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    Any quad dvi 2560 x 1600 graphics card recs?

    Most of the ones i see arent rated to 2560 x 1600 and the one i have 4670 x2 is super loud. I cant seem to find a replacement cooler for the x2 set up either. I also cant control the fan speed~! thanks.
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    extend wireless network from wired network?

    i have a condo wired for data. i have one wireless router currently attached to my cable modem. this is then run into the switch and connected to the rest of the condo. i get a weak/intermittent wireless signal on the other side of the condo. i do have a network jack there. what i...
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    Silent PC Build

    1. What YOUR PC will be used for. That means what types of tasks you'll be performing. Im looking to build a silent pc. Budget is flexible. Silent is important. Will be in a bedroom. Machine is not for gaming. More of a workstation. I already have the fanless fireGL that will be in the...
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    help with eyefinity 6 6970

    i have an asus 6970 eyefinity 6 card and im having trouble running 5 displays on it. the card is brand new. so ive never had a working set up. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...pk=asus%206970 currently, i have 4x dell U3011s hooked up all through display port. i also have 1x LED LCD TV...
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    trouble creating eyefinity display

    i have a machine with 2x 6870 in xfire. i have 4 mini displayport to displayport dongles connected. each graphics card has 2 mini displayport outputs each is connected. im driving 4x dell u3011. i cant get 4x screens working with xfire enabled. if i enable xfire only 2 of the...
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    Radeon 6870 and LED LCD TV

    Im running an LED LCD TV off my HDMI out from a radeon 6870. Im using CCC to shrink the screen slightly to make it fit on the LED TV. Running netflix or 1080p content I get tearing on the picture. I get abrupt transitions and overall a number of visual issues I dont get running the same...
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    can i run 4x 30" displays on a 6950/70?

    i want to run 2x mini dp and 2x dvi at 2560 x 1600 to drive 4x dell U3011s. i know asus has a 4x dp 6950/70 but id like to avoid it if possible as its 3 pci slots wide. my plan is to buy a reference 6950 unlock and run all 4 monitors if possible. later i would possibly add in a second...
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    vertex 3 or c300 raid 0

    im looking to spend $300 on a ssd solution. i think i have a few different options in terms of next gen drives but the vertex 3 seems to be the best choice. so i can get a 128gb vertex 3 for $300 or 2x 64 gb 2nd gen drives like c300s or g2s. i know about lack of trim on raid discs. it just...
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    850HX install

    Im installing my 850hx and it has a 8-Pin EPS 12V. It also has 8-pin PCI-E connections. It is my understanding I dont use the EPS 12V for anything other than motherboard connections? It fits the 8 pin slot in my GPUs but i wanted to make sure that I cant use it for that. thanks.
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    molex to 8pin adapter 5870 eyefinity

    I have a computer running a 2gb 5870 which requires a 6 pin and an 8 pin connector unlike the normal 5870 which requires only 2x 6pin. I dont have the molex connectors to connect 2x molex to the 8 pin. Will this be an issue? The machines fine and runs with the 1x molex to 8 pin. But im...
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    Seasonic X750 vs Corsair 850HX

    Will this Seasonic X750 which is onsale right now at newegg: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817151087 be enough to run the rig below with a little room to grow? I was going to use an 850HX but this is cheaper and has newer internals. Plus its gold spec. If the 850HX is a...
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    Sandy Bridge Build

    1. What YOUR PC will be used for. That means what types of tasks you'll be performing. Gaming, Productivity Apps 2. What YOUR budget is. A price range is acceptable as long as it's not more than a 20% spread $2000 including the stuff I already have please see below. 3. What country YOU...
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    Help me upgrade graphics $400 to spend

    Currently, I have a GTX 470. I have 2x 30 inch dell panels U3011 and will be upgrading to 4x in the next few weeks. I only use 1for gaming but I want to support all 4 panels for productivity. I plan on getting a new graphics card when i add the two additional panels. Im not sure the...
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    Intel 980x Stock DBX ATS Cooler

