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    im a n00b at towing. need a hitch and some info

    Just upgraded my truck over the weekend from an old 01 s10 to an 11 Ram 1500 Sport 4x4. in addition to the obvious payload increase (s10 was an xtreme, low payload capacity) i needed something that can tow a 3800# car on a flatbed trailer once or twice a year. i know the ram can certainly do it...
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    Divinity: Original Sin. Out Now! Discuss...

    I picked this up the other day on steam while it was on sale for 20% off (devs said that was the lowest it would be in the sale). I'll say up front im not an rpg gamer. ive not played fallout games, baldurs gate games, ultima games, etc. Never had an interest really. Diablo3 was my first taste...
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    2 hdd's raid0 sata 3Gbit or 1 hdd 6Gbit?

    Currently i have 2 WD Black 1TB drives in RAID0 on an x79 board using two intel 3Gbit ports. i have an ssd on the 6Gbit port for OS and use steam mover to move over my currently used games. the spindle drives store my steam collection, the few origin games i have and some vmware virtual...
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    why are my SLI 670's running at different speeds?

    just tossed a couple zotac 4GB 670's in my system. naturally, both bought at the same time from the same place and have different bios versions. not sure if that is a factor or could be a potential problem. zotac doesnt have bios updates on their site. anyway, im playing some stuff tonight and i...
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    how best to optimize steam with a SSD?

    my current config consists of a crucial m4 128 for OS and two WD Black 1TB drives (raid0). i use the ssd for windows and apps. steam, origin and impulse are all on the raid array. im wanting to add a 2nd SSD for games. my question is, should i leave steam, et al where it is and use steam mover...
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    my love/hate relationship with logitech

    so i both love and hate logitech. they seems to make good hardware but their software is horrid. here's the story of two logitech products and their epic fail at software, specifically x64 software. I bought a g930 headset a couple months ago. i did the usual research on it before hand and...
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    just joined the ssd ranks. its awesome.

    I had a few extra bucks burning a hole in my wallet so i decided to move over to a ssd for my OS drive. was previously using a WD Black 1TB 64mb cache drive which is no slouch. ran to microcenter and picked up a crucial m4 128gb on sale (less than newegg and amazon). its so small and...
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    suggestions for mounting corsair h60 in a HAF X case

    Looking at adding a corsair h60 water cooler to my i7 920. i currently have a HAF X with all the factory fans in place including a 140mm as the rear exhaust. there appears to be mounts for a 120mm so i think im ok there. based on the reviews and corsair's recommednations, the h60 should blow IN...
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    Is mass effect 2 for me?

    wondering if ME2 is worth my time and money. reviews and user opinion seem to be universally positive. i will state i dont play RPGs. never have. not my cup of tea. on a whim, i downloaded ME2 Demo yesterday and played through it. seemed kinda cool. certainly more complex and involved than im...
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    holy balls, my sound rocks now.

    so on a whim today i decided to get a new sound card. ive been using an xfi titanium fatility something or other (pci, xram, IODrive). i though it was decent and was better than the on-board crap. only thing i didnt like was it didnt have a front panel audio connector so i had to use the IODrive...
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    should i SLI my gtx285?

    so my local micorcenter has a couple bfg gtx285's for cheap. its the exact same card i already have so i figure it would be perfect for SLI. question is, is it $210 well spent? i think i'd need a new PSU as well. my corsair hx620 probably has enough juice but it only has 2 pcie connectors. i'd...
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    any advantage to swtich from avira free to avast5 free?

    since moving to win7 last year i had to find a new av solution. i previously used symantec corp edition which was freely available from a previous employer per the license. anyways, since i dont work for them anymore, i couldnt move to newer versions and the one i had didnt like win7. so i...
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    Bad Company 2 runs like poop on new system

    cliffs: system ran BFBC2 fine. did an upgrade anyway (to keep up with my friends, im lame like that). now BFBC2 stutters like a mofo on faster hardware and clean install of windows. wtf? detailed: ok, game ran great on my system until hardware change. old sys: c2 quad 9450 @ 3.2ghz...
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    My new Impala SS

    Bought the wife a new car. She wanted a replacement for her 06 focus 2dr hatch that was larger and more "family friendly"; she has nieces a nephews from <1yr to 8yrs old, plus we may have our own kids someday. putting a car seat in that thing was a PITA. i also wanted something i could drive...
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    what's with all the 16:9 monitors now a days?

    seems like everything is moving from 16:10 to 16:9 especially in the 24" range. from a gaming perspective, i want more pixels. 1920x1200 is better than 1920x1080 IMO. wasnt the reason monitors were 16:10 in the first place because "they" (monitor mfgs? microsoft? game devs?) felt the extra...
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    Windows 7 and no internet

    so, this is a weird issue that i noticed starting after last months (july) security updates. after updating, i reboot. after the reboot i had no internet. i checked everything. my IP settings were correct (dhcp, reserved ip), i could ping my router, i could even login to my router but nothing...
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    windows 7 media player streaming

    so, i just got a 360. i wanted to try the media sharing. as background, on my ps3, music sharing worked great in VISTA. i have NOT tried it with win7 yet. so both win7 and 360 are new to me. i finally figured out how to get media player to share. on the win7 side, i added g:\my music to the...
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    360, harddrive installed game, slowness

    so i just jumped into a 360 the other day. arcade jasper with 120bg hdd. i bought a couple used games to play with the guys at work. i installed gta4 and pgr4 last night to the harddrive to cut down on noise. i played pgr4 single player for about an hour and noticed that at the end of a race...
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    UPS showing intermittent overload

    so i have a geek squad (yeah, i know) 1300va ups. at my apt, i had my 42" plasma, ps3, wii, att uverse dvr, yamaha receiver and my harmony remote charger base plugged into it. the tv, dvr receiver and i cant recall the 4th item were on the battery side. everything else was surge only. ups worked...
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    my new gtx260 whines

    got a new xfx gtx260 black edition. first game i fired up was crysis. the card starts making this high pitched whine. odd. i start a new game and during the non interactive intro, screen goes full gray and the computer is locked up hard. no sound, no hdd activity, nothing. soft reset results in...
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    why does my tuniq tower spin so fast?

