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    What kind of bug is this?

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    Intro to Dungeons and Dragons

    My 12 yo son and his friends are big fantasy readers. I was thinking they might be interested in D&D (pen and paper, not on the computer). I last played just a little bit 20 years ago. What would be a light intro? I could do the DM but would want a pre-made adventure. Pre-made characters...
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    Old Radeon HD 4850 + ?

    I am using this in a computer with an AMD Phenom II X4 945 and some Asus MB, home theather and gaming at 1366&768. I want to put a HD 7770 in mine, and then build a budget homework/gaming computer for my son using the 4850. I just can't tell what the modern one-step up equivalent is to my...
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    8th Grade Reunion

    I reconnected with several people from eighth grade on Facebook. I haven't had real correspondence with most of them. Someone in the group arranged an unofficial reunion. I think I am curious enough to go. Would you go? Someone suggested that we bring our families. This seems strange to...
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    What router for more signal strength?

    I have a piece of junk lowend netgear router. It has trouble connecting to wireless PCs only 20 feet and 30 feet away through one wall. I'm sure there could be some interference, and I've tried the changing the channels. I suspect that I need a router with more signal strength, or maybe I...
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    6'x6' shower/toilet/sink/tile

    Just wondering what to ballpark for my budget. Is this 5k? 10k? I will probably do the demo, but use pros for plumbing, tile, drywall/concrete board ----------------------------- Double Post Thread Senior Anandtech Moderator Common Courtesy
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    6'x6' shower/toilet/sink/tile

    Just wondering what to ballpark for my budget. Is this 5k? 10k? I will probably do the demo, but use pros for plumbing, tile, drywall/concrete board
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    Easy DVD to some streaming format

    I have a ton of Disney movies I'd like to put on my WHS so I can stream to the living room TV for the kids. I had imagined putting the DVD in the computer, running some program were I can click one or two buttons, and out pops a divx or avi file or something that I can store on the WHS for...
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    My build vs Anandtech budget build

    I was looking at the Anandtech budget builds from the May article, and have since worked my way up to this: AMD Phenom II X3 720 2.8GHz Socket AM3 95W Triple-Core Black Processor Model HDZ720WFGIBOX Item #: N82E16819103649 $119 GIGABYTE GA-MA770-UD3 AM2+/AM2 AMD 770 ATX AMD Motherboard...