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    INsiteful opinions: What is the best video card (preformance/$$$)

    Hi all. Please share your wealth of knowleage and let me know which video card would currently get your reward as the best buy? Measured shearly on current software preformance per price.
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    Is Nvidia Stock a HOT DEAL???

    Hello all, I've been watching NVIDIA and other stocks for the last 3 years now. There was a time about 2 years around October where I was very disappointed to see my beloved NVIDIA Stock hit 7$ when I had bought it for 18$. Thankfully within a few months the NVDA share price recovered and I...
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    Vote, Is Nvidia Stock a HOT DEAL?

    Hello all, I've been watching NVIDIA and other stocks for the last 3 years now. There was a time about 2 years around October where I was very disappointed to see my beloved NVIDIA Stock hit 7$ when I had bought it for 18$. Thankfully within a few months the NVDA share price recovered and I...
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    Hard drive problem (winXp saying drive not formated)

    So all of a sudden I lost access to my large data file hard drive (luckly I don't run windows on it). So now when I go into my computer, I can see the Hard drive but I can't access it. Windows pops up with a "Disk is not formatted" window, and asks if I want to format the drive. But I...
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    Problems recognizing second (slave) Hard Drive

    While I reformatted and reinstalled windows XP Pro on my smaller master hard drive, I noticed that my large (data, music, movies, games) hard drive was recognized in an unusual way. Instead of having a drive letter like D: it had -: and the file system recognized was called dynamic volume...
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    Problems recognizing second (slave) Hard Drive

    While I reformatted and reinstalled windows XP Pro on my smaller master hard drive, I noticed that my large (data, music, movies, games) hard drive was recognized in an unusual way. Instead of having a drive letter like D: it had -: and the file system recognized was called dynamic volume...
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    When are the next gen card due to be released?

    Also, has anyone heard any rumors as to the preformance of the next gen cards verses this current gen (ie. radeon 9800). Thanks
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    Need Help, trying to discern strange problems

    :confused: Hi and thanks for stopping by, I have been working on trying to get this particular system up and running well for quite some time now. Here are the problematic symptoms, the system will occasionally was able to install windows XP pro, but then windows media player (could not open...
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    Please help, trying to discern strange problems

    :confused: Hi and thanks for stopping by, I have been working on trying to get this particular system up and running well for quite some time now. Here are the problematic symptoms, the system will occasionally was able to install windows XP pro, but then windows media player (could not open...
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    Whats the best nforce2 MB w/vid w/sound ???

    Hi there, One of my good friends was having trouble with is computer rebooting randomly. And after swapping out 2 different sticks of RAM I concluded that the Motherboard must be at fault (memory controller). The faulty board was an EPOX 8RGA and I was wondering what would be a good...
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    What Nforce2 board to get?????

    I just built 2 computers using Epox 8rga+ MB's, unfortunately it seems that EPOX neglected to prefect their dual channel memory controller thus I cant run the board in dual channel mode and I have 2 sticks of ram being unused. I am going to return these boards and get a more reliable Nforce2...
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    What Nforce2 board to get?????

    I just built 2 computers using Epox 8rga+ MB's, unfortunately it seems that EPOX neglected to prefect there dual channel memory controller thus I cant run the board in dual channel mode and I have 2 sticks of ram being unused. I am going to return these boards and get a more reliable Nforce2...
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    Problem with Dual channel memory(128-bit mode) on my Epox 8RGA+

    I am wondering if i have a slightly defective board (ie. some sort of hardware problem involiving the memory controller) or if this is a problem that more people are running into. My Epox 8RGA+ works great when i only have one stick of ram (crucial 512 MB pc 3200) so that the memory is only...
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    Buying Memory, Crucial @ $90 or OCSystem @ $74?

    I am going to be building 2 identical computers for some family and friends. I plan to put PC 3200 memory in them. My question is: what do you think is a better deal, going with the 512 MB chip from crucial for $90 (definably quality) or getting $16 off by going with OCSystem for $74. Does...
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    Any nominations for the best Price per Performance DVD+R/DVD+RW capable drive?

    Hello my Anandtech friends, I have been looking for a good comparision site for DVD+R/DVD+RW capable drives, but alas am not finding much. So if any of you have experiance with a recent percashs of a DVD+R/DVD+RW capable drive please let me know what drives seem to do the job well for the $$$...
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    Need Advice on DVD+RW software

    Hello all, I just bought a HP dvd 100i drive that uses the DVD+RW media format. The problem is that the vendor i got this from only sent me cheap stomp software on a burned CD with no label. So far I havent been able to write a DVD, possibly because of the software. I bought Ritek DVD+RW...