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Each LCD screen is built with a "native resolution". This is the horizonal and vertical pixel dimensions. Crisp text wil be best at "native resolution" which will assign an image at one dot per pixel. If you dont use the native resolution, the video card will interpolate and will use multiple...

I was wondering what the expected price points and probable real availability dates for the new cards from ATI and nVidia will be (I know they announce mid June) Steve We already have two sticky topics this could go in. Video Mod BFG10K.

The 8800GT is not likely to drop alot more - it was $220-250 at intro and now is 140-160. It has likely already taken its drop and vacated the prior price points for the new AMD and Nvidia replacements. I would be surprised to see the GT in the $120-140 or lower range. Still looking for some...

Now might be THE time to buy. The new cards are going to be premium priced for quite a while and I'm not clear that for the next generation cards that we won't be cpu bottlenecked. Last, the price performance for these cards is amazing. I have core duo 6600 and a x1950pro and have always bought...

xfx 8800gt 512mb with zalman fan $139 at NE after $30 rebate - based on this thread - good company , great warranty, zalman fan and good price but no one seems to be biting- I'm about to jump - am I missing something??? Steve

OK one more ask. Then I'm going to buy. Someone brought up MSI which I hadn't considered MSI - already OC - known for quality -great cooler but only a 3 yr warranty- I don't care that it takes 2 slots - quiet EVGA- great warranty - good quality, loud -fan XFX - great warranty- apparently...

Certainly would welcome feedback on MSI and even Gigabyte (their card is somewhat different and has some mixed reviews about certains games running at the board's overclocked speeds , has a zalman cooler and can be had for $139 AR at newegg which is an amazing price/performance ratio)

Appreciate the help - The warranties really don't look too different to me - I'm looking more towards your experiences with the companies when you have trouble, or comments on differences in build quality or if a company is known for honoring or not honoring its rebates Steve

Going to buy an 8800 GT - all are similarly priced (dollar here dollar there) - all carry rebates - all similarly equipped. Warranties seem equal. Any preferences for manufacturer?? I'm looking at EVGA XFX BFG cards Steve

Odd problem - I wanted to install RAID/ACHI drivers and had some difficulties doing that, but finally got that accomplished. It took me 4 or 5 installs of XP to finally get it done. In each case, I simply reinstalled over the old installation - The machine boots into windows fine but I now get...

New build - wanted to install XPSP2, XP ACHI driver (same routine as RAID) F6 floppy disk failed (well reported issue with failure to load drivers from floppy).Did sucessfully do a routine install with SATA as IDE. I then slipstreamed the drivers into a CD and then set my SATA as ACHI and tried...

I assumed that given my temps that I had not secured my cpu cooler - I bought some arctic silver ceramic - demounted the stock cooler - cleaned the paste off the cooler and cpu with isopropyl alcohol and put a rice grain of the grease in the center of the cpu put the cooler on and latched it...

Many thanks Steve

Are the bios temps wrong from time to time? I had some difficulty in attaching the cooler and had to take it off and reset it - I did not add any thermal paste when I reset it I just sent for some arctic ceramic - should I pull the cooler and add some themal paste?? Will a 3rd party...

I might put a drive drawer in down the road so hot swapping might be a help... What about the SATA boot drive designation - if you have 2 drives to start how do you designate one boot drive and the other data drive?- how do you tell windows to partition it? - Format used to do that (I think...