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    Does a scratch like this buff/polish out?

    scratch Shoveling snow this weekend, I grazed the drivers door and left a mark. The car has 700 miles on the odo so I'm kind pissed at myself. 2009 WRX. Any options other than a body shop?
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    Navigation system advice

    My brother and I are going in on a portable nav unit for my Dad this year. Neither of us know anything about the stuff. Our budget is $200. Is this market such that $200 worth of any major brand nets you the same features? Our folks have two cars and they will use this in both of them. I...
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    Going to test drive an 09 WRX tomorrow

    I live in New England so the AWD will be nice to have. 0- 60 in the high 4's will be fun too. So far, the two complaints everyone seems to have are sub-par seats and a rubbery shifter. Both of these should be easy enough to fix with aftermarket parts, correct? I have a couple of...
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    I've got the itch

    I own a 2004 TSX 6spd with about 55k on it. The car is in great shape, it's pretty fun to drive, gets high 20's mpg, and hasn't had a single problem yet. I bought it outright and I'm sure I could keep it another ten years no problem. Unfortunately, like many here in the garage, I get the...
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    Noob questions about ghosting partitions

    So I built my Dad a comp a few months back and the hard drive started to die recently. It was the primary drive but fortunately, we got the data off of it before it tanked. Now, he has a 30 gig drive in his comp (temporary fix) but I want to give him a 200 gig drive this weekend. Usually, I...
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    To reinstall XP 64 bit

    I built my father a system a few months back for some work he was doing and he needed 8 gigs of ram. I opted for XP over Vista. Now, he's having stability issues on it. I'm pretty sure it isn;t the hardware, everything is at stock settings and I even overclocked it for a bit and ran P95, no...
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    M3>GT-R>911 Turbo

    Anyone get Car and Driver? I don't know what they were thinking with this comparison. I can't wait to see the letters next week.
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    Pulstar Spark Plugs

    Link My Dad wants me to try these in my TSX to see if they actually improve fuel economy/performance. I guess he wants me to be a test dummy before he puts em in his 135i. They look like a gimmick to me but what do I know. Anyone use em? They're 25$ a pop...
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    Car Audio: Ground loop isolation problem

    So I bought a shond3 adapter that plugs into a proprietary auxiliary jack at the bottom of the factory stereo. It has RCA inputs and works with any device. When I plug my Zen into it, the sound comes out fine, no background noise or anything. Now, I wanted to be able to charge my zen in the...
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    HD2600 Pro - Fan speed keeps changing

    I built a workstation for my father recently and it's got a 2600 Pro in it. The card temp is 35 - 37C at idle and the fan on this thing keeps cranking up and down. Half the time the fan is off, the rest of the time its on a low but audible speed setting. My dad thought it was the hard drive...
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    Building an Ansys system for my dad

    So my father is doing some consulting as an engineer and wants a good system for running Ansys models. Ansys prescribes as much memory as possible and large dedicated 10-15k hard drives for best performance. Also, it appears that in order to take advantage of multiple procs/cores, you need a...
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    HDTV Audio out of sync with video

    When I'm watching an HD channel on my Westinghouse 42inch LCD (integrated ATSC/QAM tuner) for long periods, the audio slowly gets de-synced from the video. I'll have to switch channels and then switch back for the audio to sync up again. Is this normal? crappy tuner? crappy broadcast? We...
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    Motorola Razr V3 won't charge the battery

    I have a razr that my Dad gave me to fix (he dropped it in the toilet) and I got it working (an hour in the oven did the trick) but now it won't charge the battery. I've been searching around the web and this seems to be a common problem even with new, un-adulterated V3's. My question is, can...
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    Limited slip differential vs traction control

    My dad is going to order a 135i asap but he mentioned to me his concern over the fact that these cars won't have an LSD. Anyway, when he went to the BMW dealer to reserve a spot in line, he talked to a salesmen about it and this person told him that an LSD wouldn't be necessary since the 135i...
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    Brake Upgrade

    I've been looking into aftermarket parts for my 04 TSX. One of the things I'd like to upgrade are the brakes. Hondas have always less-than-stellar brakes and the TSX is no exception. First, when it comes to working on cars, I'm something of a noob so please share any brake...
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    VIA C7 1.5 GHz w/512 MB too weak to play dvd's?

    I recently purchased this laptop and installed windows 2000 on it. It surfs fine but dvd's played with power dvd (an older version) peg the cpu at 100% and drop frames. Is this cpu really that bad? Would more ram help? TIA
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    WHR-HP-G54 Causing my computer to crash

    I just got a laptop and a Buffalo wireless router to go with it. Now, though, I can't use the internet on my desktop because within seconds of plugging in the network cable to the router, the desktop will crash. The desktop is rock stable normally (nothing overclocked) and I'm thinking there's...
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    Installing XP over Vista on a new laptop

    Just bought a new laptop (Everex el cheapo for 400 on newegg) and it comes with Vista. The hardware really can't handle Vista though so I want to format the hard drive and put XP on it. However, when I boot to the xp cd, after it gets done loading drivers and goes to start windows (the step...
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    Looking for the name of an old console game

    There was a game I had for my N64 or maybe my Sega Genesis. It might even have been for another system but it definitely wasn't for the PS1 cuz I never had one. Anyway, it was kind of like the original Golden Axe arcade game. It was a 2D side scrolling action rpg. There were 3 or maybe 4...
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    Easiest and cheapest way to hook comp to TV

    I have a tv with just the coax in (it's old) and a computer with just vga out (ATI integrated video) and I want to use the TV for a monitor. Is this possible? and what's the cheapest way to do it?
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    Looking for a cheap digital decoder

    I want to use some Logitech Z5300's with my tv/dvd player for dolby digital 5.1 surround sound. My dvd player only spits out optical and coax digital signals though so I need a box that will take in the optical digital and output the 5.1 channels a.k.a. a preamp. What I need is something...
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    Video card and tuner to watch HDTV on my pc?

