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    ASUS PA249Q or Dell U2413

    Like I said earlier. I want something they don't make. It's all good. It just seems that technology in some areas lags behind others when in my mind it seems like it would crossover and be implemented quite easily.. smart phones to monitors. I guess smart phones are more mainstream and...
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    ASUS PA249Q or Dell U2413

    well.. they make a 5" Samsung galaxy S4 with a 1080 screen. My thought on it is really clear text and fine detail.
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    ASUS PA249Q or Dell U2413

    Thanks for the input everyone. According to TFT Central, it looks like they have changed their anti glare coating on all recent models: The screen coating on the U2413 is much like that featured on other recent Dell IPS screens like the U2713H and U2713HM, all of which has been a positive...
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    ASUS PA249Q or Dell U2413

    I need a new monitor. I don't really want to go over 24" as I sit pretty close to it ~36". Uses: Gaming (BF3), Documents and spreadsheets. Budget: <$600 I really want the IPS, and I love that both of these two are calibrated and have accurate color. The 1920x1200 extra pixels...
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    REcycling a CRT

    I seem to recall there were places like Staples that would give you a $15 in store credit for an old CRT. Anyone know of any big box stores that still do this? Thanks, Stu
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    Anyone recogmend a new card for me?

    Hey all, I think I may be due for an upgraded video card. I'm getting my arse kicked in COD4. I'm currently using an Nvidia 8800 GTS with 364 MB ram. That is about 2 years old. My budget is just under $200 and I'm wondering if an upgrade is appropriate with my budget, or...
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    Slow hard drive access time

    I've defragged it 2 or 3 times in the last month.
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    Slow hard drive access time

    Your right............ It was right in front of me. Hard disks are set to "never", Hibernate and Standby are also "Never".
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    Slow hard drive access time

    I looked around in "Power options" in the control panel and saw no relation to drive power. Went to "device manager" saw nothing there. Where exactly do I find this? Thanks alot guys. ALso I still would like to use the 200 I have as a backup, and get that 300. All my...
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    Slow hard drive access time

    I've got a 200 GB IDE (8MB buffer) drive in my PC that I use as mass storage (Not the boot drive) for gobs of pictures, DVD's, some 300 CD's ripped to it. It still has 60GB of free space but that varies when I'm ripping DVD's. Whenever I go to it and open a folder or point other programs to...
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    slow freakin internet

    I'm living in Puerto Rico right now. Worst internet service you can imagine. I have a 128 cable connection that I can download at about 12 KBps (when it works), and a 256 DSL line in the house that allows me to d/l at about 22-28 KBps. Here is what gets me. I can have multiple downloads...
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    PC to stereo

    Anyone??? Anything???? Please help me
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    Are SATA Hard drives 30$ better than ATA?

    I've had so many problems lately using Sata and ATA drives together. If I was You I would just go look for a good ATA drive. 7200 rpm.... Good luck
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    PC to stereo

    Hey all I've read alot of posts here about people connecting their PC to their Home theatre. Some successful some not so. Presently I have a Mobo with Optical out but going through the wall and over to the theatre ... well I'm gonna shatter that optical cable. What I would...
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    Really Easy!! website Builder

    Looking to building my first website. Need something that will help someone who aint got a clue (me) build a site in a quickness. Dont know if it matters but plan on hosting it myself. Win Server 2003. Anyone else in here deal with servers and web...
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    IC7-G Sata issues

    Jumper settings LOL what was I thinkin. It was a small little overlooked item in the Bios. How I couldnt get this before boggles my mind now. Issue ressolved. Thanks All, Stewrt
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    Wacky worms,spyware,popups,trojans,viruses,adware,malware...

    Thanks guys, Reformatted and updated/immunized everything as much as possible from CD's. Tried a few of the utilities you recogmended. Cleanest install ever.. And I dont see anything getting through. All I gotta do now is keep it all updated. Thanks again...
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    all in one media player

    Thanks guys, Found the Divx codec pack and the K-lite Codec pack. Installed and I can play about 90% of stuff now. Using WMP
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    Anyone here have an Epson CX5400?

    I had an Epsonj and had a similar problem with Gen inks. finally it broke and I bought a $75 Canon. Beautiful printing and fairly cheap ink. I would suggest buying a couple of different Gen inks. Or look for a Forum on Printers (see what has worked for others). Or unfortunately...
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    all in one media player

    Anyone know a good media player that will play just about everything? Or a solution to getting WMP to play more than it does. I actually dont have a problem with WMP but it just needs to play more.
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    Wacky worms,spyware,popups,trojans,viruses,adware,malware...

    All, Recently reformatted. 3 days ago. Since then between the time I got everything loaded and running I got a bug. And it wont go away. I have Pop-ups, Windows telling me I have Spy-ware, And AVG telling me I have viruses. I have updated and run. AVG, Adaware, SpyBot S+D...
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    IC7-G Sata issues

    Refering to the jumper settings on the Raptor drive. I still havent even looked at them. I need my system right now to study for a test. But in the future I want that Raptor as a boot drive. Could it make a difference? I seem to recall having to set the jumpers a certain way for...
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    IC7-G Sata issues

    Could the possible problem be the jumper settings? Thats the only thing I havent tried and just thought of it..
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    IC7-G Sata issues

    TextHey all Hope you can help me with this prob. buggin the crap out of me. Recently debugged my computer and reformatted and in the process removed a RAID0 array which contained 2 SATA WD raptors And left 1 of the Raptors to use as a boot drive. Also installed a new 200GB drive...