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    Possible to connect a game console to monitor?

    I know they can't use the extra resolution, but I'd just like a way to watch them with reasonable image quality. The only method I've tried in the past results in a horrible picture from the conversion process.
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    Possible to connect a game console to monitor?

    Does anyone have a game system hooked to their monitor, either directly or through their computer? I know the X-Box 360 will be able to hook up directly to a VGA monitor, but what about like a Playstation 2 or Gamecube that dosen't have that capability? I know there are several methods...
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    LMAO CPU = motherboard

    This *has* to be a joke....right? I've helped people too that think the computer itself is the "hard drive". The first time I had that happen I spent 10 minutes on the phone with some girl who wanted to move her "hard drive". I was desperately trying to figure out why. I asked her if the...
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    Quick HTML/CSS question

    Thanks! I'll just start doing that.
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    Is it possible to get Deus Ex and Deus EX IW cheaply now?

    I still haven't played Deus Ex 2 (I've owned it for a year, just have a huge backlog of games to get through). The original is one of the best two games I've ever played. System Shock 2 isn't nearly as good, but still excellent and well worth playing if you can find it. In my experience SS2...
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    Quick HTML/CSS question

    I've got a slightly weird situation on a web page. It looks like a CSS file that defines the "a" tag is defining it not only for links, but also for anchors. You can actually see the text used as an anchor displayed as though it were a link, which dosen't happen if the CSS file isn't loaded...
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    How do I do a search for all files from a single user in XP?

    Okay, I think I sort of answered my question. From the Quota Entries screen, if you try to delete an entry, it pops up a window displaying the files associated with that user. From there you can delete files (or take ownership of them). Talk about convoluted. Hopefully this will help...
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    How do I do a search for all files from a single user in XP?

    Semi related question, how do I ?delete? a domain user from XP? Like a user that doesn?t specifically have an account on the machine, but rather has permission to log on because of his/her domain credentials. Is it as simple as just deleting their home directory (which would presumably get...
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    How do I do a search for all files from a single user in XP?

    I've searched on here and the web and can't find an answer to this. I'm setting up disk quotas in XP Pro, but can't figure out how to find all files from a particular user (so that I can delete stuff). As an example, XP is showing that one particular user is utilizing 1.07GB of disk space...
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    Questions about "Compress Drive" or "Compress old files" in XP

    Thanks! I turned it on (took about 10 hours), and my free space went from 150MB to 1.7GB. Not great, but it's something, and I've seen no problems so far. Navid, I'm going to let it go for a while, but you're probably right that it'll end up a problem again. I'm not even sure what I'd set...
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    Questions about "Compress Drive" or "Compress old files" in XP

    I?m managing a computer used by maybe 20-30 students running XP Pro, which only has a 10GB hard drive. Needless to say, it?s almost completely filled up (less than 150MB left, and that was after I went through and deleted some junk). I could enable quotas, but for the most part I really...
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    Tivo/ReplayTV/non-Tivo PVR questions

    I don't really have the option of sticking this in an entertainment center. I went to Best Buy today to see what they have, and they do have a Toshiba RD-XS32 (with 80GB drive and DVD-RW) for effectivly $360, $20 less than a 40 hour Tivo. My head's telling me I should just get that, since it...
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    Tivo/ReplayTV/non-Tivo PVR questions

    Thanks guys. I am SO tempted to pick a Series 2 up this weekend with my 10% off coupon, but I?m almost positive I?d end up returning it. My hearing is REALLY sensitive, and I don?t think I?d be able to use a unit that stays on all the time, even if it?s super-quiet. (That's why if I do buy...
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    Tivo/ReplayTV/non-Tivo PVR questions

    Not sure where to ask Tivo related questions on Anandtech. IMO it might as well count as a computer question, but this way no one will get ticked off :) Anyway, I had a VCR die on me, and I'm looking into my options for replacing it. (New VCRs don't have a tape guide, and I don't want to...
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    How do you change the rendering path in the Doom 3 demo?

    Okay, I've played with the x300se now. It defaults to arb2. R200 and NV20 look pretty much the same to me (although I wasn't seeing them side by side). arb2 adds neat-o heat effects, and probably other stuff. I did notice that on medium quality the Radeon seems to be cheating with mip...
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    Best LCD or for Gaming Sony vs. BenQ

    Dang it! When did these new Sony's come out? I just bought a Dell 1901 (Samsung?) with a 25ms response time. Oh well, it's still a nice monitor and I basically got it for $270.
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    How do you change the rendering path in the Doom 3 demo?

    Thanks a lot guys! I'm playing around with the settings on my Geforce 4, and somewhat surprised by the results. ARB has the highest frame rate of the three modes this card can do, but looks MUCH worse. Massive amounts of special effects are missing, and visually there's a huge, obvious...
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    X700XT worth the step-up?

    The x800se is out...as an OEM card from Dell. It's an 8 pipe card that seems to be in between a Radeon 9800 series card and a Geforce 6800.
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    How do you change the rendering path in the Doom 3 demo?

    Right now I've got a system with a Geforce 4 and one with an x300se. I know Doom 3 has several different code paths (nv10, nv20, R200, R300, and a generic OpenGL path-ARB or something like that?) but I can't figure out how to tell which one my cards are running, or how to change what it's...
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    How do you install the UD agent as a service?

