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I stayed up way too late last night banging my head against the wall trying to figure this out and following every bit of advice that I could from increasingly less-related google searches... I just (mostly) completed a build for my parents, and it includes an Asus Prime z370-a motherboard and...

I bought a Denon AVR-x4200w last week and got everything hooked up. I am very satisfied. Thanks for the help. I've got my family room wired up with 5.1 surround and the pair of speakers over my back deck/patio set up as zone 2. It worked great for a neighborhood get-together/cookout that I...

I don't have much experience with audio. I had a set of 2.1 computer speakers in college, and then lived in a series of places that kept me from cutting loose with the audio (apartments, historic town home, having a baby). About 2 years ago, we bought a home and the previous owners left nearly...

Background: I've been working on setting up a whole-home dvr using WMC and a couple of Hauppauge 2250's on my Windows 7 server with an Asus Chromebox flashed with XBMC for a front-end. Currently, my TV (LG 60PN5700) is plugged directly into coax split from my cable modem through an amplified...

I recently cut ties with cable and stopped paying for a bundle of services. I now only pay for internet, and I use a VoIP service for my home phone and Netflix/Hulu/Amazon Prime for TV. I've been relatively satisfied with the streaming services for my TV consumption, since I didn't really...

I've been doing some research for laptops to replace my wife's very old work-issued laptop. Her company just implemented a reimbursement policy to avoid dealing with laptop inventory/servicing. They'll reimburse her for half of up to $3000, and she gets to keep it. The only constraint that...

Does anyone have any recommendations on a mouse that has a "quiet" click? I can hear my Razer click from another room, and I know that any late-night gaming must drive my wife crazy... so I'm wondering if anyone has any insight into a quieter mouse. Optical/laser, doesn't need to be ultra...

I was looking into a QNAP 419P (seems to have great reviews, and meets my needs for offloaded storage and file backup), but I also want to have the NAS backed up to an online backup service (like Carbonite). Is this possible? I know that some sites that sync/backup data constantly don't work...

Running Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit - Downloaded the drivers from nVidia for Win 7/Vista 64bit (downloaded 10+ different times to make sure that I wasn't getting corrupted copies or something silly like that) - Clean old drivers off system (disable Windows update, uninstall, delete nVidia...

I have one of these from Comcast, and I was wondering if anyone else has tried to hook up an external hard drive to expand storage (the internal storage is a pitiful 150GB, and is only worth about 20ish hours of HD recording). It has lots of different ports (eSATA, USB, and 2 Firewire), but I...

I've been using a crappy point-and-shoot for a while now, and its reaction time, features, and picture quality are starting to really bother me (low-light shots are absolutely attrocious). I'm not looking for a full-size SLR, but something that will give me a taste of higher-end quality...

Any Navy/Marine Corps/etc that have a navy.mil e-mail address can purchase Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010 (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, SharePoint, Publisher, Access, and InfoPath). This offer also works for Microsoft Project Professional 2010, and Office 2008 for Mac...

Installed a second gtx280 about a week and a half ago, and everything was working fine for about a week. Then, this past weekend, I get a blue screen on startup - just after the windows logo, before the logon screen. I restarted the computer and it starts up fine. A day goes by and I...

I'm working on OCing my video cards, but I was wondering what program [H]'s recommend for stress testing/stability? I've been running Furmark (at full 1920x1200 res) for a while, to watch the core temps, they seem to level out after a few minutes... should I be more concerned with watching for...

I have one, but I'd like to throw in a second (or even two more if someone has two that they'd like to sell as a package deal... there was a pair up yesterday that I was too late to snag). I'm in the Washington, DC area and willing to pick it up if you're nearby.

I have a Samsung 2443BW (24" 1920x1200, .27mm) and I was thinking about adding a cheaper secondary monitor for reference documents, websurfing, chat while gaming on the 24. I don't intend to do the eyefinity thing ever (my desk doesn't have enough room for more than 1-2 monitors, and my wife...

