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    ATI confuses the crap out of me

    Ok, there's the 4830, 4850, 4870....but wait, the 4770 is better than the 4830 and 4850? Or only the 4830...wait, isn't the 4770 an older model??? And the prices are so close I can't tell the difference... Anyway, I am contemplating building another rig...I built one in Nov. 2007 with an...
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    Can my wife play sims 2 on a MSI Wind?

    atom chip, 2gb ram, onboard graphics, everyone has seen these things... anyway, I was gonna get sims 3 for her, but it'll only run on my computer, and since she's not taking over my laptop, I offered to get the sims 2 pack... she doesn't need great graphics, her last game was restaurant...
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    Can you find a copy of the source engine?

    I'll be upfront, I have no idea about game design...I took a programming course in University and know some binary and C++ and HTML but I can barely make a web page...well, I have Dreamweaver so that's not entirely true, but by hand I can barely make one... anyway, I was wondering since i...
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    Anyone played black shark?

    I can't play this game on my laptop and can't access the rig in sig, but I want to know if someone has played this on high settings and if it's really as graphically appealing as the reviews made it out to be...a game that has a 400 page instruction manual is music to my ears (not normal, I...
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    Upgrading a laptop...

    I have a Samsung R510 with a dual core 2ghz T7xxx chip, 4gigs of ram and a 9200gs m graphics card... I was cleaning the computer today (taking off the keyboard, cleaning the exhaust fan, etc. and noticed something...with my CD tray removed i get better airflow, and since all my games are on...
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    RPG'ish FP games?

    I've been looking for a game that fits this bill but the only thing that seems to do it is Oblivion or Two Worlds... I bought mount & blade and played it for a few hours but the combat is so terrible and the leveling system is a joke, so I uninstalled it and probably won't bring it...
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    how to make .avi from my dvd's

    I've got a lot of dvd's that i put on my HD originally, but I never figured out how to convert to .avi I have dvdfab and that transfers the file to the HD, then I use DVDshrink so it doesn't take up so much space, but then I have all these .bov files (or something like that extension)...the...
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    .exe files and mac...

    I've googled for days and it seems that it's fairly obvious to me that I cannot run an .exe file in mac...ok, got it, but I have another question then... I have an .iso I made and I tried to run it in mac...I open up the virtual drive by double clicking and then i look inside the folder...I...
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    9200GS specs?

    I bought a laptop and it's got a 9200GS 512mb in it...but the problem is I can't even find out anything about this gpu other than it's listed on Nvidia's website...the only info i can find when I can find any at all mentions a 256mb version. Anyone who's savvy with gpu's know where I can find...
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    Question about upgrading a computer

    I have a computer that I'm upgrading but I want to make sure there's no problems... I have a p4 using an antec board and a WD caviar HD with windows XP. I have a gigabyte 7200GT video card, a new antec 500 earthwatts PSU, and cd-rom. I will be replacing the motherboard and the chip with a...
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    fans stutter, then stop

    I just put a new antec earthwatts 500 into a computer that had a PSU fail in it, and when i go to power up the fans give a little nudge, sort of like a spasm, then they stop, then nothing...I'm trying to figure out what the culprit here is but i'm kind of lost. HD is fine, i just backed it...
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    installing new cpu and mobo

    yeah, just thought I'd ask quick, when I load up and try to load from CD-rom to install the cd that came with the mobo, it's not loading the cd, it tries to go into windows and bsod's on me...do I have to take the HD out of the boot list in bios to get it to load the CD first? And in my last...
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    computer build help

    right, so anyway, my parents have a crap old p4 3.0ghz and a mobo so old it only runs like ddr 5400 (or the ram in that range), so i was putting in my extra 2180 duo and a g31t-m mobo i picked up cheap just to improve their computer. nothing fancy here, 1gig ram, a gforce 7200gs, just basic...
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    video encoding is slow...

    I figured I'd spend the day making backups of my DVD's since there was a huge clearance at Staples (50 Sony DVD+R's for $12) and I've got CDburnerXP running, DVDfabEncrypter running, and two DVDshrink programs encoding at the same time...all in all the cores don't put anything more than 45% into...
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    internet problem

    I just got done clearing the HD on my wife's old laptop and she was using the internet no problem, then I went into task manager and turned off a process, and since then, no internet...so I restarted the computer, right? Still no internet...so i turn off windows firewall, still no...
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    Tie fighter?

    Ok, there's been like 3 threads this week mentioning this game and I guess I'm just itching to get back to playing it...problem is I can't find anywhere to buy or download it without signing up to some stupid survey thing or what not... Does anyone know where to get it or download it? I guess...
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    Can I get a different refresh rate?

    I tried unclicking the "hide other options" button, but still nothing shows up but 59hz and 60hz...I'd like to get it higher since I do experience screen flicker in one game in particular and it hurts like hell to play it. I've got an asus 24inch LCD, though I'm not sure how to find the details...
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    my wife killed my laptop

    my wife is doing something on the computers, though I can't figure out what, because she's killed two of our laptops now, hers and now mine. The following is the list of symptoms: Computer runs fine, then it starts slowing down, taking longer to boot, not opening programs as fast. Then it...
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    crashing recently

    Honestly I've never had this issue, but since I installed Oblivion it started happening. It started at first that I couldn't use the "sleep" function anymore on my computer, it used to crash to this screen "windows has shut down to avoid damage, etc..." "due to a hardware issue, etc..." Anyway...
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    very old games

    I'm looking for 1 game in particular, and I thought it was called "Streets of Rage" but after googling it, i'm not sure, so I'm hoping someone can help me out. It's really old, like early 90's old, and i can't even remember what system it was on, but I think it was Sega. You could pick 3...
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    where to buy foreign OS?

