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    Aliens

    Yes, I am Turkish. Mehmet is like the most common turkish name ever. Never read the comic by the way, and I did not even know that one existed until just now. By the way, you can also hear darth vader breathing at the end of episode one credits. I checked the other episodes thinking that...
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    Aliens

    You didn't ruin the thread. You just went off topic. :)
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    Yet another Z-5500 Post

    I have given up. I am not going to bother with the co-ax anymore. My dvd occupies the optical in of the Z-5500 and the cable box occupies the co-axial. It is going to be a hassle to change the speaker wires everytime I want to use it, anyway. Thanks for all the advice.
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    Aliens

    Speak for yourself; I am not sure everybody agrees with you. The reasons this post about a movie that is 2 decades old belongs here is because this is the off-topic section. I am not sure you are the judge of what belongs here. If you are not interested, you do not have to read it, or respond to...
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    Aliens

    Yeah, meet me in the corner of CPU and video at midnight. Bring your 3dmark06 and prime 95.
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    Aliens

    Thank you for the insult. I did not realize that we were communicating in formalities. If I wanted your opinion on my command of the language, I would ask you for it - and I have not. The point is, there is something interesting at the end of the movie.
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    Aliens

    So I was watching Aliens, the extended version. I happened to leave it on all the way to the end of the credits and the volume was turned up all the way and I heard the opening of the eggs of the face-huggers, it was very soft but I am very sure what it was. This comes to tell you that the queen...
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    Yet another Z-5500 Post

    I have a creative webcam, I wonder if there could be a similar issue.
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    Yet another Z-5500 Post

    Yes I have. I have actually tried 4 different co-axial cables. Today I went to Walmart and spent 15 dollars on a philips co-axial digitla cable, and it came with all the orange and beautiful plastic that you would expect from a $15 cable. That did not do the trick. I went ahead and...
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    i'm so sorry for posting what every other person does here: laptop advice

    Another vote for the IBM. I have an X41 and it is smaller than a notebook, lighter than most of my books. I would go for the x40 since it is cheaper and has a little more battery life, X60 if you have the money. No problems with Lenovo customer service so far...
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    Yet another Z-5500 Post

    Creative technical support says reinstall drivers in safe mode. I am too lazy to do that, since the rest of the card seems to be working fine, I doubt this is going to change anything. I am going to get cables this weekend and maybe see if there is another digital co-axial-in I can use aside...
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    X41, Pentium M 1.5Ghz

    I was checking on the CPU speed just a second ago, and I realized that it does all the way down to 239Mhz, but is usually around ~589 Mhz when at its lowest multiplier, but I realize that Windows does not always correctly identify the speed. Anybody have similar experiences?
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    My Z-5500s are popping randomly

    I agree with the last post. I have the same speakers, and hear popping noise when the dish washer behind the tv, in the kitchen starts working. No poppong when it is not working.
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    Yet another Z-5500 Post

    Here is the setup. Audigy 2 zs connected to Logitech Z-5500 through 1) RCA analog, which works fine 2) Digital Co-axial with a 1/8inch mono rca adapter, which does not. The co-axial in on the Z-5500 works fine with other inputs, such as the cable box, so I know that the speakers are not...
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    HP 3210 printers

    I have a 3320, which is probably very similar. It is not of the best quality and does have some problems every so often.
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    Dell W4201C Plasma + 6600GT + Logitech Z-5500 + Scientific Atlanta 8300HD = Loads of Fun

    I wish i could keep the ram, but my ram DDR333 instead of 400 since I got it with the athloxn xp 2500 which i later overclocked, and the 80GB harddrive is just way too slow. And did I mention my PSU came with the case and is only 350W. So there, I need at least 750-1000 to upgrade everything...
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    Dell W4201C Plasma + 6600GT + Logitech Z-5500 + Scientific Atlanta 8300HD = Loads of Fun

    Thanks for the input yoyo. I remember reading that earlier, but I am probably not going to have a lot of time until summer to game, so until then it is going to be HD and DVDs. Furthermore, it probably makes no sense to upgrade to another AGP card. It is time I moved to PCIe, but that means...
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    Dell W4201C Plasma + 6600GT + Logitech Z-5500 + Scientific Atlanta 8300HD = Loads of Fun

    Yes, it uses a few pixelworks chips. It scales just fine, I don't think that I would be able to tell the difference between that and 12*7 at the distance that I am watching. To my dismay, I tried to connect spdif and optical out to the speakers when the 8300HD feeding HDMI to the TV and it...
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    Dell W4201C Plasma + 6600GT + Logitech Z-5500 + Scientific Atlanta 8300HD = Loads of Fun

    I finally have my TV, HTPC and Surround sound all setup. I am no audio/videophile, but let me tell you it is looking a lot better than my old Philips 25 incher. So here is the setup, Athlon XP 3200, 1GB Ram, 6600GT, Audigy 2 ZS on the way from creative, and FFDShow running on all this...
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    Call of Duty 2 (Xbox 360 and PC comparison)

    Though not about COD2, this is related to HD gaming on big screen. I jut got my Dell w4201c plasma, and I hooked up my computer via DVI and I have been playing GTA San Andreas (since this is the most console like game that lets me use my xbox controllers), with everything turned up and a...
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    Low FPS in The Chronicles of Riddick - Escape From Butcher Bay??

