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    How should I outfit my home office?

    I've decided that trying to do work on my overly fast, glowing, distracting, vacuum-cleaner loud gaming comp is silly. Then I relized my Epson 740 from five years ago is showing its age. Hmmmm.... ...New toys time! Except... I have no idea what sort of things I'd need to be as...
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    Really cool little abstract thinking exercise

    If x=.999... (meaning .999... repeating into infinity) then 10x = 9.999... (again, 9.999... repeating into infinity) Then it stands to reason that 9x will be found from the equation: (10x)-(x)=(9x) This of course holds true. Therefore, if 10x=(9.999...) and x=(.999...) then...
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    Favorite commercials?

    My favorite was a Superbowl commercial a few years back... It was two monkies on trashcans dancing to Carribian music with castinettes, while two senior citizens sat in law chairs next to them. It then cut to a screen saying something along the lines of "We just wasted 21 million dollars...
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    Does WCIII LAN play require unique cd keys?

    ..can the people who don't own thier own copy of Warcraft3 use someone else's version/cd key on the same LAN? Thanks.
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    There is a deep rubbing sound emmting from my computer somehow...

    Whenever I scroll down a page of text/website/whatever, or when theres a status bar on the screen that is moving, a deep rubbing-like sound is emmited from my onboard audio. The only thing I could think of that might cause something like this would be crosstalk... but.. I don't see how...
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    UT2k4 question:

    My friends and I want to have a LAN party soon, and would like to play UT2k4. I was wondering, will each member of the LAN party need a unique copy/key, or is there a "spawn" type feature that will allow us to play off of one copy?
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    I need to increase mouse tracking speed... help?

    I recently bought a new wireless keyboard/mouse combo. The mouse's functionality is great -- however, the tracking is just not as fast as my last one. This drives me nuts, as I am used to a very quick tracking speed. Even with the system setting at max, its just not fast enough...
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    SATA n00b...

    My new rig will be here soon, featuring an SATA HD that will be the root drive. Does anybody have a "heads-up" on anything I should look out for? I hear they're harder to install to, but never why. Having never used SATA before, I'd like to see what I'm getting myself into. Thanks!
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    RAM Disk?

    I want to create a small RAM disk. Is there a feature in XP that will do it, or do I need to use a 3rd party app?
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    When do FPS matter?

    Having had a computer that plays CS 1.6 around 30fps and looks fine, I was wondering: How different do high FPS really look? Can you really tell the difference between 60 FPS and 100? How many FPS do you really need for a game to be playable? My new rig w/ a 6600GT is...
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    OC'ing FAQ/starters guide?

    Could someone point me to a good site for overclocking basics? This will be my first computer that I can overclock, and have no idea where to start, what I need, etc etc. Thanks.
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    AMD 64 3200+ vs. Intel Pentium 4 540 3.2 GHz

    Hi all. I got a question... here it goes: I need a new computer, and I need one soon for school/productivity. I can't really wait too long for the nForce4 to come out. I game a lot, however I'm not an FPS maniac by any standard. I just want games such as HL2 and Doom3 to...