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Looking for a cheap and good video card

yea, sorry, i meant pci-e. Are there any suggestions for ATI cards or should i just look at Nvidia cards
- stevenviola
- Post #4
- May 3, 2006
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Looking for a cheap and good video card

I am building a computer for college and need advice on a video card to buy. I might do some gaming but nothing to serious. Just Half-Life 2 and some other games. I am looking to spend at the most $150 for the card. I don't really care if its Nvidia or ATI. I just need some suggestions of what...
- stevenviola
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- May 2, 2006
- Replies: 5
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Should I buy this laptop

I am looking for a laptop for college that is < $1000. I found a Acer AS5003WLMi AMD Turion 64 15.4" Wide XGA SiS Mirage 2 NoteBook at newegg for $939 which looks good. It has an AMD ML-32(1.8GHz), 1GB of RAM, 100GB HD, and DVD Burner. It also has SiS Mirage 2 as a graphics card. I don't know...
- stevenviola
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- Apr 20, 2006
- Replies: 1
- Forum: Laptops
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AMD or Intel

I am looking at building a new computer for college for under $1000. I decided that i wanted a dual core processor. I have been looking at the AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ for ~ $350 at newegg. For about the same price, I could get the Intel Pentium D 930. I plan to do some gaming and also some...
- stevenviola
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- Apr 18, 2006
- Replies: 19
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Hauppague 500 with Windows Media Center Help

i have no idea what kind of decoder i am using. Does anyone have any suggestions on an decoder
- stevenviola
- Post #4
- Mar 26, 2006
- Forum: Computer Building
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Hauppague 500 with Windows Media Center Help

Well, I got the Hauppague 500 in December for my HTPC. If you didn't know, the 500 has 2 tunners allowing two different chanels to be recorded or viewed at the same time. Some channels, such as 7 or 48, look really messed up, and the only way i have found to fix this problem is record something...
- stevenviola
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- Mar 26, 2006
- Replies: 5
- Forum: Computer Building
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PC wont turn on and its not the PSU

Are you sure that the power switch is plugged in correctly into the motherboard. Sometimes you just have to plug in the switch in the opposite way on the motherboard. The only other thing it could be is a bad motherboard. Have you tried a different motherboard.
- stevenviola
- Post #2
- Mar 16, 2006
- Forum: Computer Building
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i added one stick of ram and now my computer wont post...

The same thing happened to me. After I installed a hard drive, the computer would not boot and do exactly what you described. I took the whole computer apart and figured out it was one of the 256 mb sticks of RAM. Because I had two, i removed one and lived with only one. About a week later, when...
- stevenviola
- Post #16
- Mar 16, 2006
- Forum: Computer Building
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can't burn dvd's but can burn cd's

Are you sure you are using DVD - R There is a difference between the + and - and according from what you said, it look like your DVD Burner is only a -.
- stevenviola
- Post #2
- Mar 15, 2006
- Forum: Computer Building
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Could This Be Bad RAM?

The same thing happened to me. After I installed a hard drive, the computer would not boot and do exactly what you described. I took the whole computer appart and figured out it was one of the 256 mb sticks of RAM. Because I had two, i removed one and lived with only one. About a week later...
- stevenviola
- Post #3
- Mar 15, 2006
- Forum: Computer Building
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Cool New Light Guns

After reasearching the light guns, i found a review from IGN Here is the article Apperantly, because light guns don't normally work on LCD monitors, these require some sort of bars with infrared LEDs in them that are included with the light gun. The cool thing i found was that you could...
- stevenviola
- Post #3
- Mar 15, 2006
- Forum: Peripherals & Components
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Iwill comes out with 16 DIMM boards

IWILL HAD TWO very interesting boards at CeBIT that took quite different approaches to the same problem, big memory. The AMD variant, DF88, used plain old DDR2 while the Intel version, the DPK66-S, uses FBD. In either case, they are both two socket server boards. The DF88 was the one that...
- stevenviola
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- Mar 15, 2006
- Replies: 1
- Forum: Motherboards
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Cool New Light Guns

I just saw these light guns that are for LCD and for PC, PS2, and X-Box. I was wondering if anyone has used them and what they think. I am building an arcade machine and i need really cool light guns that work. Links LCD TOPGUN Lik-Sang
- stevenviola
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- Mar 15, 2006
- Replies: 3
- Forum: Peripherals & Components
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How to add your computer to AnandTech

I noticed that some people have added a link to their computer in their sig which links to AnandTech. My question is how do you do that. Edit: I figured it out. What you have to do is log in and on your members page, click edit my system rigs.
- stevenviola
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- Mar 15, 2006
- Replies: 8
- Forum: Forum Issues and Feedback

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