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I currently use an LG 246WP-BN MVA monitor and ive begun to notice discoloring and some vertical lines in video games I managed to capture the problem on mostly dark grey/ grey and i took 2 pictures http://imgur.com/NFHgH03 http://i.imgur.com/Hr1pHWY.jpg Time to start looking into getting a...

Hey i recently upgraded to a 7970 and it has coil whine. If i cannot sell this card, ill RMA it, and sell the replacement or keep it. Cons: Coil whine already registered it in my name Pros Comes with everything it arrived with Has no stability issues Asking 325 Shipped in the upper 48 (OR...

I cant seem to figure this out myself, Too many options Looking to spend up to 500-600 dollars on a setup for my computer Id like to have 2 speakers, and a Subwoofer. have been looking at Studio monitors from KRK,M-Audio, AudioEngine -Seems like a lot of people complained about...

1) What will you be doing with this PC? Gaming? Photoshop? Web browsing? etc Gaming 2) What's your budget? Are tax and shipping included? 400-500, however if its worth spending 100 more for better video card thats fine 3) Where do you live? Minnesota, Microcenter is about an hour away...

delete me...ram instability

Recently I've been plagued with computer problems. first i burnt up my P5B deluxe, no biggie swap mobo and everything runs fine. But then i got some malware/trojan w/e on my computer so i changed my passwords on anything i had saved or had typed ( on another computer in the house )...

Ive been looking at Q6600's and E84 and E8500's and they are definitely priced very good. But I want to know if going from an E6400 @ 2.66 ghz is worth going to any of those? or just sit tight? I plan on doing an entire parts refresh next fall ( Fall of 2009) and I just switched to a 4870...

I am looking to sell some games for my Xbox 360 Project Gotham Racing 4 $20 Forza 2 $10 Grand Theft Auto 4 Sold Locally Mass Effect Sold I have a heatware, haven't done many online transactions http://www.heatware.com/eval.php?id=64144 I accept paypal only, I Cover...

I havent had my 360 on for a while.. plugged it back in and threw in gears of war to discover a very noisy drive... I ripped it open and heres a video of it attempting to play http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=breqrTOe8sw are there replacement drives from trusted sites? Zombie parts...

I recently had my 360 drive go out with a loud vibrating noise and a hint of plastic melting in the air.. it ate my gears of war game ( imagine that ) if it isnt the RROD it self destructs and takes one with it. I have a simple transaction i would like to do I have GTA4 for 360 and i want...

Don't think theres quite a section for this... I just built a friend a computer from left over parts and id like to make sure it gets there with no damage, but i have no idea how to ship it Do you just bring it to post office/fedex/Ups and they will pack it, or are you supposed to do that...

Well, my friend has had this hard drive chilling never been used, and came with a broken SATA connector, and its way past RMA, dunno if it carries a warranty at all.. It's a Seagate Barracuda ES ST3250820NS it has never been plugged into a computer, it came like this :rolleyes: So heres...

I recently noticed that when i applied my thermal paste when i built my computer last year that i did it wrong.. so i redid it to what Arctic Silvers site said.. My cores are now a lower temp but one is 32 C. and one is 37C is that normal? So am i doing it right??

Well, yesterday i got the brilliant idea to build my mom a better internet Pc with some parts left over from my first build ( Barton 3200,1 gig Pc2700,9800 Pro, 80 gig WD, Asus A7N8X-E) either I wasn't thinking, or I just didn't notice, but i shorted it out on a mobo riser( in this case they...

I've been looking around for screens, despite just purchasing a Samsung 205BW which has been working great. Now, I need a monitor that has Television connectors, Composite Video, Must have DVI, and if it has HDMI thats a bonus, has to be 20 to 24 inches, and they can be from 400 to 700...

Do very low temperatures damage computer parts? i ordered a bunch of stuff ( 8800 GTS, E6400 C2D, Gskill 2gigs PC2 6400) Is it advisable to let the parts sit overnight or is there nothing to worry about? I live in Minnesota and its currently -1F outside right now :(

My current computer keeps hardlocking on me and I cant figure it out why it is doing so, its not overheating and my powersupply is fine, it can happen booting up at the graphic logo, lock loading windows, lock just surfing the net, and it locks while im away for a while I know my description...

Ok I was playing world of warcraft tonight and my screen started looking like : And It does that in every game, can anyone tell me some advice to troubleshoot this, like bad power line? Video Memory dead? core overheating? i was watching RivaTuner and it was idling at 56 C and...

