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I'm thinking of updating my Plex Media Server. (Rasperry Pi 3) to either a Dell Optiplex mini or going with the intel nuc. Blu-Ray playing from the Raspberry pi locally sucks and not watchable. I found this the other day Dell OptiPlex 7000 7050 Desktop Computer Intel Core i7 (7th Gen)...

I'm intersted in how well the Samsung Quantom Dot monitors at CES 2017 will perform and market prices. Currently, the well known gamers oriented monitors have slimp choices with TN o AU Optronics AHVA (IPS-type) panals for high refresh rate gaming monitors. I want to pay $800 dollars and only...

I had a question regarding if the HDTV TosLink audio output. Will the 2014 Vizio E-series HDTVs downmix the TOSlink audio output to stereo when connected to a Vizio 5.1 soundbar? I was reviewing the manual, page15 / 21, and from what I can tell this HDTV does not down convert the audio...

I own 1 x MSI R6850 Cyclone PE Radeon HD 6850 and I am wondering if it's worth the money ($144) to buy a second card and use Crossfire. I have a 27 inch display and a 24 inch display both using 1920 x 1200 resolution. I believe one of the benefits of using SLI / Crossfire is when you have a...

For those that have already purchased the ASUS Maximus V Formula (MVF) motherboard and are using a working watercooling, I would like your feedback for ideas to complete my watercooling solution. Was it a DIY solution or are their full kits available that work well with this board? I was...

I'm having some issues with my SATA ports on this motherobard. After connecting my fourth hard drive to the SATA port, during the boot bios process my 3rd drive is dropped and not detected. Since the edtition of the 640GB HD, the boot process times out on the port 3-500GB drive and does not...

So I have two of my computers virtualized. However, they are now starting to fail the windows activation agents and I can't update them anymore. Most likely, A- they are OEM, and the virtualized hardware is different than the original equipment they are running on. Anyone else running into...

These 185 series drivers are giving me a lot more problems with games like Crysis and COD5 than any of them before. I have a new EVGA 260. Crysis and Cryostatis tend to give me blank black screens and then Vista says the driver crashed and it is recovering. I may have to revert back to the...

I'm elgible for the Cryostasis game and I have a serial number. Where you download the game? The serial uas a link to Nvidia's store but it puts the game in your cart for $39.99. 2nd thing. I downloaded the demo from EVGA. Installed it and tried to play. I continue to get a blank screen...

I just installed my EVGA GTX 260. Boot into Vista and my LG 24" monitor display is shifted 3" to the left. I did some google searching and came across a few forums and this one describe the issue. Nvidia 169 forceware drivers were the culprit then and were identifying the my specific LG...

So, I have the EVGA 8800GT video card and was thinking of making some changes. I didn't do all of my research and purchased the XFX GS250XZDFC GeForce GTS 250 1GB , but I have buyer's remorse. I like the fact that the game came wiht COD5 but I didn't I just buy the 55n - G92 rebranded chip...

I am using VMWare Workstation 6.5. I have checked the vmware.com site and have ran into references that a manual operating system installation should be used if you DO NOT want to install Windows XP using NTFS. However, the easy setup wizard used in Workstation doesn't really have a toggle...

I was buying food for the week and saw HD-DVD deals at Kroger's Food Marts. Of all places to see them. They had a small bin stacked with combo packs with the HD-DVD / DVD dual format disc. Side A = HD-DVD and side B= DVD. I picked up some titles. The Fast and the Furious: Tokoyo Drift...

Has anyone used or are familiar with the ++++++++++++++++ learning marterial for IT certification for Microsoft / Cisco products? Any good experiences?. I was on Dice.com and filled out a little promotion to get a lifetime membership to their adabptive learning material. Well of course it's...

Ok, I just recently purchased the Orange box and wanted to play TF2. Everything installed correctly. I fired up the game and go to the server list and to my surprise not one damn server was listed. That's odd that no servers appear. Close down the game, start DOD source and I have no...

