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    HD 7870 troubles

    Hiya all, A week or so ago I posted about Battlefield 3 not running all that well on my PC. I fixed the immediate issue, but it was just too slow, so today I bought a new card - a Saphhire 7870. It runs Battlefield 3 BEAUTIFULLY in full HD, ultra settings - for about a minute. Then it...
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    GPU taking a break during gaming?

    Hey, I hope this is the right forum, so here goes... I have an - I think - strange issue. during gaming, sometimes my graphicscard will take a 1-2 second "lag" break and then start running again. For instance, I just purchased Battlefield 3 (the first game I'm noticing this in, though...
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    Best way to get output to TV?

    Hey all, I just got an extra PC - it's a Core 2 Duo machine with a Gefoce 8600 GTS graphics card. I'm considering using it as a media-center type thing, but I'm having a hard time figuring out how... I'd prefer to use HDMI to connect it, as the PC-port on my TV has my xbox in it. How...
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    Much too slow wireless network

    Hello, I just bought a 802.11n capable router (D-Link DIR-655) and two matching network cards (DWA-547, also D-Link) in order to improve my wireless network performance. However, it is still extremely poor. As I am not sure what is relevant and what isn't, I'll try to be very, very detailed...
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    Fast Wireless Setup

    Hey, I've recently moved to a bigger place, and a desire for having less wires is leading me to look into the wireless option... As I will need to transfer relatively large files over the network, I'll need a pretty decent connection... 10mb/s would be nice, but 5 will probably work...
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    VGA output dead - what's my best option?

    So, this is probably going to be a looong question, but I'd really appreciate the input of the Anandtech braintrust. :) I have an ageing Core Duo laptop that I've been using as a media center. (It's a Dell 6400 with a T2400 CPU - not flashy, but good enough for me!) Unfortunately, the VGA...