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    Vid Card Recommendation (AGP?)

    I need advice from the brain trust here. My current video card is a X800GTO with all 16 pipes unlocked (standard is 12). This card has turned out to be a pretty good workhorse and was quite capable of playing virtually anything I threw at it. Yeah, I needed to turn down the candy on a few...
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    20-22" Widescreen Recommendation Needed!

    I have been suffering with an old Envision 17" CRT, but it is time to upgrade. My problem is picking the right LCD widescreen. I need to be able to play games, so a fast response time and low lag is important. Color reproduction is less important, but I don't want an awful picture either...
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    LCD monitor w/older vid card

    It looks like it is finally time to upgrade my monitor. The old 17" CRT has done an admirable job, but is starting to look a little long-in-the-tooth compared to some of the spiffy new LCDs. Preferably I would like to get a 19" LCD or a widescreen monitor. The problem is, the 'native...
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    Dumb LCD question

    Okay, time for the proverbial dumb question... Yesterday I discovered that I needed to get a new moniter. Mrs. Despy cleaned my good ol' CRT and managed to scrub part of the reflective coating off. The result was like looking thru a torn screen door. I have been out of the monitor 'loop'...
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    NV 5900XT

    Just curious. The basic specs for my eVGA card are as follows, with my overclock in (): GPU = 400MHz (425MHz) MEM = 700MHz (750Mhz) I hear this is actually pretty conservative for this card. I have had no problems with it at this level, I just want to know if I can expect any more out...
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    Flaky Forceware foul-up

    I don't want to have to switch drivers to play different games. The 6x.xx drivers screw up old and newer games (1insane, Need for Speed Underground). With 61.76 the games crash on startup. With 66.94 the games load but have horrendously corrupted graphics. Using 56.64 Half-life 2 loses some...
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    Lowest CPU for HL2

    Just curious about what the slowest CPU anybody has got running HL2. I know the minimum spec on the box says something like 1.2GHz, but I am looking for first hand experience. I need to know if my rusty Athlon 1600XP has even a chance of running it decently. I have a decent but not great...
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    Firewall for dialup

    I'm looking to add some protection for a family member's computer. They use a dial-up connection and Windows XP. They are pretty computer illiterate and I want to install something that doesn't require a lot of upkeep/tweaking. 1. What are recommendations for a good firewall? 2. Should...
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    XP mobile FSB?

    What exactly is the default FSB on the XP mobile (barton core)? Newegg is reporting it as 266Mhz but the overclocking article up today indicates that it is 333Mhz. Despy
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    Bang for the buck

    Okay, looking to upgrade and I thought I'd ask the experts. Currently I have: Athlon 1600XP MSI k266a (something like that, needs replaced w/ new cpu anyway) 384MB of DDR 2100 nVidia 5900XT As you can see, decent video card but the CPU/MB is getting a little long in the tooth. I would like...
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    Old SiS 730 chipset and shutdown

    I recently upgraded an older computer from Win98SE to WinXP. I did the ol' format C: and then installed WinXP Pro on a clean hard drive. For the most part it worked well, but there are a few annoying items that cropped up. One of them is the fact that the computer no longer shuts completely...
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    nvidia drivers

    Any hope of getting new drivers for Windows ME any time soon? The latest are the somewhat flakey 56.64's. Despy
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    nvidia demos not working

    This is something that has been nagging at me for some time. I bought a eVGA nvidia 5900XT back in January and it came with a CD with all the nvidia demos (Dawn, Dusk, etc.). Unfortunately I have never gotten any of them to work. All games work just fine (free Call of Duty with the card...
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    UT without the CD

    Where can I find the patch to play UT without the CD in the drive? I know it exists, but I lost my link! Thanks.
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    For the tech experts... off/on stuttering

    Hope someone here can help me. I have a problem that has been reoccurring since I installed a 3dfx V5 in my system. I have a 'stutter' in all applications. It is most visible in 3d games or anything where speed is required. It even shows up in the screensaver. The computer will run fine for...