    Is a 7300GT fast enough to run 720p/1080i stutter free? Should I go with a 7600GS instead? Do the 7300's support all the purevideo stuff? I want to use this comp as an htpc so dvd playback is important. Also, what's a good HD tuner? I was looking at ATI's 650 Pro but it's been recalled and I...
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    What's the easiest way to convert dvd's to mpeg?

    I just got a creative zen vision and I wanna put some movies on it. What's the easiest and quickest way to turn a dvd movie into a 320x240 mpeg file (the creative plays mpeg 1, 2, and 4 but not avi)? Also, anyone know about how much space you can condense a typical 2 hour movie down to? I...
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    Looking for a song title

    I heard a song on the radio last night and didn't catch the title/artist. It was about how the record industry is wicked stale and it was sung to a remixed version of iggy pop's passenger. Anyone know this song?
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    Recommended build for some workstation apps

    I'm wondering if anyone here has any experience with these apps. Getting information out of the developer about what kind of hardware is required is proving difficult. They have minimum requirements and recommendations but as a PC user, I'm kind of lost when it comes to workstation stuff. All...
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    Custom build for dad

    My dad is going into consulting and is less then thrilled with the performance in solidworks of his current machine (P4 2.8, onboard graphics, yeah yeah craptastic). Anyway, I'm having some difficulty finding benchmarks of this program, apparantly it's part of a specperf benchmark but that's all...
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    Tips to get clockgen to work with MSI RS482M-IL

    I'm trying to oc the system in my sig. The board has no overclocking features so I'm trying to use clockgen. I have selected the right pll and the pll settings show up but when I adjust them and hit apply, nothing changes. Any ideas?
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    PCI bandwidth problem

    I have tuner (ATI TV Wonder Elite) that sends the audio over the pci bus instead of through a cable to the soundcard line-in (which is how every other tuner I've had before this one did it). The problem is that my audio stutters. It doesn't seem to be related to anything on the pc, it can...
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    Drivers for a X800GTO: What do you use?

    I'm seeing some wierd stuff in HL2, the edges of shadows aren't black/grey, instead they're all different colors, yellow, green etc. I've tried lowering the clocks, it doesn't help. The only other games I've played on this card with these drivers are farcry and UT2004 with no problems in either...
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    Problem with Arctic Silencer 5

    Just got a sapphire GTO2 and a Arctic Silencer 5 rev 2 for it. The silencer is nice and quiet but it makes a strange noise I've never heard before. The only way I can describe it is a mechanical burble. It sounds like the fan blades are just barely scraping something but they're not. The...
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    TV Tuners and aspect ration controls

    I have two tv tuners, an ati tv wonder ve and a hauppage wintv go. They're both low end cards. The ati has bad reception but it can control the aspect ratio to fill a widescreen monitor with analog cable tv. The hauppage card looks a lot better but as far as I know, it cannot change the aspect...
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    Anyone using a WinTVPVR 150?

    I need a tv tuner with remote but I'm wondering if the remotes that tuners ship with have controls for shutting down the pc or opening the tv app. Does the PVR 150 remote do anything besides just controlling the hauppage apps? Are there any customizable buttons? What about universal remotes...
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    Need quiet video card recommendation

    I'm currently looking at getting a 6800GS, X800GTO/XL, or maybe a 7800GT to go with a new pci-e mobo. However, I'm going to be using this card in an antec aria with limited room so I can't install an aftermarket cooler. This is a combination gaming/pc/htpc machine so I want it to be relatively...
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    Who knows how to get custom maps working in UT 2004?

    I've downloaded a couple UT 2004 onslaught maps that I want to try but I can't seem to get them installed. I've tried putting the files in the map directory, I've also tried a map installing program. Either way, the maps don't show up in the game's map browser and they also don't work if I try...
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    DVD video questions

    I recently switched my monitor out for an hdtv and have a couple questions about some dvd stuff. Regular dvd resolution is 720x400? what res is progressive scan? 720p? Can computer dvd drives do progressive scan? does it depend on the software player or do you need hardware for it...
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    Christmas Came Early

    Desktop@1920x1080 UT2004 in 1080p That's a samsung 19inch on the left and a p180 on the right. I get to spend tonight reconfiguring my room around this beast. It's the westinghouse 37inch 1080p lcd tv.
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    Recmmendations for large tv/lcd/monitor

    I'm looking for a flat panel monitor in the 30 to 37 inch range to be my primary monitor/tv. I often watch tv on my 19inch lcd from 15 feet away and I'm getting sick of it. I play some games, nothing too intensive (UT2K4, Farcry, Civ4, HL2/CS:S) and currently run the system in my sig. The 9800...
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    Looking for freeware to convert some mp3's to lower bitrate

    Got an iPod mini (4 gig) and over 20gb of music on my hard drive. I don't need all of it obviously but I've been fooling around and managed to squeeze about 7.5 gb at 160 - 256 kbps onto the iPod by converting it all to 96 kbps. I recently tested some stuff at 64 kbps and it sounded fine so I...
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    When will we see 6800GT's@200$?

    It seems like 6800GT's have been holding at around 280+ for a very long time now. I guess that's good news for people who grabbed one a while back but I'm kinda hoping to get something decent to upgrade my 9800Pro and here 2 years after I bought the 9800Pro for 200, there really isn't anything...
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    New comp for Mom

    We live in New England and my Mom is one of those people who is always cold, no matter how high the heat is, from about October to April. This year, she wants to put a space heater under her desk but my Dad thinks it will short the circuit since there's already 2 comps a tv and some other stuff...