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A friend always hits me up for technical advice, and she asked me today about wanting to buy a TV for her bedroom that can also serve as an external monitor for her laptop. I should stress the TV aspect. She wants to be able to plug it into a cable box, DVD player, use a remote, etc, like...

I have quite a lot of free time at work, and would like to be able to log into my home computer remotely to work on programming. I've asked the higher ups, and they've given me the "go ahead". I can use Windows RDC out, or any other solution that doesn't involve installing programs on my...

(Yep. Should have done more research before I tried this method). I just installed a clean (non-upgrade) version of Windows 7 on my home machine. I had two drives that were 80-90% full, so I borrowed a drive from work and cloned my primary drive (:C)to that drive (:K). I was thinking I'd...

I need a second set of headphones for work. Currently rocking some old Koss SB-40s, which I bought 3-4 years ago off a recommendation on here. (Is Spaceman still around?) I'd like to swap them out for something newer. This is primarily for listening to Pandora while performing boring...

I've got a 2+ year old rig that's starting to bog down. I'd like to put $200-400 into it to increase performance as much as possible to carry me through the end of the year. At which point I will probably convert this rig into a media center PC and retire it to the living room. I'm hoping the...

My friend sent me a link to an E-machines deal at CompUSA. She's on the market, and is feeling pressured to run out and buy it before the sale ends. CompUSA's E-machines Deal I'm looking to beat this deal from an online retailer in either parts I build myself, or a similar boxed deal for...

I'm looking to start recording, editing, and distributing some basic podcasts to go along with a blog I have. I'm interested in finding out more about the whole thing. Right now, I know next to nothing. And while HardOCP and the Hardforums rock for all things hardware and a few things...

I have a Planar PX2611W that hasn't been cleaned in awhile. Pretty sure it doesn't have any kind of coating or anything to be aware of. I've heard windex is bad. I'm afraid even Microfiber towels will leave residue behind. What's best for this kind of thing? ~S

My GF's laptop is on its last legs. She's turned to me for advice on her next build, and I don't know what to tell her. I built my own rig ages ago, and have been getting by with a desktop and a smartphone every since. I'm primarily looking for recommendations in regards to bang-for-buck...

Hey folks! A friend of mine asked for my help recently. He wants to update his old build and is curious what some options are. This is mostly for gaming. However, I don't think he's into anything with really cutting edge graphics. So a good, higher-end but not "zomg" video card is the way...

Actually more like "want to beg". I'm not sure how this square's with the ToS, but I was just robbed at gunpoint. Guy got away with my wallet, cash, and my much-cherished Motorola Droid. I'm home from the ER now, where my job required me to spend several hours getting checked out. My big...

My first build is slowing down a bit. I'm looking for recommendations on a good registry cleaner and/or anything else that might help speed things up. Recommendations welcome! My rig is about a year old. It includes: Q6600 lighly OCed Tpower 45 mobo Nvidia GTX 260 (216 variant)...

My dear GF has decided it's time to join me in desktop land. I built my rig over a year ago, from parts I assembled myself. She's looking to buy from a manufacturer like Dell, Acer, HP, etc. Wants the security of the warranty and all that kind of good stuff. It's her money, so I'm not going...

I'm looking for something with face recognition, auto-focus, and ideally the ability to track movement (to some degree) The Logitech Orbit is well rated, but has been top of the heap for awhile now. At $115-130, its entry price is a bit steep. (Yes, I see Newegg has a MIR on it) Is there...

My new(er) baby seems to bog down a lot more than it used to lately. I'm not sure why. Specs: 2.4 ghz Q6600 (OC'd to 3.2ghz) 4gb DDR2 640gb WD HD spinning at 7200rpm. GTX 260, stock. Steps I've taken: Defragged and optimized data with SmartDefrag. Checked RAM and CPU temps. All look...

My cat has been chewing on my Koss SB40 cords. :rolleyes: I know for awhile there, some new JVC model was the big budget recommendation. What model was that? What else is out there atm, worth looking at? A few preferences: Over-ear. I like the isolation, sometimes, while I'm doing...

I think I will once more have the time, energy, and inclination to play an MMO. I'm leaning towards a return to WoW out of both sheer bang-for-buck and nostalgia ("who's still playing, out of my old guild/friends?") factor. But I figured I'd survey the lay of the land first. WoW: I...

Considering new mouse options. I play TF2 a lot, and I'm sure I'd miss the on-the-fly DPI selection from my Logitech G5 if I swapped to something like a DeathAdder. Is there any way, specifically with Razer software, to bind DPI swaps to keyboard hotkeys (like numpad buttons)? Having to hit...

