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    Where are the thinkpad helix reviews

    I want it. It is the tablet I've been waiting for years. I even convinced myself that I can swallow the high price, as it may be worth it when it includes a 256GB SSD and 3 year warranty. But it is way late to the show. If it was available at the beginning of the year, maybe up to April, I...
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    Is it time to start buying prebuilt desktops instead of building it yourself?

    prebuilt configs usually only have an advantage in price because of the os - dell and the likes get them much cheaper so they can price it cheaper. however, it is an oem version bound to that hardware and sometimes you dont even get a proper cd for it, only a restore cd that you can use to get...
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    Would this make a good Monitor?

    Mmntech, it is not a LED screen, just a LED-back-lit one, an important difference. To the OP: It is a HDTV, not a PC Monitor. So there is no comparison with the Apple Cinema Display or other computer displays. Maybe won't be too good to use on a desk, but may be ok for you. Go see it in...
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    New build lmk what you think

    I am sure the integrated GPU will do anything that a separate card would, so I think you can skip adding one for now. You can always add a video card later if you find out you really have to - like if you decide to use a second display and want to have them both on a digital output. About the...
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    "Load fail-safe defaults" broke my motherboard

    Sounds like the error is late enough that it _should_ display the POST screen ok... and even maybe let you get into bios. Could it be that you're not seeing anything on the screen cos you have it plugged in your 4850 while resetting the bios made the integrated video the default? Anyway, it...
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    "Load fail-safe defaults" broke my motherboard

    Well, did it completely trash it, not being able to get in the bios ever again? Or did it just cause it not to POST completely? Or it POSTs but does not boot? You weren't very clear. I have an old system that was installed with "APIC Support" toggled in the bios to its non-default state...
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    Best bang for buck SSD

    An interesting thing is that the Patriot Torqx comes with 10 years of warranty now. It also includes 3.5 inch bracket. I wonder if that makes it worth paying a bit more than the cheaper brands. Oh and about the size - I think 128GB are the sweet spot right now. Lower capacities also have...
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    Just bought a ton of REALLY OLD computer components and need help.

    The CPUs are probably Slot 1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slot_1 Just did a google shopping search and there are some results with prices starting around $25 (a lot false hits that turn out to be memory though). Maybe you can find better deals, especially when you'll be buying 10 at once, but I...
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    Best TV Brand for Partial PC use

    Basically any FullHD monitor should do the trick, but it is best to go see it live before you buy. I have some 46 inch bravia, don't know the exact model, but it's something older and low-end for sure. There is one problem that I see but it is very hard to explain (and for that reason hard to...
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    4850 or 4830?

    personally i'd suggest even springing for the 4870, but cutting down the ram to some cheaper brand or model if you want to save cash. any generic 4gb 800mhz ddr2 kit should do - corsair or kingston value ram for example. yes it is overkill at the tiny resolution that you need, but it is still...
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    Upgrading a Vostro 200 for Warhammer Online

    a radeon 4830 might be a better choice, if its not out of your budget. you may even find one with a decent rebate so the price difference wont be too big. it will not be needed at the low resolution of her monitor, but it will be a good investment if she also upgrades to a real monitor soon, or...
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    ASUS VH226H??

    some setting in your video card control panel should allow you to control overscan and set it to 0. that is the only way to get 1:1 pixel matching picture. it is weird that it is not the default. i have an ATI card so can't help you with specifics, but it was similar with it... plugging it...
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    CPU suggestions for moderate SFF gaming rig

    honestly, if i were buying now i would not consider the dualcores at all. it's true that you don't find many, if any at all, apps that can make use of that much cores by themselves. but the general idea of having twice as much cpu power is good enough to persuade me. and if you happen to do...
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    Wow! I got 4 billion frames per second!

    4294967295 is the max unsigned 32bit integer your fps is a bit lower than that, so you have some room for improvement :P maybe your PC clock is stuck? or going backwards? maybe you have 100fps but somehow it reads it as -100?
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    45nm Phenom X4 tested

    Use [L=title]http://example.com/[/L] tag instead of [url], And I cant find a way to have inline images - just link them the same as url's too. And... nice find, thanks for posting it.
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    939 Overclocks?

    Most results I've seen on the web were around 2.7GHz. I personally have a 4200+ x2 that goes almost to 2.8GHz without extra voltage. Not a boxed version so not a stock cooler, but not anything fancy too - just something cheap they offered me at the local shop, don't even remember its model or...
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    I can finally overclock my 4200+ using clockgen!

    that can usually be fixed in the bios - there should be either a separate setting that enables a "pci lock", or one that lets you set a specific pci frequency. on my board, it's the latter and whenever i set pci to 33, it works like you are seeing now - it is derived from the fsb. when i set it...
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    Who use a Pentium 4 in his main pc?

    I guess that's the ancient S478 then? A pity intel doesn't have good upgrades for that... My own system is even older than yours unfortunately - I think 2003. Also a dead socket, but 939, a newcastle a64, as back then intel was clearly inferior to AMD. Especially with the launch of the...
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    Low budget build for parents

    I'd advise against the mentioned GeForce 8500 - even after the MIR, it is still a waste of money. It is hardly any better than integrated graphics... If you're going with a discrete card, it should be atleast nvidia's 8600 or ati's 2600. Anything lower is matched by the integrated GPU in 780G...
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    How much overhead should I expect from adding another HD?

    not very likely that the psu gets over limits just from adding a hdd in my mind... and even if it was that, i'd not think it would present itself as a slowdown, rather as random complete lockups, reboots and such. but what do i know, really... fire up some monitoring app like speedfan and see...
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    Getting artifacts in games but it's not my video card!!

