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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 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

    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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    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

    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...