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    Need a case, maybe PSU suggestion...

    I've been out of the computer building game for awhile now, and am going to soon be upgrading--soon being within the year. That being said, American Express for some reason wants to give me free money if i spend some money soon, so i am looking for a case for the future (Since i figure cases are...
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    Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen

    Not sure if this was posted, but i just found out about it, so i am making a new thread. I really enjoy the idea of an MMO going back to some of the old cornerstones of the genre--namely the feeling of community and exploration. There are a few things that they are changing that i wish...
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    I don't get Dark Souls...

    It's almost unappreciably difficult and unintuitive. I keep giving it chances, and there are times when it is mildly entertaining, but at best it is insanely frustrating, and cruel for the sake of being cruel. After dying probably 30 times getting to some boss--i bypassed some other...
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    Thinking about buying GF laptop....

    Need some ideas... Looking for something relatively cheap (sub 1k, the lower the better!), that is a good gaming laptop, and just reliable in general...she has had problems with laptops overheating in the past, so reliability is kind of important...i should say the overheating ones were...
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    Spilled (distilled) water into tower...

    So yesterday, i was playing Xcom, and i was doing pretty well, when i reached for some water from my nalgene water bottle (a lot of water) and spilled it ....so as soon as that happened video stopped showing up in my monitor, so i turned off the computer (i think it was probably already...
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    So i haven't updated in awhile...

    I typically try to upgrade my computer when a 'revolutionary' gpu emerges, so it can stand the test of time...or at least something that is a pretty decent jump over the current generation... Is anything launching next year going to fit that mold (i am getting the itch to upgrade), or...
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    What is the next new...

    Revolutionary GPU...discuss. Or did it just come out? I have been holding onto my 5850 forever, and haven't felt the need to upgrade since it plays everything pretty smoothly...but i am getting that itch! You know, the type of GPU that will last you 3 years! Especially considering the number of...
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    Any good JRPGS

    I grew up playing these on consoles...and probably the last ones i really enjoyed were on xbox360...Tales of Vesperia, and Eternal Sonata... Love turn based, and kind of fantasy settings rather than Sci Fi, but will take any suggestions... I'm hoping that Ni No Kuni gets a PC port at some...
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    Most Obscure, and favorite games you played...

    Since there's really no "gaming" forum, i wanted to see the types of games that people really enjoyed throughout their lives. Games that you felt really should have deserved a little more love, and perhaps a current gen Remake. From Console, or PC. Can be one game, or a universe! Anyway, in...
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    The Hardcore MMO...

    MMO Soliloquy Here is what I am looking for in a next generation MMO: -Good graphics. I have had the same computer for three years now and have been itching to upgrade it for a while now. Unfortunately, I have found no reason to do so, which I think is fairly sad. Though, I am expecting this...
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    Help flashing GPU

    Hello there, Basically the problem i am trying to fix is that some combination of my dell (2408wfp to be exact) monitor and my MSI r4890 t2dig is malfunctioning (causing my screen to flash black every few minutes) . I have contacted them (MSI), and was told to do a number of varying steps in...
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    Computer shutting off seconds after bootup

    Hello, i just went to turn on my computer, and it started turning itself off sometimes almost instantly after i turned it on. The odd thing about it is once i got into the bios and checked out the cpu temperature, and i just saw it climbing by 2degrees c per second till it was over like 110, at...
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    Computer crash

    Good morning, a few days ago i was logging into World of Warcraft, as i do rather often, but after entering my login information my computer froze, this had never happened before, but i figured it was just one of those things that computers do to piss you off, so i restarted it, but much to my...
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    Windows Boot up takes 20 minutes

    Hello, i am looking for a little insight on a problem that i have just recently gotten, lucky me. I was playing a game, and in the middle of said game it kind of froze, which doesn't happen too much, so i just restarted my computer. Next thing i know my computer is hanging on start up, and...
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    Video Freezing

    This has really only started happening recently, and i'm not really sure of the cause. I can be playing any game really and my computer will start hiccuping. I will be playing along, the video will freeze, and the sound will keep going, then the screen will run fluidly for like a few minutes...
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    Recently installed Dvd burner

    Well, i just traded in my old liteon CD RW for a brand new DVD rw, and i cannot seem to get the drive to be recognized.... I go into my computer and nothing shows up... I have another DVD drive that was a slave drive to my old liteon, and it will not work as a slave drive to this new...
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    Sound card

    Alrighty, i picked up a sound blaster audigy 2 zs platinum, and i hooked it all up, and i just reformated, the onboard sound works, and i just installed all of the drivers on the disk, and there is no sound to be had, everything appears to be hooked up, but nothing is coming out of the card...
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    BFG tech rma...?

    Alright i have searched the bfg tech site for awhile and i was wondering if anybody has done an RMA with them before, because it says a hundred things about how they have the best warranty and crap like that, but i couldn't find what i had to do to initiate the RMA... Anyway i have a 6800 GT...
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    Problem w/ new harddrive

    Basically i just RMA'd my old harddrive because i thought it was broken, but when i tried to install this new one, i was getting the same sort of problem, so now i'm feeling like there may be something more horribly wrong with it. When i begin the windows install (on the blue screen) It...
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    Hard drive dying..slowly

    Well it was giving me a message about the hard drive needing repairs, and i can't really do the repairs, because when it gets into the repair section it asks me what the administrative password is, and i don't know it? Is there anyway for me to figure out what the password is? I honestly don't...
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    Laptop explosed...

