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Hi guys, I have two HTPC's (Athlon 64 X2 5600 Brisbane 2.9ghz, 4GB DDR2, AMD 5450, 64GB SSD, Ethernet connected) that power two 1080p TV's and I have noticed Hulu and Amazon video have begun to chug a bit. Don't get me started on HBOGo. I watch everything in HD and in IE11. My MKV's play fine...

I have enough room for a single slot card but I don't know if any of the single slot cards that I have seen have enough GPU power for physics. I guess what I am asking is what is the best single slot card that i can use? :p My main card is a 7970. Thanks.

I am planning out a new build for possibly next week and I usually go to several sites to get pricing and availability and i noticed that all the sites i have gone to have jacked up the prices on most hdds or have a "limit 1 per customer" bs or "in store only" or all of the above. WTF?! have i...

Are the raptors still the fastest mechanical consumer sata drives i can get?i have 2x 150gig raptors in raid but i need more space and i was looking at buying 2x 300gig or even 2x 600gig raptors drives but i wanted to make sure that i was not wasting my money by overlooking the newer 7.2krpm...

I've been doing a lot of google'ing on this and 90% of the answers say that I can plug a computer PSU into a 220v outlet as long as the PSU is auto sensing or if the red button is flicked from 110v to 220v. I am wondering if any [H]ard members have done this. With the hot weather already here, I...

simple question, what does an AMD 4850 equal in nvidia?

I am trying to fit a dual slot vid card and still retain usability of the pci-x slot directly beneath the pcie slot that the vid card would drop into. would a pci-x extender cable work? Would the HSF of the vid card still get in the way and block even the extender cable? I really don't want to...

I am a Windows guy trying to help a Mac person with an issue on their MBP 5.5 13inch'er so bear with me. When the person connects to the network via the ethernet port, the lappy will lock up and requires a hardboot. Wireless work fine all day. I have not had a chance to really sit infront of it...

I currently have a crossfire setup, 4850's, and I want to upgrade but the only options are to upgrade to two better SINGLE slot vidcards (space is an issue) or one dual slot card but it will only fit on the bottom PCIe slot and not the upper slot. Will the bottom slot work fine for my only card?

I have a Dell 6000 Inspiron and the laptop (or software) refuses to play dvd's when the battery reaches a certain level. This level varies when playing with the power settings in the display control panel. It varies from 50% to 30%. When the batt gets that low, any program that I use to watch...

I took the plunge and bought a Win 7 disk from school. Installed it Friday, had everything installed by Saturday morning, started a game and I noticed artifacts but crossfire did work. I had originally installed cats 10.2. I uninstalled 10.2, downloaded 10.3a and the artifacts went away but...

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y45/xeno_god_of_death/DSC00858.jpg?t=1254848553 as you can tell from the pic, my 4850's are sandwhiched together and if i want a better cooling solution it would have to be single slot. i looked at some w/b's but it is hard to tell if they would fit. does...

I have had a triple screen setup for a few months now but I did little to no gaming so my 4850's were rarely in CF mode and on the rare chance i would need CF it worked great and i would switch back to my triple screen after wards without any issue. i have been doing a lot of gaming these past...

I have a few northwod P4's systems that are 3ghz and above. i found a place that i can set them up but i am wondering if it is even worth it. i have not used F@H for a very long time so hence my question.

I have a WRT600N, two computers with Realtek RLT8168C gigabit NICs and my network transfer speeds vary by a huge margin. I usually don't care about the speeds when i am moving small files but I am backing up my file server and i am talking about 14tb's worth of data. i average around 20megs/sec...

I just bought Lost Planet and it does not seem to use my crossfire setup. it uses one card but not the other. i am running 9.4 ati drivers xp sp3 and two 4850's. i run other games and crossfire works just fine and yes i did enable multi gpu in the menu options. is there a fix for this? i have...

I have tried most of the major online places in my search for HDD activity leds but i have not had any luck. I have seeen plenty of power leds though. I need like 24 of them. anyone have a clue as to where i might buy that many for cheap? thanks.

I have a 4 or 5 year old razr and i was surfing newegg and i saw a section with unlocked phones. my question is, i have att as my provider and i was wondering if i could just buy an unlocked phone, put my sim card in it and use the unlocked phone?

I am trying to help someone with a computer issue but they are a few thousand miles away and they know not much about computers so i will have to vpn into their pc to fix it. I cannot ask them to setup a vpn connection because they wouldn't know how and they would not understand me if i tried to...

for the life of me I cannot install XP on this thing. Windows will not boot from the sata optical drive. it posts, it sees my raid, it goes to the cd-rom, it says boot ready and then it asks me to insert the proper media or reboot. i am coming from an Abit IS7 so yes.....I am a little bit...

is there an aftermarket single slot hsf that will replace the stock dual slot hsf on a 4870 card? I am working on a new build and i would really like to use a 4870 but my config will not fit a dual slot cooler. i will be stuck with a 4850 otherwise. thanks.

