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    Anything better than Radeon Express 200 for ~$60

    Since you need a PCIe card, your options are actually better, especially if you get a refurbed card as many of those are bought by people who have AGP and returned the card. My gigabyte 6600 PCIe was bought on newegg as a refurb for $65 shipped and I have it clocked at 550/700. It smokes my old...
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    CRT Question: Is this normal?

    Play around with the settings a bit. Try moving around the centering then readjust the sharpness, convergence. etc. and check if the edges clear, also degauss it. If nothing there works, install the newest drivers and software from samsung's site and play around with the software that lets you...
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    My dillema (upgrade time)

    If your updating specifically for AoEIII then wait until the game is released and more info is available on benchmarks within it. Not only will card prices be less, but if ATIs next gen hits market by then, prices will be much lower and options will likely be higher. I kind of suspect that in a...
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    Need advice on building a new small office server

    OP here again. This is a small medical office and we don't really need anything too powerful for what we do, in fact the old server is pretty old but still does the job. Looking at the dells, one of those $300 machines would work out fine I think, but adding the OS and I assume I also need 10...
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    building a budget gaming computer?

    Building your own computer is much better in the long run. The main thing you need to realize is that while buying a cheap dell and slapping a vid card into it will work, you'd be paying more for the next dell just because of the OS. I got win XP oem a few years ago for $80 and it has lasted me...
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    Looking to Buy a Monitor

    Yeah, it's typical that when one technology is phased out, it's components start going up in price as they are harder to find while the quality control goes down. Happened with PCI card when AGP became established. The good thing is usually the new tech is price about the same or lower and...
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    From CRT to LCD: My Journey

    LCDs are about at the point, relative technology wise, where the average VGA was 15" and .33 dot pitch. CRTs reached a good point when the average screen was 19" .22 DP for around $300. LCD tech and pricing is progressing faster then CRT, partly because LCD TVs are also causing more R&D and...
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    where are the thin CRT monitors??

    SED isn't out till 2006 and probably only for high end TVs. One problem I heard (still rumor) with SED is the designers can't give it much more then 10000 hours of display life yet (in the low refrsh enviornment of a TV set) and probably much shorter with high res/refresh gaming. Once it burns...
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    i need help

    My refurbed PCIe 6600 I bought for $60 overclocked right off the bat to 550/700 with no problems and smoked my old AGP 9700 pro. I doubt any card OCs as far over stock as the vanilla 6600. No idea how a notebook 6600 would OC though.
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    Geforce 7800 GTX AGP Petition

    Because SATA drives are being churned out now and old school IDE drives are warehoused by the millions because they have been produced the same for the last several years (7200 rpms), thus remain dirt cheap and will for a while. Also, saying the performace difference between IDE and SATA is not...
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    Difference between 16.2 and 16.7 million colors

    If your using a samsung 19" 915 or 930B ,or the like, 6 bit LCD, the response time and picture quality are exceptional and you will not likely notice anything major you'd be missing out on. If you were to game side by side with a high quality 1000:1 8 bit LCD, however, in a highly detail...
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    LCD Resolution and Size

    Wait a few more months when "20/20.1" becomes more of the standard. Right now "19 is the standard and a good one can be had for >$250 when not too long ago "17 was more the standard and decent "19s were still above $700. Also, you'll see good 1000:1 20" LCDs with 8ms or less in the $300-$400...
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    **Official Chaintech Zenith VNF4 nForce4 Motherboard Thread**

    My first board was shot and had to be RMAed, and I also first tried using the 24 pin adapter, so that may be a specific issue with frying this board. My first board actually caused my RAM chips to smoke and one of the gold teeth on each ram chip is black now, though they both seem to work just...
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    Need advice on building a new small office server

    I work in a office with a 10 computer network plus a server. I'm the designated IT person since I'm the only one here who knows anything about computers and have build home systems, etc. My normal job is administrative, but they use me as a computer tech when a computer or the network has...
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    Let AnandTech Members voices be heard

    Well, I was talking more to people who have 939 systems already with a CPU that is good when I recommended changing the MB out from AGP to PCIe. They should already have pc3200 DDR and you do not need a ATX 2.0 PSU to run the boards, you don't even need to hook up an adapter for the PSU as they...
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    6600 Overclock

    Same here. I got the gigabyte 6600 as a refurb on newegg and took it right away to 550/700 and it ran stable, but a little hot. I game at 550/675 to be safe with no issues and got a huge FPS gain over stock speeds. Read some other reviews on the card that got it up in this range as well which is...
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    Let AnandTech Members voices be heard

    Another bonus of PCIe only 7800 cards is all the people who buy them off of places like Newegg without doing any research and then sending them back. That's how I got my 6600 for $60 and hopefully in a short while will get a 7800 or same gen card for a good price.
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    6800 unlocked to 6800Ultra on 250 watt PSU?

    Though the OP won't be attempting this because of the AGP issue, I thought it might be of use to someone out there to know what some friends of mine tried in their computer shop. Just playing around, they were building various systems to play around with, installing mismatched BIOS versions and...
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    Let AnandTech Members voices be heard

    You can already get a good PCIe MB new for $60 and a refurbed for $45 and prices are dropping still. I can understand if this was a constant problem causing users to be forced to update a major component every several months. But, the AGP to PCIe switch over is a once every several year...
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    8-bit 1600x1200 LCD with decent response time?

    LCDs arn't quite there yet to my eyes for hardcore gaming. The closest I have seen is the 4ms grey 5 rated "19 LCD that sells for around $440. Right now the samsung 19" 8ms 700:1 contrast is popular for around $350, but even that has some backlight bleed and I personally notice some ghosting. In...
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    Don't hold your breath for R520

    Your actually sitting pretty good from my view. Your 6800GT is a great card that's going to run any possible game to the max for at least the next year and a half. Just get a decent 939 A64 like the 3500 for $260 and a cheap refurbed 939 MB for $40. By the time you'll actually get the benefits...
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    Im not ready to give up AGP.