    I have one of these that I got from work and I was going to use it with a p67 sandy bridge build. anyone know if ill have issues? will it fit? http://benchmarkreviews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=432&Itemid=62&limit=1&limitstart=7 thanks.
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    msi e63 optical output

    hey guys, i have an msi e63 am2 htpc (win7) build im finishing up. have it hooked up to the tv via hdmi. have the optical toslink hooked up to the receiver but im getting no sound. if i do hdmi stereo sound i can get that to work. but i cannot for the life of me get the digital sound to...
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    need help with my phenom x2 555

    I have two different phenom x2 555s. I believe both of them unlock to 4 cores. I have two different setups one is an AM3 setup and one is an AM2+ setup. The am3 is corsair ddr3 and the am2 is ocz ddr. I took a known quad core from my am2 system and dropped it into my am3 system. I was running...
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    can i run ATI 4200 and another graphics card

    I have a mobo with integrated ATI HD 4200 graphics and I want to run another dual dvi PCI-E card to have 3x DVI total. I run Win7 right now. Any issues with this setup? thanks.
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    Need to store 5 tb+ of media, tell me why i shouldnt UNraid

    My head is spinning from the pros and cons of different options. Ive spent the last few days reading tons of posts and doing research. To begin, I have about 5 tb of data storage needs. Its mostly movies and I need to serve it over the network. Im going to be using either windows 7 MCE or...
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    help me focus my pc/media needs

    im looking to make an upgrade somewhere in my computer setups. i have the following: - 2.66 c2d macbook pro, primary computer, sometimes i run it hooked to a larger display but mostly as a laptop. covers all my day to day stuff. i bring it with me to work its always in my bag. - media...
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    Video doesnt play back in windows MCE, plays fine out of MCE

    I just built a windows MCE box. Its a 3.2 ghz 1gb ram MCE machine. Installed in the AGP slot is a 64 mb matrox dual head dvi p650 graphics card. I have installed the latest matrox drivers. Ive installed the necessary video codes. The playback of avi/divx movies is fine if i launch them...
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    Feasibility Study Want to turn old box into MCE machine

    Work started to clear out a bunch of the old PCs we had sitting idle and I ended up taking one home. Its a compaq D510 with a 2.4 ghz P4, 760 mb ram, 16mb on board graphics. Not a screamer by any means! I think its gotta be four to five years old. My modded xbox one has been used with...
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    xbox 360 HD DVD drive

    I have a very new HDMI xbox 360 premium edition. I think the dvd drive is ALREADY broken. The console is at most two months old! It is covered by warranty but id prefer to have uninterrupted gaming. I dont want to send it in to msft and wait forever to get it back and i was debating...
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    Looking to upgrade for C&C 3 and a few other games

    I have the same dell PC thats about two years old right now. Its a PIV 3.2ghz with 1gb of ram. For graphics I have a geforce 6600. By no means a fast machine right now. I drive a 1920x1080 panel and dont game much right now at all. Some of the newer RTS games appeal to me and Im almost...
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    Advice for eBay tools

    Topic says most of it, but I am looking to start selling about 50-100 items a month on ebay. All the items will be roughly the same and I have started doing the research to streamline the process. I know eBay offers the turbo lister for free as an easy way to make many similar auctions...
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    Having Wireless Router issues with Comcast

    I am trying to share my cable modem using a linksys WRT45G wireless router, which I have used before and had zero issues. My cable is comcast and my cable modem is an RCA DCM 305. I can get the wireless working usually after I power cycle both the modem and the router, it disconnects and...
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    6600GT PCI-E and WoW Bad Artifacts

    I have been playing wow for a month now using a 6600GT and havent had any issues until today. I get horrible artifacts. I didnt make any system changes overclock or do anything. It all of the sudden starting make tons of junk all over. My system is on a few month old system image. I have...
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    Monitor Keeps Losing signal all of the sudden, then it comes back...After Adobe CS Install....

