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    Does Vista use HDDVD/Blu MMC?

    I remember back when HD and Bluray were trying to come up with a single standard format that one of the topics they fought over was the ability to copy the contents of a disc to your computer for home entertainment type PCs. I believe Bluray eventually adopted this, but I have seen no mention...
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    Core2Duo Processors On Sale @ ClubIT.com

    Once the new wears off some and stock starts to build you'll be able to find one for purchase... supply and demand o wizard of economics.
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    Core2Duo Processors On Sale @ ClubIT.com

    screw em, just wait a few weeks and they'll be normal price
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    S939 A64 X2 4400+ $256.99 shipped 2-day plus free AOE3

    Mwave still has them all beat at $153.47 for the 939 X2 3800 S939 X2 3800
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    50" Plasma Monitor at Costco B&M for $1969

    You could also use a DVI to HDMI cable to connect to the computer for a pure digital picture.
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    AMD Athlon 64 3000+ & ECS NFORCE3 $69.98 @ Fry's

    754 - probably dumping old inventory to make way for AM2
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    Deep Discount DVD 20% off sale

    How about neither since Metallica is the symbol of everything wrong with the music industry today...
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    DEAD: Westinghouse LVM-42w2 - 42" 1080p LCD TV - MAJOR PRICE DROP $1499.99

    tempting... as cheap as this stuff is getting it makes me wonder if I should just hold on for a 47" which should be out soon. That or a 50" plasma.
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    ined your deal. Feel free to repost it.A 4.1 GHz Dual Core at $130 - Can it be True?

    Sure, you can get this CPU for cheap and then pay for it on your power bill. Don't let the Ghz fool you...
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    AMD Sempron Processor 3100+ & ECS NFORCE3-A Motherboard for $80 at Outpost.com

    Ok this was too good of a price to pass up on... the board seems to have a flakey network adapter, but I can just put in a 3C90x from work. Hopefully I'll get a 90nm 3100 and not the old 130nm one... Update - I got the 130nm variety... not too thrilled about that, but I don't think it will...
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    Blockbuster On-Line

    I recently signed up with BallBuster for another month just to see if their service improved any.. nope. Still takes nearly 2 weeks to turn around 3 movies. I'm not sure what their problem is, but the turnaround times to my area are pathethic. That's not to say Nutflix is much better... on...
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    Street Beat Portable CD Player @ Walmart $6.50

    wow that is really pink...
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    DEAD

    Hah.. not sure if anyone noticed, but the X2 3800 is now cheaper to buy alone than through one of their combo deals. That and Monarch has a crappy selection overpriced motherboards... but anyway the original deal was pretty good if it had only lasted long enough for anyone to find it!
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    Blockbuster On-Line

    I drive a 98 Trans Am actually... I'm exercising my rights to have big computers and gas guzzling autos.
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    Blockbuster On-Line

    If blockbuster would let people return their online rental movies to the stores I'd be their #1 customer. Turnaround would be cut in half. That's my biggest problem with online movie rentals is each batch of 5 I receive takes a week, sometimes 8 days since the last. I also hate sending back 5...
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    Athena Power AP-P4ATX50F12 ATX12V 520W Power Supply

    I have this power supply in another computer and it works quite well. The 12v line stays at 12.06v idle and sometimes sinks down to about 11.98 under load. This is a good deal! I wouldn't put a multicore SLI system on it, but for a normal computer it's great.
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    *DEAD* Neon Genesis Evangelion Platinum Collection -- $5.99!!!!!!!!!

    It's people like you that don't deserve to be online...
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    3800+ X2 or Opteron 165?, That is the question.

    Well you better decide soon, the Optergones are about to go up about $30 and the X2 3800 will drop down to about $285
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    Chaintech AV710 vs DFI Karjan Audio Module

    Well even if I used the analog 6 channel outs would the AV710 produce a better overall sound or is it a waste? The Karjan sounds ok except in music it doesn't seem to be "right" somehow. It sounds kind of muddy in the mid range and no adjustments of the EQ seem to help. It's just cheap...
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    should i buy a 7800gt or wait?