    Another option is to set it to run using the "Scheduled Tasks" thing in the control panel. Set it to run when the computer starts, and it runs invisible in the background regardless of who's logged in to the computer (or if no one is). That's how I set it to run on a computer I manage with...
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    Best way to take advantage of Hyper Threading in UD?

    I've never done any scientific testing (ie running the same few different work units under different situations), but UD seems to average a little under 5 hours to around 7.25 hours per WU on this system, although I haven't paid that much attention to it (how much better is the Athlon 64?). It...
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    With United Devices Cancer Project, who owns the results?

    Oxford's site seems to be pretty messed up right now. Pages are dead all over the place. If I I read it correctly (in that IP statement or somewhere else on the site) basically Oxford gets to use the research internally, but (some/all?) the IP is being/has been licensed to some private...
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    UD x Per x comparisons

    Avg. CPU Time Per Calendar Day (y:D:h:m:s) 0:001:04:49:39 Avg. CPU Time Per Result (y:D:h:m:s) 0:000:16:00:40 Avg. Points Per Hour of CPU Time 18.57245 Avg. Points Per Calendar Day 535.39683 Avg. Points Per Result...
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    With United Devices Cancer Project, who owns the results?

    As I understand it, Folding @ Home claims that all of its results will be in the public domain. As near as I can tell, the rights to the Oxford/United Devices cancer research thing are being sold to corporations. Does anyone have any thoughts about this? I'm wondering if I should switch...
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    1901FP in games?

    I've had the monitor for a couple of weeks now, and overall I guess it's a little better than my Samsung (maybe...). Their is ghosting in some games, mainly depending on the colors involved. So far nothing's been horrible, it hasn't affected my ability to play games or anything. I think I...
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    Best way to take advantage of Hyper Threading in UD?

    Okay, I set up UD Monitor (seems to be a GREAT program), and have a cache of 3 work units, which should be enough to keep my system busy if I leave it on without internet access. Technically it bugs me that I occasionally see UD Monitor suck up 1% CPU time. Dang it, that's for UD! :D I also...
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    Best way to take advantage of Hyper Threading in UD?

    I'm tigerwolf with UD. Thanks for the info everyone! If I do decide to run a seperate project, is Folding @ Home worthy too? Will it and UD interfere with each other much on a HT CPU? I'll probably give that UD Monitor a try. I used to run Seti, and I'd love to be running it, but I just...
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    Best way to take advantage of Hyper Threading in UD?

    I tried searching on this topic and couldn't find anything, so... I just got my first P4 system with hyper threading. I've read that for whatever reason P4s with HT run two distributed computing type clients simultaneously with very minimal performance impact on each other. Right now I?m...
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    Does DVI really matter for LCDs or is VGA good enough?

    DVI DOES makes a big difference, although I'm sure some people wouldn't be that picky and notice. (I've got two quality LCD monitors now, and can tell a difference on both, using multiple video cards) Any good quality Nvidia or ATi card should be fine for 2D quality. Often the low-end cards...
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    iPod's are not cross platform, correct ?

    Umm...to answer Sabot's original question, yes, iPods are completly cross-platform. Set it up on Windows so it gets formatted as Fat32, and you can use it on any (modern) Windows or Mac PC. You can change the format of the iPod's drive at any time using the updater program, but setting it up...
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    Which Computer Is Better? (AMD vs Intel Setup)

    That Dell is faster at stock speeds. The 2.8Ghz P4 is faster than an Athlon XP with the same "speed rating" (ie 2800+), so it's obviously going to be faster than a 2500+. If it were overclocked enough the AMD system could overtake the Intel, but it would have to be pushed well past 2800+...
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    Asus K8N-E Deluxe

    The AGP port didn't work on mine.
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    gaming on an lcd

    I just got a Dell 1901, and from my brief experience with it, ghosting is VERY minimal. Not an issue for me. My Samsung Syncmaster 191T+ is worse-ghosting can be very noticeable, although games are still playable. Both have supposedly the same 25ms response time.
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    1901FP in games?

    I just got my new system (with a 1901) in today, and I haven't had much time to play with it yet. I played maybe 10 minutes of Halo and Descent 3 (because I didn't have anything else handy, and Decent 3 blurs pretty badly in places on my Samsung). From what I can tell, the 1901 DOES have a...
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    looking for a new sound card

    If you're going for an Audigy, you might want to consider the Gamer version for around $111. If you want and don't already have a few of those games, it'll work out cheaper than the stand alone card.
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    onboard sound (P4PE) vs. Audigy 2 - Gaming performance

    It should be a few percent-maybe 5-10% at most? But I doubt you'll really be able to notice it without running benchmarks.
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    memory fsb for cpu?

    My i845PE board runs PC2700 with a 533mhz FSB. So I guess that's actually asynchronous? I've never really thought about this before, but I wonder if I'd get better performance underclocking my RAM...
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    LCD monitors and non-native resolution display quality

    Yeah, that's one of the reasons I like the 19" monitors with 1280x1024 (versus the 20" 1600x1200). The other being that for my eyes, 1280x1024 is as small as I'd want to go on a 19" monitor for regular 2D Windows stuff.
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    Minimum Specs...

    The latter, although obviously the "speed ratings" may be faster or slower than an equivalent P4.
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    questions about "hypertransport" and FSB in AMD 64

    The front side bus is the connection between the CPU and the memory controller, which runs at 800mhz (really 200mhz x 4) on the newest Pentium 4s. Since the memory controller is PART of the Athlon 64, there isn?t really a FSB, or at least it?s part of the CPU, and running at the same clock...