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    Friend wants a new card to run oblivion

    price is his biggest concern :( his Pc as far as i know (1.5GB RAM|3.0 P4 HT 350 watt PSU) PCI-E his current card is a x300 he says hes fine if it only runs on medium or so which of these 2 cards would be better 7600GS $65 HIS x1650 51$ or is this worth all the extra cash? EVGA...
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    Whats decent for a Laptop these days?

    Im sure you've seen a couple threads like this... -Sis is Graduating from High school -i dunno what decent for Laptops anymore(or ever really) -she has a ton of music and pics -spends most of her time surfing -hasnt gamed since the sims(most likely wont again unless she starts playing sims...
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    Far cry mouse problems

    I reinstalled far cry today(deleted in last reformatting) and it installs fine... got the newest patch for it... my mouse works in the menus but when the game launches i cant look around...WTH? any ideas the mouse is a RAZER copperhead
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    saitek eclipse 2

    once u push the 2nd key no further key presses are acknowledged does anyone know of a fix for this?
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    any fix for saitek eclipse 2

    as summary says the eclipse II wont let you press 3 keys at once is there anyway to fix this reason is im playing a chrono trigger ROM and cant push L + R + A to activate the one PC got a suggestion to get past game in OT however still wonder if theres a permanent fix
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    Funny Link

    www.safenow.org I thought it was pretty hilarious didn't find much on search but still sorry if reposted
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    Look what i started

    feel free to join no membership fee ;) this club is for ppl who are as tired of his worthless blogging here as i am Looks like it back fired on you. See you in a week. AnandTech Moderator
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    fun things to do to a broken car**Updated w/ vid**

    alright my friends 96 grand prix finally bit the dust and he wants to know some fun ways to ****** up his car. Its only worth 200 as scrap and he'd rather just beat the ****** out of it It maxes out at about 5 Mph right now We will record it so good ideas may be rewarded with vids...
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    Poll about mods

    inspired by comments on page 11 of this thread ppl wanted this thread created but everyone else was to chicken to make it....so i did
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    AH HA **updated with pic**

    I finnally got it after half an hour of trying and an hour of making the wallpaper Pic then only reason it sucks for me is one monitor is 1440*900 and the other is 1024*768 but i finnally have a different wall paper on each monitor! (kinda like the opposite of a rant thread I'm...
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    Finish the movie quote

    rules work like the "ask the poster below you a question" threads only one person starts a movie quote then the poster below you finishes it and starts another "How do you shoot women and children?"
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    Wow cool

    I have a Razer copperhead which if you dont know has one of those invisible 2000DPI lasers I was messing around with my webcam and i had it pointed @ the mouse then i lifted the mouse and noticed a glowing circle below the mouse that moves with the mouse Is there anyone else that didnt...
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    is Plutoed a real word?

    so what are your thoughts can Pluto be used as a verb or can Pluto only be used as a noun? Edit:(clarification) used in a sentence as "you got plutoed"
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    Who do the Kudos go to

    Ordered a saitek eclipse 2 of amazon for 46.02 with a deal for free shipping it was the "supersaver 5-9 day shipping" and i ordered on the 23rd @ like 2 am so even with the minimum of 5 days i was expecting to get it 28th @ the earliest I got an email telling me the ETA was 12/28-01/10 :S...
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    New to dual monitors

    how do i run games on one and messenger/ internet stuff on the other? is there a program a setting or am i SOL
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    DVI vs VGA pt 2

    All i can say is wow im running 2 monitors side by side ones a 19" westinghouse running thru DVI the other is a 15 Dell running through VGA i asked in this Thread If there was a difference and to everyone who told me there was you were right
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    DVI vs VGA

    I got one of the 200$ 19" widescreen westinghouse HDTV/Monitors from BB on black Friday and it comes with a VGA cable and i have a 25$ BB gift card so i was wondering if the quality difference above VGA would be worth spending the gift card on..
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    Illuminated keyboard for 50$ or under

    I've seen the saitek eclipse 1 that runs around 40$ but i was wondering if there were anyothers around the 50$ pricerange
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    .gif tour of a scion tC

    Ok so i made somewhat of a virtual tour of a tC its just a bunch of pics arranged as a .gif and it's my 2nd .gif ever so dont expect anything super fancy Scion tC Tour just thought it'd be nice if u wanna see what some of the inside looks like Its a 05 silver tC with a few upgrades
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    NVM

    the noise level in an empty testing hall is 40dB. when there is 100 students taking tests the noise level is 60dB. Assume all students contribute equally to noise power. What is the noise level to the nearest dB when 50 students have finished? looking more for the general equation than the...
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    Physics problems

    ok so to summarize it some1 is listening to the radio broadcast of a baseball game 1.6Km south of the baseball game. she hears the EMP from lightning over the radio 2 secs later she hears thunder over the baseball stadium mic 4 secs later thunder hits her house where is lightning with...
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    Today's so messed up...

