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    Is the only possible way to get the legit windows 7 ISO from Russian Server?

    A while back I ordered the Microsoft 7 Upgrade from MS / Digital River. Now the links are old / out of date and their customer service directs me to microsoft.com's software download page. But if you put in your windows key it only provides the french and korean version which is a known bug...
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    Best landscape portrait monitor setup?

    I'm looking to upgrade my displays, i'm currently running some really old displays a 23" and a 19" and i'm looking to get a large ultrasharp for my landscape monitor and another ultrasharp for portrait mode besides it. I only hear of PLP setups but is a LP setup possible, driver wise and...
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    Is My HD Dead?

    okay so i got to the partitioning step and it somehow says that the drive is corrupted and the formatting cannot continue so what to believe, windows? or the wd diagnostic boot cd? edit: sorry, it was seeing my flashdrive as a harddrive so i guess i have it working but i'm wondering is there...
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    Is My HD Dead?

    so far it's on pass 2 with 0 errors. doesn't look like it's the memory also i get stuck at the: "Examining 238473 MB Disk 0 at Id 0 on bus 0 on nvatabus..." on the windows reformat, which is before getting up to which partitions to install it on etc. and that drive is the one that im...
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    Is My HD Dead?

    so my os does not boot up due a missing hal.dll file (2nd time), i forget which one. So i tried to reformat and it is stuck on the blue screen and at the bottom it says: "Examining 238473 MB Disk 0 at Id 0 on bus 0 on nvatabus..." this leads me to believe that my harddrive with the OS...
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    Upgrading After 4 Years and Need All The Help I Can Get!

    yea i would definitely only stick to 8gb. 16gb sounds pretty crazy coming from 2gb! thanks for all the help guys. i'm excited. too bad i have to wait until monday for all my stuff to get here! that's the worst part.
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    Upgrading After 4 Years and Need All The Help I Can Get!

    thanks a lot. i really don't prefer amd or intel so i'll just go to the i5 right now i need an atx and just one pci-e 20x dfi and asus are the only ones that i have owned and i really like both. i've been looking and most don't have just one pci-e 20x, which isn't too bad though i doubt i'll...
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    Upgrading After 4 Years and Need All The Help I Can Get!

    thanks a lot. i really don't prefer amd or intel so i'll just go to the i5 right now i need an atx and just one pci-e 20x dfi and asus are the only ones that i have owned and i really like both. i've been looking and most don't have just one pci-e 20x, which isn't too bad though i doubt i'll...
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    Upgrading After 4 Years and Need All The Help I Can Get!

    my current computer has been pretty beat up. dying left and right. i replaced my psu and my raptor just died i believe. So i think it's time for an upgrade. have no idea about much of the current hardware nowadays, since college i've only been on my macbook with my desktop sitting at home i...
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    Upgrading After 4 Years and Need All The Help I Can Get!

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    Is my Opteron 165 Holding Me Back?

    thanks, i doubt i'll even try to sell my setup, maybe i'll try to make it an htpc, it'll give me something to do those were the days!
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    Is my Opteron 165 Holding Me Back?

    my only issue is needing basically a whole new setup if i wanted to upgrade since i'm still on a socket 939
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    Is my Opteron 165 Holding Me Back?

    So i was on can you run it today and i checked if my computer was good enough to run these new games that are out but my cpu "fails" every test because it's much older but of course i can still run battlefield bc2 etc. when it says i couldn't but would upgrading my cpu make my gaming...
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    Radeon 4850 Artifacting in SC2 ONLY

    yep i just downloaded / installed them yesterday thanks though
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    Radeon 4850 Artifacting in SC2 ONLY

    Could it be the game given that it is in beta? my graphics settings are on high but i assume that's no problem because i'm sure the 4850 can handle it with no problems i don't get any articulating at all on battlefield bc2 i'm running stock settings and even tried underclocking it with...
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