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    New Graphics Card Advice

    Looking for some advice- I have an older PC that I'd like to stuff a new graphics card into. My 7 year olds and I play NFS Most Wanted (at 720P and low detail) Sim City 5 (the newest one) and a couple games that I only play and we are starting to run into trouble with speed. Specs are...
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    Should I buy a new video card?

    I'm re purposing an older computer of mine. I want to hook it up to my 55" 1080p tv and play games on it. I'm thinking probably some older games, but I would like to buy MW3 and play it. The computer is a Intel Q9450 w/ 8GB and a Nvidia 8800 GTS (512MB?) Does that still have enough...
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    Need a sound card for optical audio

    I'd like to replace the sound card on my mainboard since it's not working. I just want to get 5.1 or 7.1 audio through the optical output to a Yamaha receiver. What would you reccommend that's budget friendly for sound? Light gaming, mostly music etc. I'm hoping to be less then $50 but...
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    Asus P5E Mainboard Sound Issues

    I have an older P5E Deluxe mainboard that I'm having trouble with. All I want is the optical sound connector to work. But I can't seem to enable it in the software. It is running W7 Pro 64bit, and the sound max app that is supposed to make this thing work just crashes all the time...
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    Best DD-WRT Router?

    I'm looking to buy a new router to run DD-WRT on. I'm hoping for the following below, what router should I buy? VPN is a must Gigabit switch fast wireless N service, hoping for dual band radios the usual port forwarding services I was thinking maybe the Buffalo WZR-HP-G300NH Or a...
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    Need Boot Loader Menu Suggestion

    Instead of lugging around (2) 320GB hard drives for work with different OS's I was hoping to maybe use a boot loader menu. Needs to support Windows 7 32bit and Windows 7 64bit. I'm hoping I would be able to hibernate in W7 32bit then power on and be able to select the other OS...
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    How long is IE7 Supported and Patched?

    We are considering pushing out IE8 to our end users, but are having some issues. The question has come up how long is IE7 supported and patched from Micosoft. We would like to delay this project for a couple months. Thanks!
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    Validate my Wireless Infrastructure

    So I'm installing a new wireless infrastructure at my Uncle's. He has a good chunk of land and we have two buildings we would like to get wireless in. The main house is pretty easy; a normal router should cover it fine. The second building is about 220 feet away and just needs wireless...
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    Please Help- Spyware / Malware

    Alright this is a long story... I somehow got a virus on my brand new work notebook, at a job I started a week ago. It was Infostealer.Gampass which I managed to remove. I have run the provided Symantec Anti virus, and it scans clean now. I have also removed the logs of the computer so...
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    Help me with a GTX 280

    So I just upgraded my computer a couple weeks ago, and this week I decided to upgrade my EVGA 8800 GTS to a EVGA GTX 280 1GB. I figured more power is better right? Well it's not working so well, first of all this card is rediculous loud. As soon as I load COD 4 its fan is at 100%. I barely...
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    VPN Setup

    I'm trying to setup a VPN for my company. I have RRAS installed on a member server of an AD domain. The VPN is working fine (with RSA Authentication Manager) when you are using a computer that's a member of my domain. How do I make a computer that's not a member of the domain work?? If you...
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    External USB2 Hard Drive Enclosures

    I have 2 of these external enclosures... http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817173003 Now I can't get either of them to function with a Hitach 500GB hard drive. Is there some sort of storage limit with the external enclosures? One person reviewing the product said he...
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    Inspiron 700m Tips? Can I play my RTS game?

    I'm getting ready to pull the trigger on a 700m. I'm pretty much getting every option, 2.0process, 80gb drive, 2gb of ram etc. Just curious but is the video card good enough to run Rise of Nations? I'm not gonna do any serious gaming but playing Rise of Nations in the hotel seems...
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    Fast & Light Notebooks?

    I have a situation at my company that I need some fast notebooks. We would be using them for AutoCAD possibly Revit (major memory hog) and graphics applications. It seems IBM only makes centrino processor notebooks. Are these even fast enough to consider? I like the Dell 5160's because...
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    How do I ban USB thumb Drives in XP

    Is there someway I use group policy to ban USB thumb drives? I dont' want users to have the ability to take home gb's of data without our IT department knowing about it. Any ideas? Ryan
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    Dell Dimension 8400 SATA Driver

    Ok so I've got a bunch of these new Dimension 8400's with the new intel mainboards and all. Except my Windows XP disc won't load a driver for the hard drive controller. I need a driver disc that will work when I press F6 when booting off the windows cd. I have the SATA RAID driver disc but...
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    Disabling Software Installation?

