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    AHCI, Intel Matrix Storage Manager and notebooks

    My understanding is that the IMSM is useful mainly for AHCI enabled RAID setups. (1) Is it useful to keep this program and have AHCI enabled on my new notebook (toshiba) which has only a single HDD? Or should I disable it? Intel claims improved power management for the HDDs; I don't know how...
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    The Online Photographer: Summer '08 camera recommendations

    Good article; worth a read. There are some film cameras in there too. http://theonlinephotographer.c...rapher/blog_index.html (1) Nikon D300 (2) Tie between Pentax K20D and Olympus E-3 (4) Nikon D3 (5) Zeiss Ikon RF (film) etc.. "Nikon itself calls the D300 the best...
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    Streaming audio from PC to a bluetooth phone

    I just bought a Nokia 5610, and it's a prety slick phone. Now my question is: how can I stream audio from the PC to the 5610 via bluetooth so that I can plug a pair of wired headphones into the 5610 and use the 5610+headphones as a wireless headphone system to watch movies from the comfort of my...
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    Will a CoolerMaster 450W power this rig?

    I recently upgraded my CPU, mobo and RAM and added a HDD so my rig looks like this now. C2D E6550 Gigabyte P35-DS3R 2x1GB Corsair ValueSelect 667MHz 2x Hitachi 160GB SATA-II 1x250Gb Seagate 7200.10 SATA-II 1xBenQ 1640 DVDRW 1x7800 GT 256MB Logitech MX518 (USB) Saitek Eclipse keyboard...
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    Is it possible to create a single DVD out of the 5 FarCry CDs

    I have fully legit originals of both FarCry and UT2004, but they are the multi-CD versions. I was wondering if there is any program that will make a single ISO out of the 5 CDs so that I can burn it onto a DVD for future installs. It is a pain reinstalling these things with so many CDs, and I...
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    Shimmering vertical lines on screen

    I get really bad shimmering vertical lines in windows and other 2d apps. It is a recent phenomenon, just began showing up in the last one week. It happens all over the screen, and starts after about 15-20 min of booting up the PC. Makes the desktop look as if it on 256 bit color at times.:(...
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    NFS:MW - Stuttering on 7800gt!

    I installed the Black edition a few days ago. For the first 6-8 hours of gameplay, there were no problems, but now i experience an occasional pause or lag in the game quite frequently. (every 20-40 secs). The frame rate remains above 30-40 most of the time, but for a brief second, the game...
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    Quick Noob question on 1080p

    I suppose you need a res of 1920x1080 for displaying 1080p properly. Would I be better off using only the 720p clips since my 17" vp730b has a max res of 1280x1024? Wont 1080p be redundant? Does 1080p/i scale down to 720p on such displays? I was checking out some of the WMVHD showcase...
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    17" LCD timing conflict with 7800GT?

    I am running a 17" Viewsonic VP730B from a 7800GT (forceware 81.95) via DVI. According to the Viewsonic user guide, the recommended setting is 1280x1024@60Hz. I selected that res and rate on the Nvidia control panel and while windows Display properties shows that it is running at 60Hz, the...
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    Is the Viewsonic VP730B a TN or PVA panel?

    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16824116364 lists it as capable of 16.7 million colors. Viewsonic website doesnt specify how many colors, and google doesnt throw up any reviews of this monitor. Does anyone know? TIA.
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    Question about VA1912 widescreen LCD

    Hi guys, I am planning to put together a system next week with a A8N-E, A64-3500 (Venice), 1 GB RAM and a PCIe 7800GT etc Not decided on the monitor yet. I had initially planned to get a Viewsonic VP730b, but when I went to check it out today, I saw that the 16:10 19" VA1912 costs only $30...
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    Some advice on XP upgrade please.

    I have a PIII 500 MHz with 256MB (PC100), GeForce 2 GTS, 2 HDDs (80GB Maxtor and 20GB WD), Pioneer DVD, SBLive etc I am currently running Win98 SE, but I can get a free copy of XP Pro from the univ for my personal use. (A) Will my system be able to handle Xp Pro smoothly if i turn off all the...
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    Mitsu Diamond Pro 930SB or Samsung 957MB

    Hi I need to purchase a 19" CRT monitor from the Dell website, for my lab at the university. The monitor will be paired with a new Dell P4 2.6 GHz/800 MHz, 512 MB/400MHz Dual Channel, 60GB, ATI 9800 Pro machine. Although this computer will be used primarily for Office XP, Photoshop (some...