Currently I am running Fedora 8 / Windows XP dual booting machine. I have 8 GB of RAM and I am not able to use it in Windows. I would use Fedora 8 more often but I can't get my sound card to work so that kind of kills my Fedora /Linux fun. I was thinking of dual booting Windows XP and...

Anyone have this card? Do you think it does a better job vs. Creative Labs X-Fi Gamer card? I saw that it was posted in the hot deals for $60 at buy.com and free shipping. I was wondering if my sound would be any better with this card. I like the point that it doesn't take any system...

My Creative SB X-FI card will not play sound in Fedora 8 64bit. I am dual booting with windows XP and of course that works fine. I understand that the Linux drivers are still a work in progress and some other web sites are referring to getting your kernel to run with a OSS sound driver...

I have heard a lot of good things about this Witcher game and the international uncensored version is on sale at Gogamer.com for $39.99. So it's $10 cheaper that the original 49.99 price. I decided to get this game since I have been wanting to play it for awhile...

I just recently bought the EVGA 512-P3-N802-AR GeForce 8800GT Superclocked 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 I did see that newegg had the EVGA 512-P3-N841-AR GeForce 8800GTS (G92) 512MB and the EVGA 512-P3-N841-A3 GeForce 8800GTS (G92) 512MB. I am not sure what the difference is on these cards and how...

Gogamer has Company of Heros on sale for 12.90 for a limited time. I think there are 16hours left to get this deal. I bought this game from Steam during their December sale for $20+ Snatch a copy now if you love RTS games. If you miss the deal Amazon has it on sale for $17.99.

Recently bought a racing game and I figured a gamepad would be more comfortable than just the usual keyboard pecking for other racing games. I was looking for decent game pad. I stumbled across the Saitek p2600 game pad. Saitek P2600 What game pads do you guys suggest? Any great buys...

I have a seven year old computer that needs to be updated. Here is what I have put together. My target date to purchase is between Feb and March 2008. Comments are welcome. I'd like to be able to play Crysis, Supreme Commander, and other FPS games without problems. Recommendations on mobo...

Best Buy brought back the sell on the LG 24" monitor again for $449. I bought mine about 3 months ago for $500. http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=8267724&st=lg+24%22&type=product&id=1170290207389 $599 - $150 = $449. I have this monitor and I think it is great!

So CompUSA is going out of business and they are selling quite a few routers there. I currently have the linksys WRT54G. Which ones do you think I should upgrade to? Belkin N1 Wireless Router, 802.11n draft, g, b...

I was in the market for a 24" monitor and saw that Best Buy has the LG 24" Widescreen Flat-Panel LCD Monitor on sale this week for $499...

I've been working on a HP nc6400 laptop and I'm running into problems formatting the hard drive. We generally use images on our systems but try to start out the deployment process with a clean drive. I'm running into the error invalid media or track 0 bad - disk unusable. format terminated...

Does anyone have their main drive encrypted on the fly using products like SecurStar Drive Crypt Plus. I thought it would be cool to encrypt the OS and then have another compartmentalized secret OS running the real show. Check out this link I wonder if this is a big pain in the house to...

I have a netgear router and I have it setup with my login and password for DynDNS. However, it seems like I have to maually update my IP every 25 days (5 day grace period). I thought the whole point of putting in your DynDNS settings into the router was to make so you DON'T have to do this...

We know that we can use remote desktop to login into a remote computer and then there is VNC and some other applications. What solutions have all you guys come up with to help your "old man" with his computer remotely. Any forum guides for your chosen application that I can use to setup...

I use to follow the CPUs and GPUs pretty well but work gets crazy and I've been out of it for awhile. I like games qutie a bit! Which AMD processor is geared more towards the game fans? There are the AMD 64s and the AMD FX porcessors. I assume the FX. Some guidance needed. Thanks

I've been having a touch time trying to get my wireless laptops connected to my netgear routher. Here is what I'm using: Netgear MR814v3 (latest firmware Version 5.4_06) Under wireless settings I have channel 6 WEP -- 128bit encryption and negotiation is on Open System. (I've tried...