The all powerful Google could not help me on this one. I found solutions but none worked. I cannot connect to folders/drives shared on a Vista machine from XP. I enabled the proper settings in vista for file/folder sharing and XP keeps giving me an error telling me that it cannot connect to...

Hi, I am trying to help someone recover Microsoft Office documents that were possibly lost during a cutting and pasting operation. I have not tried to recover lost files in many years so I was wondering if there are easy, and free, ways of performing simple recovery. I can see the temporary...

i have experienced this for a very long time and i am curious as to what would cause my dsl connection to drop when i click on a link or open a new IE/FF window? granted, it is not every time but often. i use uverse's 3800hgv-b vdsl modem/router. thanks.

I have had uverse for over a year and it has been an utter nightmare. the dsl connection drops 20+ times a day and this of course disrupts the tv service. the uverse techs don't what is wrong and they keep saying that everything is fine. i have done my own troubleshooting too but to no avail...

i currently have an Audigy 2 ZS and I was wondering if it would be worth it to buy a X-Fi Xtreme Audio card. I have $60 burning a hole in my pocket. :D I mainly play CoD4, UT3, Bioshock and ET:QW. Thanks. EDIT: just finished reading some stuff from google and it seems that i might be...

I am trying to help someone solve a problem so here goes. Someone in our work place uses their personal lappy for work and then takes it home to do more work. We recently updated the hd so of course that meant having to reinstall windows which is not a big deal. (I like to reformat for fun)...

I have never seen this before. any sound I play sounds like it is being slowed down 5x below normal. i have uninstalled and reinstalled my drivers and still nothing. could it be a dieing sound card. I have a Turtle Beach Montego. EDIT: just did a dxdiag on the sound and that too plays slow.

I am putting together some specs for my HTPC and i need to know what is the minimum Ghz mark that the SMP client would be worth using on. my first option uses an AMD X2 BE 2400 @ 2.3ghz and it is rated at 45watts so this is my first choice. my second option would use an intel e2200 @ 2.2ghz...

it's been a bad day for me today. first my vidcard dies and now my trusty z-680 system is acting....odd. i think the SoundTouch controler is dieing, i can no longer see any status messages but the screen still lights up. i will also loose a channel for a few seconds and then it comes back on. is...

i recently purchased an hdtv and i would like to know if all i need to plug my little media pc to my hdtv is a HD2000 series card and a dvi to hdmi adapter. does it matter what card i get? i will get sound from it too right? i have standalone blue-ray and hd players so i mainly want to play...

I am troubleshooting the lcd from a Dell D800. Symptoms: red/pinkish screen for a few seconds and then it ‘clears’, the screen then shuts down a few seconds after the red/pinkish color goes away. I have to close the lid for a few seconds, open it and then the screen returns to normal for a...

i just bought a copy through my uni and i wanted to install this on my backup lappy. what i did not know was that it does not meet the ram requirement of 1gig. my lappy only has one dimm slot and 1gig modules are not supported. could i trick C3 into thinking that my lappy has 1gig of ram by some...

are there any companies commited to bringing the HD3850 or HD3870 to the AGP market? I am still on agp and I want to wait one more year before a full system upgrade.

I have some spare parts to upgrade my lil' bro's pc but i don't know how much of an upgrade it would be if any. he currently runs a 3.4ghz EE p4, 2gig of ram, and a 1950pro agp card. i could build him an amd rig using this 2.4ghz 3800+ venice, 2gigs of ram and a 1950pro pci-e card.

here is another OS2 question from me. :( I first asked for help in finding vid card drivers for OS2 warp4 and that went better than i expected. it turns out that our OS2 warp4 needs fixpack5 or leter in order for the drivers to work properly. so i found fixpack12 wich is was a lot of online...

we have an old system that runs OS2 warp and to make room for more equipment we need to upgrade the crt's to lcd's but we can only do that if we have the drivers that will allow us to raise the resolution to accomodate the lcd's. i have googled but i got nothing useful

do you see maximum pc becoming a threat any time soon? it would be fun to see everyone scrambling to borg if they were :D

So I am trying to help someone out that forgot their XP password after being on vacation for a month. Normally people remember their passwords because they choose things they like and are easy to remember but this case is different. They use passwords to keep their 5 year old off the pc but he...

ok for the past few months i have tried to get 9 hd's to co-exist in my main rig and it has been nothing but problems. i have an asus a8n-e and i started off with 4 500gig samsung drives on the sata ports and one 500gig maxtor on the primary ide channel. a month later i bought 4 more 500gig ide...