    I'm looking for a chinese OS, preferably vista but xp is good too that i can put on the computer i am going to build for her. i want oem if i can find it. i've googled and all i can find are like $300 versions of it which is rediculous. I should've bought the pirated copy when i was in shanghai...
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    oblivion's OOO mod

    How do i turn off the big yellow !!! around characters in the game after using the OOO mod?? it's driving me nuts because I can't see the people coming at me and i can't shoot or swing at them. Can I turn this off or do I have to play the game in the old style? What about the other mod the...
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    installing games

    if anyone recognizes, i've been to china and i've posted a couple of times about games i bought. well all the one's i bought initially worked fine (7 games) but then there is another stack that i had bought that were "copied" versions, i don't know how to put it. Basically, the 7 i tried first...
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    oblivion install problem

    First off, let me say that I bought the game in China, however, before anyone jumps and says that's the problem, i also want to add that all the other games I bought in china work just fine. So here's the issue: The game when I try to load it doesn't seem to translate everything. the install...
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    So I'm on vacation in china, right...

    alright, first off, sorry but the U.S. sucks compared to China, for anyone that thinks differently, unless you've been here you can't argue. Secondly, games out here rock! :) There's a game called midnight maximum tune 2 and 3 that i've spend probably close to 100yuan playing which is rather sad...
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    CoH "update" problem

    I hate first off that everytime I want to play this game it makes me load some stupid patch to play online, even though I never play online anyway, but it won't let me play the game unless I do this or reach behind my computer and unplug the internet every freaking time i turn it on which is...
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    Realtek Front Audio and Vista sleep = no sound?

    I had Robisbell helping me earlier and couldn't find out why i had no audio up front when i put my headphones in. i could hear the "click" when i put them into the jack, so it had power, but no volume. I did a fair amount of research and found that people with realtek seem to have problems with...
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    2180 oc question

    I posted this in the how to oc thread, but it's been a couple hrs. without a response...and i suppose it could use it's own thread anyway, so here's the original post: I have a question because i'm having a problem with my overclock. i'm running what you see in the sig, 2.76 oc on a 2180 with...
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    do i just have bad luck?

    I just bought an Antec earthwatts 430 november 1st, i put my computer together around the 5th, and today i turn it on and...NOTHING! no power to mobo, no fans, no nothing. Has anyone else had this happen? I got this because everyone recommended Antec for reliability and performance. What...
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    F***ing NERO

    OK, this is stupid, but i've been burning my cd's onto duplicates, no big deal...all of the sudden starting yesterday my computer starts running out of memory...RUNNING OUT OF MEMORY WITH 4GIGS!! How is that possible...i turn on task manager and just watch as I go from 30% usage to 70% and then...
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    irritating problem

    this is less technical than most of the run error stuff, but never the less, i can't seem to figure it out... The headphone jack in the front of my computer will not work. I've got a SopranoRS and an AbitIP35Pro...now the audio cable (i'm assuming since it's the only one I could figure) ran...
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    what gives with crytec?

    I installed but everytime I start up the game my mouse only recognises (moves) across the right 80% of the screen. I can't move the mouse left any farther, and if I want to select something, i have to be 20% to the right of it... Any idea what's going on? this doesn't make any sense since no...
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    Vista hotfix issue?

    I was wondering, i've got a gadget from Vista that monitors the CPU usage for me, and they used to idle around 3-10 and no more than maybe 50 on load...since downloading the hotfix to correct the memory leak issues I was having, they seem to run around 75-99% all the time...so I'm wondering, is...
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    It's finished finally

    Well I'm done! I fininshed and nothing blew up or caught on fire, so I guess I did it right. Right now I've got my 2180 OC'ed to 2.6Ghz on stock voltage, and I guess for now that's alright. Anyway, I did have one question...I got everything running, and last night I was playing some games, no...
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    When building a computer...

    Since at this point I'm overly paranoid about doing any sort of damage from ESD, I was thinking about something. Can I just use surgical gloves when I assemble the computer? My father is a CRNA and I could just have him bring back those rubber surgical gloves they use in the operating...
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    Patriot Extreme today only!!!

    http://www.clubit.com/product_...17&CMP=EMC%2DMIX110607 So much for that HP ram i got...guess my brother will be using that now ;) This ends today though... :( MOD EDIT: Repost
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    What is OPK?

    On the front of the box it says this: If the individual software license is for a desktop operating system or application software, it also must be preinstalled on the hard drive of the fully assembled computer system, using the OEM Preinstallation Kit (OPK). What is OPK? Nobody mentioned...
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    Do these work?

    http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16835200019 I don't know much about this but the "reviews" seem to praise it for the most part...
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    clearance mobo sales...

    I was looking around for random stuff and I found this site...nothing special but they do have a large selection of mobo's on sale for people doing builds...I'm not to fluent in all these different boards, but some look pretty good. http://clearancezone.directron.us/catview.php?cat=34...
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    maybe a stupid question

    Well i've been posting recently that I've been getting ready for a build...I've got almost everything here and what's left is arriving this week, however I have one question about a piece I ordered. I got a NEC dvd/rw "OEM" from Newegg.com because someone suggested it. However I didn't know...