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Building a pc to use for gaming and a few Linux VMs for class. Would appreciate your thoughts on two different sets of components. 1) What will you be doing with this PC? Gaming? Photoshop? Web browsing? etc Gaming and light VM use. 2) What's your budget? Are tax and shipping included...

Clean install of Windows 7, unpartitioned FAT32 formatted Kingston DataTraveler. Opened up disk defragmenter and selected my hard disks (C, F, System Reserved) and hit the defragment button. I left a few seconds later, all the hard disks were analyzing and nothing was happening to the flash...

Excuse my noobishness, I am mostly familiar with building desktop systems of the skt 939 era or newer. I have a Dell PowerEdge 2450 server with a single 866 Mhz PIII that I know very little about. I have been playing around with it and am interested in adding another processor. I am having a...

I have an HP Proliant ML110 G3 server that I am trying to install FreeBSD on. The server has two 160GB SATA hard drives. I have used the RAID BIOS to configure a RAID 0 array with the two drives and made it bootable. When I get to the disk configuration screen of FreeBSD I am presented with the...

I have a FreeBSD file server on my LAN that is running pretty much nothing but Samba and OpenSSH. I was going through my logs the other day when I noticed my maillog was huge and had been turned over several times. It was full of nothing but this (replaced hostname with "server", domain name...

I've been running XP32 on the system in my sig, but I've decided to upgrade to Vista Business 64-bit because I got a free copy through my school. I had been running my ICH9 SATA controller in IDE mode, but I decided to install Vista in AHCI mode. I downloaded the Intel Matrix Storage Manager...

I'm about to pull the trigger on some new hardware and want to make sure my RAM and motherboard will work well together. The parts I'm buying are: Gigabyte P35-DS3L Corsair XMS2 2GB DDR2-800 E6750 I'm posting here because I'm mainly concerned about the RAM. The 6750 will only hit 3.2 at...

The rig in my sig is hard locking after an hour or so of COD4. No sound, still picture displayed on the screen, requires hard reboot. I'm running a fresh install of XP Home 100% up to date and all my drivers are the latest. There is nothing installed but COD4 and Firefox. Immediately after the...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811129025 $30 instant savings + $50 Antec MIR. EDIT: Could a mod please add AR to the end of my title. In my hurry to post this and buy one at the same time I left it out. Thanks.

I've been using Rivatuner's hardware monitoring feature to monitor my HD3870's temperatures while I game. I noticed the hardware monitor had recorded some strange readings so I tested it out again and here is what I found. This was recorded during COD4 multiplayer. The vast majority of the...

I've always bought Nvidia cards, but the HD3870 is just too good to pass up. At Newegg right now there are four HD3870's which all appear pretty much identical. The four brands are Powercolor, Diamond, HIS and Sapphire. Which one would you advise I buy? Thanks, oline61

I have a few questions. I'm going to start with the 15.4" widescreen T61 configuration and upgrade a few parts. I would like to go with XP Pro, but I'm wondering how much crap is going to be installed when I first boot it up. Is there an OS reinstall disk so I can wipe it and start with a...

I'm looking for a pair of decent headphones to use for listening to music on my computer. I have a small Aiwa shelf system that I feed with optical SPDIF from my computer. The headphone output on the Aiwa sounds much better than the AC97 even on cheapo headphones that came with an old portable...

This has never exactly been a "stable" game... I'm crashing to the desktop with this error message after 2-3 map changes every time I play. I can go join right back up, but it's obnoxious to have to do this.

I've been running a Linksys BEFSR41 as a router for a 2 computers and occasional LAN gaming. I has served dutifully for a long time, but appears to be dying. A few days ago I started downloading a 600+MB Gentoo disc image, contemplating a switch from Ubuntu. At around 60-70% the image would...

How do y'all go about calibrating y'alls monitors? I finally got my replacement monitor from Viewsonic, and now I'm fixin' to calibrate it, but I don't know what to use. I'm not concerned about dead on accuracy or some long complex process to make movies look picture perfect, but I want...

I'm about to swap out my old case for a new Coolermaster Centurion 5. I'm debating between an SI-120 and an XP-90 heatsink, and planning to swap out all of the fans in the case for better cooling and less noise. I'm going to replace the front 80mm with Panaflo 80mm L1BX I'm going to...

I'm looking for a basic ATX tower case that is well constructed and cools well. The guts of the rig are in my sig, and I don't anticipate the rig getting much bigger, just swapping parts out for better parts. I may add a second hard drive later, but other than that all of the mounting and space...

