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    Best bang-for-buck $300 - $500 Notebook

    Friend of mine is looking to get one for college. He only wants it to do papers, communicate via facebook, take notes, etc. No games, folding, audio/video creation, or anything hardware-intensive from the sounds of it. What would be a good catch? Thanks in advance.
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    480i to 1080p?

    Is there anyway to convert, say AVI files, to MPEG4? I have Cyberlink PowerDirector 7 and am curious as to how I can make HD music videos. At the very least I'd like 720p, but am unsure how to up the quality of the existing files I have. I'm guessing I'd have to obtain a raw version or, at...
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    Image Quality Bug

    http://www.legitreviews.com/article/946/1/
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    nVidia GTX 260+ Bottleneck Investigation

    http://alienbabeltech.com/main/?p=4116
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    9800 GTX+

    So I've been using this for a few days now. It's doing really well and I've been very impressed with it. The only thing I'm not sure about is its memory clock. According to its specifications, its memory operates at 2300 MHz. I've been monitoring the card's various frequencies with...
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    Palit GTS 250 2GB

    http://www.guru3d.com/article/...0-2048mb-review-test/2 Edit: Part of their verdict - On another note, I think that card looks sweet regardless.
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    Video Card Decision (**Update**)

    I currently game with the following: Intel Core 2 Duo E6550 Conroe @ stock 2.33 GHz MSI P35 Neo2-FR MB 2x1GB Mushkin DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) OCZ StealthXStream 500W EPS12V Active PFC (OCZ500SXS) NEC 20WMGX2 (1680x1050 max resolution) X1950XTX @ stock (borrowing from brother) I just got...
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    GTX 295 Quad SLI Evaluation

    http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/...wxLCxoZW50aHVzaWFzdA==
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    Interview with nVidia's CEO, Jen-Hsun Huang

    http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/10060
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    Web video chatting?

    She is wanting a camera to talk to her daughter when she goes to school. She basically wants to have a live video conversation over the net. I don't know if she needs a microphone AND a web camera or if some cameras have microphones in them or something. What should I recommend her? She's not...
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    Music editing

    There is one song that I have from a CD. The song itself is actually 3 songs combined into one track. For some reason the composer/company decided to do this - it wasn't for any kind of valid effect like Tool did with their Wings for Marie song. Anyways, I'm trying to figure out a way to...
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    Best bang-for-buck digital camera

    A co-worker of mine wants to get his son a digital camera. It won't be used for anything else but taking pictures with friends and family and will rarely need the pictures printed on a home printer. He says they'll take it to a photo center to print pictures when they really like them. What...
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    Please lock these threads.

    http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...&STARTPAGE=1&FTVAR_FORUMVIEWTMP=Linear In that thread he's even posted up links to images of people's crap: 05/09/2007 02:31 AM post. and the post's link. He made another one...
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    Console Section?

    I know that adding certain sections to the forums is like pulling teeth, but I just see so many threads turn into console discussions and - while I don't think it's bad, I actually learn a lot about the consoles because of that - it does seem to show that a lot of users have a good amount of...
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    Upgrade from NEC 20WMGX2

    I currently own the GX2 and love it. However, I've recently moved into a new house and the room holding the computer is way too bright in the day time and I don't want to black out the windows. I constantly have horrible glare when gaming in daylight hours because of the NEC's coating, but I...
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    Alpha Texture Enhancment Tweaks

    There are some tweaks that can be made from ATi's Catalyst 6.12 that allow for some alpha texturing improvements (depending on the game of course). In some cases, the image quality is noticably improved, espcecially with alpha texture detail off in the distance. The best part is, from what I...
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    Is Vsync possible with a windowed game?

    The windower I use for FFXI is a nice utility but the one drawback it has is that my game rips due to no vsync, even if it is enabled through the CCC. I believe this is a drawback to running a game in a window but I'm not 100% sure.
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    Asus P5W DH Deluxe in BTX style

    I don't want to cause poor cooling or raise any temps by doing so, but if I turned the motherboard up-side-down in BTX style would it have any negative impact? I only ask because IIRC a heatpipe can really only be sideways or right-side-up in order to function correctly. Thanks in advance!
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    xtknight--Pics for you :)

    This is why I think Splinter Cell: Double Agent is the best looking game out currently: Pic 1 Pic 2 Pic 3 Pic 4 Pic 5 Pic 6 Pic 7 Pic 8 Pic 9 Pic 10 Pic 11 Pic 12 Pic 13 Pic 14 4xAA+HDR | 16xHQAF | Max In-game Settings | 1680x1050 | Vsync + Triple...
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    Best bang for buck digital camera for $200 or less?

    I've got a friend who wants a good digital camera for under $200. She doesn't want something extreme and as long as it looks good and takes decent pictures she'll be happy. What camera should she look in to? Thanks in advance!
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    No AA on Everquest II?