    I work at a small office and I'm trying to figure out how to disable the installation of new software. I have group policies enabled and it works, but I don't really see anything to stop users from installing new software. This is a Win2k domain, and the individual users have "power user"...
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    Disabling Software Installation?

    I work at a small office and I'm trying to figure out how to disable the installation of new software. I have group policies enabled and it works, but I don't really see anything to stop users from installing new software. This is a Win2k domain, and the individual users have "power user"...
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    A7N8X rev 1.0x and Barton 3200+

    I'm having an issue with my Asus board. I was using a slower Athlon XP processor and decided to upgrade to a 3200XP. The bios was previously flashed some time ago to 1007 so I should have the latest release. I installed the processor, it recognized and worked for about 5 minutes and the...
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    Group Policy Gurus...

    Got a question with group policys. First of all this is a Active Directory environment with Win2k and W2003 servers. Clients are all WinXP machines. Anyway, how can I disable users from installing anything? I'm assuming this is some feature within Group Policy? Thanks! Ryan
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    Vice City and Radeon- Please Help me!!

    Ok I'm completely addicted to Vice City I must play every night. Last night I got to Boomshine, and my saved game will not run at all now. It just crashes when it goes to play the into to Boomshine. I have an Athlon 2800 Barton Asus MB and Sapphire Radeon 9000 128MB. I read that the...
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    GHOST and bootable CD's

    I'm having some problems... Call me lazy but I just don't have the time to figure this out on my own. Too much other work to do. :| So to those who have already invented the wheel my question is: How do you make a bootable CD with the appropriate LANMAN connections to see a NTServer share...
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    What's faster for Graphics

    I'm sure this has been asked a jillion times but I'm a little out of the loop so humor me please! ;) I currently have a Dual p3 1.0Ghz system with a gig of ram and a Radeon 8500 RTL 64MB Card. Would a P4 or Athlon system be faster for mostly graphics work (Illustrator & Photoshop)? I do only...
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    Windows 2000 Server as a File Server?

    We have come to a point here at my workplace that we wish to no longer continue our Novell file server. This file server has served us well for 4 years and contains about 500GB of priceless company data. We cannot justify paying $8000 to upgrade to NW6 so we are considering using Windows 2000...
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    Need Better HD Performance

    Ok, so I'm primarily a photoshop user and I need better disc performance. I run WinXp Pro currently with an Adaptec AAA133U2 Controller with 2 Seagate X15 Drives in RAID 0. (generation 1 X15's) Sandra reports that my disc speeds are pretty slow somewhere by 25 mb per second or so. I've seen...
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    TV Tuners? Which One

    OK, I'm considering getting a TV Tuner for my Computer. I want to watch TV, and possibly record some shows. I have some prior experience with the original All In Wonder ATI. I'm leaning toward the new 8500 DV All in Wonder. Is it worth checking Nvidia's product or not? Anybody have some...
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    Exchange 2000 Eating up all my RAM

    I have a new Exchange 2000 server that I have transferred all my old 5.5 mailboxes to. I have the server up and running with the IMS and all. The old 5.5 server is now out of the picture. The server works fine for about 24 hours or so then store.exe (sometime at night) starts leaking out...
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    Backoffice 2000

    Ok i've got a problem and I'm hoping you all can help. I'm trying to install the Backoffice multiserver wizard so I can install ISAServer. I have 2 W2k domain controllers and one NT4 BDC in mixed mode. I have completed the Multiserver planning wizard and it has created the proper INI file...
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    Outlook 2002 (XP)

    Does anyone know how I can get rid of the annoying virus protection in Outlook XP? Outlook blocks access to certain file types to prevent virus outbreaks. I know *.exe and *.url are on the list. Can I disable this? The only piece of info I've found on this is you can only disable it if...
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    Best Dual P3 mainboard?

    What would you consider the best P3 mainboard for dual processors? I'm considering an ASUS CUV4x-DLS. I'm looking to use 2 1Ghz P3's and SDRAM memory. Thanks Ryan
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