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Best 19" Flatscreen Monitor for 300-500???

I really do feel for you, it's very hard to be honest and not get flamed even when you specify that it's a personal opnion. This is one of the things we are supposed to given in the united states and most other countries except maybe china and some other places with crazy leaders. It seems some...
- billcat
- Post #39
- Jul 16, 2000
- Forum: Computer Building
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Building first system, need help/suggestions!!

I would def. buy a good monitor and def. buy a good name power supply, those two are going to be around a lot longer than the rest of the system and the power supply will have a large effect on how any computer works. I would look into a Viewsonic PS790 19". Very reasonable priced and very...
- billcat
- Post #12
- Jul 16, 2000
- Forum: Computer Building
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I need some feedback on KDS monitors.

Try to keep in mind you get what you pay for. It doesn't matter if they use the same tube as sony or viewsonic for that matter because it still has to use circuits to make the tube work and using cheaper components and engineering to make a monitor will end up showing though eventually. I don't...
- billcat
- Post #9
- Jul 16, 2000
- Forum: Computer Building
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does ram have to be added evenly?

OH yeah, you should try to keep the speeds the same though, and it would help to use the same brand, like use all crucial or all HSDRAM or all corsair, you can mix the brands and speeds but you limit them to the slowest speed used. It's just better to keep speeds and brands the same. Size...
- billcat
- Post #4
- Jul 16, 2000
- Forum: Computer Building
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does ram have to be added evenly?

The only time you might want to keep the same size is if the motherboard offers bank interleaving but normally you can run any size you want as long as the motherboard supports the sizes. You can run 1 128 and 1 256 and so on. Computers have been able to do this pretty much from the start.
- billcat
- Post #3
- Jul 16, 2000
- Forum: Computer Building
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AMD explains why the Durons are locked

Yes, that makes sence, locking cpu's that give credibility in the corperate world even though they most likely won't even be buying that model of cpu in the first place. Small business will use them but ones that do need processing power won't. I don't really beleve it but amd doesn't want to...
- billcat
- Post #44
- Jul 15, 2000
- Forum: Computer Building
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HELP! MY CASE IS EATING MY MOTHERBOARDS!

Actually the motherboard is grouded by quite a few ways, it's supposed to be grounded or won't work properly. When you install cards into the motheboard and screw them down you run a ground though them from the metal base on the end of each card. I've checked this. Without a good ground the...
- billcat
- Post #11
- Jul 14, 2000
- Forum: Computer Building
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Matrox suing NVidia...

It seems to be both, about robbing more than a few workers for technological gain of matrox's patented technology. Hiring for not just the worker but what he knows and learned working for matrox. It wouldn't be a big deal if it was one worker but more is a bigger deal. You have to look at the...
- billcat
- Post #16
- Jul 10, 2000
- Forum: Computer Building
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Buying CD-RW...

I highly recomend the Plextor CDRW, I prefer the SCSI type though and don't have a clue on the IDE for how well it does copies. I had a Yamaha before and had trouble with some copy protected games.. Ooops, shouldn't have said that.. hehe.. but it worked good overall but I don't think it's as...
- billcat
- Post #5
- Jul 9, 2000
- Forum: Computer Building
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Do I really need disk cache?

Harddrives have their own cache, I'd use that and skip the software cache. The trouble with harddrives is unless they are totally defraged the cache is hampered big time and has to constantly be flushed and reloaded and that slows things down. Plus data isn't always read from sector to sector so...
- billcat
- Post #2
- Jul 8, 2000
- Forum: Computer Building

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