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    PC shut off while gaming and wont turn back on. Dead PSU?

    Ah yes, the old "pop and smell." Definitely your power supply.
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    Athlon XP 2500+ to Phenom II X3 2.8ghz ... @ 3.5ghz

    I actually went from an AMD 3000+ Venice to a San Diego 4000+ about three/four years ago. I must say I was quite pleased with those results. And today I decided to upgrade from my 939 San Diego to a Phenom X3 720. Must say I'm a little bit excited, even though the only game I play is BF2, but...
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    Case Advice for First-time PC Builder

    Yeah, unfortunately Newegg deactivated it. http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16811119094
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    Case Advice for First-time PC Builder

    You really can't go wrong with CoolerMaster. I've owned two and both where great, especially my Centurion 532. I love that case. My first was a Centurion 5 which was also good, but not as much as my 532.
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    What is your all time favourite CPU?

    I thoroughly enjoyed our old 866mhz PIII and its RD-Ram. Technically I started gaming on our old HP w/ Win95 but it was our Dell PIII that I took my gaming to whole new levels, lol. But my favorite is my AMD San Diego 4000 I'm running in my good ole 939 setup, allowed me to max out settings in...
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    AMD X2 6400 vs AMD X2 7750

    7750 it is then. Thanks for putting my mind at ease.
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    AMD X2 6400 vs AMD X2 7750

    I'm looking at upgrading relatively cheaply from my old 939 setup (San Diego 4000, 4x512 GeIL Ultra DDR500, Asus A8N-SLI Premium). So I've picked out the motherboard I want and the RAM i want. Motherboard: http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16813157139 Ram...
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    What Speakers Do You Guys Use?

    I'm rockin out the Logitech Z-2300s. I love these things coupled with my Audigy 2 ZS sound cards. I'm an avid gamer and these have made my expierence even more the merrier. I love it when my room shakes from artillary strikes in BF2 and i can here bullets wizzing passed my head on different...
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    Audigy 2 ZS question

    I've been curious about this for a while and decided to ask. Can i hook up my mic and speaker jacks on the front of my cooler master case to my Audigy 2 ZS?
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    Can someone recommend good gaming headset

    Personally, I'm a fan of my CyberAcoustic headset. Went to my local best buy about 30mins away, paid $25.00 for 'em, didn't have to worry about shipping and handling, got home plugged em in, and been rockin em ever since along with my Logitech Z-2300 speakers. The ones i got from best buy had...
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    Screen cleaner

    I used a microfiber towel and a solution of 3/4 water and 1/4 Rubbing Alcohol, cleaned things up for me. U could probably do it 1/2 of each but i played it safe.
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    939 Board w/ AGP

    MSI Neo2 Platinum! Ran it for a over a year and never gave me any problems with the exception of some CMOS issues reseting my bios when i cut power completely away from the CP (such as unplugging it, not shutting it down). Kinda sucked when i had to upgrade to a different board for PCI-E.
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    Upgrading Monitor

    Bump. All right, if yall had to choose between choice one and two, which one would it be? If those were the only monitors left on earth. Help a fellow computer enthusiast out, I'm thinkin choice two.
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    Upgrading Monitor

    I run at the max resolution 1280x1024. I have a Samsung 710N currently.
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    Upgrading Monitor

    Yeah, slightly out of my price range. I'd barely be getting by with the prices of the two i picked out. Plus, i'm use to my Samsung 17" and really like samsung after having used one and seen others.
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    Yet another Rate the Rig

    You can't go wrong with the CoolerMaster Centurion 532 case. I had a centurion 5 and absolutely loved it. Finally decided it was time for a new case, went with the CoolerMaster Centurion 532 and love it even more than my old Centurion 5. It looks nicer, has a little more space, and even keeps...
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    Upgrading Monitor

    Bump. Choice 1 or 2. I'm pretty much dead set on one of those! Which of the two is best?
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    Its that time of year again.. help me decide on a monitor and sound card/speakers

    I love my Audigy 2 ZS. Games sound great, especially those like Battlefield 2. Of course if you have money to spend you might want to look into a new X-Fi. Either way, Creative Labs is the way to go.
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    Its that time of year again.. help me decide on a monitor and sound card/speakers

    Z-2300 most deffinately! I got those to complement my Audigy 2 ZS and to replace my old altec lansing vs2121s. All i can say is wow, things sound so much more clearer and detailed. My games sound alot better. These things get loud and still sound great. Well worth the money, you wouldn't...
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    Upgrading Monitor

    Bump. Choice 1 or choice 2? Would like to have several opinions before i make my final decision.
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    Upgrading Monitor

    I still don't get the whole a-si TFT/TN vs a-si TFT/LCD. Thats the only thing keeping me from making my decision. Like i said, after reading what people were saying about the TN panel issues with the 19" model it scared me from choice one, which was my original choice. I only want to go 17"...
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    4x512 of corsair value ram?

