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    video card on the cheep

    I need a basic video card that will be used for office work mostly. But my budget is at $70-80. The card will need to support dual monitors. The monitors being hooked up will be VGA (and yes an adapter to make both outputs VGA is OK). I need suggestions for both AGP and PCI-Express cards. I...
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    "Changes" Editorial @ [H] Consumer

    I will be interesting to see reviews from places like Dell. I know a lot of new features show up at Dell and the like. I noticed at Dell the Dimension 9200 comes with a 375 watt power supply and much better video cards then many of the other systems and keeps the price down. Solutions like this...
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    Dual option what to get

    True, but a UltraSharp 2007FP or 2007WFP gives more overall space. I will not be watching movies from a great distance so size is not a problem. 2407 1920x1200 2007FP 1600x1200 2007WFP 1680x1050 Just from the numbers, 1920x1200 is not much more then 1600x1200 or 1680x1050 and...
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    Dual option what to get

    I am looking at getting a new work PC and I think I can swing one of the following. 2 x 2007FP or 2 x 2007FPW or 1 x 2407FPW I will be doing mostly spread sheets and have many applications open at the same time. These include terminal server, IE/FireFox, Word, and Excel. Not many...
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    My Toshiba has fallen and can't boot.

    I have a volt meeter. I will give that a try.
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    My Toshiba has fallen and can't boot.

    I have a Toshiba Satellite M45 – S165 that was working fine until a week ago. When it last booted (windows), the load progress started scrolling across the screen, then after progress bar got about 2 or 3 lines into the boot, the computer went dead. No sound. No smoke. Now it acts like it has...
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    New build, new power supply

    Is the SILVERSTONE SST-ST56F ATX12V/ EPS12V 560W Power Supply a good paring for this system? Motherboard ASUS P5W DH DELUXE/WIFI-AP Socket T (LGA 775) Intel 975X ATX Intel Motherboard CPU Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 Conroe 2.4GHz LGA 775 Processor Model BX80557E6600 Memory Patriot 2GB (2...
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    $2500 for a new rig

    If you have never used VMWare. It allows you to run multiple operating systems at once. That is why I need fast disks, CPU, and ram. All of the resources are shared. The video is just icing on the cake. I have servers with quad processors and 16 GB or ram running 10 operating systems at once...
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    $2500 for a new rig

    What kind of 3D performance will it have?
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    $2500 for a new rig

    Can the eVGA 256-P2-N554-AX Geforce 7600GT 256MB 128-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 Video Card – Retail handle Dual 1600x1200? Or do I need to go to eVGA 256-P2-N562-RX Geforce 7900GT 256MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 Video Card - Retail . Or if you don’t like eVGA what brand do you recommend? (No...
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    $2500 for a new rig

    I visited NewEgg and saw Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3320620AS (Perpendicular Recording Technology) 320GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM for 95. I could get 3 and RAID 5 them. But probably will just get 2 and RAID 1 them. As for the monitors, I prefer 2 monitors...
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    $2500 for a new rig

    Does DDR 800 have that big of an advantage?
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    $2500 for a new rig

    Motherboard GIGABYTE GA-965P-DS3 ATX Motherboard - Intel P965 Socket 775 PCI-E $150 @ NewEgg CPU Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 Conroe 2.4GHz LGA 775 Processor Model BX80557E6600 - Retail $329 @ NewEgg Memory $250 can go higher DDR-667 Hard Drive Western Digital Raptor WD740ADFD...
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