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So I've been having a lot of problems in World of Warcraft that seems to point to graphical lag - my fps will drop from around 30 to 5 at times. I never had these problems with the 6800 I had upgraded from - but all the newer non-MMO games - would not play as well on the 6800. At first I was...

So I posted a thread on the WoW Tech Support Forums and I just wanted to see if anybody had any insights here. I've been having really bad FPS issues with only World of Warcraft since I upgraded from a 6800 to the 8800. I'm not so sure if it's my CPU or not. I honestly think it shouldn't be. I...

So I've had this mid-tower Thermaltake Matrix VX Case for about 4-5 months now. Up until now, no issues. But today when I booted up, got into windows fine - leaned over to touch the eject button on the DVD-ROM drive, and I guess I bumped the front panel and shocked it, b/c it rebooted. I had...

So I've had this problem for about 6 months now or so (can't remember how long). It doesn't happen every day. It doesn't happen on the same day or the same time. But I'll be playing a game or doing whatever, and my sound will turn all the way down from 100% to 0%. Randomly. Without me doing so...

I was speaking with a co-worker this week, and he asked me about the best sites for laser etching...and somehow, I lost all my links to the best 2-3 I have found. So in order to help out both myself and my fellow co-worker, I'd like to see if anybody can recommend the best laser etching sites...

So the dinky little Chipset Fan on my Asus A8N SLI Deluxe Motherboard is ceasing up, and I was curious if I could just replace it with a large, passive Heatsink like my old Asus A7N8X Deluxe mobo, or will it need another, similar fan? I've tried cleaning it out twice now, and it works for a few...

So I got a new system up. New mobo (asus A8N SLI Deluxe), new CPU (AMD Athlon XP 3500+), new RAM (1 gb pc3200) and new video card (MSI gf 6800 gt 256 mb). But I was going to re-use all my old HDD's. Old system was Asus A7N8X Deluxe with silicon image sata controller on it, amd 2800+ cpu, 1.5...

So I have: -Asus A8N SLI Deluxe mobo. -AMD Athlon 64 3500+ Winchester -MSI Geforce 6800 GT 256 MB -Corsair XMS PC3200 1 GB Stick of RAM -1 Western Digital Raptor 36 GB 10k RPM HDD -1 Western Digital Raptor 74 GB 10k RPM HDD -1 Western Digital 200 GB 7200 RPM ATA133 HDD -TDK 8x/8x DVD-R/W Drive...

So the time has come for me to get my final piece of my new system - the Video Card. But the other problem is money. I can only spend around $300-400 each paycheck on the new hardware, so I've been pretty limited on what I can get. I have splurged a little bit and put myself in an almost broke...

The last time I built my computer was about 2 years ago. Currently, it's an Asus A7N8X Deluxe Mobo running an Athlon 2800+ Barton and 1.5 GB of PC2700 RAM (the mobo revision at first didn't support 400 MHz FSB, and the CPU itself was only a 333 MHz FSB CPU). Anyways, I'm now upgrading. I have...

Anybody else kinda sad about the article posted about Gainward getting sold off to Palit? I know I am. Ever since I've bought nVidia cards after 3dfx went out of business, mine have always been a Gainward. Although they don't supply you with much of a bundle, the cards themselves for me have...

OK so I've been trying forever to learn how to program for the web in more than HTML, but I just don't have the patience. I really used to love the news program Newspro, but I can't seem to find a continually or currently supported version of it anywhere. But basically what I need is a simple...

I currently have 2 systems in my room. 1 is my big Lian Li PC75B hardcore gaming system. The other is my old K6-2 system for old-school gaming. I was thinking of replacing the bulky old Win98 system I have in my room for Old School gaming purposes (playing games on DOS/95/98 that won't work at...

OK, so on my video card, there is a white connecter on it near the capacitors(?) and the heatsink (upper-right corner of pic below - NOT the DVI connector on the PCI slot, but the connector mounted on the actual board there). It is about the same size as a Firewire one, but there is nothing in...

First off, I'm working on slowly fixing back up my Lian Li PC75B. So I recently moved some devices around, and I have my SCSI tape drive and my Floppy/SmartCard reader in the 3.5" bay. Normally, it holds 3 NORMAL-sized 3.5" devices there, but my SCSI tape drive uses up about 1.75 slots. So I'm...

OK so anybody who has a Lian Li case and has those optical bezels that blend in that you can put over your CD/DVD drives. Has anybody ever had an issue with them? Due to the way my DVD-R/W drive is, I cannot use one for that (the button is flesh with the bezel of the device). But I wanted to...

For the life of me, I can't find the link to the good couple sites that do custom laser etched windows if you send them a picture. Can somebody please hook me up with that link? Thanks! :)

This might seem weird, but here is a pic of it (from some review site): http://www.hardwarezone.com/img/data/articles/2004/1089/gainward_front-1.jpg What is that white connector on the upper-left corner of the pic, near one of the fan power connectors? It's about the same size as a firewire...

I'm thinking of moving my 2nd and 3rd HDD's to my 3.5" bay and my floppy+flash reader up to a 5.25" bay with my Matrix Orbital LED Inicators, and wanted a fan in front of the HDD's to cool them. Does anybody know of a site that has a professionally done HDD cooling solution for the 3.5" bay for...

I recently changed from a noisy Thermaltake Volcano 11+ CPU Cooler to a ThermalTake Silent Boost CPU Cooler for my AMD Athlon XP 2800+ Barton. I've got an Asus A7N8X Deluxe Rev. 1006 Motherboard and 1.5 GB Corsair XMS PC2700 DDR RAM, Windows XP Pro SP 2. I just upgraded my BIOS to v1008. Running...