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    Premium Desktop Publishing/Graphic Design system (PC)?

    I have a small publishing company, and do a great deal of work on Adobe Indesign Photoshop, and Illustrator (the whole CS2 suite, really). Right now, I use my laptop (Lenovo/IBM T-60p Centrino Duo T2500 w/2Gig DDR2 and ATI FireGL 5200) as my primary layout/design workstation. This, as you...
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    WRT54GL installation = BSOD

    Hey guys-- Here's my specs-- Abit A8N Ultra, WinXPsp2, Kerio Personal Firewall Following install instructions exactly from the Linksys install CD-- As soon as the CD checks system requirements, after all cables are connected, I get a BSOD with a BAD_POOL (or the like) message...
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    Shout-out to Samsung Support!

    I just got off the phone with Samsung's tech support regarding my 2 month-old SyncMaster 1100DF 21" monitor-- It has these radiating lines/imperfections in the image, and has from the start, though I admit that they aren't extremely obvious unless you know they're there. Of course, it's now...
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    Artifacting in FEAR w/ new ASUS 7800 GTX-TOP

    Is anyone else having this problem? Ever since I got the game, (the first I've played on my new rig: XP-Pro, ABIT AN8 Ultra, AMD 4400+ X2, the 7800, 2GB Patriot low-latency, M-Audio 1010LT audio) I've had sporadic artifacts occuring-- I'm talking little patches of white dots that appear for...
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    Help!! HDD isn't seen by new mobo/CPU combo

    I need some help here everyone: My 6800GT fried last week (MSI) and since I had more money than I did in Feb. when I bought the card, I decided to upgrade some other stuff wit it-- I went with the $2000 guides suggestion of the Abit AN8 Ultra, and also the X2 4400 processor-- with this I...
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    SATA HDD recognition problem w/ABIT AN8 Ultra

    Hey guys-- My MSI 6800GT burned up last week, and instead of just replacing it, I decided to upgrade-- (:cool::D) to a PCI- Express/7800GTX/ dual-core monster!!! I just got the new setup from Newegg, comprised of the ABIT board, a 4400 X2, and an ASUS 7800 GTX TOP (To the Rizzle!!) I'm...
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    Two extra 80GB drives...what should I do with them?

    So I bought two Hitachi SATA drives (on special) with the intention of putting them into my parent's computer...but that's no longer necessary. So I have two HDD's to play with now. I don't want to sell them, and I have a pair of SATA ports free on my new com (the Promise RAID controller...
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    6800GT IDLES at 62 degrees @12v with Zalman VF700 AlCu...WTF?

    What is going on? I installed the VF700 last night, including Arctic Silver 5, and the thing isn't running so much as a single degree cooler than the stock MSI cooler/fan...around 63-64 (~45 deg. case temp.) I'm pissed. I didn't believe it when I first saw the temp climbing--higher and...
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    How to ID my new MSI 6800GT?

    Hey all-- I just got my newegg system in the mail (according to FedEx I was going to have to wait till Monday for the stuff---NEWEGG ROCKS1!!!1!1!!) But I have a minor concern. I saw a news story where MSI evidently had a small batch of 6800nu's that were mis-labeled and sold as...
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    Antec P180

    The initial reports said that the P180 would be available towards the end of February, which it's now getting to be... Anyone heard anything more concrete? One of the only things (the most significant thing for me) that is holding up my new computer purchase is this case--...
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    3500+ VS 4000+ Is the $ worth it?

    I'm torn because of two factors: cache size and price. I will be doing a lot of audio work (Cakewalk Sonar 4 specifically) and I'm led to believe that generally in those type of applications cache is good (along with the 2 gig of memory I'll have) BUT Currently the 3500 is ~$280 where...
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    Next-Gen mobo Chipsets from VIA, NForce, SiS

    Now we have NForce 4, and VIA's K8T890 just came out. I also know there's supposed to be a K8T900 after seeing a blurb about it somewhere, but don't know what it's gonna be about or where to find out more. So-- What's in the pipeline for next-gen chipsets? Any ideas? Rumors?
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