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    Review my build with a budget of $1500ish

    Didn't really find any within our price range within the first 3 pages, except for one.
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    Review my build with a budget of $1500ish

    1. This PC will be used for gaming on high-ultra high settings. 2. $1400-1600 price range 3. Buying from US 4. No brand preference, but I heard Intel processors are much better these days than AMD. 5. Not using any past parts. 6. Could not find any similar threads around black...
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    Review my build with a budget of $1500ish

    Buying 8GB of ram from TigerDirect for $20 on top of that.
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    Service Net warranty or manufacturer's?

    Well the item in question is a laptop, so they're not the easiest to fix if something goes wrong, not to mention if accidental damage happens. For all desktop parts I wouldn't get extended warranties at all, but that's because those can easily be replaced whereas laptop parts may not be the case.
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    Service Net warranty or manufacturer's?

    Hey, I'm looking to buy this laptop: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16834115978 and I'm wondering how good the offered Service Net warranties are compared to the manufacturer's? I can't compare them since apparently you actually need the product's serial number to even access the...
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    New windows 7 installation, a lot of random program crashes

    Alright I ordered a new HDD, just because that would be the simplest solution to a problem that's been plaguing me for a few weeks. I'm wondering what would be the exact problem of my old HD? I reinstalled win 7 about 4 times already, each time the PC would work perfectly for about 1-2 days...
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    New windows 7 installation, a lot of random program crashes

    Yeah I tried that, no luck. I reformatted about a week ago, PC worked flawlessly for about 4-5 days, now I'm getting the same problem. I got HD Tune, and I'm not sure how to interpret this health tab: http://img139.imageshack.us/f/hddv.jpg/ Planning to reformat tommorow, except try 32-bit...
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    New windows 7 installation, a lot of random program crashes

    Ok I tried the SFC / Scannow thing in CMD, and in the log I had a huge amount of files that could not be repaired, probably 100+. How would I go about fixing this?
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    What's the main difference between a same sized lcd monitor and tv?

    Only one person said it's not true, and you just quoted him with a smiley face, neither of you even backed up why it wasn't true, so I took his word for it. The other person just had a story about his friend without explaining anything technical.
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    What's the main difference between a same sized lcd monitor and tv?

    Alright thanks for the responses, was just wondering the point of getting a monitor instead of a tv if the tv is cheaper + has a tv tuner built in, but I guess Seero's response sheds a lot of light on that. I eventually ordered this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...tent-_-text-_- $200...
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    What's the main difference between a same sized lcd monitor and tv?

    Also I'm not exactly understanding the specs between these three monitors, such as the different types of contrast ratios. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16824254048 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16824009167 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16824236052 Out of...
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    What's the main difference between a same sized lcd monitor and tv?

    Hrmm, well comparing that monitor to the tv, it looks like the monitor is betting spec wise except for not having a tv tuner?
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    What's the main difference between a same sized lcd monitor and tv?

    Since I found a tv that's $90 cheaper than it's monitor equivalent, with somewhat similar specifications. TV: http://www.costco.com/Browse/Product...S&Sp=C&topnav= Monitor: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16824236047
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    New windows 7 installation, a lot of random program crashes

    From my system information tab: MSI MS-7514 BIOS: American Megatrends Inc. V1.1, 9/4/2009 SMBIOS Version 2.5
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    New windows 7 installation, a lot of random program crashes

    Just had the clock gadget. Now my antivirus and some games randomly crash too. Done memtest and the results are normal No overclocking.
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    New windows 7 installation, a lot of random program crashes

    Intel Core 2 Duo 6300 @ 2 X 1.8GHZ 3 GB RAM Nvidia 9800 GT 80 GB HardDrive + 360 GB External Ran XP fine for 3-4 years, finally upgraded after I reformatted due to a virus, first major problem I've had with win 7.
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    New windows 7 installation, a lot of random program crashes

    I just installed win 7 a few days ago. Got all the updates. Random programs (a lot of times system ones, such as this) will crash and I'll be unable to open it again. http://img245.imageshack.us/i/win7error.jpg/
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    Really troublesome virus/malware, antivirus can't detect

    The hosts files remain the same, there's nothing wrong with them. Each website it redirects me to is different, it's one of those generic websites you go to when you enter a wrong url.
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    Really troublesome virus/malware, antivirus can't detect

    I'm using NOD32, and I checked my task manager to see anything suspicious, but nothing is listed. What this virus has done so far has made every one of my google search links into some random spam websites when I click on them. What's a solid program/antivirus that would be able to trace...
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    Changing Application Data folders.

