Recent content by Mechinn

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    Help me build my computer

    Yes. I hate how people come here and ask questions. There is no reason why they should not know every thing about computers and what to buy that I know. Yeesh...
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    Getting a new comp soon.

    yea, it's a Venice. Hey, is there any real point to RAID 0? From what I've herd you can load your games much faster. Is that true?
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    Getting a new comp soon.

    although a 10,000RPM hard drive wold be nice, that's a lot of money to put down. even on a small one. I dont think I can do that. Eny other ideas on the hard drive set up?
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    Getting a new comp soon.

    OS: XP Home Edition w/SP2 $89 Case: PS 430W - Thermaltake Saprano Mid Tower Case (Silver) - $105 Motherboard: Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe nForce4 - $175 CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3200+ $209 RAM: 1 GB (2 pcs 512) Corsair (TwinX1024-3200C2PT) - $113 Hard Drives: 2 Seagate 160 GB in RAID 0, 1 Seagate 80 GB...
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    Out of ideas

    For the past week I've been having a problem with my computer. When ever I play a game (namely Desert Combat, a MOD for Battlefield 1942) my game will freeze for a few seconds and the sound will repeat. This happens almost every minuet and I have no idea why! I've done a clean install...
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    Graphics card question

    I'm buying a new gamming computer and I'd like some suggestions on Graphics cards. Should I go the SLI rout and get either 2 GeForce 6600 GTs (128mb ram) or 2 6800 GTs (256mb ram) Or should I just get 1 6800 Ultra? I'm going with Nvidia this time around and will be playing at a resolution...
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    Hard drive Help

    I have a 2 year old 120 Gig hard drive that died on me a week or so ago and I was wondering if there is any way to save ad least some of the data that?s still on it? I have a LOT of MP3s and other files and I'd rather not track down all of it agen..
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    Graphics card question

    Well.. if I play my cards right I may be able to get the computer after all. But I gess I'll see what happens. Thanks for all of you help. Alienware is not looking to hot any more :shocked:
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    Graphics card question

    I don?t even have $1,000 lying around. I'll have to get my computer threw financing or whatever. Monthly payments.
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    Graphics card question

    Oh... well now. Seams I can get a VERRY nice system from Monarch for less than Alienware. And that includes a Logitech Z-5500 Digital 5.1 Speaker system w/Digital Decoder. Only problem is I dont have $1,874 lying around....
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    Graphics card question

    As for Alienware this is the setup that I'm looking to buy: OS: XP Home adition CPU: Pentium 4 550 w/ HT tech. 3.4GHz 1mb Cache Motherboard: Alienware PCI Express Motherboard with Intel 925XE Chipset GPU: GeForce 6800 Ultra PCI Express 256MB DDR3 (they have cards with 512mb or ram. is...
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    Graphics card question

    I'll be getting this computer from Alienware. And thanks for the info. I think I'll be going with a X850 XT :cool:
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    Graphics card question

    I'm planning on buying a new computer in a few days and I have a question about graphics cards. Would it over all be better to get 1 GeForce 6800 PCI-E 256MB (GPU speed 350 MHz Memory speed 1000MHz) or a SLI configuration of dual GeForce 6600 GT PCI-E 128MB (GPU speed 500 MHz memory speed 1000...