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Besides, test patterns are pretty useful for calibrating a new monitor as well.

No - you plug a dvd player into the PVR-150, and you calibrate the adjustment on the CARD, having already adjusted the monitor (gamma/etc).

Yeah, just upgraded to a silverstone 550 which should hold for a while. edit: just is a relative term

Follow up: That power supply became unstable and died. ARGH power supplies why have you forsaken me

[H]ello folks, I have a Hauppage PVR-150 which is 100% delightful. I use dscaler with it, and works fantastically, but sometimes the channels can be a little dark or light. I'd love to be able to calibrate the device very quickly with standard test patterns, but no free DVD for test input...

My 5VSB has begun fluxuating between 4.4V and 5.2V, changing pretty rapidly. What's going on here? Is this anything to be concerned about? I've been running my 2200 MHz CPU on a 2400 OC for about 9 months now, and no other problems. EpoX's motherboard program detected the error.

My power strip has one. It's not grounded.

So, I've got a pretty high-spec computer (3500+, x1800xt, nf4 board) that I hoped to use for gaming this summer, until I started unpacking yesterday in my new 40's era apartment - 2 prong connectors galore :mad: ! I'm currently writing from my 2-prong-power-brick-having laptop, and am not sure...

That's pretty good, thanks. Any longer datasets would be helpful as well.

We all know that computer hardware in general depreciates pretty quickly, but video cards REALLY depreciate. I've been looking around and trying to find depreciation curves for major video cards, but nothing yet, so I'm here asking if anyone has seen any. Any pricing trend graphs that you could...

I liked tribes 2 when it came out, it is probably still a better game than BF2142 will be.

It's all atx, so you should be fine. OTOH, I'd recommend not buying a FSP power supply even if Fortron is the source because I've never heard of them. This one is better: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817163110

Hi! I'm moving my AMD 64 3500+ Venice to a new mobo, which means I need a new thermal composite. I'm thinking of replacing my AMD stock cooler with a new aftermarket cooler to be able to overclock a bit. Some preliminary work has turned up this...

And you clean that with rubbing alcolhol, right? Actually, now that I'm buying a new thermal compound, should I buy an aftermarket fan as well so I can overclock it? Also this fan looks nice, will it work well for this application? ...