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    Best black level among 24"+ (non-TN) gaming monitors?

    Tax returns are coming soon, and I'm thinking about upgrading from my Dell 2209WA. It's been great, but I really want something with deeper black levels - the bleed is terrible in darker games. I'd like to stay away from TN panels if possible. I've done some searching, and apparently the...
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    Intel X25-M 120GB Back on Sale at Newegg: $170AR - $25GC

    Hey all, Got this in my e-mail overnight. Including the $25 gift card ($200 purchase) this is actually a better deal than what was offered on Black Friday... http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...Tpk=20-167-035 $145 (if you count the GC) for 120GB is pretty damned good, and the drive has the...
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    Dragon Age 2!

    Woke up today, and went to the Dragon Age website to buy me some DLC. Instead, I was greeted with this: http://dragonage.bioware.com/da2/ Looks like a trailer is coming next month :). Game Informer has a full preview in their August issue...
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    Velvet Assassin $23.90, Sam & Max Season One $5.90, and others

    Velvet Assassin $23.90 Sam & Max: Season 1 $5.90 Battlestations: Midway $2.90 There seem to be more worthwhile PC games there then other recent 48 Hour Madnesses, so take a look :P.
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    Empire: Total War $29.99

    Clean link A few other deals in there, but this seems to be the best of the bunch. Cleaned up the link esquared Anandtech Senior Moderator
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    Windows 7 Beta - No Video Signal?

    So I had to RMA my 8800GTX (RIP :( ), in the meantime I was using an HD3450, but didn't want to mess with drivers in Vista... So I tried the 7 beta key I had sitting in my e-mail. Worked well... Now I have a replacement 9800 GTX, and I can't get 7 to give me a video signal outside of safe...
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    Buying a new phone - recommendations

    I've finally decided to jump on the boat and get a cell phone - been trying to avoid them for a long time because I hate the attachment people generate with their phones (and I'm not looking forward to paying $70 a month). I know I'll be going with a Smartphone of some kind, and I'll probably be...
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    House heating

    Random question, Just got back to my mother's house in NY for the holidays, and the heating system still hasn't improved. Basically, the same roof vents that are used for central air (which doesn't work) are used for heating. This wouldn't necessarily be a problem if the air was actively...
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    Spore $19.95 @ Amazon.com

    http://www.amazon.com/Spore-Pc...&qid=1228121898&sr=8-1 Still in stock, great price if you haven't grabbed this yet. Sorry if this is a repost, I'm tired :P
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    NBA 2K9 out for PC

    I just ordered mine, should get it in a few days... From what I've read it's a port of the 360 version (not PS2 a la NBA Live) and runs well on mid-high range systems. So exciting, finally a real NBA game comes to PC :D.
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    General "dead" video card question

    I've posted about this before XP Basically over time this happened (after I upgraded luckily)... The corruption I was getting got worse and worse, and gradually went from only in 3D Applications to being anywhere at any given time (POST screen, anywhere). It's consistent with screenshots I've...
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    Webcam operation in Vista?

    Dug out a Quickcam 4000 Pro and am trying to get it to work on my main rig, which is running Windows Vista. I've installed the latest driver package from Logitech's website, and the incoming audio works, but the video does not. All I get in Skype is a black screen; in the Quickcam software, a...
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    Computer Stuttering - Vista

    I recently reformatted my brother's computer and installed a fresh copy of Vista. I'm not sure exactly when this issue started, but whenever I play video or a game or anything of that sort, the computer stutters for a split second every minute or two. It makes the familiar infinite loop sound...
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    Best PCI Video Card?

    Hey all, Trying to walk a friend through upgrading his video card to something that will play WoW, without actually being there. Apparently he only has PCI slots available (he sent pictures)... So, what's the best he can do? He naturally won't be replacing the motherboard, and a new system is...
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    Dead 9800 Pro?

    My old 9800 Pro has been having trouble recently - it started in 3D applications, where textures (and later models) were completely corrupted. More recently I've been getting some tile-looking corruption on the Windows desktop - this corruption shifts around (or appears if it hasn't already)...
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    Are leveling services REALLY that bad?

    Yea, I payed for leveling from 50-60 (it was only $50, half of which was paid by a friend), and got a 3-day suspension at level 59. Not only did I not know they were enforcing crap like this, but really I don't understand why. What's everyones' opinions on this... Am I the only one that feels...
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    Kobe 3 straight 50+

    Kinda ridiculous 0.0. The Lakers change their strategy to 'get Kobe the ball' and he's responding, apparently. EDIT - lolz repost
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    Temperature issues - E6400/Ninja

    All temps listed from Intel TAT... My temperatures aren't horrible - with ambient around 20C I idle at 42-43 each core, with the CPU @2.8GHz, 1.275V (right now it's 28C - no A/C - and I'm idling at 51). But the heatsink, a Scythe Ninja Rev. B, doesn't seem to get particularly hot, maybe a...
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    HDR+AA in Oblivion...

