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    4850 vs 7600GT in SLI

    I currently have two video cards in SLI (7600GT) and just bought a 4850 (will have it in a week or so). Any ideas of any improvement I should see? I tried the bioshock demo in my current machine and had to drop the details a good deal to make it playable (using an opteron 170, but I'm...
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    Fix Crunchy Logitech Keyboard Keys

    This happens to every single logitech keyboard I have ever owned: with less than a year use on one of their keyboards, the keys begin to get "crunchy"; the keys no longer depress anywhere near as smoothly as a brand new keyboard. The keys are louder and feel like there's too much friction...
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    Dell Won't Honor Monitor Warranty - PLEASE HELP!

    Just over 2 years ago I purchased a brand new Dell 2005fpw from a fellow poster at Anandtech and did a local pickup. The monitor has been great up until a few months ago. At that time, it started to develop a lot of dark vertical and horizontal lines across it and seems to be remembering...
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    Linux apps on x86 Macs? Please help

    I originally posted this in the software forum, but feel it should have been here instead: I'm helping my boss select 3 new "super workstations" to be used by myself and a couple others. We are looking to get dual-quad-core xeons to work with. We want all the power we can get today for two...
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    Linux apps on x86 Macs? Please help

    I'm helping my boss select 3 new "super workstations" to be used by myself and a couple others. We are looking to get dual-quad-core xeons to work with. We want all the power we can get today for two reasons: future-proof (well for a little while) and we actually can and will use the power of...
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    Motherboards Dying Left and Right?!?!

    Ok, this has me stumped and very frustrated. Back in December, I bought a Gigabyte Socket 939 board and Athlon 3800+ X2 off of a friend to put in my wife's computer. After installing things, the board wouldn't boot (fans came on, but no post). I took things apart and after fiddling with how...
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    Celeron M 430 Vs. Sempron 3500+ Mobile

    I'm looking possibly buying my wife a new hp dv2000 laptop and configured 2 models for about $625 each after discounts and rebates and tax. One is an AMD based with a Sempron 3500+ and Nvidia 6150 graphics card, while the other is an intel based Celeron M 430 with intel 950 GMP graphics...
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    Logitech Harmony Remotes - Media Center PCs?

    I'm not sure where to put this, so hopefully there are some media center pc users here. For Christmas I'm looking into getting my father a logitech harmony remote to control his media center pc (running winxp and the software that came with his tuner card), directtv pvr, dvd, and stero. I just...
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    TV Tuner Audio/Video out of sync in 15 min

    This problem has been frustrating me for months. I used to use a Leadtek TV Tuner card in my machine but the video quality was poor so I upgraded (maybe not) to an AverMedia 1500 MCE PVR card (with hardware MPEG2 Support). The quality was better and the PVR functionality works well. My...
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    Need upgrade from GeForce 5600 128 mb for $100

    I'm looking to do a nice upgrade to my Geforce 5600 AGP card for about $100 if it's feasible in the first place. Late in the year I plan on upgraded to a PCIExpress board and then playing "hand me down" to the parts in my main machine to the other machines in the house. What i'm looking...
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    Notebook Advice: Acer 1414 or other???

    I used to own a SAGER 5690 Laptop loaded to the gills, but sold it last year after i hardly used it and needed the money from it to pay itself off and then some. I didn't use it too much in part due to it's weight, horrible sound, 1 hour battery life, and it would get incredibly hot. Fast...
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    WinXP Video/Audio skips every 60 seconds

    I have been having some major headaches with my Sager Laptop (runs a 3.0 ghz p4, 1 gig ram, 128 meg radeon 9000). Everytime I play a movie file (be it divx, mpeg, or DVD), the video and audio will skip/stutter very badly nearly every 60 seconds for about 1-2 seconds. The remaining 58 seconds...
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    Data on NTFS is Invisible.....

    Over the past couple days I have been having all sorts of issues with my HD's in my main rig. It has two WD 250 SATA drives in it. One is failing, the other I assume is fine. I moved both drives to my spare rig that had two free SATA ports on it (part of a HighPoint raid chipset). When i boot...
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    Upcoming Logitech Speakers

    I haven't heard anything, but does anyone know or heard rumors if the logitech z-680's will be getting upgraded in the next 6 or so months? I haven't heard anything and was thinking of getting these soon, but I want to hold off if better ones are coming down the road.
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    Modding an ANTEC 1080 Door....HOW?

    I was looking at some case mods recently, and discovered that a few people have taken a case like the antec 1080 or similar (I have one), and cut a window into the door. I was curious if anyone knew if there was a kit for this, what materials are used/needed other than a piece of plexiglass...