Just curious. Steam won't even pull up the game. Not sure if there's file corruption on my end, or if it's something else... -S

Hey folks. I have an old, rev 1 G5 that's been dying for awhile now. It blinks in and out, occasionally leaving me without mouse control in critical moments. It's cost me more than a few deaths in Team Fortress 2 recently. I use a palm-style grip, and have large hands. I'd like more buttons...

Topic. A buddy of mine is looking at buying now. He's leaning heavily for a 9800+ gtx. I'm just curious if there's anything else he should be considering.

Hey guys. I'm about to start a delivery gig for the summer for spare cash. Last time I did this was several years ago, before GPS was anywhere near reasonable. What are the options out there these days? I'm surfing Cnet now, but I'm a total newb to the whole GPS thing. And I moved away from...

A buddy was asking me for recommendations, but I've been out of the game for awhile. He's looking at: E5200, Gigabyte UD3L, 4GB RAM, and a Radeon 4830 right now, for $280 shipped. I can't help thinking there are some tweaks to be made here. Gaming wise, he wants to play like Sims 3, -S

Yep. After many good years of faithful service, my mouse has been on the blink. It goes in and out on me more and more lately. You know how irritating it is to lose a life in TF2 because you can't turn around for 1s? I prefer the palm-style to the "claw grip" some use, and I have big...

I'm trying to figure out how to limit a float output to two points past the decimal. And I need the acreage only to two decimal places. Having a devil of a time trying to figure out how to make that happen. I also need to know how to have it round up or down, as appropriate, for...

I've got several .avi files on the computer I'd like to burn to DVD. What's the best tool to do this with? Checked the sticky, checked doom9.net. Didn't see a lot addressing this. I assume it's so easy that I'm simply overlooking the answer, at this point...

Haven't played since TBC. I got really down on my Warlock and Priest for PvP (World of Meleecraft, anyone?!), but miss the more casual-ish raiding environment that existed around the time Sunwell was released. So what's the verdict on WotLK and 3.1 in general? It seems like they changed A...

Anything new and interesting going on on this front? I'd like to pick up a few, but wasn't seeing much at my local Best Buy.

I've got a nice 26" monitor that used to double as the TV in my room. My old roommate had a nicer TV downstairs. Now it's just my crap and I'm trying to set up a more engaging entertainment system I can upgrade piece by piece. Currently I'm trying to figure out how to pipe the movies I have...

Cruised the sticky, just curious if anything new is happening or if there are any places one can recommend for me to get slightly more expensive buds under the $100 cap. Ideally, I'd like to spend $40-60. Isolation is probably of higher value to me than overall sound quality, since these...

I haven't played since early Season 3, when my laptop vid card died. After the 30-45 days of "WoW detox" I got over "WoW addiction" and I realized I'd become really bored with the game. It was eating up a large chunk of my life and I wasn't even enjoying it that much. Once a die-hard PvP nut...

Hey guys. Built a rig about 4 months ago that I'm loving. Filling up the hard drive with all kinds of good stuff. Looking into the future a bit, I intend to buy a bigger screen TV, a console, and probably something to play movies and handle the sound for both. The problem is that most of...

I'm offering a flawless Planar PX26111W monitor for $700 + shipping. I bought this monitor in October and have really enjoyed it the last few months, but I've decided I'm looking for something a little bigger. Time to upgrade to the 30" club. :D The monitor is awesome. I've really enjoyed...

Last I heard, there was like a Dell and a Gateway 30" out there. I'm using a Planar IPS 26" now, and am thinking I might want to sell it off and swap up as a little post-Christmas gift to myself. Its been a fantastic monitor, but I bought it thinking I would be happy using it in my room...

Topic. I bought and built a rig a few months ago. (Q6600, T-power 45 mobo, 4gb DDR2, Xiggy HS with TX-2 grease) I've kept it all stock until now, since I didn't really want to mess with it. Now I'm trying to dig up all those links I had on the old machine about overclocking. Imo, the...

We have a 7mbs connection to the house. Normally, when I'm playing at home solo I get pings and latency as low as 15-45. When my roommate gets on the network, it's almost always up around 500-800. Usually she's downloading something via torrents. Is there any way to keep my ping low(er)...

We have a 7mbs connection to the house. Normally, when I'm playing at home solo I get pings and latency as low as 15-45. When my roommate gets on the network, it's almost always up around 500-800. Usually she's downloading something via torrents. Is there any way to keep my ping...

Darkfall is a new MMO coming out late January, I believe. Should compete with WoW and WAR in price and monthly fee. And yet there is almost no buzz about it anywhere! Supposedly been in closed BETA forever, and was in development longer than WAR. Links: http://www.darkfallonline.com/...

I've been playing around with this for awhile now, but can't figure out how to get it to work. Kind of a WinRAR newb. I know how to convert files from .rar, but not how to convert them to .rar files. :rolleyes: Any help would be appreciated. -S