    the fan that came with the tuniq tower spins at 2100rpm all the time. its plugged into the mobo connector and the bios is set to "smart" fan control (slow when idle, faster as it gets hotter). i do not have the fan speed control that came w/ the tt hooked up. i figured the mobo would take care...
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    is the corsair 620w future proof?

    ive got the modular corsair 620w psu now. i just upgraded from dual to quadcore. given my system specs, how much more can i add before this isnt enough? Q9450 overlclocked to 3.2 Gigabyte EP45-DS3R 4gb (2x2gb) corsair pc800 nvidia 8800gtx (cant believe im still running this thing. best...
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    e8400 cores vary in temp as much as 12C!

    since i got my e8400 a couple weeks ago, the cores have always been anywhere from 5-12 degrees different. on average its 9-10, idle or load. based on searching, typically its only gonna vary a few degrees. mine seems excessive. it was this way with the stock hsf and with the zalman thats on...
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    have 16:9 plasma. do i need sidebars displayed for 4:3 content?

    i have a panasonic 42" 1080p plasma. when i watch 4:3 content, the unused sides are black. my cable box has options for light and dark bars for this. which is better? i dont want to get any "image retention" or whatever its called.
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    why wont my wii copy saved games to sd card?

    i took my guitar hero 3 over to a friends house to play with and i was going to bring my save game with me since ive completed easy and made it up to the first battle on medium. this way we could jump to any song already done or work on my career some. i tried to copy the save game to my sandisk...
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    which xfi card to replace my xfi card?

    i pulled my xfi out the other day so i could swap the connector around for my HDD activity case light (i had it backwards). i think i may have fried something because since, my volume level is half what it used to be and the right rear channel spits out garbage. i did some swapping of speakers...
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    does the x-fi have any advantage in vista

    ive got an x-fi that ive had for some time now. i just in the last month moved to vista ultimate x64. it more or less works ok. given how vista re-wrote the audio layer of the OS, does the x-fi still offer any advantage over the ADI HD onboard audio of my asus p5k deluxe? openAL seems to be the...
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    can i hide a user on login screen in vista?

    i usually have an acct setup that i use for network shares so that when i have lan parties or something, i just give out this user/pass for ppl to access my file shares for patches, maps, etc. if i add this acct in vista, it shows up on the login page with my other two accts. is there a setting...
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    avi files are borked in vista

    ive had vista a little over a week now. i like it. i had a movie file from my canon camera (.avi) that i started tinkering with in windows movie maker. i saved the project. i moved the file to a different drive and movie maker has an option to re-link. so i do but it crashes. i try many times...
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    why wont vista read my 2gb sd card?

    upraded (via clean isntall) to vista last week and have discovered that windows wont read my 2gb sd card from my camera. it says it needs to be formatted. it worked fine in XP. if i hook the camera up to vista it can be read fine. odd yes? so after getting everything off the card, i decided to...
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    what hardware am i missing?

    i just put together my first amd system this weekend after years of intel. see my other post for my optical drive problem. but this post is about an Unknown Device in device manager. ive installed all the drivers, afaik. i dont know what the device could be. its not video or sound related as...
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    "new" system. optical drives keep disappearing

    i just assembled my first AMD system this weekend after years of sticking with intel. ive seen the light! LOL anyway, i swapped in an Asus A8N-SLI, Athlon X2 3800, and 7800GT. the rest of my hardware was re-used. im no noob at building PC, been doing it for years but this is the first major...
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    is my psu big enough?

    i just bought a new mobo, cpu and vid card and am wondering if i still have enough juice in my psu. what i currently have: P4 2.8@3.4 Asus P4P800E Deluxe 2GB OCZ PC3200 ATI X850XT Creative X-Fi WD Raptor 74gb WD Caviar SE 80gb DVDRW CDRW Antec P160 case w/ 2 120mm fans what i...
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    Outlook has me stumped

    i noticed yesterday that i could not send an email out. outlook would error out trying to send (see pic below for error). i run my own dedicated webserver and use mailenable as my email server. all attempts at connecting via smtp to two different domains on that box stopped working. my personal...
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    problems adding a mac to a windows network?

    we have a windows network here at work. clients are win98/2000/xp. servers are all 2000 except our citrix server which is 2003. we're using 2000 active directory. a newly hired graphic designer really wants a mac (even though we have quark, illustrator, acrobat, photoshop, etc for windows). so...
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    problems with new ati mmc 8.1

    i have an aiw 8500dv. i upgraded to the new mmc 8.1 sans dvd decoder. i never used it before with mmc 7 (windvd for that) so its no biggie. anyway, i record tv using the DVD setting (mpeg2). i then use ulead videostudio6 to edit out commercials. its worked like a charm until i went to the cat...
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    are UPS's (uninterupptible power supplies) noisy??

    i was looking at the specs for an apc UPS and i noticed it had a decible rating. so i guess these things make noise? is it only when its running on the battery or is it noisy 24/7? >>Audible noise at 1 meter from surface of unit 45 dBA <<
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    this is one weird hdd problem....

    i put together another computer with some parts laying around. once i got it together, i partitioned and formatted it. i then start the win98 installation, it does its song and dance the its time for the first reboot. after the post where it detects the ide devices, it locks up. it detects all...