    Easy, tiger. The kid is just making a simple interpretation of happens to be somewhat true. Though AMD's higher cache(well that was the case with the Athlond XPs compared to the Celerons at the time), shorter pipeline, and integrated memory controller are not necessarily made for gaming, but...
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    Laptop with dvi out

    THe acer ferrari has a DVI out, if you are interested.
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    HTPC video card

    You might be able to get a passively cooled 6600GT and any effects you will achieve through ffdshow will trump whatever NVIDIA or ATi comes up with. But if you use those and ffdshow, you might be in a better boat. I have Purevideo, WinDVD and Power Dvd codecs for mpeg2, and the up-conversion...
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    Bought the Dell w4201c

    The price I found on BB was about $1899, which makes it about the same price as the Dell, which happens to have a lower resolution, I think. Either way, the plasma is looking great, but it is getting replaced with a newer one due to some speaker problems.
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    Half-Life 2: Aftermath Screenshots And Release Date!

    Surprisingly I never stopped playing the game, and probably finished the game at least 3 times. I still have nightmares about Ravenholm...
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    Bought the Dell w4201c

    The saga continues in avsforums.
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    NVidia PureVideo - Worth upgrading to.. for a HTPC?

    I have been comparing Purevideo with ffdshow results, and on stills, the pictures look so much better. But you would probably need a good CPU to resize the pictures to 19*10. I am having difficulty with 12*10 and my Athlon XP 3200+ @ 2.2Ghz, granted it is a few years old. But if you have a...
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    6600GT owners, overclocking results?

    Leadtek 6600GT AGP 500/900 to 550-1200 on a cold day to 535-1150 on a hot day. I used ATI tool to check for problems and it gives me problems when I go over 82-83 for more than 10-15 minutes or so.
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    How fast is your Internet Connection?

    3589/366 RR in OH. That T3 is ridiculous.
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    Call of Duty 2 (Xbox 360 and PC comparison)

    I was reading that some of the games were not even running 1280*720 native, but were being upconverted before getting sent to the display. I think it was on gamespot, and they were talking about PGR3. That could be the case with COD2 as well. I also remember reading somewhere that COD2 was a PC...
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    Please help me answer a few laptop questions

    You will be the best judge of whether or not you can use a 12 incher. I know some people who hate it, but I am used to my IBM X41. It is very easy to carry around, and definitely lighter than most of my books. One of the biggest problem with 12 inchers is that their keyboards are not 100%...
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    IBM annouces X60

    Isn't Apple killing firewire support? I remember reading that on ars.
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    IBM annouces X60

    Another huge(?!) change for a thinkpad with X60, the windows button....
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    IBM annouces X60

    Great upgrade idea. But mine is under warranty for 3 years, so I will probably not go that way, and buy another X series after this becomes too slow for my taste, and hopefully they will have a hybrid hard drive instead of this 4200 1.8 incher. And I just tried to look at the pictures, from...
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    Best Ultralight

    X60 has been announced. It should be available in a few weeks. I own a X41, and the only down side is the slow hard-drive. IF you cna live with that, then your laptop will be the envy of others.
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    IBM annouces X60

    Dual Core , and the new chipset, otherwise the good old X41/40.
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    Upgrading Lenovo (Thinkpad) Z60M

    http://theinquirer.net/?article=28680 90% of all laptops come from Taiwan, 50% from 2 manufacturers. They are almost all the same quality, much like a Saab is a Subaru, and a Pontiac is a Cadillac is a Chevrolet, and an AUDI is a VW etc etc. Re-badge-ing is the way of the future. But I do...
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    G71 to sample next week

    What is the price going to be, I wonder? $900 for the 512MB version?
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    Upgrading Lenovo (Thinkpad) Z60M

    I think you should be able to do some upgrades with the dell inspiron 9300 and the XPS , since they are basically the same thing (and some alienwares but they are not really laptops at 13 lbs). But by the time you are ready to upgrade your graphics, your CPU, RAM and your hard drive is going to...
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    Bought the Dell w4201c

    Real HD is not quite possible, from my knowledge, with 42 inch plasmas, since they only support 1024*768; therefore some sort of scaling is required. Only the 50 inchers support 13*7. So I realize that I will be getting what I pay for. The wife does not have the most discerning eye when it comes...