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    About to pull the trigger, I need your advice!

    Hey guys, apologies in advance for the large thread. Just want to make sure I get all the details in. I'm an avid gamer (aren't we all!), and the time has come for me to finally upgrade from my E6600/8800GTX to a new shiny box. This will be used for 70% gaming, and 30% video editing. I use...
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    Easynews Replacement?

    I've been an Easynews member since around 2003, and have been pretty happy up until recently. For the first time in a long time I actually ran out of the gigs I had accumulated way back when they were giving credits for running United Devices app. Long story short, I see lots of other...
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    Iron Baby!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyoA4LXQco4 Well done, but yet so wrong..
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    Amazon - Returning Hardware

    For years and years I've bought my parts through NewEgg for my machines, and they've been pretty solid. In the last 2 years I've had Amazon prime, and have been extremely pleased with the speed / quality of shipping. In comparing parts this time around for my new rig, I was leaning towards...
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    Cable TV streamed to PCs?

    I'm looking for something that will take your existing cable TV, and stream it to clients on your LAN, like through a web browser or something, maybe with Flash - has anyone seen anything like this? With the quality of Netflix's streaming, I was hoping that someone would be doing this, or have...
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    Another "help identify this song" thread

    No lyrics - anyone have any idea what song this is? It's nothing crazy, but I was going to try and see if there were any other mixes of it (if I can find out what it is) :) Sorry for the semi-crappy host (has a delay before downloading). If anyone has a quicker/better one let me...
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    Lightning & Electricity

    OK, without going crazy deep.. - Had a big thunderstorm early AM today - Power burped - Lightning spike (or something) got through my UPS and burned out the power adapter on my ATI 9800 AIW. - Nothing else is failing (atm), system works with another vid card So how the hell does that...
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    Another wardrobe malfunction?

    http://www3.contactmusic.com/news/index12.htm Was posted a while ago at another set of forums, thought ATOT would be yakkin' about it, but nothing yet (that I can see)? Given, I'm not a huge fan, and she's not too hot IMO, but I know others think differently.. Gotta be pics somewhere...
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    BF2 worked great yesterday, today = ?!

    Anyone else having this issue? Basically everything loads fine, go to Internet Game, and sometimes it will sit there with Total = 0 for servers, while not showing anything in the screen. Sometimes if you give it a bit, it might show you some. But all today I've never had it give me the full...
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    HyperX memory gone, little help?

    Back in 2003, I bought an Abit IS7, and a 1gig kit of Kingston's HyperX PC3500 (CAS 2.0). The machine has been great, with the only issues I've had coming from having to replace the cheap northbridge fan. Ever since I started playing World of Warcraft when it came out a while back, I've tabbed...
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    2 people w/Doom3 behind a router

    I'm over at a friend's place with my machine, we both have Doom3 installed. Aside from the little nagging bugs (server list saying a server is 1/4 one second, you join, says "full" - go back immediately and refresh and it still says 1/4.. wtf...) - we have each successfully joined a game on...
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    IS7 chipset fan dying, replacement?

    The northbridge fan on my IS7 is slowly going out, but as I looked at it, I'm not too familiar with the mounting type. One of the replacement kits I ordered won't work, as there aren't holes in the right places on the board (oops, -1 for not taking time out of my busy schedule to do the...
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    Recording your gaming/online experiences to MPEG/DivX

    Basically what I'm wanting to do is capture the raw video output of the machine I play games on and encode that to some format of video, for now let's just say MPEG4. I'm a novice in this area (encoding) - I've done my fair share of dvd encoding, but not capturing like this. I've tried Fraps...
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    Best Vidcard for cable capturing (Death to ATI)

    Recently I decided to get back into capturing, DVD copying, you know.. the fun stuff. So I fire up my ATI AIW 128 Pro, get out VirtualDub, and try recording a little off a few cable channels. Video looked great, but the audio.. what the heck?! Snaps, crackles, pops.. I thought I had a bowl of...
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    Bootable CD - Halfway working - Help!

    Ok.. I'm through making coasters. I've used 2 different programs to do this, and neither of the two are working right. All I'm wanting to do is make a bootable CD with a custom config that has some of our utilities on it - and as of this moment, I can make bootable CDs till the cows come home...
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    Camcorder to MPEG to CD - best solution? ATI 8500

    I have a friend who's looking into getting a new machine soon.. he has 2 main things he would like his machine to do, which are: 1) Connect his camcorder, and save his videos to a cdrom drive for future playback. 2) Play DVD movies on his TV via his computer. Here's the dilemma.. the card...
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    Tribes 2 - Unplayable on a V5 w/AMD 1.33, 512 memory??

    I bought Tribes 2 immediately when it came out, and to be quite honest, I've been very disappointed with the performance on a V5. Here's my system: AMD Tbird 1.33 (running at 50 degrees C) Asus A7V133 (latest BIOD upd.) 512mb PC133 memory IBM 45g ATA100/7200rpm Voodoo5 5500 AGP (w/latest...
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    Buying Advice - Tbird Solution?

    I know a lot of you have had some great/awful experiences with different boards, and I was hoping to tap some of your knowledge before I went out and upgraded. I've been following the forums for a while, reading up on reviews, and I think I've narrowed it down somewhat. Most likely this...