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I have a buddy of mine that just brought me a new windows 8 gateway computer and he wants a fresh install of windows 8. But all I have is the windows 8 pro upgrade dvd that I downloaded from Microsoft when I upgraded my personal pc. My buddy's new gateway is windows 8 (non pro) Also...

Not sure if this is the right sub forum, been out of the loop for awhile and I am not looking to build a htpc. What I am looking for is something like the Roku . The Roku has good support for streaming internet content like netflix and hulu but it has no access to my home network content...

I am looking to get a cheap tv for a bedroom. I was on walmarts online store and saw these 2, http://www.walmart.com/ip/AOC-LE24H060/14978755 http://www.walmart.com/ip/Sceptre-X240BV-FHD/14237661 I went down to the local walmart and they do not carry any 24" tvs in store. Any body have...

WTB internal IDE notebook hard drive for older model Dell Inspiron 2200. Something cheap, around 80GB. Must not have any bad sectors on the drive please. Thanks

My old 7600GT finally bit the dust, blew 5 of it's capacitors. I have been out of the loop for awhile and this has always been the place I go for good advise. These are the three I am looking at, http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130539...

http://www.cowboom.com/deal-of-the-day.cfm I bought 2 of these from cowboom in October. They were a little slow in shipping them out, but I received them in excellent condition. They are very versatile routers with 3rd party firmware and work great in client bridge mode for xbox wireless...

It looks like the on board sound on my DS3 has died. Everything else works fine on the motherboard, so I think I'll just pop in a sound card. I have a simple 2 speaker stereo set up hooked into the DS3 that I use to listen to music and watch movies. So I do not need any thing to fancy...

Just recently I purchased a new Dell Vostro Laptop and thought I would share my experience with Vista Home Basic that it was shipped with. I wanted just a basic laptop with good battery life. I opted for the laptop in my sig. The only thing that I had a hard time with while configuring...

Well I bit on the samsung 220wm on ThanksGiving day for $199 on line, $225 shipped after taxes and shipping. Now that I have had 4 days to play around with it I thought I would post what I thought of it. (Keep in mind this is my first LCD). All in all for the price it is a good value. It...

Just bit on a BB online special for the SAMSUNG 2220WM for $199. Right now I am on a 17 inch crt. Been playing games @ 1024x768. Now with the new monitor with a native resolution of 1680 x 1050, will the 7600GT crap itself at those resolutions? This will be my first LCD monitor. Not sure...

Well the good news for us 965ds3 rev 3.3 owners is, Gigabyte seems to be looking into the possibility of the new 45nm cpu's coming out to be compatible with the later versions of the 965ds3. This is what I have been waiting for...

I have been using Vista Home Premium 32 bit since March. Recently I upgraded to 4 GBs or ram. I would like to make full use of the full 4 GBs of ram by switching to Vista Home Premium x64. I have had the good fortune to get a hold of a x64 disk, Installed Home Premium x64, but I have not...

I bought a 7600GT a little over a month ago on newegg, I registered the card on eVGA's site and it looks like I can step up to a e-GeForce 8600GTS Superclocked 256MB for only $30. Will I notice much of a difference between the 2 cards? Stepping up to a 8800GTS 320MB is still to pricey for...

What are you DS3 owners using to monitor chipset temps? I am using speedfan but am not sure which temp reading is for the chipset fan? My guess is the first temp reading is the chipset temp? It only fluctuates a degree or 2, so I do not know what else it could be. And temp 3 looks...

I have a e6400, ds3 with G.SKILL ddr2 800 coming tuesday. Been doing a lot of reading about overclocking. Which would be less stressful on the cpu and motherboard running 24/7 @ around 2800mhz? 8X350 or 7X400?

I have ordered a new system, specs are, Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 GIGABYTE GA-965P-DS3 Rev 3.3 G.SKILL 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 EVGA 256-P2-N615-TX GeForce 7600GT 256MB Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD2500KS 250GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb Antec TRUEPOWERII TPII-430...

I was going to upgrade my existing rig in my sig and just recently got a evga 7600gs agp from newegg . But after some thought I am thinking of returning it to newegg and updating my Motherboard, CPU, Ram and replacing the 7600gs agp with a 7600GT pcie. My budget is only around $600. Here...

I have never done any overclocking of a GPU before. I downloaded Ntune from the Nvidia site and notice that there are some overclocking options. Another option in Ntune is "Tune system". What does this do? Does it overclock? or just make other adjustment settings? I have a zalman vf700 to...

I am looking to upgrade the video card in my sig to either of these 2 cards, http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814130076 or this, http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814145139 looking for advice being I am fairly ignorant when it comes to the latest on...

AMD Newbie, I recently acquired a HP Pavilion a1203w. It has a AMD Sempron 64 3000+ Palermo. Can I upgrade to this cpu? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819103605 And if so, will there be much of a improvement over the Sempron I have Now? This is a cpu screen shot of...

I just bought my first thumb drive. Its a 1gig corsair. My question is about formating. I noticed that it has been formated from the factory in FAT. Why not FAT32? Is there any benefit to reformatting from FAT to FAT32? Or is there any benefit of one over the other?

Looks like Merom officially debuts tomorrow. "The jump in performance offered by the new chips is an important milestone. "It's probably as big as the Pentium was. The move from the 486 to the Pentium was a big move," Chandrasekher said. "This is probably in that same league."...

I know its a older game but I never played it before. My son got it for me over the holidays. I just installed it last week. Nice game. My question is ive been stuck on a level for 3 days now and can't seem to get past where I am. I am on the carrier and the helicopter is flying around and I am...

I have a 80gig HD with 10gigs partitioned off for Ubuntu and windows xp on the rest of the HD. Since installing Ubuntu my pc boots with the option to boot into linux. If I scroll down I can boot into windows xp. I want to remove Ubuntu from the partition and use the partition for something...

I now have a dual boot box Windows xp/Linux. Just wondering if Linux takes advantage of my 2.4c hyperthreading? In the Ubuntu system monitor I do not see 2 cpu threads like I do in windows xp task manager.

I have been a Microsoft guy since day 1. But I am considering turning my system into a dual-boot winxp-pro/Linux system and I have a few questions. After reading around about different distros. I am now downloading a Ubuntu iso. Is this a good choice? In order to make my system duel-boot...

The pc in my sig has a plextor 712a dvd rw and a samsung dvd rom drive. I recently cleaned the system of dust and I noticed that I had the dvd rom drive as master and the plextor as slave. I decided to change the plextor to master and the samsung to slave but when I do neither drive will read a...

Some hardcore case air cooling. http://www.peteredge.orcon.net.nz/casepics.htm

I have a antec sonota case. I would like to hook up a zelman fan mate2 to the 120 case fan to control the fan speed. But the connector for the fan, plugs directly to the power supply. Is there a power supply to 3 pin connector? If so where can I find it? I have been looking but not sure what...