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    LG M237WD-PM 23" Widescreen Monitor with Bulit-in TV Tuner

    Linky I went back to Newegg today to purchase the similar Samsung deal for $299, but like Buy.com was OOS and price up to $329. So I went to Outpost.com, found this, and pulled the trigger. This seems like a brand-new design. Not much info on the net, but I did find THIS on LG's site...
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    Evga 8800gs $80 + S&H after $40 MIR

    Linky to Frys.com Specs: Interface: PCI Express 2.0 x16 GPU: GeForce 8800GS Core clock: 650MHz Stream Processors; 96 Memory Clock: 1900MHz Memory Size: 384MB Memory Interface: 192-bit Memory Type: GDDR3 DirectX: DirectX 10 OpenGL: OpenGL 2.0 Ports: 2 x DVI, TV-Out HDTV /...
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    Battlestar Galactica The Game!

    Link to Site! Found this last night. Was looking when the 2 hour movie "Razor" was going to show, and DAMN if I forgot it was broadcast 11/24! Now I'll have to rent/but the DVD when it comes out 12/4/7. I downloaded the trial last night but have not installed yet. I feel the series is one...
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    Gears of War PC Performance and IQ Tested

    HardOcp Linky! In case some of us were interested. No game review - just GPU performance.
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    World In Conflict 3D Graphics Performance - GPU & CPU

    Linky to Article AMD/ATI - 2900XT, 2600XT, & X1950Pro Nvidia -8800GTX, 8800GTS 640, 8600GTS, & 7900GT Using Vista, tested both DX9 & DX10 at high resolutions. Do check out the CPU test - multicores by a huge margin.
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    Crysis Specs Released

    Link to EA's Site I think this is about what most of us expected. Minimum OS - Windows XP or Windows Vista Processor - 2.8 GHz or faster (XP) or 3.2 GHz or faster* (Vista) Memory - 1.0 GB RAM (XP) or 1.5 GB RAM (Vista) Video Card -256 MB** Hard Drive - 12GB Sound Card - DirectX...
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    XP vs Vista Driver Comparison

    Link To FiringSquad Article
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    More Brief Tidbits about 8600GT & GTS

    Hardware Analysis Article VR-Zone Article
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    How Do I Remove Extra Screen Resolutions?

    I'm Running Forceware 97.92 on my 6800 Go Ultra m170. Awhile back, using Powerstrip, I added some extra resolutions for various reasons. So that I could choose from many other possible resolutions. Now the problem. I'm trying to run a game where I am unable to pick the res to run at in the...
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    connect3D X1900XT 256mb VIVO Retail $200 AR + $6 S/H

    Linky to the Egg! Quick search didn't find posted here, so if repost sorry! :)Looks hot to me - retail, VIVO, small rebate, and of course Newegg. Judgement = Hot? or Not?
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    Can CCC & MS .NET be removed?

    In cleaning out bloatware (not that much surprisingly) I found (I believe) CCC along with .NET. 2 entries in Add/Remove Programs for ATI - Control Center (or something like that) & the video drivers. I've no experience with ATI, so this is new to me. Reading in these forums many people do...
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    Retail ATI AIW W1900 $149.40 Shipped Free!!!

    Linkified! Great price!!!
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    XFX 7600GT PCIe XXX $149.99 Shipped!

    Price is good through 8/6. Thursday the sale price was $164.99, but has dropped today to $149.99 with free shipping. This is the 590mhz/1.6ghz model, the fastest model XFX makes. Not much of a bundle, but it is full retail. Linky If you apply for a Buy.com visa, you get another $30 off...
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    Upgraded 7900 series to support HDCP

    Not important for me, but anyone thinking about buying one of these soon may want to wait. Linky Pooh!
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    Sapphire 1900GT Review up at Firingsquad!

    Link
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    eVGA 7600GT $159 - $10 Rebate + $5 s&h

    Linky Weekend sale at the egg! This is the overclocked model. Not much of a bundle but this is a great price with only a $10 rebate to hassel over. Prices are falling close to my target, but I'm tempted to pull the trigger on this one! Dennis
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    New 7 series cards coming?

    Linky Found this article interesting. Was on the verge of buying a 7600GT, but now I think I'll wait awhile and see what develops.
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    ExtremeTech benchmarks Oblivion

    Link to Final Thoughts Page A quick read shows a pretty balanced article - read for yourself. I've not played an RPG game before; thinking about buying this one. Anyone's take on FPS vs RPG games appreciated. Dennis
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    Dell XPS m170 for $1388

    :) LINK Configure to minimal options Free shipping Don't have much time - I'm at work. But credit goes to ******. GREAT DEAL! Also comes with DVD burner & 15 months of secuity. You just have to remove all the extra stuff Dell wants you to buy, expecially the $59 bag on page 3. This beats...
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    HDTV Output from 6 series cards?

