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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 checked the online manual for the Samsung 226BW and the 2232BW and neither one could do the Fixed Aspect Ratio Scaling. Although they look good, this feature is a deal breaker for me. Anyone know if I am wrong and if these monitors can do this?
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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

    I normally use alcohol wipes to clean monitor/TV glass. Unfortunately I ran out and its been long enough to accumulate a bit of gunk. In her defense she tried to be careful and spray on the cloth and then wipe the moniter. It may be that the anti-glare coating just finally gave out with the...
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    Dumb LCD question

    Thanks for the info. I have been convinced. Now if I can just keep Mrs. Despy away from the Windex...
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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

    Ahh, you see that for WinMe the highest driver released is the 66.94 and that was just in December. I really hope that I see 7x.xx Forceware soon, but I would like a solution before then. My PSU is a generic 350W unit, but has had no troubles in the past providing enough power (no artifacts...
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    Flaky Forceware foul-up

    Bumpage
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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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    [poll] Which Civ game is better?

    Man, I have dropped so many hours of my life in Civ2. That game is grade 'A' electronic crack. Truely the most addictive game ever created (just one more turn). Dang, I'm getting the urge to play again.
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    Lowest CPU for HL2

    Cool... How about memory? I'm cruisin' along with 384MB.
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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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    You Know You're From Portland

    Unfortunately I am now just starting that whole 'go to work in the dark, get home in the dark' cycle. It well and truly sucks big time.
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    You Know You're From Portland

    quote: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Originally posted by: Vic Sounds about right. But there's only 2 seasons: Winter... and August. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Shhhhh...
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    Most Useless video card features of our time article

    Used to have one of those 3Dfx V5 cards. It actually worked pretty well and I played all the way through Half-life with that bad boy. Thief with 2xAA back in the day was pretty durn cool. I always lamented the fact that the T-buffer was never used for anything other than AA. There was...
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    Firewall for dialup

    Since I won't have access to this computer except every few months (out-of-state), I need a firewall that is as idiot proof as possible. Looking at Kerio right now. Thoughts?
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    Firewall for dialup

    Thanks! I will take a look. Despy
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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?

    That doesn't jive with the article: "However, the FSB speeds and multiplier are also a fortunate accident on the 2500+, since 11X is also the same multiplier as the top 3200+ Athlon XP. Since the 2500+ runs at 166 FSB, 3200+ performance is often as easy as setting the FSB to 200 from the...
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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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    Old SiS 730 chipset and shutdown

    Worked beautifully. Thanks! Despy
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    Bang for the buck

    Specifically what features would be lacking? I don't need built in LAN or Sound. I would like to have the ability to clock lock the PCI and AGP bus. 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

    Thanks dclive. I'll dig into it this coming weekend. Despy
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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

    Well... has anybody gotten the demos to work in Windows ME?
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    nvidia demos not working

    I will try to get the exact error message tonight and post it.
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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

    I don't have any SCSI adapters, however I do have an external ZIP drive that shows up in Device Manager as a SCSI device. Most of the time the thing is hooked up to another computer, but the drivers are there.
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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...