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  1. smokeyjoe

    Another Monitor Suggestion Thread. Hot Girls Inside!

    Clickbait! So.. I have a GTX 1070 and am looking to upgrade my monitor. Would it be just completely stupid to buy a Freesync (or just plain NoSync)? See the options I am considering: Acer - XF270HUA 27" IPS LED HD FreeSync Monitor - $500...
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    Monitor Upgrade

    Hey folks, Long time member, random poster here. I'm looking for advice on a monitor(s) upgrade.. been using 2 of these NEC 20WMGX2 monitors (16:10) (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824002320) for oh, like, 10 years now. Well, one for 10 years and the other one for...
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    NUC/mini PC help and suggestion

    Hey all, I'm looking to purchase a mini PC solely for office work. I need it to run dual monitors and possibly a 3rd. I've been out of the pc market for a while and feel rather lost. As an example I see some NUCs advertised as "dual monitor capable" -...
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    NEC 20WMGX2 Replacement

    Man, I haven't logged on to this forum in a long time! But I do read it fairly often.. Anyway, as the title states - I am looking for a replacement to my 7 or 8 year old NEC. I love this monitor and it still works great. It is one of the best PC purchases I've ever made, even for the $$ I...
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    RAM for Older Gigagbyte MoBo

    Hola, So.. I am updating the CPU on my Gigabyte GA-MA770T-UD3P mobo to an AMD Phenom II X4 970 Black Edition Deneb 3.5GHz. Of course I keep looking at more hardware on the Newegg site and I see all the fancy new (to me) 2x4GB RAM sticks!! For the low, low price of $35!! So.. I want more...
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    Please help with Speaker suggestions

    I just moved into a new loft apartment and am looking for some speakers. The new place is completely open with a loft/bedroom upstairs. Some details: Receiver: Denon 1911 Room size: 14.5 x 18 x ~16 high cathedral ceilings Budget: ~$300 Some concerns: - filling the room with sound for...
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    Another upgrade thread - from 8800 GTS

    Hola, I'm looking to upgrade from my EVGA 8800 GTS. I prefer to stick with EVGA because of the warranty. The games I play the most right now are Oblivion, FO3, FO3: NV, Napoleon: Total War, Dragon Age. Present card runs these ok, but I like to mod these games so I get some stutter from all...
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    what is this 80 degree temperature?

    Just installed Speedfan on my new windows 7 system and am wondering what this 80 degree temp could be?? An error? Also, not sure if you can tell from the pic, but what is up with the text/font in SPeedfan looking all blurry/jacked up? Any opinions/solutions?
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    Gigabyte GA-MA770T-UD3P BIOS flash problems

    This might get a little lengthy.. My trials and tribulations trying to update Bios for GA-MA770T-UD3P Rev: 1.0. 1st attempt: make a bootable CD and another with F5 Bios on it, get message: "the boot files are in drive letter A: the bios utilities are in drive letter R:" Can't change to...
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    Username jacked up..

    So I tried to log in yesterday and it wouldn't let me, so I had my password reset.. then I noticed the forum conversion at the top of the page. I can log in with this "imported" username, but I can't convert as it says account is invalid. Any ideas to help me get my username - smokeyjoe -...
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    Advice on building a new System

    Hello all, Been awhile since I built a system.. I am still running an Opteron OC'd to 2.4 on an ASUS A8N Premium 939 with 2 GB RAM. I am looking to upgrade on a budget of ~$500 to a decent to great gaming system. The types of games I play are Oblivion, Fallout3, COD series, and just...
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    Kid sets Guitar Hero record..

    http://www.cnn.com/video/#/vid....real.guitar.hero.kdaf The kid has talent.. besides guitar hero :)
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    Geithner Enlists Lobbyist As Top Aide

    http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0109/18047.html It seems the corporate-government relationship is just too entrenched. Is it impossible to find a qualified candidate who does not have a conflict of interest?
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    Two Hard Drives, one for games, where to put Paging File

    I have 2 hard drives and right now my Main one has the OS and pretty much everything else on it, including games. Second HD currently just has some Backups on it and my paging file. I plan on moving all of my games to the other HD. Can anyone give some input as to where I should put the...
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    Another Opteron 165 thread

    I posted this in another thread that seems to have died so.. I've got a 165 CCBBE that I can run on ORTHOS for an hour with no problems at 315*9 and 1.35v on my ASUS premium. This is with my RAM set at 200 mhz divider 3-5-5-8 2T in BIOS - basically the largest/slowest divider and really loose...