    When I purchased my Leadtek PCIe 6600GT it came with an nVidia breakout connector. One end plugs into the S-video out on the graphics card, and the other end has the 3 high def connectors plus s-video and normal video for a total of 5 connections. If I output through this pigtail into my high...
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    Info on new NV 7900 cards

    Linky Seems like the next gen cards will be very competitive. Lets hope the prices don't go up much higher than what they're at now!
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    X1800 Crossfire Review at Hexus

    Link to first page of review Link to conclusion page Hope this is not a repost - did a quick search and didn't find a previous post.
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    Forceware 78.11 @ Far Cry issues

    See below for my system. I've never seen this in FC on my other PCs. Interior lights are too bright (although HDR is off I presume), and large areas of terrain are pitch black in some areas. Changing quality settings and resolution didn't help. Only thing that worked was using OpenGL are...
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    Quake 4 & Mainstream Video Cards Compared

    If this is a repost forgive me, but I did a quick search and couldn't find anything, so here is the article done 10/26: Linky! Quote for the impatient people:
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    New 7 series card more than just 512mb memory?

    Link Interesting reading!
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    X1000 series not 100% with SM 3.0?

    Didn't see this posted here. If so, sorry for repost. Link to Hardocp front page news 10/6/05 Link to Techreport article Hmmm....So X1000 cannot do vertex texture fetch, which apparantly SM 3.0 calls for and ATI requires a workaround. Nvidia cards fully support this feature. I guess...
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    Ordered Dell Inspiron XPS Gen 2 today

    :)Bought it through AAFES website. Best price I've seen on this system. You can check my posting in the hotdeals forum! Anyone here have one of these? This thing will handle anything I can throw at it for awhile.
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    Dell Inspiron XPS Gen 2

    This is only available to those of us qualified to use AAFES. No link can be provided (it's through AAFES.COM). If you have to ask if you qualify then you probably don't. Inspiron XPS Gen 2 Intel® Pentium® M Processor 760 (2 GHz/2MB Cache/533MHz FSB) Microsoft® Windows® XP Home or Media...
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    Disregard!!!

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    Read this if considering which XBox360 to buy!

    Linky! Food for thought before spending your money!
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    Read this if considering which XBox360 to Buy!

    Linky! Hmm....guess I'm not too surprised by this since the original XBox all came with a hard drive. But if you're going to buy (I won't!) you probably should go ahead and spend the dollars upfront to buy one with a drive.
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    AthlonXP 2800+ vs Comparable Sempron?

    I have a brand new retail 2800+ I've never opened. It's the one with the Barton core and 333fsb. Purchased an ECS nForce2 Ultra mb/XP 2800+ combo at outpost last year to build a system, but someone gave me a 2000+ XP cpu which I installed on the nf2 board. If need to I can swap cpus out if...
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    XP Zero Configuration Utility

    Read many pages on the net that suggested disabling this and using the PC card's driver utility to work with wireless. Needed an opinion here as I don't really know which is better. My current laptop has always had both running, but I've also had intermittent disconnect and reconnects...
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    ATI to release X800GT?!?! BENCHMARKS!

    Linky Another X800 card! Looks like the 6600GT has some serious competition. Heck, if you catch good buys you can buy a X800Pro at around the same price, which would perform better. Specs seem to be a neutered X800XL. Things must be getting rough for ATI! EDIT Benchmarks found HERE...
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    Is it OK to leave wireless router on all the time?

    I've had a wireless setup for over 3 years. Up till recently I used a 802.11b Seimens router and Seimens card for my laptop. It's connected to a LAN cable to the desktop and my cable modem. Since I sometimes surf the net late at night after everybody goes to bed, I've always left the router...
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    Netgear vs D-Link vs Linksys - best router?

    My old Seimens 802.11b router went out on me last week. It's served me fine for more than 2 years, but now must change to something else. I'm trying out a Netgear WGR614 v6 right now I bought at BestBuy last weekend for $30. Buy.com has Netgear and D-link combo for $35 & $30AR. Right now...
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    D-Link or Netgear 802.11g combo - $30-35 - which is better?

    These deals may have been posted earlier, but I'll put both of these here for comparison: D-Link Combo $30 AR Netgear Combo $35 AR Anyone with past experience would be helpful. I bought the Netgear router at BestBuy last weekend. It works OK in general, but the wireless connection...
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    BFG 7800 GTX $491 shipped free!

    Linky Apply coupon code XXXX (intenet is your friend) to take $65 off sale price. Coupon good till 7/12.
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    6800LE vs 6600GT at same price - which would you buy$

    Text I already have a 6600GT, but believe this would perform ~somewhat~ better than my card. No, I'm not upgrading to this, but someone shopping I think this would be a better buy. What do you think? Not many benchmarks for an 8-pipe LE, but should be close at higher resolutions.
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    Leadtek A400LE 6800 $159 + $2 S&H at Newegg

    Linky Pooh! Specs: Geforce 6800LE AGP Core clock 300MHz PixelPipelines 8 Memory Clock 700MHz Memory Size 128MB Memory Interface 256-bit Low level 6800 at or below price of 6600GT, but should perform a little better!