Recent content by MERKMAN

Of all the web sites I frequent, HardOCP is still my first read EVERYDAY. And after having trouble trouble joining a league on GameFaqs, I thought I might inquire about starting my own here. Some of my thoughts... 1) While I've played various baseball games over the years, I'm not hardcore...

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1) What would you do if you won an AMD Athlon X2 5000+ Black Edition CPU? I'd use it to search for the girl of my dreams. At 36, with the last girl informing me after 1 date that she wasn't looking for a boyfriend, pickins are getting slim and the situation grave. Hopefully the power of...

Final followup to my issue. Once again, let me thank all who posted. Times when your having trouble with PC's can be stressful, and it's great to have a community to come to that... 1) Knows their stuff 2) Is willing to help 3) Sympathizes, because they've been there :) In the...

First off all, my humble congrats to the OP. Amazing story. Then I did deeper and find many folks like myself. Into computers and the challenge they present. I actually have a BFG 7800GTX on my shelf. It's been there since I upgraded to a 8800GTX and Vista about 3 weeks ago. I had...

Well, I'm in. Just got my 8800GTX about a month ago, and have used a 2nd Xbox 360 HD-DVD drive (first is on the 360, ironically enough!) with PowerDVD with great success for months. But I have Blu-Ray movies as well, so something like this holds GREAT appeal!!! :) Truth be told, I'm still...

Well I'm having more trouble with the 8800GTX. I was trying to get Nero installed earlier, but it seems many versions aren't Vista compatible. In order to get SOMETHING working, I downloaded Nero Lite 7.10 and got that running. But it seems I got a virus in the process. And while running a...

Good evening to all. First of all, thank you, each of you, for replying. It's moments like these a person really needs help, and I can't thank you enough for that. As to my issues... I believe they may have been threefold. In order... 1) It turns out there was a power problem in my...

Greetings all. BFG 7800GTX user that decided after 2+ years it was time to reimage his primary PC. So I took it outside, blew out all the parts with canned air, removed the old video card and hard drive (250GB Seagate SATA), replaced them with the new parts (PNY 8800GTX and a 500GB SATA...

I wish I could be as eloquent as my friend, Mr. Tango here... but I can't. Because this whole thing... it... it FUCKING SUCKS! If this bastards spent half as much time worrying about policing drugs instead of video games... he could have saved some lives by now. Asshole...

Greetings all. I pre-ordered Halo 2 at EB about 2 weeks ago, and I'm getting anxious for the PC release. I've been doing some reloading on my computers lately, and I decided rather than reimage my primary computer (the one found in my sig), it would be easier to reimage the Dell laptop I used...

Okay, to explain my issue... I have a Xbox 360 HD-DVD drive, and software loaded to watch movies. But my video card and LCD aren't HDCP compliant. So I switched from using DVI, back to VGA. The movies look great, and the resolution is fine at 1920x1200 for the most part... EXCEPT at boot...

Don't think so. USB Adapters for the system are STILL a big mystery. Personally, I want one that lets me use my Tekken 5 arcade stick with Virtua Fighter 5. Supposely, there are a few 3rd party adapters that do this, but the only place to buy them is Ebay with little or no information about...

I own the Westinghouse LCD TV and I can honestly say it's AMAZING for the price. Not as good as the 40" Samsung with Cablecard my buddy bought... but for the $1050 I paid, I have an EXCELLENT quality 1080p set I'm using with an HD Comcast Tuner, Xbox 360, PS3, and Wii. Everything looks sharp...