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    New Build (Canadian, sigh)

    1. What YOUR PC will be used for. That means what types of tasks you'll be performing. Gaming. It's for my brother and he does some gaming on his PC and is looking to make a big jump from his current piece of crap he's been using for years now. 2. What YOUR budget is. A price range is...
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    New Alienware Monitor - CES 2008

    http://www.gizmodo.com/341413/...ts-from-another-planet Alienware just announced the above monitor. Set to go on sale in the second half of 2008. It's got an interesting design and it will be nice to see a review when it launches later this year. Opinions?
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    Dual 24'' Monitor Setup

    Big problem that's beginning to drive me nuts. Ok, I just recently bought two Westinghouse L2410NM monitors. All is swell and today I attempted to set them up in dual screen 'cause my two DVI-to-HDMI cables came in the mail. Previously I was using VGA and a single monitor. Anyways, I...
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    Westy L2410 - 24'' LCD Monitor

    The Westinghouse L2410NM is a display I've been looking at recently because it's available at my local retailer (BestBuy) here in Canada. Boxing day is going to bring this badboy with a pricetag of $329CAD. Irresistible? http://www.westinghousedigital...tails.aspx?itemnum=105 I'm...
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    AMD X2 4200+

    Uhm, I jumped into my BIOS earlier to have my first go at overclocking and although I'm able to change my frequency, it doesn't allow me to lower my multiplier. From what I've read, lowering the multiplier and upping the frequency is usually the best way. I tried just straight up picking...
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    Galaxy 8800GT - Urgent Problem!

    Ok, so let me confess - I'm quite a noob. Just swapped my computer into a new case (Antec 900) with a brand new PSU tonight, and it boots and runs fine thus far. Ran Driver Cleaner to get rid of the drivers I was using for my 7600GS and installed the drivers off Nvidia.com for my Galaxy...
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    8800GT (256MB) vs. 3850 (256MB) - Deals, need verdict soon!

    Ok, so here's my dilemma. I'm trying to decide on a GPU upgrade for my current PC (X2 4200+, 2GB DDR500, 7600GS, blah blah) and am stuck trying to decide between these 2 cards: http://www.directcanada.com/pr...85F256&manufacture=HIS - ATI 3850 256MB...
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    Notebook Graphics Card: 8600M-GT vs. GeForce Go 7950 GTX

    Ok, so here's my situation. I'm looking to upgrade to a nice portable mid-to-high gaming machine to take to friends houses and LANs when we're not all going nuts on console games. Anyways, I've got 2 choices: 1.) Dell Inspiron 1720 - This unit would be brand new from Dell.ca, and with my...
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    New Gaming Build

    Alright folks, been out of the loop for about a good year now and am considering the build of a brand new PC to gear up for DX10 enabled games on the horizon, who am I kidding, my lust for just wanting a new toy. I'll be ordering my parts from www.NCIX.com - it's a Canadian retailer that is...
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    Windows XP Hangs

    Alright, last time my computer started doing this and then all of a sudden stopped, and now it's doing it again and it's REALLY started to piss me off. The only thing I can access is safe mode. I've tried restoring to a previous point, to no avail. The problem is, when I turn on my computer at...
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    CPU Z and SpeedFan Questions

    Ok, few questions here. Right now in my CPU Z everything seems to be listed fine but at the bottom of CPU-Z it says Selection and I can't select Processor 1 or 2, it's greyed out while on others screenshots I've seen them able to select it - must I edit something to be able? It lists 2 cores...
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    Dual Display Setup: 22'' and 32' LCD TV

    Alright, so here's the situation. I have a GeForce 7600GS video card and it has one VGA and one DVI output. The DVI is hooked up to my 22'' Dell E228WFP and I want to hook-up the LCD TV via VGA. I plugged in the TV via VGA and was wondering, is it possible to set it up this way? Having one...
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    Dell 22'' E228WFP

    Alright so I just sent back my Acer AL2216 to the guy I bought it off because he didn't tell me about a dead pixel it had, tsk tsk. Now I'm back in the market for a 22'' LCD and Dell just dropped the E228WFP for a very reasonable $329CAD and it's quite tempting. I'm aware of the fact that it...
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    Mid-Range Budget Build

    Since the last time I didn't consult the wisdom of Aandtech this time I'm going to for sure. I'm looking to build a mid-range gaming system for a total of $800-900 CAD. Since I'm in Canada we don't have the luxury that is NewEgg so I'm going to list a few sites that you can take a look at for...
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    WinXP Home BOOT ISSUES

    Ok, heres the deal. Yesterday I tried installing WinXP Pro (without SP2 - I have the old one) and it was just not working out. We were getting blue screen after blue screen so I found my old XP Home CD with SP2 and installed that. The installation went more smooth than the XP and now I'm typing...
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    Solved.. sorry.

    Solved.
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    URGENT HELP! SATA HD - New builder! *AIM ME TO HELP PLEASE*

    Alright, the issue is that I just built my first computer and so far everything is going smooth except I have an SATA hard drive and I'm not sure how to install it. I have an ASUS A8N 32 SLI Deluxe and I'm not sure how to isntall. I plugged the hard drive into the SATA1 thing in the motherboard...
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    World of Warcraft On Max Settings

    My computer is the following: AMD Athlon X2 4200+ Dual Core 2GB DDR PC3200 400mhz GeForce 7600 GS 512mb DDR2 PCI-E I was wondering, with this configuration and on the resolution 1366x768 (custom, I believe) what fps I can expect to experience on max settings? Including in areas where I'm...