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I've been out of the community for a while, but I'm back to offer a crushing deal on my server. With much remorse I must let my baby go as I'm moving somewhere I can't bring her along. I'd rather find her a good home than try to recoup more money. If you're looking to step up your home/small...

I've been out of the game for a long time, but I find myself in need of a smaller PC and even when I was staying up on the current tech, I didn't know much about building small systems. I'd like to end up with something in a package less than 13" tall with a nice minimal look, in black. I'm...

So it's finally time for me to upgrade. Here is my thread in the General Hardware section about my plan. My question to you is, what processor should I be going for? Xenon 3440, i7 920, or i7 860. I know that the Xenon and 860 are LGA 1156 and the 920 is LGA 1366. What I don't understand...

I am building a movie rig, here's my thread in the general section about it. I plan to set up a RAID 6 array, initially with 5x 2TB drives. I am also considering having 2x Intel X25-M 80GBs in RAID 0 for programs and the OS. Cheap is good, but I would prefer functionality to cost savings...

I am preparing to build a new computer to replace my old P4 2.4C based rig. This computer just sits under my TV and plays movies as well as acting as a file server for all the computers in my house. I plan on putting the 5 2TB drives in RAID 6. Gaming isn't too important to me, but I want to...

So my brother wants to build a Hacintosh. I know next to nothing about the compatibility issues and whatnot involved here, but he said that he could take care of that (of course any help you can provide in this area would be greatly appreciated). What I'm supposed to help him with is a basic...

I'm thinking about buying one of the 160gb iPod Classics from the Apple refurbished online store. They sell them for $250, so I figure that the extra 40gb over the newer Classic is likely worth getting refurbished instead of new. Does anyone have any experience with refurbished Apple...

Hey guys, My dad's looking for a laser printer to print up professional invoices and advertisements along with other things in that realm. He said that he'd like to keep it under $500. You guys have any suggestions? I know jack shite about printers. BTW, the ink refils are a big concern of...

As the title says, I had to force my computer to restart after I installed Planetside and it screwed everything up. After rebooting, my storage drive is no longer in MyComputer. When I had to shut down the computer the only thing that should have been using any data from that drive was iTunes...

Im looking at a mighty tempting Inspiron 6400 setup that's $400 off with free shipping ($1,217.06 to my door), and I'm betting I can get a phone rep to take some more money off. So the question is, should I order now or wait until later and hope for a better deal? I won't need the laptop for a...

I'm going off to college next year and am in need of a laptop to accompany me. My mother has offered to buy me one for around $1000. She said that a bit higher is acceptable, I'm sure I can convince her. I may have to supplement a bit, but I am willing to if it gets me a laptop that will last...

Are these all the same thing? Can I stick a passive chipset cooler to my NB using thermal grease or do I have to use epoxy? Basically I need to know how tacky each of these are if they are different at all. Your help is appreciated.

As the title says, something is mysteriously draining my HDD space. I'm talking like 5 gigs in a couple days. I have a separate partition for Windows XP that was 10GB, but I upped it to 15 a couple days ago. It is now full again and I don't put anything on that drive. Following the size of...

How about this for a glorious revolution... I just upgraded from a GeForce 3 Ti200 to a 6600GT. My god, talk about a difference. I am now able to play FEAR, which, IMO is as good as or better than HL2, probably better. Viva la revolución! Is it because of DirectX 9 that I can see affects I...

I've been looking at the 60GB iPod Videos and have a question. Why in the hell is it $400 at the Apple site while it is only $223 at ipodstoreusa.com? Surely the laser engraving doesn't justify the price difference. I just want to make sure I'm not overlooking something here.

I decided to reinstall and start playing Tribes 2 again. Quite a few people still play. It's just as good as it always was. I love this game. Why hasn't there been a modern game to fill its space? Don't even say Vengeance. That game was terrible. Sooo... who wants to play some Tribes 2...

We recently had a pretty severe storm here in Mo-Town and apparently something in my computer got zapped. I had the computer on (folding) during the storm while I was at work. The computer now will only boot as far as the Windows loading screen. I removed the ram modules to check them, and...

I recently bought an X-Fi XtreamMusic, but was dissatisfied, so I'm returning it. Now, instead of a soundcard, I'm looking for a ram upgrade. I would like 2 gigs, but may settle for 1 if I have to. I paid about $140 for the X-Fi, and am looking to spend about that much on ram, though I may...

Recently [H]ardOCP linked a news story (link ) from PCWorld that listed 20 things that businesses don't want you to know. After reading the article, I thought to myself, "Hey, we at the [H] buy massive ammounts of hardware, and we surely must have learned a few things in our experience."...

I downloaded the consol version of F@H and am currently running it just fine. What I am trying to do is setup another because apparently that's what I need to do for a hyperthreaded proc. My problem is that I get a message telling me only one instance of F@H can run at a time, how do I get...