    Well I just got a dell 8400 with all the trimmings, was reformatting and installing a clean xp pro and setting up a ghost image. I was almost done configuring and installing all my applications but recently hit a snag I dont understand.... It happened when I was installing Adobe Creative...
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    MOLTEN HOT Dell 2005FPW $581.XX SHIPPED or less $557.XX YMMW

    Dell is giving away 25% off LCD purchases through their DELLF game right now. I dont know how long it lasts but I won a 25% off any Dell Flat Panel. DELLF Game You get a different coupon each time you play tons of different ones, just play till you get the 25% off Dell LCDs coupon. As...
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    Planning a big College Spring Break trip

    Im pretty new to this actually totally new to this.... That aside, I am trying to plan a trip for 25+ college kids from my school and dont really even know where to begin. We are trying to go to Acapulco, thats the agreed upon destination. Threre are tons of different places all...
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    Which AMD-64 to buy (Most bang for developer)

    I am trying to decide which amd-64 processor to buy for myself. The amd-64 3400+ is a socket 754 proc with 1mb of L2 cache, while the 3500+ is a 939 with 512k L2 cache. As one who uses their computers for productivity and not gaming, which processor do you guys think is the better choice...
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    Can a Dell 700m use PC 2100 Ram?

    I am getting a dell 700m, the dell manual says that it only takes 200 pin PC2700 SODIMMs, but it uses the same chipset as the dell 600m. The dell 600m can take PC2100 SODIMMS. Anyone have any experience with PC2100 or see any reason why the 700m on the same chipset with the same bus...
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    The Unofficial Online Poker Thread

    I?ve been doing a lot of the poker promotions from different sites and thought I would put them all into one post, saves people the time of digging through stuff. There are a few sites I know that offer a bonus for signing up with their code. Most sites offer just $25, but a few others...
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    Get up to $50 back at PartyPoker.com from Bigblindpoker

    This is one for the online poker players. BigBlindPoker.net its like that pokerchipsource deal, but they give you $50 cash instead of chips. I signed up for it yesterday and got my $50 buyin back today through paypal. Ended up making $48 while playing the hands and cashed it out =)...
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    3 Beeps, No Video....

    I have a barton 2500+ on a solte 75FRNL board, 512 BH5 TwinMos and a 431W enermax PSU. I got a 9800 pro from someone in the FS/T forum that I installed yesterday. When I first installed the card I got what I think was 3 beeps. I assumed I bumped the ram and jiggled the cables and the card...
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    Traveling to Japan, What to purchase electronics wise?

    I go to japan in about 2 weeks, I will be going all over. i have been thereb efore and experienceed the electronic bliss. Towards the end of the trip we will spend 4 days in tokyo. i have been to akihabara and love it. Last time I was there it was 5 years ago. I was buying MDs. my question is...
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    My system is now very slow backing up and burning dvds... help please

    I have a 2500+ barton overclocked to 2.2 ghz, 1 gig of ram and am running windows 2k. My system is very slow and sluggish when I do anything related to dvd video the system feels like a 386. It sluggish to the point where even the cursor drags. I had the same setup with windows xp home over the...
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    Soundcards, Speakers and Printers!

    Well im in the market for a few different peripherals right now, mainly a printer, speakers and soundcard. Im truely clueless.... I am moving to a smaller room and need to get rid of my tower speakers and reciever for next year. So I was thinking about selling htem and getting a PC 5.1 set of...
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    A few Questions, Speakers, Printers and Soundcards! Oh my!

    Well im in the market for a few different peripherals right now, mainly a printer, speakers and soundcard. Im truely clueless.... I am moving to a smaller room and need to get rid of my tower speakers and reciever for next year. So I was thinking about selling htem and getting a PC 5.1 set of...
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    Mont blanc pens, Ebay? How to spot Fakes...

    Hi didnt know where else to ask this question... I have a mont blanc mechanical pencil right now and love it. I had a roller ball loved that too till I lost it. I am looking to replace my pen and am thinking about buying a used one on ebay. Ive heard a lot of people sell fakes of many different...
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    Please Help me Identify this Planar LCD

    I have had this planar LCD for over 2.5 years I got it from Dell and I think I paid about $650 for it. I have no idea what model it is. I am trying to jump on the 2001fp deal and trying to figure what to expect for this monitor in resale. The monitor can be viewed here in my photos. Planar LCD...