    I was curious as to whether others are having this difficulty as well... Since I upgraded to Windows Vista (with the 100.59's), AA no longer works with HDR in Oblivion, even with it set to override in the NV Control Panel (it used to work this way in XP). Is there some new trick to getting this...
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    Norton Sucks

    Well, apparently you can only install with a given product key a certain number of times. I upgraded in November, reformatted... Reformatted again for Vista... And now I can't activate the damn thing (Norton Internet Security 2007) without buying another key. I understand keeping it on one...
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    Odd temperature readings

    I've noticed something a little weird with the temperature readings reported by NVidia's monitor... -My load temperatures seem to vary from 48C-~56C at different times during the stress test... This may be normal, but it's more variation than I'm used to (although my only other experience is...
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    680i/E6400 Prime95 issues

    Alright, so I recently upgraded, got an EVGA 680i motherboard, (originally) OCZ Platinum DDR2-800 memory, and an E6400. One of the memory sticks I originally received was bad. While in limbo, I used one stick and kept the CPU at 2.8ghz (it passed Prime95 for 2 hours or so at this point, I...
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    OCZ RMA experience

    I had to return the memory I bought for my most recent build, as one of the two dual-channel sticks was defective... This was my first build in years, so naturally I was a little bummed out. It turned out that they were out of the memory I had bought (DDR2-800 Platinum, a mid-range-ish...
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    Finally found a match for the 8800GTX

    GT Legends, 35 car race, at night, at 1280x1024, with all details turned up... With or without AA/AF, the game crawls along at these settings :x. So yea, the power is nice to have, IDC if Crysis was delayed :|.
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    8800GTX and Source games

    Okay, so I've put together my new PC, including a 680i motherboard and 8800GTX, both of which are obviously very young as far as support... So I'm not sure if the problems I'm getting are driver-related. I'm using the latest drivers as listed on NVidia.com. Basically, all source games exhibit...
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    EVGA 680i motherboard question

    Is this important? It says in the manual that it improves game performance, but I'd rather not have to reroute cables unless I have to (using an 8800GTX, which takes enough power itself...).
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    G80 Graphics Demos...

    Have they been released yet? I've seen screenshots in various reviews, but there's nothing on the NVidia website that I've been able to find.
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    Which way should I go?

    Ok, so I'm upgrading around Thanksgiving (I mean my entire system, graphics card, everything). I've been an AMD fan for a while now, and I initially wanted to stick with an Athlon 64 X2, maybe a 4800+ or so, but I've gotten back into looking at benchmarks and it seems like this cpu just doesn't...
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    Installing Windows on a laptop w/o removable drives

    OK, So I formatted and installed windows on a new laptop hard drive (using another laptop, with a CD-ROM drive). I figured I'd be able to (hopefully) just transfer the hard drive over, but no luck. I get the stop error mentioned in the summary at startup, whether I'm booting into safe mode or...
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    CNPS7000 Install (or any other 754 cooler that doesn't use the 'stock' mounting thing)

    Alright, so I just got done (finally, I hope) installing a Zalman CNPS7000-AlCu in my brother's computer, but one issue did come up - one of the standoffs used for the installation wasn't threaded, so I had to get a replacement (for the record, the customer service provided by Zalman was great)...
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    Just got a CoolerMaster Aero 7 Lite for an old Socket A rig...

    I've installed it, it works well, etc... But should I bother taking it off and using arctic silver 3 rather than the grease/pad grey thing that came on it? Would it be worth the effort (I'm kind of lazy, if I really wanted to I would just do it)? I've seen a lot that suggests AS3, etc. aren't...
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    ABC sucks

    I just missed the end of the Laker game (apparently an exciting ending from what I'm reading >.>) because they decided to put on some Regis - Dean Martin infomercial here in Santa Cruz. THANKS ABC - learn how to manage the broadcasting of overtime games.
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    Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends demo out

    Available at all the usual places... Fileplanet/Fileshack/etc.
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    Major video card instability

    One of my older PC's is extremely unstable in any games/3d applications. I get major artifacting, then the computer crashes. I believe the video card is the problem; the CPU runs hot, but never gets above 60 or so C. When I open the case and point a medium-sized fan at the computer, it lasts...
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    Can't keep videos/games in full screen

    OK, so my friend can't seem to run games/videos in full screen without them going back to windowed mode after a short time. It apparently isn't his screensaver, but I have no access to his computer so there isn't much more I can look at myself. Anyone aware of any bugs like this?
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    Need help with Windows 2000 password recovery

    Trying to fix my friend's computer, but he doesn't know the username/password for an administrator account (windows 2000 professional), so I can't really do much. What I'm thinking is, if he can't dig it up somewhere, I can bring over a HD with 98 installed and access things that way... But my...
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    Older PC crashing in games

    OK... I went through a lot to get this system stable overall after doubling the memory from 256 to 512. For some reason, though, the computer pretty consistently crashes while rendering 3d images within about 20 minutes. I've played with the AGP Drive Strength, and have it on B and E right now...
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    Is it just me...

    ...Or does maybe 1 in 3 multi-cd installations actually work properly? I've had to restart the F.E.A.R. installation 2 times now... It asks for the next CD, then Windows tells me it's the wrong CD. Sometimes out of the blue Windows will tell me it's the wrong CD. I'm rapidly losing my patience...
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    9800 Pro artifacting

    I installed the thing over a year ago (have had the card 2 years and one month), and never really had any problems. Recently, I've tried overclocking it, but I can't get very far without artifacting... Hell, when I run ATI tool at default clocks I see some artifacts on my black desktop...
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    GT Legends demo

    If you're at all a fan of driving simulations, this is worth a try. The graphics are great, and the driving physics are just as good as they are in GTR.