So, I've had the same old HP printer hooked up to my computer since '99, and my wife's printer (multi-function) won't do any of the multiple functions that make it worth desktop real estate. Add to the preceding that my wife's job just placed her in a remote/telecommute position, so they gave...

Looking for a new mouse to replace my aging Logitech (don't even remember the model, but its got 2 thumb buttons, corded, and optical... average, decent mouse from 2002). The biggest reason that I want to replace my current mouse is because it is LOUD. Unfortunately my computer desk is in a...

I've been given a little bit of a challenge by a friend of a friend. He wants to build a new system, but he needs to order all of his parts from TigerDirect.com (some sort of partial pay withholding scheme his employer has, where a small amount of his paycheck goes tax free to an account that...

I have 3 drives installed in my case (2 WD Black 640Gb, and 1 WD Green 1Tb). I successfully built a RAID 0 volume with the 2 Blacks, and the Green shows up as a valid drive to choose as a boot option. When I open up My Computer, I only have one drive showing (the 1.28Tb RAID 0 volume). The...

Are there any good (free) benchmarks out there? I would like to benchmark my system, but I'm don't care enough about a number to shell out 30 bucks.

I've got my i7 902 d0 overclocked at 20x180 (turbo takes it to 21x180) now with a Vcore of 1.3. It is Prime95 stable for 24 hours+ (with max temps never crossing 65). As a personal goal, I wanted to push this thing to 4GHz, but just taking the processor to 20x190 caused me to have to...

Ordered a TRUE revC from FrozenCPU, and it just arrived. The box had the seals broken on it, and all of the parts bags were opened. Everything appears to be in the box, and the heatsink doesn't appear to have any dents/flaws, so is there anything that I should be concerned about (apart from...

Currently, I'm holding onto my gtx280 until I see how the Fermi/58xx/59xx war plays out over the next quarter or two. However, I am building a new computer. The only thing I'm taking out of my old box is my 280, so that leaves my old system just a video card away from being functional as a...

I'm putting together an i7 build, and I'm planning on overclocking a 920 to 4.0 on air. I'm having a tough time deciding on a motherboard. With unlimited funds, I'd just go overkill and get a classified and be done with it. I was looking at the P6T Delux v2 (or P6TD Delux... same price, no...

I'm building a new computer, and thought I'd run my parts past you all here at [H], since you've never steered me wrong before. Processor: i7 920 - $279.99 (I can't find anywhere in the specs on Newegg if its c0 or d0... anyone know how to tell?) Motherboard: EVGA E760 CLASSIFIED - $374.99...

Is there enough of a performance increase with the 965/975 over the 920d0 to justify the $500-700 price increase? It seems that just about all the i7 systems I see on the boards are using a 920, and it seems to have great oc potential. I haven't really seen any reviews of the 965 or 975...

Basically scrapping the majority of my system for an i7 setup, but one of the components that I plan on holding onto is my gtx280. If I decide to get a system built for me by *any custom pc website* its not much extra to throw in a video card as well. Do I need to go with another 280 if I...

I was looking to upgrade my RAM, but started looking through different sticks of RAM and realized that I have no idea what I'm doing any more. My sticking point is that I'm not sure how much of a migration DDR3 was from DDR2. I assume that DDR3 is faster, newer, sexier... but is it something...

I'm looking to make some much-needed upgrades to my system (in sig). I'd like to take it one step at a time. I know ram is cheap so the first step will be to switch out my ram for 2 2Gb sticks. Next step was going to be upgrading my video card. Moving from SLI'ed 7950GT's, just about...

I just came back from a year-long deployment, and I'm reworking some of the components of my system, since they're all getting pretty dated. Currently, I have 2x 7950GT's (512Mb each) running in SLI. My first question is: are these still good enough to run games (on high performance/lower...

I'm trying to upgrade my current monitor (cheap 19" 5ms 4x3 Viewsonic from 2005) to something in the neighborhood of 24-26" (primarily looking for 1920x1200, and that seems to be the size where monitors offer that resolution without really destroying the wallet). I've read through reviews and...