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    Audio Help

    I just replaced my stock front door speakers (it's a Crown Vic, if that matters) with a pair of Pioneer 4 ways and they're not as much of an improvement as I was hoping for. The highs sound great, but there's very little bass and turning up the bass boost ruins everything else. My previous car...
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    Commit an Act of Lust on a Booth Babe and Win a Prize!

    Source Another thing to add to EA's list of really bad ideas. Dante's Inferno does look mildly interesting, but I haven't seen too much of it yet.
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    Optimal Monitor Size?

    I'm currently using a 22" Asus monitor at 1680x1050, but I'm thinking about upgrading. I'd like to get a Blu Ray drive soon, so I want something in at least 1080p to take advantage of that. I'll likely be watching movies from 5 to 10 feet away, but I'd still be using the system for gaming and...
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    I need some help with Liberty BASIC

    I picked up Teach Yourself Beginning Programming in 24 Hours from the library and it starts off with a simple program in Liberty BASIC. The book comes with v2.02, but it won't install for me because it's not compatible with 64 bit systems. I installed a later version (v4.9.3) but now the...
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    Unplayable FPS in World at War?

    I think my system (in my sig) is pretty decent, I'm used to running games at high settings without any trouble, but CoD: World at War is giving me some problems. Online multiplayer works great, but in single player my FPS drops down to as low as 11. I'm using the latest drivers and I have the...
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    Old PC Won't Boot

    My girlfriend's mother's old Dell won't boot up anymore and she asked me to take a look at it. The power button will start up the fans and the hard drive, but it won't make it to BIOS and the monitor says there's no input. It doesn't turn off, it just sits there with the fans going, but never...
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    Should I get an extended warranty?

    I ordered a Sansa E280 from Tiger Direct a few days ago for $50. I've heard Sansa doesn't do the refurbishing or warranty refurbished items, but the price and storage capacity were just right for me so I thought I'd give it a shot anyway. I received it yesterday and after a few hours it froze...
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    Microphone/Speaker Help

    In just got a Logitech USB microphone so I can talk to teammates in L4D and I'd like to set it up so that my speakers mute when I hit the push to talk key. Does anybody know how I'd go about doing this? Thanks.
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    Any way to sample hd media for free?

    I'm thinking of picking up a Blu-ray/HD DVD drive, but my monitor is a 22" LCD at 1650x1080 so I wouldn't get the full potential out of it. I love the image quality on the hd tv's I've seen, but I'm not sure if the improvement I'll get will be worth the money. Is there any way to download a...
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    Can a 9800GT handle 1920x1080?

    My brother just ordered one of these: http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16814127387 And now he's interested in upgrading monitors from 19" to a 24" 1920x1080 monitor, but I'm not sure if the card can handle it. The only game he really plays is Starcraft, but he wants it to run...
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    Xbox 360 Troubles

    My little brother's got an Xbox 360 that already had to be sent in due to the red ring of death, and now the new one is scratching up his games. The one year warranty is up (I guess it's only a year from the first one and didn't get renewed when they gave us another), and we're not paying them...
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    Anybody here using a 4850 with Ubuntu?

    I can't seem to get mine working, I've tried everything I've been able to find on the web and nothing is working. I'm stuck at a weird 12xx X 10xx resolution when it should be 1680x1050, and when I tried installing the ati driver it shrunk me down to 800x600 which is awful on a 22' LCD. I...
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    Windows won't load

    I built my system about a month ago, and two weeks after I had it running windows stopped loading. It would get to the windows loading bar and never progress past that. It would get stuck loading the drivers when I tried to use safe mode, and the restore option didn't work either. The windows...
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    WiC: Installed updates and can't resume my campaign

    I just installed the updates from the out of the box version to the current patch, and now my saved game won't load. Anybody know why this is happening, I checked google and didn't find anyone else with a similar problem. The files are still there, I even tried opening them with WiC, but it...
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    I seem to have hit a wall overclocking my E8500

    I've read through both stickies, and I think I've got a decent idea of how everything is supposed to work, but it just won't. I"m 24 hours+ prime95 stable at 3.7GHz, with a 9.5x multiplier, 390 bus speed, and vcore of 1.2v. When I try to push the FSB up to 400GHz, the system will boot fine...
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    I think I broke my icons

    I tried to remove the shortcut arrow overlay using the Vista Shortcut Overlay Remover as described here: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto...rlay-in-windows-vista/ And I recieved an error message, and now my icons are little blank pages with some boxes in them (and they still have the arrows)...
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    Some Graphics Issues in Witcher

    I posted this over in the guide to getting 4850's up and running, but I didn't get a response and thought I might do better here, sorry if that's not allowed. I just built my system and the only game I've got so far with modern graphics is Witcher, and I'm getting a bunch of horizontal lines...
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    Benchmarking Programs for Vista x64?

