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    Best PCI-E Video Card ~$100???

    ^ I was basing my performance comparisons off of this: http://www23.tomshardware.com/graphics_2007.html is there another i should look at?
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    Best PCI-E Video Card ~$100???

    Think i'm gonna order this one today...any objections or better ideas? http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16814150228
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    Best PCI-E Video Card ~$100???

    so it sounds like the 2600xt is the way to go? thanks for the advice guys :)
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    Best PCI-E Video Card ~$100???

    http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16814150258 http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16814241066 (this one worth $70 more?)
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    Best PCI-E Video Card ~$100???

    some of the cards i'm looking at: http://www.newegg.com/Product/...2103%2CN82E16814133198
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    Best PCI-E Video Card ~$100???

    Which brand? What card? Thanks for any ideas
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    Best PCI-E Video Card ~$100???

    I don't game much, in fact my X800GTO worked fine enough, but I want something with Dual DVI ports, and around $100. It'll be running in a Q6600 system with 4GB of RAM. When i do game its only play crap like quake3 and 4, BF2, Warcraft III, Starcraft etc. What card should I get. One that...
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    Which HDD to use for C: Drive: WD Raptor or Seagate 7200.10

    I thought access time was more a function of drive size and not the drives RPMs, and that throughput is a function of RPMs. Someone please correct me if i'm wrong...
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    Which HDD to use for C: Drive: WD Raptor or Seagate 7200.10

    any other opinions on this one?
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    Vista Memory Utilization - Superfetch?

    Sure, as long as Superfetch releases it quickly when I need it for something else.
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    Which Memory to purchase? PQI vs AData

    I have a Dell Q6600 Quad Core system...or course the BIOS is locked so I can't overclock, and I want 4GB of DDR800 in it. I need 1.8V memory in it, this system doesn't like higher voltage chips. Option 1: http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16820211188 ADATA: Has the pretty heat...
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    Vista Memory Utilization - Superfetch?

    so i have a clean install of vista home premium, Q6600 proc, 3GB of memory (2GB of DDR800 and 1GB of DDR667). i have most visual options turned off, including aero. when i boot into windows I only have 1-1.2GB of memory free (out of 3GB) when i go to processes, scvshost is using like 70MB...
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    Which HDD to use for C: Drive: WD Raptor or Seagate 7200.10

    so i have two drives i'm comparing with HD Tach: 1) 74GB SATA WD Raptor 10,000RPM, added as a secondary drive 2) 250GB SATA Seagate ST3250310AS, 7200RPM, C drive,booting Vista Once into Vista I run HD Tach, and it says: 1) Raptor: Burst speed is around 121 MB/s and the Sequential Read...
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    Cooling down: Now from $399 (Dell SB 4550 from 339 w cdrw and 256MB ram)

    Did you have any luck stripping all that dell bloatware than comes preinstalled??