    From some of the technical articles I have been reading on the 7800 and the r520, PCIe will play a factor in these cards using 512+ memory effectively in later incarnations. If your buying a new MB, I'd definately go PCIe for a few $ more. If you buying a new vid card that is pricing AGP...
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    cheapest card with dvi and vga, 1600x1200 on both.

    Disregard my 6600 recommendation, I forgot the cheap refurbs are only for PCIe MBs and most of the AGP one's are too expensive in a cost versus performance ratio, even overclocked.
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    cheapest card with dvi and vga, 1600x1200 on both.

    If your going to use your monitor as a HD TV, I'd recommend the gigabyte refurbed 6600 from newegg. If they are still in stock, I got mine for around $60, it comes with the HD converter and mine easily overclocked to 550/700. For the limited info you gave, there are a number of sub $20...
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    What is the new gf7 lineup?

    Actually, a more accurate comparison would not be the 9800 pro. It was the 9700 pro which was the first release of the high end for the ATI cycle that generation and it was not that long before the 9500 pro was released which was basically a slightly neutered 9700 pro which could be easily...
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    What is the new gf7 lineup?

    Remember ATI and Nvidia do not make much money in the high end market as they do in the mass distribution low end market. What they get more from the high end market is word of mouth and name association. So, when they put out the kick ass 6800 ultra and people read how great that is, when they...
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    What is the new gf7 lineup?

    There are 2 very real possibilities. Both involve the current 7800 as not being the high end 7XXX card in the series and thus dropping in price and all this should be happening within the next 4 months. The first, the 7800 in this incarnation will remain near the top end of this generation. I...
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    Should I Upgrade To PCI-Express?

    Unless you can sell your old gear for a good price, I'd hold off myself. There is a good chance SLI2 will allow 2 different generation GPUs to run together. If so, that 6800GT might become very useful running with a 7XXX in a future motherboard that may well be only a few months away.
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    G70 & R520 I am bummed out.

    To say a 7800 or better card will be bottle necked by anything but the very top end processor is misleading. Most of the graphics intensive games out there rely much more on the GPU then on the CPU for picture quality and frame rates. If you look at the few benchmarks run comparing the last...
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    Sweet!! Viper John is going to vmod the 7800GTX for me!

    Cool man. My bud Copperhead Codi is going to hard mod my 2 7800s I just picked up so they are fused together in a SLI setup using only 1 PCIe slot. He just had to run to Home Depot to get a better nail gun then by later tonight, I'll be in FPS heaven!
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    Some thoughts on getting a 7800 now or waiting for the R520

    Running out and grabbing a 7800 now might be fine if you got lots of cash to burn, but for the average gamer, there is no reason for this. Not only WILL the 7800 soon drop in price, it is likely it will free fall once the R520 hits market which should soon be followed by a 512 meg version of the...
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    Is cheap gaming dead?

    Even going back several years, the gf2 Ultra when it hit market was probably a little more then the 7800 is now on release when adjusted for inflation. Back then, your alternative choices were limited to a much inferior voodoo. It took a pretty long while before the gf2 TI value hit market that...
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    Some thoughts on getting a 7800 now or waiting for the R520

    I think many people were expecting a typical paper release followed by a very limited trickle of 7800's to a few vendors for the first few months leading to MSRPs of $600 and cheapest buy prices around $850. The fact that before the NDA was removed, some vendors were already listing 7800s under...
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    Some thoughts on getting a 7800 now or waiting for the R520

    I recently put together a new system with a PCIe MB and decided to wait for the next gen, so I put in a vanilla 6600 I got from newegg refurbed for $60. Now that the 7800 is out, available and priced much lower then expected, I am pretty tempted to get this thing, but I feel I may hold off a few...
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    Smoke from new computer, should I continue to build it?

    I know my HS is securly mounted on the CPU because it's really tighly affixed over the CPU and both clamps are under the tabs on the MB. I actually saw exactly where the smoke came from and it was coming from the dimm right where the burn area manifested. The bad odor I noticed within seconds of...
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    Smoke from new computer, should I continue to build it?

    Thanks for the help. I got an RMA acceptance on it as I explained everything and they also think it's either the MB or PSU. One thing I didn't mention is I was using a 20 to 24 pin PSU adapter also. Maybe I should get a 24 pin good brand PSU before trying a new MB? How do I shop a 24 pin MB PSU...
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    Smoke from new computer, should I continue to build it?

    Just tried switching out the ram. It won't post with ram from my old computer. However, I put the 2 burned ram chips in my old computer and they seem fine as I was able to play WoW for a few hours with no problems and the full gig seemed to be used just fine. So I guess now I'm down to it either...
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    Smoke from new computer, should I continue to build it?

    Playing around with my system, it is very likely I was mistaken about putting the dimm in backwards because I can't replicate doing that with both tabs snapping in place, plus both dimms show burn damage. I do see a melted spot on the MB dimm slot that corresponds to the burn mark on the worst...
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    Smoke from new computer, should I continue to build it?

    I'm not an expert builder, but all my other builds came with clear documentation for the MB and case and the connectors were labeled the same so it was easy for me to configure them. It took me all of 20 mins to put the cpu on, get my SK6 on the cpu, put in the memory and vid card then test for...
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    Smoke from new computer, should I continue to build it?

    I know I had all the risers aligned correctly. I also used the rubber washers over the holes before screwing in the MB. I actually have built several systems in the past with no problems from 386s to my current XP1700. This computer however, has been one problem after another. This MB seems more...
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