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So........this is sort of an odd situation. I went to shut down the system in my signature as I do every night. Right before it shut off however, it went to a BSOD, and rebooted automatically. On the motherboard splash screen, there was a new graphic that said "4th Core Activated!" or something...

Can someone please explain the obsession with super slick mousepads to me? I've tried one and I personally can't stand it, I feel like a lose a lot of control. It's the same problem I have with those mice supposed to be great for gaming due to lightness. I find I have much better control and...

It's a shame to see another MMO that actually brought something new to the genre shut down. The only games that seem to do even marginally well are all fantasy clones (usually WoW clones now). Age of Conan, LotR Online, Warhammer, Vanguard,etc while not bad all games in themselves (well, Conan...

A lot of the bad reviews and negative word of mouth were from players that started with UT2k3 or 2k4 and never played the original game. I started with the Game of the Year edition of 99 and I LOVED UT3. The gameplay is still frantic, energized, and lightning paced, but without the overly...

I think the biggest thing that pisses me off is the sort of cultural shift in the game industry that has transformed gamers from "fans" to just being "customers." EA is most guilty of this and more than likely the driving force behind the movement. Games used to be something that was made to...

I got the LS-550. $40 off at newegg, so it was the same price as the OCZ.

Meh, fair enough. I was able to cancel the order right before it shipped. Reordered same cpu/mobo but switched the PSU to the 550w BFG.

I've noticed that pop up from time to time, and I haven't quite figured out why, as this seems to be one of the only sites with that distinction. I read up more on that particular PSU, which is a rebranded FSP unit, making it quality-wise right on par with Antec or Sparkle unless I'm mistaken...

My motherboard for the system in my sig died, so I took the opportunity to do a bit of an upgrade and grab a reliable PSU. I'm pretty sure that I got parts that will give me good performance for the money, but I figure it never hurts to get a second opinion on parts, so I'd appreciate any input...

WotLK brought full high rez dynamic shadows on every object in the game. I went from 160+ fps to 15-30 due to those and other very very poorly written graphic "improvements." Even with shadows off, I'm lucky to get half of my previous framerate.

Either way, being I can buy a new CPU without upgrading the mobo or I can upgrade my mobo without buying a new CPU I would prefer to the apparent dead end of the LGA775 socket.

Hmm, just looked at the Phenom 2s, and apparently one had an unlisted combo deal http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboDealDetails.aspx?ItemList=Combo.153682 How would that compare to an intel combo in a similar price range?

I've been looking at some of the benchmarks and price brackets, and it seems that with the price slashing going on, the AMD procs have plummeted below the cost of their Intel brethren, and though I hear everyone preach Intel constantly, that usually doesn't take into account price difference...

I didn't know logitech was that helpful o.O Maybe there is some hope of getting my beloved MX1000 back up to a reliable state.

I have a lot of computer stuff sitting around gathering dust or not being as useful as it should be due to missing parts, so I've been hunting around as to where I could buy those parts, without resorting to probably mislabeled and broken parts from ebay. I checked the usual places like newegg...

It's the system in my sig. The only part that isn't accurate is the Modstream, which is the PSU where the cable came loose so I replaced it with my old 480w Thermaltake. I called eVGA last night to see if I could get anything out of them. The guy I got blamed it on the video cards. However, I...

I've been plagued with problems with the system in my sig. About a year ago, I had a problem where when I turned on the computer, everything would turn on and beep correctly, but no display to the monitor. I took it to a shop, and apparently one of the wires in my PSU had come undone, so it...

Different shape, no autoscroll buttons near the wheel, and a lack of a thumb button (I use mine as a double click)

Curious as to if this was a monitor problem, I plugged in my TV to my computer. All I got was a no signal message. The TV was set up correctly as I was immediately able to plug it into my laptop and get a signal. So apparently in a computer with a processor and motherboard working fine...

Was digging around and found that I had a 7950GT never used in a system sitting in a box, and an old 420w mini aspire PSU. Swapped both of those in, and took out all the ram but 1 stick. Same problem. Tried a different stick of RAM, no change. Is it possible the CPU fried itself? While fiddling...

