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Got the pc in a few days ago, working as expected. Had to do some trial and error in Windows display configuration, got it going after some tinkering. Edit: Meant to ask something about the audio side. Is there any way to have both a standard analog output (goes to my office speakers) and...

Hadn't thought of that...does the game have to have been purchased from Steam for that to work? I have a laptop pretty much permanently connected to the TV that should be more than enough to do streaming. Will have to check the speed of my network. It's wired but may be 100Mbit.

Thanks. I'll at least try it before buying a splitter.

Recently ordered a new pc for my home office and would like to also try and use it as an occasional gaming pc. Have two 1080p monitors in my office, both connected via DVI to my old pc. Also have a 1080p tv in my living room, would need a 25ft cable to connect it. The card in the new pc has...

I wasn't sure if I should list both monitors, but for gaming purposes I'll only use one screen.

Thanks for the list, everything looks good.

1) What will you be doing with this PC? Gaming? Photoshop? Web browsing? etc Gaming, media playback, Office, Internet stuff, VMware. Gaming as in current titles like Saints Row 3 and Arkham City, Mass Effect 3 in the future. For reference my current 2007-era (X2 2.0Ghz, 4GB RAM, HD2400) system...

Thanks everyone, will start looking at new systems/parts.

So I am looking to get back into pc gaming, my current system has an AMD X2 at 2Ghz, 4GB RAM, HD2400 video card. I know I'll need to replace the video card...is there anything that y'all would recommend? Best I've come up with is a Radeon 5670, it's cheap and doesn't require external power (my...

Thanks, was 95% confident but wanted to get some reassurance. For anyone with a similar concern and who happens across this thread: I've been running the fan in question for over a week now with no issues, been very stable.

I have an old HD2400 videocard in a secondary system, recently the card's fan failed. The fan's sticker indicates it uses 0.08 amps. A spare fan that I happen to have is rated at 0.12 amps. Would it be safe to run the card with that extra bit of amperage being drawn? Power connector size is...

Thanks for the answers everyone, very informative.

I telecommute from home, and use Vista as a host for an XP guest virtual machine. The virtualization software is VMware Workstation. The computer is mine, but vmware, a vpn client, and everything else than runs inside the VM is provided by my employer. I would like to know if there's any...

Disappointing that y'all aren't reviewing these cards. Not everyone wants loud $600 cards. These look ideal for HTPC use which is what I'm interested in. Hopefully some other site will have a review soon.

For the faulty DVI port, does the source you used require HDCP? Only one of the 37W3's DVI ports has HDCP support. I've forgotten which one is which.

Thanks, that card looks ideal.

I'm looking for a low-profile card for use in a Dell 530s refurb I recently got. The card should offload as much video processing from the processor as possible, run quiet, and have excellent image quality. If such cards exist I'd like a card with a digital audio output built in. I don't...

I have a Dell E521 with two 512MB sticks. CPU-Z has this to say about the memory: Max Bandwidth: PC2-4300 CAS: 4 RAS To CAS: 4 RAS Precharge: 4 Cycle Time: 12 Bank Cycle Time: 17 Command Rate: 1T This is the deal I'm thinking of getting in on: Crucial Ballistix 1GB (2 x...

Ebay prices are around $750 shipped, not $1,000.

Are you sure your TV can accept 1080p via HDMI?

I have two PCs, the client system running at 1680x1050, the other an HTPC running at 1920x1080. VNC used to work fine as my old HTPC was 1366x768 so there was no scrolling when controlling it from the work PC. But now with the higher-res I have to scroll up and down and side to side. Takes...

I've just ordered a E521 from Dell, it has decent specs but only has integrated video w/ VGA out. I'd like to get a low-to-midrange graphics card w/ DVI out. That would allow me to get use more of main memory for the system instead of graphics. Can y'all make some recommendations for such a...

Hi everyone. I am planning to build a new system, sort of an HTPC but pretty limited in scope. I plan to use this system strictly for A/V playback, specifically playing MP3s and video files, and displaying photos. I do not plan to do anything else with it--no gaming, no Photoshop, no web...

I always run a couple of gadget-like programs on the left/upper left part of my screen. That's also the spot where XP places icons for newly saved files. So I constantly have to rearrange and move these gadgets to get to the new icons. Does anyone know of a way to get XP to save new files...

Or at least very nearly instantly? My newest system is to the point where everything I do with it happens very nearly instantly, with the glaring exception of video work. Transcoding and encoding operations can easily take hours to complete. Anyone have a solid idea when processors will be...

I have a Sony video camera that can do HD video. Plus I would like the computer to be future proofed for whenever the HD-DVD/Bluray format war is over.

It's $260 after rebates and a coupon. I've actually gone ahead and bought it. That price also includes a Viewsonic VA1912WB LCD panel.

Hi everyone. I have the opportunity to buy an Acer PC at Circuit City at quite a good price. But I want to make sure of a couple of things first. The system has an AMD Sempron running at 1.8Ghz, 512MB of RAM, and Nvdia NForce 4 onboard video. The CPU is Socket 939. After I get this I...

've been looking for a cheap scanner and this looks good to me as one of my local Walmarts has them on clearance for $50. For people that have these: How is the scan quality? For photos and for text? I've found reviews for these on cnet and pc mag but they don't go into scan quality...

Went to get a couple DVDs and I saw an Intel representative checking out all of the computer systems. She had an Intel badge, Intel shirt etc. She was using some kind of tablet computer for data entry. Looked really serious and all. Seems a bit odd that an Intel person would be at a CC on a...

A CRT set to 60hz will often cause queasiness since that's what lights run at.

I have an older Compaq 5006US. It started out from the factory with a 20GB drive, a 20X CD-ROM reader, 64MB of memory, a 766Mhz Coppermine Celeron processor, onboard video with shared memory, and no NIC. It now has a 40GB and a 160GB hard drive, a 48x CD writer and a 4x DVD writer, 512MB of...

I run a certain program in the background nearly 100% of the time. But this program interferes with certain processor intensive games that I play. I can manually set the background program to Low priority, and the games play normally. This wasy I don't have to exit tha background app while in...

I have just set up a wireless network for the first time and would like to know if I've missed anything so far as network security goes. My setup...I have two computers, one connected to a D-Link router by Ethernet cable, then the router connects by Ethernet to a Lingo Voice Over IP Adapter...

I'm in the process of setting up a vintage 1999 HP Vectra. I'm going to be using to in my living room strictly as an Internet access device, basically Firefox and nothing else. To that end I've stripped it down, I have no background programms running and have eliminated every unnecessary...

I've never found a good way to manage cables, generally I tape them with masking tape or something. So about once a year I have a hideous mess of tangles cables...would cable ties be better? Does anyone make a cable management system, same idead as the ones for cables that're plugged in?

Got this drive from a Toshiba/TIVO SD-H400 DVD player/DVR unit on eBay. Never got the DVR part to work right (bad logic board) but I was able to salvage this drive and a few other parts. Over the past month or so it's been acting up on me. Every so often after a reboot the drive will not...

Is a processor that fast _really_ necessary? I figure if I get a PCI TV tuner with decoding/encoding capabilities, that should be enough. That way I could reuse one of my old systems, thus I wouldn't have to buy a processor/MB/ case. I even have a spare 40GB drive, so I could buy whatever...

Hi everyone I've been considering doing a roll-your-own-TIVO for awhile and have started to look around more seriously for parts. If I go the DIY route, it will just be a DVR-like box--no DVD player or recorder, no real PC functionality. If I can get a usable MP3 player without a mouse...