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    New Graphics Card Advice

    Just to provide some closure, I took a gamble and bought an EVGA 650 GTX 2GB SSC and it works significantly better. It very well may be CPU bound at this point but it was enough to overcome the hurdle and looks great. Thanks for the advice.
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    New Graphics Card Advice

    Anyone want to comment on the HDMI audio coming thru?
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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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    Need a sound card for optical audio

    Just got mine installed. Seems to work ok, but I don't care about the mic port so it will never get tested.
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    Should I buy a new video card?

    thanks for the chart that was pretty much what I was looking for in a round about way.
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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

    Well if it makes you feel better the Chinese own half our debt and are dumping imports to drive out american businesses. :-)
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    Asus P5E Mainboard Sound Issues

    Never mind, I gave up and bought a new sound card.
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    Need a sound card for optical audio

    Sounds good. for $20 I bought the Asus card. Thanks for the advice.
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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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    Please Help! U-Verse for HDTV and Internet--Please inform me!!

    Had Averse for almost 2 years in Michigan. I liked it alot then but others have kind of caught up. If HD quality is of primary importance u will be disappointed. Best I have ever had is DirecTV. Sent from my DROID X2 using Tapatalk
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    Best DD-WRT Router?

    Appreciate the suggestions.. Still haven't heard on what models work best. I'd like a gig router because I already have a 8port gig switch and it's full.
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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

    Hmm bummer. Well I guess i'll stick to my 2 hard drives. Thanks!
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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

    I'm just trying to beam out the wireless from the one location. Thanks for the links, I'll check it out. The ptp devices might be worthwhile.
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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

    OK I think you were right on the XML modules. I did download Superantispyware and ran it. It seem to get everything fixed up. I have to admit I was rather skeptical of a Free program to fix it but I'm pretty sure it's done the job. Anyway I think I'm fixed up, thanks for the advice all!
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    Please Help- Spyware / Malware

    OK I removed the 4b.tmp files from the temp folder and deleted the registry key. But I still have the same issues. Either it's a different malware or it's still loaded.
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    Please Help- Spyware / Malware

    Ok here is the log. After looking the 4b.tmp looks suspicious and seems to be malware. Just need to figure out how to get rid of it. ********************** Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 5:01:37 PM, on 1/25/2009 Platform: Windows XP SP3 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE...
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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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    Learning RAID Faultage Downtime on Capacity

    Smaller capacity hard drives with a higher amount of hard drives should rebuild quicker on a apples to apples comparison.
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    Help me with a GTX 280

    Well FWIW, I have bought at least 50 8800GTS cards from EVGA for work, and I have NEVER had one go bad. So perhaps this is an early adopter issues that they will work out.
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    Huge file server project (24TB)

    Here's my idea: We use Dell's MD1000 Storage Arrays here at work. They can take up to 15 drives of SATA or SAS drives. Buy 2 MD1000's off ebay (about $1700 each) stuff them full as many 1TB SATA Drives as you like, and connect them to a PERC5 or PERC6 or LSI Logic Controller. You can...
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    Help me with a GTX 280

    Alright so it's in progress of getting RMA'd. Hopefully the next one will work.
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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

    Well that's what I thought but it's definatley not working that way. It is "broke" with or without the RSA Auth Manager.
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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

    Well Rosewill emailed me back and they said it only supports 400Gb. BUT I set the drive to "slave" installed it int the enclosure and it works fine. I've been copying data back and forth for several hours now.
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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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    Monitor reccomendations please

    Check out gotapex.com and slickdeals.net, Just about every week they go on sale. I thought I saw them in the $370's last week.
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    Monitor reccomendations please

    Dude I've bought Dell 1905FP LCD's for $384 shipped. Why bother with a CRT? I've purchased almost a 100 of Dells' 19" LCD over the last 2 years, only one has had trouble.
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    zipzoomfly?

    I've bought 4 or 5 orders from them, everything has arrived on time and as expected. They are generally faster then newegg, at least for me, I'm in Michigan.
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    Inspiron 700m Tips? Can I play my RTS game?

    It only has the option of the Intel Extreme Graphics 2 and according to Intel Rise of Nations will work so I'm stoked. Can't wait for it to arrive. Memory is kind of expensive, $820 from Crucial.com. (2GB)
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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

    Thanks for the link. I think I'll give this a try, this will allow me to maintain some sort of control over what users can do.
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    How do I ban USB thumb Drives in XP

    Nothing, that's a good point. It's a good think all my users have Palm instead of PocketPC.