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    Upgrade Path

    As of right now I have an 9600GT and an E6750. I just bought a 22 inch monitor, and now will be playing at 1680x1050 or w/e that is, rather than 1280x1024, so I'll be buying a new video card. I have 90 days from 4/17 in my step up program, so I'm really hoping that the new high end cards are...
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    Low Res: 9600GT or 8800GT

    Hi, I am using an 8600GT right now and looking forward to upgrading within the next few weeks. I only have a 17inch monitor, that supports highest res of 1280x1024. The question is will I see enough of a performance boost to justify the extra 40$ or so to get the 8800GT? Or at this...
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    Too Hot?

    I just put a new build together, Gigabyte P35 mobo, and an Intel E6750. I installed the heatsink it came with, and everything seems to be working fine. When I load up coretemp or HWMonitor, I see that each core is about 50celsius, at idle, all I have open is this window right now and...
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    New System

    Hi everyone, I have a PC right now that I just feel frustrated with, there are too many parts that need to be upgraded, and I've realized it would just be better financially and mentally to start over with something fresh. I'm operating on a $350-450 budget. Games that I will be playing would...
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    Video or CPU Upgrade?

    Hi, right now I have some money sitting here that I could use on a PC upgrade. I'm running Windows XP, an 8600GT EVga card, AMD Sempron 3400+ 1.8ghz, and 1.5gigs of GSkill ram. I'm looking at two possible upgrades, a video card http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16814130318...
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    Internet Reconnecting Frequently

    I've been using the same router for about a year, and this has never happened before. My internet connection will just drop suddenly, and reconnect back in about 10-15 seconds. This would be fine, but when I'm trying to play any time of online game (teamfortress2) and I have to reconnect...
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    Memory Not Working In Slot

    I recently bought http://www.newegg.com/Product/...p?Item=N82E16820231098. Both sticks work fine in my second slot, tested both, and it reads as 1gig. But when I put both in, it only reads the one in the second slot. So I put just one in the first slot, not in other, and I get the beeping...
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    No Audio

    I recently wiped my harddrive and reinstalled XP, but my audio cannot work. I installed the drivers for my computer, and it installs, but whenever I try to use winamp or audio, it says DirectSound error. Also, under control Panel and Audio Devices, it says none listed. My speakers are...
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    Do I need a Tuner

    I'm going to buy http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16889022042 or http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16889022040. My question is this, do I need the tuner to do anything in highdefinition? Xbox 360, DVD players, HD programming, etc.? Or is the DVD and 360...
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    What kind of PSU have I

    How can I tell what kind of PSU I have? My monitor nor my keyboard nor speakers will work, and I'm sort of sure that it is my PSU, but it doesnt say ATX or anything on it. Just alot of stuff about input outputs, its a 250w delta electronics in a acer aspire 3400. it says MOdel: DPS-250ab
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    Accessories wont turn on

    When I restart my computer, some (most) of the time the monitor, mouse, keyboard won't power on. I assume its the mouse and keyboard also because there is no light under the mouse nor any lights on KB, any monitor LED light is orange. Sometimes however, it works fine. What does this mean? A...
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    Deleted The Internet

    I reinstalled WinXP after I had some problems, and everything works ok, but I cannot get my internet connection up. I've tried directly from modem, and from router. It works on this computer which is 30 ft. away. All the connection tabs settings are the same in firefox/Iexplore. I am not...
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    Wipe HD?

    So I can't boot my comp, it cycles back to start of startup after passing the windows screen. Safe mode does the same, as does every other setting. So I guess now I should wipe my harddrive and get a clean slate? I have nothing important on there, so I don't care if it erases every single...
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    Reboot Cycle

    I made a thread on this awhile ago, but can't find it. Anyways, my computer worked fine when I went to work, I left it in standby mode. When I come back and restart it, it goesto the windowsxp screen where the white squares go by in the bar, then a blue screen with the info on it pops up for...
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    Can't Start(loops_

    I'm on a different computer in case you were going to ask. Anyways, I have a WinXP media center edition acer computer, and it was working fine this morning. I went to work, came back, started it up and it said the internet didnt work. Ok this is normal, I shut it off, restart the router, but it...
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    Loop on Startup CANT

    I'm on a different computer in case you were going to ask. Anyways, I have a WinXP media center edition acer computer, and it was working fine this morning. I went to work, came back, started it up and it said the internet didnt work. Ok this is normal, I shut it off, restart the router, but...
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    Best out of 3 desktop PC

    So right now I'm looking for a new desktop, cheap. I see 3 on newegg which look nice, butI'd like some other input, because I'm not really that smart about technical computer info. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16883103034 Acer Aspire AST180-ES340M Sempron 3400+ 512MB...
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    Samsung CRT

    Hi I don't know if this place even has a television forum, I dont even know if its for anything but computers but maybe you could help me. I'm looking at a Sansui DTV2760 27" HD Ready CRT TV http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/control...760&is=REG&Q=&O=productlist&sku=441757 All I have...
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    Transfer to Xbox360

    I've tried to search on google and this forum, but no matches that I could find, didn't really know what to search for on google. Anyways I've heard of people transferring xbox360 games they've downloaded on their PC to their 360, and they can play it without disc/without paying, for example...
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    PCI? How to tell

    Hi, I have a dell 2400 dimension desktop and it came with integrated, then I changed to a geforce fx 5200. Now when I ask the dell people what slots I have, they say three PCI, but I seem to remember the geforce i put in was agp, or maybe it was PCI express, I dont know. But anyways, is it...
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    Document contains no data

    Hi, I just purchased an upgrade to Norton 2006 at their website, and am on the order page, I click on the DOWNLOAD NOW button, a new window pops up, and eventually it says Alert: This document contains no data. That was with Mozilla, I tried it again with internet explorer and got this page...
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    System Memory RAM

    Right now I have a 512piece and 256 piece in, and I only have two slots. I recently bought a 1gig stick of RAM, and will install it later. Obviously I'll replace the 256 with the 1gig one. But the 1gig is PC3200, and the 512 is PC2700. a few people have told me that I'm better off just...
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    uh emergency

    So whenever I restart the computer, and from then on (going on right now) a random .exe gets created in system32 folder such as haer234xz.exe and it sends thousands of email messages to random people, and norton blocks them all, and the screen fills with symantec email proxy messages, it's...