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    Helping a friend build a new computer. $1000 buget w/ speakers and monitor.

    Hello folks. As the title suggests, I'm helping my friend build new desktop. I've built two in the past nine years or so and this will be his first. However, I'm not totally up to date on the current hardware market so I'd appreciate some input. He picked out some stuff himself and I'd like some...
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    New linux user needs help installing to old hardware

    So I have this old laptop that I'm trying to get working again . It's a dell inspiron 7000 with a 333mhz PII processor and 128 mb ram, and a dvd player. I want to be able to browse the web, use hulu, maybe possibly play some older windows games under wine. I've played around in knoppix and...
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    desktop won't POST

    after changing some settings and attempting to overclock my FSB, my computer no longer POSTs. I built this computer two years ago but never tried to OC it before. what i did was disable floppy disk seek and enable S.M.A.R.T, as well as raising the system bus from 200mhz to 222mhz. i've tried...
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    image jumps to top of screen in games.

    whenever i boot up warrock or supreme commander the image jumps from the center to the top of the screen. this dosn't happen in any other games. luckily supreme commander has a safe windowed mode so it's not much of a problem but i'm sol for warrock. my display drivers are up to date. does...
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    looking for CAD laptop for under $3500

    hi. my friend is looking for a laptop for college for engineering and is looking for a laptop to run autoCAD and also do some gaming. he asked me for advise but the problem is i don't know that much about CAD. all i could figure was that it needed a decent GPU because of the 3d modeling, but...