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Thinking about upgrading my current rig i7 920 /w a 9800GTX+ for this game. The downside is that I'm now running at 2560x1600 as I've been using this machine to write code more than play games for the past 2 years. Any recommendations on somewhat affordable video cards that could push BF3 at...

Yeah the GTS 250 is definitely a better deal. But if you have a CompUSA nearby and prefer B&M, this isn't too bad a deal.

Picked up this card at CompUSA the other day. Seems like the best price available. Find it here. Only caveat is that you have to go through WorldRebates.com for the rebate and it comes as either a check card/written check.

My installer put in the cat5 baluns to run HDMI to my projector ( room was only wired for BNC/Component). It takes two cat5 cables to do it. Only problem I had was with overheating of the balun near the projector because of the way it was fastened directly to the body of the projector...

I just put some of this in my MSI X58 Pro. I had Microcenter pricematch Fry's B&M for $89 on this set. Works like a charm!

stinking Lifers and their one letter responses :) I'd go with the first choice because a lot of x58 boards can't go too high on the memory voltage, but I can't speak from experience. I doubt you will see much difference between the timings.

I think your instincts are right on, the power supply and/or Hard drive seem to be the culprits. I'd recommend changing out the PSU for now and seeing if that fixes it. Also make sure your temps are not going too high, if it's failing after a little while overheating could be a problem.

I'm seriously LOLing over here because the exact same thought crossed my mind. If I'm buying the i7 CPU at Microcenter, my eagerness may win out over my wallet and I'll end up picking up that Corsair RAM and the vanilla P6T, likely regretting both choices within a week. I've got the OCZ...

I'd go with 2GB of ram. Also make sure your case can handle the 5 hard drives. One thing that many don't realize is that spinning drives create a lot of heat. Even if you have the slots for it, the heat generated might become an issue. Especially if you're throwing your server into a closet...

I was looking at the MSI pretty heavily but it seems to be a lot pickier about RAM. Newegg has the best RAM deals out there, but their return policy on most of the good sticks really sucks! If you end up with incompatible sticks you're hosed. Also I've read a lot of bad stories about the MSI...

OOS. Wow that was fast.

I'm looking at the MSI X58 Pro. Supports up to 24GB of memory + has the optical port you want. Overclockability seems to be a mixed bag though. Here's the link to it on Newegg.

still no luck...I've tried a number of things and still nothing can ping or access this machine even though its able to get out onto the internet and ping the other machines on the network. Please help.

logging in? through remote desktop? At this point I can't even ping the unreachable machine to even try to log into it.

Having a big problem with my main machine (running XP Pro). No other computer on my LAN is able to ping it or see any of its network shares. I've tried both Vista and other XP machines on the LAN with no avail. This box, however, can ping and access shares on the other LAN Machines. It...