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    new video card for 24" LCD?

    I recently got an LG L246WP (24" LCD panel) and needed to upgrade my old video card from a 6600GT. I don't play games at all but do video stuff (editing, authoring, etc), web browsing, email and usually have them all running at once (rabid multi-tasker). I was advised (on another forum) that...
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    Clock speed vs. Memory speed vs. Memory type

    There are lots of cards that are right under the $100 mark after rebates and they all seem to play a balancing game; to keep an economical price point, they'll jazz up one aspect of performance or maybe two, but not more. While a different card makes something really fast, but uses mediocre...
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    graphics card upgrade WITHOUT GAMING?!

    Hello, good people of the forum. It's almost impossible to find any reference on any tech site, review or forum that even suggests the idea that of video cards that are NOT used for gaming (HORROR!). Yes, it's true, I do not play games. I don't care who knows it! I do, however, spend a...
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    "No Audio Device Detected"

    I just finished my first build a few weeks ago. Everything worked just like it was supposed to the very first time I flipped the switch. A few days later, though, I noticed I was getting no sound. Thus began two grueling, confusing weeks of trying to figure out why the machine had lost track...
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    965P-DS3 not playing nice with XP...

    ;)Well, it's official. I Am A GEEK! I just completed my first computer build and I am pretty darn proud of myself! And despite reading all about the tribulations you IT folken go through on a regular basis, plus the horror stories from the newbies, it turned out to be pretty painless. Here's...