    I tried using Everest Home Edition, and 3DMark06, but the latter won't install and the former isn't giving me any temperatures. Anyone know if this is a problem because of the 64 bit OS, or is something else wrong with my system? Thanks.
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    Need to find a bolt through kit

    I can't get the push pins to work with my OCZ Vendetta II on my GA-EP35-DS3L, every time I try I feel like I'm going to break the MB. I got it in once, but then knoked it out when trying to plug things in around it (it's huge). Even when it was in right, the pins seemed way to flimsy to be...
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    Wireless Card Driver Help

    I've got a Edimax EW-7128g wireless PCI card that I just installed. The drivers on the CD were for XP and I'm running Vista, but no big deal, I'll just download the Vista drivers and I'll be good. But no, they don't appear to work either. Vista says they're not digitally signed, and I can't...
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    A few urgent mid-build questions

    I'm halfway through putting my build together and I've run into a few things that are worrying me. Installing the CPU seemed a little bit tricky, I'm using an e8500 and a gigabyte ep35-ds3l and I was wondering how much force is usually required to get the little door to close on the cpu? I had...
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    Need cheap RAM recommendations

    I was going to order this Mushkin kit, but it sold out. Now I'm looking at this Corsair XMS2 kit, and this OCZ SLI-Ready kit. They both got good reviews at new egg, but it seems like the SLI kit has a few issues on non-SLI systems, anybody have any experience with that? I'd like to do a...
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    Almost ready to order!

    I've been reading the forum and asking questions for almost a month now, trying to decide what I wanted for my new system, and I think I've got it all together. I've made a lot of changes since my last build thread, and I have a few new questions to ask, so I decided to make a new one. This...
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    Is Newegg selling the newer ASUS 4850's with better cooling?

    I know ASUS was releasing an updated version with better cooling (a new fan, I think?), but I haven't found out if they're already out, or who sells them. Anybody know?
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    Performance Difference Between 3.16GHZ and 2.4GHz?

    I'm trying to decide between an E8500 and a Q6600, and I'd like to know how noticeable the .76GHz difference between them would be in applications not designed to utilize the extra cores. Since they're the same price, I'm having a tough time deciding. I'd like the extra cores to help future...
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    How long before a case becomes obsolete?

    I was wondering what the average usable lifespan of a decent case is. And by usable, I mean with modern hardware, new MB's, GPU's etc. I was planning on getting an Antec Sonata III for my build, but it looks like I might have some trouble cooling it so I was looking at some other options. The...
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    Using a Monitor as a TV?

    I don't have a tv, and would like to be able to use my old PS2 so I was considering getting a LCD monitor with a TV tuner. I'm looking for a 22" monitor in the sub $300 range, but I can't find any with a tuner. Do the tuner cards work as well as the LCD's with built in tuners? I'm guessing...
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    P35 VS P45: What's the difference?

    I'm starting my build within the next three weeks, and one of the parts that I'm still not sure about is the MB, I was planning on using a Gigabyte GA-EP35-DS3L and liked the reviews it's been getting on Newegg. But I've been worrying about how long it'll last and if I should upgrade to the...
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    Sea Dogs

    I've been in the mood for a good pirate game recently, and I remembered how excited I was way back when Sea Dogs was released, and then my disappointment that my old system couldn't handle it. I forgot about it for a while, and it was the first thing I thought of now that I'm looking for a...
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    I need some help with my first build

    Hi, I'm new here, I've been trying to find a good computer forum for a while and a friend told me about this one and I've already learned a lot just browsing old threads. I've decided to build myself a PC. I'm not much of a gamer, I'd like to get more into it, but for now an entry to mid...