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    Anyone have the Samsung SyncMaster 2494HM?

    i would prefer that kind of stand with the matte finish. where did you buy yours because it seems all i can find are the glossy ones.
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    Putting together a new rig...

    haha CDN$ not US$. so if this is overkill what should i be looking at for a 1500$CDN budget?
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    Putting together a new rig...

    alright time for a new machine, not for me, not important. the person im making it for games, games and games. this is what i have so far...please use ur wisdom to guide me oh Anand forum dwellers... Intel Core I7 920 Quad Core Processor LGA1366 2.66GHZ Bloomfield 8MB LGA1366...
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    Is your processor Running slower than you think it should be ? Or at a different multiplier than it should be ?

    ok a quick question i didnt read all the posts in the thread cause its a lot. i have vista64 and in control panel>power options, there are 3 options, "balance", "power saver" and "performance". i changed it from "balance" to "performance". does this mean that the cpu wont be throttled or toggled...
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    New Catalyst Hotfix

    can we a get confirmation that this stops the stuttering in FC2 at DX10?
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    FarCry vid card review

    confirmed the gfx_maxfps 30 command stops the stuttering, and i dont know what u guys are talking about, maybe stop taking missions from the same people, i love the game so far.also pretty sure whoever ur character is doesn't have malaria
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    FarCry vid card review

    i have the same issue, HD 3870, 8.10's. word in the herd is that disabling catalyst ai fixes the stuttering. i didnt have much time, but i turned it off and went in game for like a minute. seems to be gone but there might be some side effects anyone wanna test it out?
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    CATs 8.10 Drivers Released

    is this true? if so how do i do it, only dl and install the display drivers?
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    PC freezes at mobo splash screen

    thanks guys, so i did what i said i did and it still didnt boot right? then later that day my sister turns it on and it works and hasnt had the problem since. also the problem was that i was unable to find the jumper. i tried to find pics of the mobo where it would tell me in the manual or...
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    PC freezes at mobo splash screen

    so i have a pc that i gave to my family when i got myself a new one. the motehrbaord is a MSI k8n neo2 platinum with an athlon 64 3500+ 2 gigs of ram and an x800xt. when i try to start it up the platinum splash screen appears and then just stays there...forever. so what i tried to do was...
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    Cleaning the Registry

    yeah i found that out. so does that mean that it is ok to clear those entries. im wondering because 1 program considered it clean worthy and another didnt.
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    Cleaning the Registry

    Hey guys, once again im calling on the AT members infinite wisdom for help. I took it upon myself to try to clean my registry since it has been a while. I looked around for a while to see what were the better programs out there for such a task. I come up with TweakNow Regcleaner and Eusing Free...
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    Driver update using Windows update...

    the title is basically it guys. i was doing some windows updates and i saw on the list that there is an available update for my ATi drivers. I was wondering if i should keep doing it the way i always have been with driver cleaner and such or if its safe/good to do it through windows update.
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    gjqpmnyr.exe

    hello everyone, well i just got that antivirus xp 2008 garbage and seem to of fixed it with malwarebytes alright. i did a huge cleaning after getting it though and i noticed that i have a process running called gjqpmnyr.exe and i have no idea what it is. google turns up nothing. it is in the...
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    vsync

    so, in the anandtech review, they say that for the 9800gtx turning the vsync off in the driver control panel resulted in lowered fps. so i have an HD 3870 and in the control panel im guessing vsync is called "wait for vertical refresh", should i leave it to on and then turn it off in game? will...
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    9800 GTX Reviews Thread

    so, in the anandtech review, they say that for the gtx turning the vsync off in the driver control panel resulted in lowered fps. so i have an HD 3870 and in the control panel im guessing vsync is called "wait for vertical refresh", should i leave it to on and then trn it off in game? will this...
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    ATI Catalyst 8.2 are Out

    i have a question about installation. i have the 8.1s installed, and i want to install the 8.2s (HD3870). do i have to uninstall the 8.1s or can i just install then 8.2 and itll do what it needs to do?
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    GA-X38-DQ6 POST problem

    im still having this boot problem every time the system is shut down for a longer period of time. the shortest time it has been down and reproduced the problem was ~8 hours, other than a full on restart from within windows, which always seems to work fine. any ideas? ive contacted gigabyte and...
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    GA-X38-DQ6 POST problem

    ok...i went into bios and uped the DRAM voltage to +0.40, which would put it to 2.2v correct?
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    GA-X38-DQ6 POST problem

    im having a similar issue with my board, the same one. what happens is when i reboot or shut down for long periods of time it seems, it does a boot cycle, which is a part of the quad bios feature based on what ive read. what it does it begins booting, doesnt even get to the point where the...
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    Problem booting new system...

    as for the battery, what kind of battery is that?
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    Problem booting new system...

    i dunno about the cpu power connector to mobo because i didnt assemble it. it was assembled by NCIX.com, the memory voltage needs to be at 2.2v? thats the # on the box they came in.
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    Problem booting new system...

    Hey guys, so i put together a new pc (see signature) and aside from this problem ill describe everything seems ok. also, im running Vista Ultimate x64. basically i have trouble booting after long periods of the pc being off. im on the pc right now if i were to shutdown wait for the thing to...
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    Catalyst 8.1 are out!!

    ya sorry forgot to link and now i cant find it again...lol but ur right exiting the ati icon in the tray makes it go away.
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    Catalyst 8.1 are out!!

    hey man i found this concerning our white square problem but i think his instructions were for XP and im running vista anyone have any ideas?
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    Catalyst 8.1 are out!!

    i have that too does anyone know what it is?
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    ATI OverDrive

    i have an HD3870. when i look at the ATi overdrive in CCC. (first of all i unlocked it and cant lock it back again) there is a section that says current and requested clock settings. in requested it says: GPU clock 777 MHz memory clock 1126 MHz but in current it says: GPU clock 300...
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    Advice on new build...

    bump just cause i wanna buy tonight.
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    Advice on new build...

    cool thanks for the input. with a p35 or x38 board will i be able to upgrade to a penryn or nehalem later or would i need a new board?
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    Advice on new build...

    i would like to learn to overclock a bit. not to extreme measures, but ive never done it before and supposedly the Q6600's overclock well. nehalem isnt scheduled to come out for another 6months atleast will i be able to upgrade at that point with the mobo im getting? what if i were to get an x38...
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    Advice on new build...

    hey guys so i have another question. how important are ram timings. i can get a 4GB (2x2GB) PC2-6400 set of OCZ Platinum XTC for 109.99 with timings of 5-4-4-15 or a set of Patriot Extreme Performance 4GB (2X2GB) PC2-6400 with timings of CL4-4-4-12 for 134.99. what would u go for?
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    Advice on new build...

    again, any advice i can get about waiting for penryn and the RAM i chose?
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    Advice on new build...

    bump
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    Advice on new build...

    thanks, the 8800gt are just more than i want to spend. anyone else have any insight on the whole penryn question? or anything else period?
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    Advice on new build...

    oh snap i did forget an optical drive. thanks.
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    Advice on new build...

    1. The PC im building will be used for a lot of gaming, a solid amount of video editing/after effects, as well as some mapping for games (might get into modelling too), and then the simple stuff obviously (word processing, browsing, music, dvd watching). 2. My budget is 1300$CAD, i can go as...
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    pci-e versions?

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    New rig, pulling the trigger

    whats wrong with OCZ? does anyone else feel this way?
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    pci-e versions?

    bump?
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    pci-e versions?

    awesome that helps alot. if u were to approximate though, what do u see the longevity of the 1.0 life being? in terms of when its bandwidth is no longer enough?