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    What makes a LCD monitor good/bad for viewing movies or video editing

    What makes a LCD monitor good/bad for viewing movies or video editing? I read some of this guide and wonder as, that is the conclusion for some of the lcd panels. http://xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=71226 I want a 17 or 19 inch that has at least sxga resolution or more...
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    A8n-sli premium : Is backplate glued on?

    Is the backplate for the heatsink to the Asus a8n-sli premium glued on or not? When I saw it, I thought it looked really solid with some sort of black stuff, but it did not occur to me that it might just be that the black stuff is to issolate the metal backplate. I thought the black stuff...
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    Does enabling Active Armour of Nforce 4 slow mobo down?

    Does enabling Active Armour of Nforce 4 slow the mobo down? In what way could it burden the system (if at all)? Please describe your experiences.
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    How much power supply for nforce4 sli board and 2 6600gt, A64 3000+ and 1 - 3 harddrives, 1dvd? 2 120mm case fans, xp120

    Well the title says it all. How much power supply for nforce4 sli board and 2 6600gt, A64 3000+ and 1 - 3 harddrives, 1dvd? 2 120mm case fans, xp120 . I will start with 1 hard drive and upgrade eventually to 3. I will start with one 6600gt and upgrade in a year to 2. Oh 1gb of RAM. So I...
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    Power Supply Questions, Need explanation/what is sli ready?pci-e?24pin vs 20?

    Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2005 7:43 am Post subject: Need explanation/what is sli ready?pci-e?24pin vs 20?6600gt -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I am confused. What is sli ready? And if the power supply is not "sli ready" can you...
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    Confussed, How to install 4gb memory into Asus A8N-Sli Deluxe?

    Well, I am thoroughly confused! The manual to the Asus A8N-sli Deluxe motherboard, on page 2-11, says: "Due to CPU limitation, DIMM modules with 128 Mb memory chips or double-sided x16 memory chips are not supported in this motherboard." It also says: "Due to chipset resource...
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    Thermaltake Shark Case VA7000SWA

    I am interested in getting the Shark case. But I was wondering about the two large vent openings that are in the case door. The holes seem to be honeycombed shaped like the ones punched out in the back of the case where the fan is mounted and blows its air out of the case. But my question...
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    VIA versus Texas Instrument Firewire controller.

    I am interested the Asus a8n-sli deluxe board and the dfi nforce 4 boards. According to specification, the asus uses a ti firewire controller chip while the dfi uses a VIA. I am interested in utilizing this firewire for dv camera video transfer so I need it to be very reliable. At...
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    DFI Nforce4 and Asus -a8n sli Deluxe nforce4 Boards and ECC memory?Do they actually utilze ecc functionality of memory?

    I am interestd in these nforce 4 boads and utilizing ecc (error correction code) memory. Could someone help me out and double check the bios of the asus a8n-sli deluxe board and tell me if it does actually have a switch for the ecc option of the memory. Also does the dfi nforce boards sli or...
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    DFI nf4 or nf4 sli dr / which is slot PCIE1 and which is slot PCIE4?

    From the dfi website for the nf4-sli dr motherboard it says if you run a single pci-e video card instead of 2 it will "Single VGA mode - 1 PCI Express graphics card on the PCIE1 slot will run at x16 bandwidth. - The other PCI Express x16 slot (PCIE4) will run at x2 bandwidth...