    Thanks this was what I was looking for but I'm not familiar with the syntax it provides. When I click edit value for User Variable of temp it's: %USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Temp For system variable: %SystemRoot%\TEMP What do I type to change that to just D:\? Is it possible to just type...
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    Changing Application Data folders.

    So I heard a long time ago that it's much cleaner to have 2 petitions, one for your OS and one for data. The problem is I only have an 80GB harddrive, and assigned my OS partition around 14GB. A lot of programs save data in: C : \Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data C ...
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    Lots of static

    Sometimes when I play games or do video intensive stuff there will be lots of static or warped textures, and about 20% of the time the program will lock up/crash along with forcing me to restart my computer. All the monitor cables to the dvi ports are secure and the GPU (8600 GT) is running...
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    Video card stuck in PCI-E slot

    TheStu, I've tried that before, but the card won't budge as if it was melted/superglued to the slot or something (hope that's not the case :P). Also, yes I took out the dvi-vga adapter. Nothing is obstructing the card, I could take more pics if you guys want. All the PC shops around here are...
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    Video card stuck in PCI-E slot

    I don't really know which lugs you are talking about...I provided an image in my first post, care to circle the area you're referring to? Thanks.
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    Video card stuck in PCI-E slot

    Well the thing is I don't wanna go complete ape and try my hardest to yank it out, which some of my friends have told me to do, since this is my only video card and I don't have an onboard video, so if either the card or the slot is damaged in the process I'm really out of luck in terms of...
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    Video card stuck in PCI-E slot

    I really don't want to remove the mobo just because everything connected to it in the case is completely cramped and it would be a giant hassle, but nothing at all is obstructing the video card, so I'm mostly positive it's not the case.
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    Video card stuck in PCI-E slot

    This is my motherboard: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813130185 MSI P43 Neo3-F LGA 775 Intel P43 ATX Intel Motherboard And my case is an Antec Sonata II If the lock you're referring to is the little tab/lever usually at the right of the slot, no, as I've stated in the first post I...
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    Video card stuck in PCI-E slot

    Yeah, as I said in the original post, I've removed the screw. I don't think that's the case at all, there's really nothing obstructing it.
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    Video card stuck in PCI-E slot

    I recently received a replacement GPU fan, however I was unable to remove my 8600 GT card from the pci-e slot. I unscrewed the screw that held it down, and I even removed the locking lever, but I could only manage to get half of the card out (the half which was held down by the lever), the other...
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    What should I do with a semi-broken laptop?

    tried lowering the resolution and color depth, still overheats.
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    What should I do with a semi-broken laptop?

    Yeah I tried reapplying thermal paste, was a painful experience with all the tiny screws and tight fitting pieces. I've updated the BIOS. Before it was somewhat useful for some light internet browsing, but now the wifi doesn't even work, and it would be more of a chore to replace the wifi...
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    What should I do with a semi-broken laptop?

    It overheats if you do anything remotely cpu intensive, and the wifi doesn't work. It's a gateway t-1625 I believe, how much would it even sell for? I've tried tons of different ways to fix the overheating issue, but none of it worked and I really don't want to fish out money to buy a new...
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    Comp crashes with warped textures

    My PC randomly crashes with purple stripes all across the screen. I think this may have to do with my video card overheating (although sometimes it happens when I'm not even doing anything graphic intensive). I recently installed speedfan, and right now with only Chrome, Steam, and Winamp open...
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    Running out of room in my OS partition.

    Actually it's not completely wiped, I can still view contents from my old partition in that partition program, but I'm unable to locate it outside the program as it doesn't even have a name.
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    Running out of room in my OS partition.

    wow I tried to take some space from my D partitionto put into my C partition, and an error occurred during the process and completely wiped everything on my D drive.
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    Running out of room in my OS partition.

    How would I do either option 2 or 3?
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    Running out of room in my OS partition.

    I have 2 partitions, one for my OS (windows xp) and one for everything else like programs and data. The one for my OS has very little space, but a lot of various random programs use that partition instead of the other one. For example, on iTunes it stores a lot of the application data and a...
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    So is this a good deal?

    http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r105/quickndirty/T6534.jpg It looks good for the price, and if I ever wanted to game I could just add a better video card right? It's a big upgrade from my pIII 450mhz that im using right now.
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    This is the almost finished draft of my first build

    Already have that, the parts that I listed are the only ones that I need.