    Um... I'm sure it's just a mistype or something, but I'll ask you anyway: You do not really run the driver cleaner after you install the driver, right? Maybe you can get a screenshot uploaded somewhere so we get a better idea of the artifacts?
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    Asus L1N64-SLI WS

    uhuh... is the date format on this site mm/dd/yyyy or dd/mm/yyyy? either way, im resurrecting an old post here but Wicked Akuba, you really have no clue what you are talking about. 1) this board is socket L1 (renamed socket F for the quadFX platform), not AM2/AM2+, and the OP wasn't asking...
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    Looking for a Hidef Duel TV tuner

    there probably are no dual tuners like that, but you can make up for that by just pluging two. i'm not much into the know-how on this subject, what with not even living in a place where any digital tv is available. but from the little i understand, there are several different systems for the...
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    Better Socket 939 upgrade

    most probably the opty. i assume you'd prefer to keep voltage increases to the minimum anyway, and for that a stock cooler would do ok. interesting though, why is an opty+arctic freezer not an option? :P keep in mind that the opty's low multi makes ocing a bit harder though - you need...
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    Zero to the zeroth power

    X^0=X^(1-1)=X^1*X^(-1)=X/X i guess mathematically we can define X^0=X/X this will then be valid even for X=0 :P 0^0=0/0; it's really that simple.
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    Set panel and TV as primaries?

    not only ati drivers, but nvidia too. haven't ran them recently so it might've changed or i might've forgotten details, but i think it had an "Overlay" category with settings for exactly that - you can set it to automatically stretch any overlays from the primary monitor on the secondary one...
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    My dual dual opteron 265's OC'd...just starting

    the mobo really sounds like crap... too bad. are there no better alternatives? you're buying a second of the same mobo now?
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    Core 2 Extreme has essentially the same "real world" performance as FX62

    real world performance means ms office performance for most parts of the world :P so i guess conroe isn't much better than my 486 after all.
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    AMD X2 3600+

    you're confusing me! where did you read that 256k cache thing? :( in the link provided, it lists 2000MHz clockspeed and 512k cache, or is that not per core but total for the two cores? ah well, makes sense i guess as it can't be equivalent to the 3800+ after all. but following AMD's rating...
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    Best time to buy X2 (939)?

    the new socket is an improvement to the old one atleast in one way: it has the 4000+ x2 model ;) on the 939, the cheapest 2mb l2 was the 4400+ that you have picked, or an opteron 165/170. now we finally get the 4000+, essentially equivalent to the 170 opteron but hopefully cheaper than even the...
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    help me to solve parallel PCI slot issue

    i suggest you contact the makers of the stupidly protected program you use, and ask them for advice. you payed for it afterall, probably quite high too. i wont be too surprised if they offer you a patch or a newer version which works for you. if they don't want to help you, i'd suggest just...
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    Who will win? HD-DVD or blu ray?

    you are not making sense. first, BD above 2 layers won't be for movie releases, but only for recordable/rewritable media for use with PCs. all currently announced for release players will never ever be able to read the higher-capacity discs, and even if eventually manufacturers make players...
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    Who will win? HD-DVD or blu ray?

    but the DVD format was ment and developed as just that - digital video disc, readonly, for the video publishing industry, much like CD was originally for audio. recordable and rewritable versions for PC data weren't part of the original specification but were like a 'strap-on' spec... for...
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    Who will win? HD-DVD or blu ray?

    I don't get what you mean. Thickness? All formats have the same total thickness. Bluray data layers are closer to the disc surface, but what? Infact this makes dualsided discs easier, as the layers on the different sides won't be close to eachother. Both sides having their layers at 0.6mm depth...
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    Who will win? HD-DVD or blu ray?

    Both formats will have similar protection - bluray has some added security, and that is a minus only for hackers. Certainly a plus for studios. As to what concerns regular users, the protections are the same. MS never switched from BD to HDDVD, maybe you're thinking of HP who were originally...
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    Dell Canada 3007 - 30" @ 1499 = 1285 USD

    so where do i find the coupons? and really, can someone explain to me the thing about coupons - are they like, one use for a coupon or what, why are they kept so secret? edit: i did google around, couldn't find anything... maybe the special offer is over?
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    DailyTech?

    well then, i must've forgotten my pass. and none of the 20 i tried worked :(
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    DailyTech?

    What the *beep* is this dailytech site, why did AT switch its news section to link to it, why aren't our forum accounts transferred to it (for comments)?
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    AT's 7800GT Mini-Roundup

    Right now there are at least 4 7800GT models from eVGA alone! N515, 516, 517, 518. There are probably even lower-clocked models, I can't be bothered to check now. Newegg prices run all over the place, from $289 after MIR to almost $400, and figuring out the differences is a nightmare. I...
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    HKEPC Reviews GeForce 6150

    well, they are testing an Albatron board, that sums it up pretty well :P ok maybe they are good boards and i just never heard them, fine. i'd like to see a review of the asus A8N-VM CSM though also anand tested games in 800x600, so you actually get playable framerates. maybe the xpress200...