I RMA'ed my Viewsonic VX924, but they don't have any in stock and are offering to replace it with a VX922. Do I take it or hold out for something else? What are the differences between my *24 and the *22? Oline61

I'm looking for the least expensive keyboard out there with Full-N-Key-Rollover. So far the cheapest I have found is the Logitech G11 ($58.99 NewEgg). I really don't like the extra features this thing has, or the amount of money it costs. Is there anything less expensive with confirmed...

I'm looking for a keyboard, primarily for gaming although it should be able to do everything. Right now I'm typing on a 9 year old keyboard that came with an old Compaq. The keyboard works although typing on it kills me inside because it's like typing on marshmellows. It uses PS/2 interface. I...

I made a fresh install of windows xp home this afternoon, and after getting everything up and running pretty normally (including latests windows updates), I noticed that the boot.ini tab does not show up in msconfig anymore. How do I get to the tab? Is something wrong with my windows? Should I...

I bought an XP Home "Upgrade" pack to bring an old computer with 98 up to XP a while back. After that computer broked, this "Upgrade" pack was no longer being used, so when I built my current computer I used an old Win 95 disc along with the "Upgrade" to install XP Home on my computer. Since...

I have been experiencing crashes when playing DVD's on my Plextor PX-740A. The crashes originally ocurred while using PureVideo decoder. I switched to Nero Showtime to see if that would fix it. Still no go. It crashes at random times, either the screen goes black or gets frozen on one image with...

My old AIWA shelf system has finally pooped out, so I'm looking for a reciever to replace it. I will use the 2 speakers that came with the shelf system until my budget allows me to buy some new speakers (I want 5.1, but can't afford enough speaks yet). I already have a sub. The AIWAs are 3 way...

I have a list of words that I want to use in a filter. The general idea is that if one of the words appears in the subject of the e-mail, then the filter is applied to that e-mail. I am not sure how to do this. Putting all the words in, seperated by spaces doesn't work. Do I have to create a...

I have been using NIS 2005, but my subscription ran out, and it sucks resources so I wanted to try something new. I am now running AntiVir PE for viruses and Windows Defender and Spybot for spyware. I am not going to use XP's built in firewall, but I was wondering if I should install ZoneAlarm...

I run a dual boot with Ubuntu Linux and Windows XP. Right now I have 4 partitions (Windows, root for Ubuntu, /home/ for Ubuntu and a 1GB swap for Ubuntu). I want to install FreeBSD but I can't have more than 4 primary partitions on 1 drive. So I was thinking, what if I put all 3 of the Linux...

Is it true that you cannot go over 60hz on a DVI/LCD setup. I have a VX924 which supports 75hz at 1280x1024, but recommends 60. Would it not make more sense to use 75hz?

Linky How is this case? I am planning on putting a BIOSTAR GEFORCE 6100-M7 and a Semprom 64 2600+ in it. Will the stock heatsink/fan fit in this case? If not what does fit?

I am looking to build my Aunt and Uncle a very cheap system just for e-mail and internet browsing. I have been looking at socket 939 and 775 solutions with integrated video. I have several questions..... Keep in mind that I am not concerned about overclocking or blazing performance. My Aunt...

My VX924's backlight is perfect in the middle, but on the left and right edges it gets brighter, and on the top and bottom edges it is darker. It is not noticeable on bright screens, but it is visible right now as I make this post. In dark games like Doom 3 the backlight uneveness is not that...

I installed Garry's Mod to mess around. I noticed that it made my water in the regular HL2 game much brighter. In fact the water was almost completely white except for refelections. I uninstalled Garry's mod, water problems still there, reinstall video drivers, still there, delete all Steam...

I have a Plextor PX-740A and an old 52x CDROM. I want to hook both up. Should I put them on separate IDE channels (I have no other IDE equipment but these 2 drives) or have a slave/master setup on 1 channel.

Wondering what everyone sets their VX924 at. I'm on DVI and using sRGB. Everything is stock, except the gamma in the nVidia driver is at 0.86.

I recently got a ViewSonic VX924, and am changing from a CRT. On the CRT my VSYNC was at 75hz, now it's at 60hz. Whenever I'm playing CS or HL2, my FPS are pretty constant at 60, but occaisionally they jump to 75 with a substantial "jerk" in the gameplay. Is there any way to avoid this? It's...

I have an MSI K8N Neo 4 Platinum. Onboard Realtek AC97. Optical S/PDIF. How do I get it working?

Warning: using WorldTwoTextureBlend on a non-displacement surface (material: de_dust/groundsand_blend). Support for this will go away soon. I get this in CS:S. I get similar messages in HL2 and LC. What do they mean, are they problems/how can I get rid of them?