    I had a Venice 3000 running with 4x512 GeIL Ultra DDR500 and it worked perfect for me. Improved my gaming alot. The difference between ddr400 2t and ddr400 1t is not big at all, you probably won't notice it. I upgraded to a San Diego 4000 and still the same great results. As for...
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    Upgrading Monitor

    Other people ask me the same thing. Now i'm not a wiz at all this but my understanding would be that since both have the same resolution (17" and 19"), the 19" would not have as good appearance and quality as the 17". At least thats what someone told me because the pixels are more spread out...
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    First Computer Rig.

    I deffinatley would have to agree with the case. Coolermaster makes good stuff, i had that same one. It kept everything cool and was very simple. Just recently i upgraded to a CoolerMaster Centurion 532 and i like it even better than my old Centurion 5. Either way you cannot go wrong. As...
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    Upgrading Monitor

    I'm wanting to upgrade my monitor for gaming and so my parents can have my old one. After having a samsung monitor i can't see having anything but a samsung, so i narrowed it down to two, the 740BX and the 740BF. Which one do yall think i should go with...
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    Cleaning out the the Hard Drive

    Option two i was talking about using something like Driver Cleaner Pro 3.3 to clean out the old fragments of drivers and something like clean disk directory 1.7 to gather some of those miscellanious dll files that are just left there. Thats was all i was talking about. I'm feeling option one...
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    Cleaning out the the Hard Drive

    Well, i figure its about time to do some cleaning to the hard drive. I figure i have two option: 1. Brother is coming into town so have him save the stuff i want to a seperate hard drive, then format the maxtor, then do a fresh install of windows and all my drivers for all my hardware, and...
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    7900GT or the motherboard?

    Well i upgraded the Bios to 1009 and still no go! I called the people at ASUS. They told put one stick in, fix the timings, then put the rest in. So i did that and when running 3D mark, instead of stopping on the first test, it would make it all the way to the 2nd sound test which is the next...
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    7900GT or the Motherboard?

    I have all the NV4 chipset drivers installed. What is an IRQ Resource conflict and how do i check for it. I have all my componets listed on my rig page. Thank you. Please help. Its really getting to me!
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    7900GT or the motherboard?

    I've got bios 1006, would it be worth my while to upgrade to the latest 1009. I looked at it but in part of its description it reads: 2. Fix unstable under 400MHz-Single channel issue. 3. Modify DDR max speed from 400MHz to 333Hz when full loadinng. What exactly does this mean? Should...
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    7900GT or the motherboard?

    I've got it running at 2.9 volts. I think it was recommended 2.9 to 3.1 or somethin like that. I ran Prime95 stress testing at 400mhz for about 4 hours and it worked fine. The only time it seems to gives me a problem is when doing something graphics intensive like 3dmark03 and playing games...
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    7900GT or the motherboard?

    First off, sorry for posting in the general hardware but i wasn't get any where in technical support. Okay, so i just put an eVGA 7900GT KO and an ASUS A8N-SLI Premium motherboard in my computer. So i decided to run 3dmark03 (to compare old scores) and it would freeze in the first test every...
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    7900GT or the Motherboard?

    Okay, so i just put an eVGA 7900GT KO and an ASUS A8N-SLI Premium motherboard in my computer. So i decided to run 3dmark03 (to compare old scores) and it would freeze in the first test every time. So i tried to play BF2 and it would freeze in the menu. So i went into my bios and changed the...
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    7900GS

    Well, as muched as i wanted the XFX, i went ahead and bought the eVGA 7900GT with the 20 dollar rebate from newegg since i was ordering some other stuff from there. Now i'm getting more for less. Thanks for all yalls imput on this, got me thinking logically.
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    7900GS

    I just liked the way the XFX looked to be honest, but since its going to be in a case it doesn't matter. This is one of those times to be logical and yall know what yall are talking about. Thanks for the help!
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    7900GS

    Guess i'm just not looking in the right places, still though no one has answered my question about the 7900GT vs 7900GS.
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    7900GS

    Well, i hear good things about the XFX cards, plus i'm not a fan of overclocking and don't mind forking the extra cash for the XFX one. Call me retarded, but that's just the way i am. What i really want to know i guess is it worth the money to get the 7900GT over the GS? Plus i'm thinking i...
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    7900GS

    Well, i'm finally buying a new graphics card since i've had an ASUS Premium motherboard lying around to replace my MSI. The MSI was AGP, the ASUS is PCI-E. The most power extensive game i own is Battlefield 2. My old graphics card is a MSI 9800pro. I figured a 7900 series would be a pretty...
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    RAM dropped to PC2700 333mhz from PC3200 400mhz

    Yeah. All the athlons with the exception of the venice cores and one other san diego maybe, can only run all four dimms filled at ddr333. The venice core processors like mine however can be manually set in the bios to run at ddr400 speeds at 2t timings instead of ddr333 at 2t timings. Either...
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    AGP or upgrade to PCI-E

    Thanks for yalls opinions. Its sad, when i built my computer in June, there was all kinds of agp stuff. Thats why i got my mobo and video card from a friend for $75 each. Good deal. Didn't think it'd all disappear within a matter of months. Either way i go, its gonna cost. I'll sit on it...