSI drivers. I was performing a clean install to a new SCSI boot drive. I loaded onto an EIDE drive then...
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    Anyone know where I can find an ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe with the onboard SoundStorm?

    Newegg Scroll down for the Deluxe. They have both new and refurb as I write this.
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    What to do with extra HDD?

    I just received a replacement drive for the defective Seagate SATA I bought last year. The original drive was DOA but, by the time I built my new rig, it was too late to return the drive to the store. Since I couldn't wait for Seagate's RMA, I bought a WD 120GB ATA 100 drive on sale at Fry's...
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    [UPDATE with Temps] Sonata front intake fan...is this a joke? WTF were they thinking?

    The holes at the top vent hot air out of the case. I put a Papst 119mm fan behind the drive cage when I added a second HDD. It improves airflow over the drives. I have a 15k RPM SCSI boot drive and a 7200 RPM IDE storage drive. I don't know if the fan contributes at all to case cooling, but I...
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    Need a good LCD 17-19", 16-25ms w/no ghosting and true colors

    $2,835.49 is "a fraction of the cost" of the 2001FP? Looks nice, though. Unlike some others here, I'm not greedy. Anyone want to give me $2,900?
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    SATA or SCSI?

    I paid $29 for a four-position cable with LVD terminator from HyperMicro. I think they were out of four-position cables, because they invoiced and shipped a five-position cable for the same price. I mentioned storagereview.com but got charged shipping anyway, so that offer may no longer be...
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    Computer is so loud, and I make music! What can I do?

    I added the Pabst fan today. I still can barely hear the box running. I have a halogen floor lamp with a rheostat rather than a multi-position switch. It puts out a high-pitched noise when the light's dimmed. The lamp is noisier than my Sonata.