Logitech needs to update some of its older designs imo. 518 would be nice, but I would kill for an MX1000 with a better receiver and battery in it. MX Revolution tried so hard to dump nifty features in the mouse it made it functionally useless for a lot of things.

I got my new hard drive in today, so I figured I may as well do some work on my computer while it was inside anyway. I notice I still had my old 520 modstream laying around, and decided to do some work on it. Previously I had to remove it, as my computer would turn on and POST but nothing would...

A good amount of my friends have the game, and a vent server, so usually we can have groups of 3-4 people all on vent, and it's fun as hell screaming at each other, even just doing campaign. As for the vs, I don't know whether it was a bug or what, but I've definitely done versus mode on...

I've found that a particularly dick move in parts where the survivors have to fight the horde is to have the smoker grab someone and then use the boomer to puke on them as they're dangling in midair. Pisses people off and tends to break down premade strategies.

I've found that to be extremely inaccurate. All of the stores listed online as having it available Hell, the store inventories listed the mouse as being in stock with up to 3 of them at some stores, but apparently, Best Buy keeps very poor track of their merchandise. The same guy that got me the...

Just a small note for anyone who hasn't been able to get one of these locally. I went to several Best Buys in my area and all were sold out, but I was able to get a rain check for the special. Whenever they come back in stock, I can still get the same $40 for it, and the rain check does not...

Thanks for the input, good to know I don't have to drop as much as I thought. I also got Best Buy to give me a rain check for an MX Revolution @ $40 with no expiration date, so I can put that off and bump a psu up my "to-buy" list a bit higher.

I haven't kept up with hardware trends in way longer than I should have, and as such I have no idea what is common now. Being as I managed to bork my 520 Modstream, I've been running with my previous psu, a 480 thermaltake, in the system in my sig. It works, but it's very hot, and very, very...

Ever since I upgraded my desktop to 64bit Vista I've had ongoing severe sound issues that I have yet to be able to solve. The onboard sound worked and sounded fine when I had XP, but my computer decided to take a dump and corrupt the windows installation to the point of not being able to even...

*bump* Laptop died tuesday so I really would like to get this working again so I actually have a computer to do my homework and stuff on instead of just hopping on my roommate's whenever he isn't using it (rarely)

I was curious if it was like that, so i tried, but as computer builders are dumb now, as usual, I don't have a vista disc, and all the system restore/backups that I had apparently were all wiped out when windows refused to boot. If I ever had a factory restore disc, I never remember seeing it...

No repair installation on the recovery disc that I made.

Putting this in general as I'm not sure what's wrong. Fitting with my luck, 3 days after my desktop died, my laptop took a shit. I was showing my friends a song on Rhapsody when it locked up and kept repeating the same 3 second clip of a song over and over, so I turned off the computer by...

I was just on break.com in one of the picture galleries, clicked next picture, firefox froze, i attempted to exit, started a new copy of firefox, the old one came back and completely froze the computer. I held down the power button to turn it off and the corrupt file error greeted me upon...

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No overclocks, and the specs in my sig are accurate. Also no programs are running as this is on the windows XP recovery console/install screen, and everything is fully updated. Also, the error code is 0x000000c2 (0x00000043 0xC2668000 0x00000000 0x00000000)

Anyone have any experience in dealing with this error. I tried to do some research on the error, but all I found out was that there is a stupid amount of problems that this could point to. I can't boot into windows because of it saying that a system config file is missing/corrupted so I need to...

Apparently my motherboard refuses to boot off of usb drives, and it doesn't even recognize the drive as existing in the boot order. EDIT: Found some discs, hard drive scan came up clean. Trying a memtest.

Earlier today I was during my usual perusing of some of the picture galleries on break when firefox locked up when I clicked the button to go to the next picture. I went to end it in the process managed, but the program seemed to close itself and I didn't worry about it. Later I went to reopen...

On a hunch I went and checked Circuit city, as you can usually find oddly good deals buried in the shelves. I was right, just picked up a http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833124069 for $40