    Okay this will be impossible to get help from, but i'm just looking for some general help. The problem is that it was not my laptop that died, it was my friends. I believe he has an alienware laptop, and he said that he downloaded some drivers or something, and then his computer died. I'm...
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    Gotta be easier than i think...

    Basically we have 2 (well 3 computers) on a network, and my computer is unable to use the printer which is hooked up to my moms computer. We went through all the printer sharing crap and all that and still it won't work... I'm wondering if theres a problem with the printer because her...
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    Looking for the holy grail mobo...for 754

    currently i have an abit kv8max3 but i've had significant problems with this thing, i am trying to figure out if theres a mobo that meets these requirements.... Runs ddr 400 in all positions. Runs ddr 400 geil ram 1gb stick. socket 754 for my 3000+ amd I just reformatted, and it...
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    I'm about to give up...

    Alright since i'ma bout ready to give up on my computer, because the Blue screens i get seem to have no bearing at all... Like i just got a BSD that was about SP1 and i have SP2? i'm confused, i also get some USB related BSD, and a ton of graphic driver crashes and such. I figure all of...
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    Computer freezing

    Alrighty, heres the low down, my computer didn't use to freeze at all, until one day when i'm transporting my computer from house to house and i hear a thud and it has fallen over, so i'm like whaaatever man i've had this happen before. Anyway i'm not sure if this has caused my computer to...
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    Another Day Another problem...

    Usually during gaming i will be playing and my screen will freeze up. I am playing WoW so it's not like the graphics are melting my video card or anything... In addition to the freezes, i get a lot of device driver type errors, i'm beginning to think that something is wrong with my Video...
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    Crashing

    Well i kept posting, and i am nowhere nearer to solving my problem. Here's a quick rundown of my troubles...again: I used flashmenu program on my kv8-max3 mobo, and it basically messed up my computer, that is what i'm thinking. I went to try to find older versions of my bios, but no matter...
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    Here's to hoping

    I was basically wondering if i was screwed over in my other thread after flashing to the most current version of my Bios, in order to try to get it to support a 1gb stick of Ram i had recently purchased. Anyway, i just want to get this computer back up and running for the most part. I will tell...
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    Am i in big trouble?

    for starters i have my KV8-max3 motherboard, and i was trying to flash to the newest version of the bios to get some sticks of RAM to work, i don't even know if that would fix the problem with the RAM, but i'm all out of idea's and such. Anyway, so i used abit's Flashmenu program to flash...
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    Computer freezes during memtest86

    Basically i'm running my computer with a kv8 max-3 motherboard, and the ram i am currently using is kingston 512mb ddr400 value ram. I ran Memtest86 for 3 hours on this ram and nothing came up....so i'm figuring that the slot is working fine. However, when i slide in this Geil 1gb stick of...
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    Does this mean it's time to RMA my 6800 GT?

    http://oca.microsoft.com/en/response.as...8aa-6fb7-44f0-8827-eaa21c15e859&SID=11
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    Memtest86 questions

    Alright, when i'm burning this file onto a CD with nero, should i just make a data disc, or a bootable CD? Does it matter either way? Also, i swear i've tried this before, and no program loaded up that i could tell. I might have just burned the wrong thing onto my cd, i'm not sure.
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    Very simple question (i think)...

    Basically thats all i need to know...i just want to run memtest on some ram that i have, so i was wondering what buttons i need to press in order to boot the CD.... Is it possible to boot from a CD-rw rom? I should hope so, if not i have DvD that i should be able to boot from too...
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    New DDR installed....

    I haven't installed any RAM in recent history, but i've done it before and i figured it was just a pop-it-into-the-slot sort of deal. Anyway, i jumped on the 1GB GEIL ddr 400 module, anyway so it arrived today and when i boot up my computer with only it in the first slot, it loads up to my...
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    Im beginning to suspect my motherboard

    I have 2 kingston value RAM sticks that i plug into my Kv8 Max3 board, and there are 3 dimm slots , and i CANNOT plug them in to the 1 & 2 slots, i HAVE to plug them into 1 & 3 slots, if one stick is in the 2 slot i get BSD, and my computer reboots over and over...? So what do you think...
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    SATA question

    So sometimes after my computer gets the BSD during gaming (and no it doesn't hang or anything and just restarts so i can barely see what it's telling me, though theres something about a device driver usually when i do an error report to microsoft)...my computer will restart basically and when it...
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    OH GOD! fan not spinning...

    Alrighty i call upon the mighty power of you technical support geeks !! Here's the breakdown. Yes, i am stupid, and i am typing this message on the computer where the fan is not spinning above the chipset, yes I AM concerned though. I figure it has been like this for awhile so no big...
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    Question about video compression

    K i dunno if this is where i would go to post about this, but does anybody know of any video compression products that are free and easy to use, a link would be very helpful, thanks, i'm trying to compress an avi file i think...!
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    weird...

    Am i the only one to find this funny a sales price higher than a regular price?? weird. Text
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    Possible PSU problem

    Alright, i'm basically going crazy, because i've tried so many things to get my computer working, and it still shuts down during gaming. Anyway. When i go into the Bios, i read all the voltages, and this was it. Hyperstransport Voltage 1.23 Volts CPU core voltage 1.54 Volts DDR...