Hey guys just posting about attempting to find a Dual Pentium 2 SD Ram motherboard my friends mobo isnt posting anymore so please let me know if you have one stting around

Heres some pics of my new cm stacker... it was kind of a pain in the arse to get together..but it looks pretty good :D :D:D spazzedoutx2: THAT BOX IS BIGGER THAN THE EARTH

Ok this looks like the right forum.. this is an ongoing problem and my specs are : Windows Xp Service pack 1 with all updates Direct X 9.0 C Msi K8N Neo 2, AMD Athlon 64 3500, E-Vga 6800 Gt, Ocz Pc-3500, 4 hard drives, Fsp PowerSource 500. Ok my computer crashes on the desktop...

Well I jsut bought battlefield 2 earliar and played it on single player ( internet wasnt working) and about 3 to 4 minutes into it will get laggy and then get better ... then just crashes to desktop.. no error or anything not even in the event viewer it does something like this in half life...

Alrite i just installed my motherboard and im using a kinda cheap psu 480 watt generic.. but its keeping good volts on the lines. But once it start to go play games it works for about 5 seconds and then just locks and speakers jsut squeal at extermly high pitch....which requires me a restart...

OK im upset with this problem enough finnally to post it everytime i go to play half life 2 single player it always chrashes with memory errors or something such as that... looked on valves site and said to test ram and defrag drives did memtest 86 THREE times in a row and 100% every...

i told them about my screen about the * big white blotch in the bottom middle* and greens are lighter than they should be. when all it is , the light leakage at the bottom , and sparkles ( its an LG Screen) :mad: so, think i should post it note a note that says what actaully is? And also...

Ok i jsut got my Xps 2 with 512 ram , 80 gig 5400 Rpm When i went to play ut2004 i was greeted with a 3 to 5 minute load time .. i had the map already . and battlefield Vietnam Ia Drang Valley took a good 3 to 4 minutes is it so slow because i only have 23 gigs left, 512 ram isnt...

Alright i built my athlon 64 rig last... Fall/ Winter ( specs in sig , Overclocks are now stock ) Heres the problem , it resets itself from time to time now, playing Splinter Cell and blam resets and is fine for a few hours to a few days happens when im surfing the web , chatting ...

Hey people After looking around for laptops i had my eyes on a apple powerbook 15 inch ...etc ~$2200 or get a DELL xps 2 http://www1.us.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/inspn_xps2?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs&~ck=mn&~tab=specstab#tabtop but i want to know how long the...

Hey Guys i just got my NV silencer 5 and ati cooler revision 3 for my ati 9800 aiw pro also my 200 gig drive... got everything installed good and all that ati cooler didnt fit over the Tv Tuner so.. i ripped the cover off it .. problem fixed. ok now my nv silencer 5 i first installed and i...

hi guys i have a 9800 aiw pro fan that died link in For sale /trade forum http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=858878 PLEASE look.... ok now someone has replied and they have this heatsink ....and probably the same card and i was pondering if it fit on this i have...

Hey everyone .. im in need of a ati 9800 pro ..or all in wonder pro fan + heatsink ..i can chop off the part that dont fit.. but the fan is shot i figure ONE of you has to have an extra fan since alot of you have ati Silencers installed.. thanks for looking :D btw i think...

gah help me guys i redid my room... moved all my stuff into a new area in my room.. and everything works CEPT my speakers......when you go to plug it in and flip the on off switch it doesnt make the powering up sound like it used to and none of the lights on the volume control do anything...

I am going to be giving my old computer to my friend...he has a pentium 1 133 mhz ,,and its his 16th birthday and litterly he has no form of entertainment.. 2 Tvs and a dvd player..and that pile of crap Pc.... anyways to my point ..my old computer isnt exactly fast in any aspect.. specs...

ok i keep getting this error everytime i load up the Level Entanglement... and my last save was at highway 17 .......... so if someone could provide me with a save point somewhere around the part where you have the three turets and you have to kill all the tons of guys attacking you........

whatever . :(

Im running An ATi 9800 aiw pro with Catalyst 4.9 drivers Windows Xp Sp2, direct X 9.0c and athlon 3000 barton with a gig of ram all high Settings with No AA and 4x AF i sent a few screenshots of far cry to my friend. and he said they look like crap... so i wanted your opinions Very...

Well im jsut thinking right now ( since i have No money),, i noticed theres two versions of it.. athlon 3400 with 1 meg of cache at 2.2ghz or athlon 3400 with 512k cache at 2.4 ghz which will be better .. i was thinking the 2.2 ghz one and Oc to around 2.4 ghz...