    So I installed this Everquest II game and from what I heard it was really good. I've seen screenshots of it and thought I might try it out. Once it was installed and I had a character made and underway, I got into the game and started adjusting some settings. Under the performance section I...
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    G84 and G86 to hit in Q1 07

    Click I can relate to this. Demand will escalate more and more when there is competition out and more reasonable, well-placed prices. Here it is unclear to me if they mean that the Taiwanese manufacturers will be given references to start production or if they will be given references to...
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    X1900 Spotted for Laptop

    Click It looks like it will replace the Mobile X1800XT. I think they're going to use an X1900GT structure from the sounds of it or possibly an X1900XT 256MB. They say "X1900" so I doubt we'll see some of the "X1950" 256MB derivatives, but, who knows.
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    EVGA e-GeForce 8800 GTX w/ ACS3

    I find it awkward that Anandtech pimped the EVGA e-GeForce 8800 GTX w/ ACS3 version of the G80 in their GeForce 8800 Roundup: The Best of the Best article yet I can't find it for sale anywhere. They said: So, if one were to take their advice, where would they get it?
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    To Anandtech:

    The G80's can do HDR+AA, we've had other cards that can do it since Q1 of 06, and none of your Oblivion benchmarks ever enable it. Why? I only ask because I was recently looking through the 8800GTX "Best of the Best" article and when I came to this section I was dissapointed to not see such...
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    Dark Messiah: Might and Magic

    I loved the Demo for this game so I bought it. It installed fine and I've played through a couple Chapters so far loving the gameplay, graphics, etc. etc. However, and this is a big however, I the game won't load Chapter 4. It keeps crashing during the load screen with a weird error window...
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    BF2 problem with ATI

    I've seen this problem occur with multiple ATI X19k series cards with multiple drivers all being WHQL on completely different systems, so I know it isn't just mine. I don't know if it is EA/Dice's newest patch that did it or what but it is very annoying. On the weapons, just the weapons...
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    How do you setup mouse-overs?

    I'm wanting to compare two pictures and be able to tranistion between the two by simply moving a mouse over the picture. Does anyone know a somewhat easy way to do this?
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    Why did this thread get locked?

    This thread concerned the X1950XTX CrossFire Mastercard and where it might be at. While presently there aren't many places that have that card, I had planned on updating it when certain e-tailers got their shipments in for that product.
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    ATI X19xx series GPU's may help make a cure?

    Interesting read It looks like Folding@Home is coming to GPU's due to their better floating-point calculations and dynamic branching. However, it can only be done with single ATI X19xx series cards, no CrossFire setups, no Nvidia. They do plan to add CrossFire to the program. I've never...
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    What's the meaning behind your username?

    Usernames can be soooooo strange sometimes and the only person who knows what it means is the person that created it. I was just wondering what made some people pick the weird names that they have. Since most probably don't know what significance my own username has I'll go ahead and begin...
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    ATI's Crossfire X1950 Mastercards

    I don't know if anyone else has noticed, but Newegg doesn't have an "X1950XTX CrossFire Edition" section like they do with the normal X1900's. Not only that, but on the page where the X1950's are for sale, some say "CrossFire card" or "CrossFire Support" or something of the like. ALL of the...
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    ***The Official X1950 Pro thread***

    Wasn't the X1950 Pro suppose to launch today?
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    Is it possible to have a desktop that is realtime in XP?

    Basically I'm wondering if it is possible to have a camera hooked up somewhere and have the video feed back to the monitor and serve as wallpaper. That way whenever you want to check for something that the camera might be showing you would just have to look at your desktop and have a fullscreen...
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    RaBiT

    It looks like a decent overclocking utility as far as voltages and frequencies.
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    Preview Option with PM's

    When writing PM's, the option to preview your message doesn't exist. Instead if you want to see what it looks like before you send it you have to fake reply somewhere and copy/paste the message and then preview it. I was just wondering if somone knows a better trick or if it would be a...
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    Interview with ATI's director of marketing for platform technologies

    Link Regarding Physics: Regarding multi-GPU platforms: :laugh: I guess he means it's the best, but not yet. LOL. Also, this is an interesting view point as to how ATI feels about frame rates compared to visual quality: Overall, it was a good read. I think they are a little full...
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    Thermaltake VE1000BNS Mozart TX Full Tower Case

    Link It's huge, supports a 7" drive bay, and has plenty of options that make it easy to place water cooling components in or through it.
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    Is it possible to change the flash advertisments?

    I don't know if anyone else really noticed, but there is still a 4th of July flash ad for Patriot memory going here on Anandtech. I'm sure there are many other ads that have had an overdone existence here, but that is one that is constantly on my screen. I know that it would probably be...
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    Some AAA results and performance hits

    I've been meaning to post some information concerning the performance hits when enabling adaptive AA on the X1900 series, but due to recent hardware changes a complete analysis is not possible. Fisrt off, I do not have my X1900 any longer so doing further benches is rather difficult. Of the...