    I picked up a 7800GT a few weeks ago due to my new monitor. I don't think anything will be coming out in 2006 or 1H 2007 that will make the 7800GT seem "weak". If you buy now you know you have at least a year before you'll need something else. If you absolutely have to run games at 2048x1600...
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    Chaintech AV710 vs DFI Karjan Audio Module

    I've never had anything to use the toslink connector with. The receiver is a cheapass KLH I got for $100 and it has bad buzzing when using the digital coax. I plan to get something new in the near future.
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    Chaintech AV710 vs DFI Karjan Audio Module

    It will be used for music, movies, games, but not many games. The digital coax on my receiver is crap so I've been using the separate 3 miniplug connectors thus far. I plan on getting another receiver in the future.
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    IN WIN Micro-ATX Slim Tower Case $19.99

    I would buy one except the fact that it uses a micro atx style power supply instead of a standard ATX. If you want to run any juice in this machine that little power supply will pop.
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    Chaintech AV710 vs DFI Karjan Audio Module

    I've considered buying an AV710 card for my computer, but not sure if it's going to be any better than the current Realtek 850/Karjan audio I have attached to the DFI NF4 Ultra-D. Anyone have experience with this to compare? The plusses for the AV710 seem to be limited to an optical digital out...
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    XFX Geforce 7800GT $298.49

    More like normal price, and your link is broken...
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    Confused by MPEG-4 scaling in MPC

    Correction - I'm using VMR9 Windowed, if I try to use VMR9 Renderless MPC crashes every time I try to open a file. From what I see you need VMR9 Renderless in order to render it as a 3D image and have access to anti-aliasing. Update 2 - I downloaded the latest DirectX 9 SDK per the MPC...
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    Confused by MPEG-4 scaling in MPC

    I used the nvidia tools to make custom resolutions of 704x440, 720x450, 1408x880, and 1440x900 to fit my 24" HP/Sony widescreen CRT. Definitely makes a huge difference if you set the width of the screen to the same width of the file (99% of my movies are 704x304 or 704x384). I tried the quad...
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    Confused by MPEG-4 scaling in MPC

    Uh, yeah, I've compared a few different movies and Nero Showtime always seems a little smoother than MPC.
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    Confused by MPEG-4 scaling in MPC

    I've been using Media Player Classic for a while to view movies, but have noticed that it seems to have a fairly weak scaler. If I use Nero Showtime the video output seems to be cleaner/less blocky. I'm not sure if MPC is using its own scaler or if it's drawing on something else for scaling...
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    best software to convert dvd to divx/xvid

    I used simpledivx for a long time for movies, but ran into problems when converting 30fps material. It was locked into 24fps and had 6 skipped frames per second leaving the video a bit jerky. AutoGK is probably the best as far as freebies go. Nero Recode is also fairly decent, but slow as...
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    Windows Media Center support

    If you go to the nView Display Settings you should be able to select the TV from the options and then click Device Settings. From there you can choose NTSC/Pal/HDTV and etc... If it's an ATI card then I dunno, haven't had one of those in a long time.
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    *PRETTY HOT* Geeks.com is having an inventory clearance sale!

    I found a chaintech 939 Nforce 4x board for $49.99 Chaintech 939 NF4 4x
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    *HOT* EVGA 7800GT + Quake 4 $265 AR

    Got one on the way, nice to have Quake 4 without paying $50 for it in the stores.
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    Sempron 64 2600 w/ TUL Radeon 200 Board $99

    Sempron 64 2600+ w/ TUL Board Option Combo special from Newegg. Looks like a good candidate for an HTPC build if you want to use a regular size ATX board. Has 8 channel audio, PCIe 16x, etc...
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    xfx 7800gt-$279.00 after mir

    Now $309 - 20 Rebate, leave it to newegg to mysteriously jack the price up $10 for no reason.
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    Just bought a 22" Dell P1230 Diamondtron SuperBright for $269

    I just ordered one of the 24" widescreen monitors off ebay for $325 + $28 for 2 year warranty. Going to give me a hernia at 96.2 lbs, but it will be nice.
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    Sceptre 37" LCD HDTV

    The Westinghouse 37" LCD 1920x1080 also supports 1280x1024 through the DVI ports. This way you can play video/2d at 1080 and play games at 1280x1024 which doesn't require a monster card. I'm assuming this would be scaled slightly to fill the vertical area of the monitor, not sure if it would...
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    Screwed up Nvidia System Sentinel Messages

    Yes I do.. always have. My 6600GT is PCIe though, it has no power connector. It's drawing power through the motherboard. This whole thing worked great for about 8 months then suddenly gives these problems. I just got done using driver cleaner and reinstalling drivers, but the message still...
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    Screwed up Nvidia System Sentinel Messages

    Trying to keep this short... computer is about 9 months old and has ran fine until about 3 weeks ago when I start getting Nvidia System Sentinel messages about insufficient power on my BFG 6600GT. Thought it was power supply but it turns out the power supply was fine and holding about 12v even...