    I was in the library doing work on one of my take-home tests and my dad calls me and i quietly answered my cell phone, and he asks if my roommate wants to drive me down to Omaha on Thursday. i have no classes on Thursday so i asked him why we would go to Omaha (1.5-2hr drive) and he said to...
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    Who likes physics problems

    Here's the problem i need to solve: You drop a rock down a well 1.5 secs later u hear it splash. How deep is the well? assume acceleration due to gravity is 9.8 m/s and speed of sound in air is 330m/s
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    Yet Another PS3 Launch antics video

    Vid link its kinda boring at first but its only 3 minutes long just watch the whole thing endings pretty good
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    So....What did i miss on ATOT?

    I haven't really been gone but my HDD went corrupt and it took me 3 week to get everything i need to fix it in the same city..... anyways im just wondering what i missed on ATOT in the past 3 weeks ...since i know no1 missed me:(
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    Odd lag problems

    A few weeks ago my rooms internet started lagging, and i have no idea why. Its fine for surfing or xbox live but for some reason starcraft lags like a bitch, its kinda odd cuz normally there are ways to reveal laggers in starcraft but i never pop-up as a lagger when this test is used is there...
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    Wii vs. PS3

    Wii Vs PS3 i thought it was funny apparently it aired on G4 but i don't get G4 here @ college so sorry if u've seen it
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    Sis has Ipod problems...

    out of her 1543 songs, only 600 will upload after 2 subsequent uploads she is up to 800 songs and when she trys to update it it says that her "disk cannon be read from or written to" plays songs fine they just wont transfer its a 30GB video Ipod (white) Pc transfering from runs...
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    question for xbox 360 owners

    BG info: when i bought my 360 i got a steering wheel (MSRP 90$) for 12$ i have burnout: revenge but playing it with a wheel sucks so i packaged it up and traded it into best buy for a 86$ store credit gift card with the gift card i bought Prey limited custom edition(they were out of...
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    Any1 know of a program that lets you run component in?

    i have the cabels and all and i wanted to run my xbox 360 on my PC in HD cuz it doesnt look that great in SD scaled to fit a 15" monitor all i need to do this now is some program that accepts component in as a video capture type setting since most will only accept composite and Svideo TIA
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    New hire for msn

    looks like the person typing the news stories that appear in msn messenger forgot how to type Enjoy Edit: i typed hews instead of news ok....
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    Y the F would anyone buy a dell?

    my dell worked fine until i upgraded it because the crappy x300 it came with wouldnt run half life 2 on medium settings since i upgraded it i have had nothing but problems with it it currently wont even load into PCI-e properly the tech support is about as helpful as any local 3rd...
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    problem with card loading up in x1mode

    my graphics card only seems to boot up in x1 mode even though PCI-Express is enabled in the start up menu ive contacted dell their only solution is reseating the card which has been a temporary fix before but now fials to work does any1 smarter than Dell tech support have any ideas?
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    ? on hyperthreading

    i basically dont know what it does my processor is supposed to support it it came disabled by default im wonder if i should turn it on and y or y not if u have a question my sig wont answer then ask and ill try and respond quickly used mostly for games and browsing
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    quick RAM question

    a quick question about upgrading ram would it be faster for me to buy 2 more 512 sticks and go 4x512 for 2GB of RAM or is it better to go with 2 1GB sticks im not really considering this at all since i have no probs with only 1GB but hypothetically if i wanted 2GB of RAM would it be better...
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    converting 3GPP2 to another format

    i have a video from my cell phone in the 3GPP2 (.3G2) format and i dont seem to be able to find a free program to let me convert it into another file preferably one that can be read by windows movie maker
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    Quicktime video editor

    i took alot of cell phone videos recently some are worth shaaring on the net but are a bit rough and unfortuantly the only video editor i have is Windows movie Maker which doesnt accept quicktime video obviously my phone records in a QT video format(or i wouldnt be posting) i was just...
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    Custom PC for under 1400

    i posted this in ATOT but heres the link to taht thread that describes what we're looking for Original Thread
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    Custom Pc for less than 1400$

    my sisters boyfriend wants a nice PC for gaming for $1400 at the very most if its a bit less that would be great basica idea of what hes thinking Thermaltek Armor series case(no if's and's or but's about that part) dual core CPU probly a x1800 x1900 or 7900series gfx card probly 300-500GB...
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    Weird phone calls

    ive latly gotten a series of thus far 4 random phone calls one from CA one from Hooperton Nebraska i answered one and it was a robot voice all it said was "your sexy, from and then some ip address" that doesnt concern me what concerns me is i just didnt answer one and then called my voice...