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So my current case is a first gen antec 300 which i bought like 6 years ago. I'm in the market for a new case and jesus christ i've been reading reviews and doing research and it's just becoming overwhelming for me. I'm hoping someone will take pity on my and give me a hand. I'm looking for...

I'm planning a new budget gaming rig. I have all the other parts picked out. The only thing I can't really decide/figure out is the motherboard. Since i'm trying to keep my build below 800 with shipping included my motherboard needs to be below 100 dlls. OC'ing is optional but it would...

Well i'm planning to upgrade and I was wondering if this 7870 is the best bang for my buck. Unfortunately I can't purchase from newegg since i'm in mexico. I'm upgrading from a gtx 460. Should I wait a while longer for a 7950 to come down in price? Looks like with some ocing I can get that 7870...

So i'm building a family PC, i'm leaning more towards the T model since it has a lower TDP. But would that mean that I would actually see a difference in my bill? Lets just say the only variable in my build would be the CPU.

Well it looks like i'll be going with an i-3 T series ivy bridge for a family pc. Now I just gotta figure out which motherboard has the best bang for the buck. I have been searching for reviews for most of the 70 to 80 dll boards on newegg. I really don't want to spend over 80 dollars for a...

Hey guys so I haven't built a system in years. I really have no idea where to get started, so what are the best bang for the budget parts? Is the amd apu still the best choice for low power and 1080p playback? The only parts I need help with are really the mobo/cpu/apu combo, and a case that's...

Hey guys a friend of mine needs to find out any useful info tips for this thing. it looks like he's going to have to implement it soon for a client and he's trying to learn as much as he can about it. I know google is a good source but first hand experience from someone is always nice.

not sure if this is the correct place but, well i'm looking for a very affordable backup software. I'll be using it with win server 2003. I'll actually be created the backup image on the same server i'm backing up and to an external drive. I would like the following options from this software...

Hey guys well I setup a system with opensuse and i want to manage it remotely. I'm just starting to play around with linux. All the guides I found told me to use real vnc or tight vnc to log into it after setting it up to accept remote connections. The thing is that it's almost impossible to...

Hey guys well I got an untangle server setup today. I have spyware, web filter lite, virus blocker, firewall, intrusion prevention, attack blocker & reports. I setup some filters on web filter but left out social media. It's a really small company so my boss wanted that to be open. Well for some...

So I have an email account dedicated for special request. There's certain people that need to be able to view the request that are coming in so they can follow up on them. We don't have an exchange server and we use a service called logixonline. Basically we have two email accounts on outlook...

Hey guys I need to setup two user's with internet access and I know the'll start looking up crap. The thing is I don't have a proxy or anything where I can log all their traffic, the only way I could see what they're up to is by the cookies/browser history. Is there any way to disable these from...

Hey guys so i'm looking for a way to be able to able to scan a barcode/data matrix and have that send an enter command just as if I was pressing the enter key on my keyboard. Is this possible at all? I have been googling for this but I really haven't found anything useful.

Hey guys well out of the blue the client for Microsoft networks disappeared on all my network connections. Is there a way to re-install the damn thing without having to re-install windows? Can it be installed from the recovery console? Edit: Oh yeah this is on a win xp 32 pro sp3, I already...

I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask, but what's the best free network backup tool? I have maybe 5 desktops that I would like to backup every night into a server.

Hey guys we'll i'm getting that BSOD and I already googled the problem. everwhere they say to delete a boocat.cache file found on c:\windows\system32\codeintegrity. I'm running win xp32 pro, I feel really silly and dumb... is that folder only found on vista an win7? cause I looked at several...

Hey guys, I want to get a storage server setup, my main goal would be low power. I have no experience with atom cpu's or nas. What would be my best option? Would the difference in power draw between an atom d330 dual core ion based system and a system based on this cpue this cpu and...

Hey guys so i'm looking for a decent budget case. I have always wanted a CMII because of all the space and it's got some real nice cabling options. Has there been any thing new in the last year that can beat it? Cooling+cable management+price wise? I really don't want to spend anything over 100...

Hey guys so on my last build I got lazy and just use win 7 to create two raid 1 partitions. One is 640gb and the other 1tb. I'm going to format my system soon and I was wondering if there's anything I need to do before the format so I don't loose any data. I guess my other question is now that I...

Hey guys i'm looking for something similar to this extender but from ram, and actually laptop ddr2 ram. I have been googling and looking through ebay and other places. I'm not sure if such a thing exist. It's for a project i have at work, basically i want to run a memory test and have the ram in...

Hey guys, i'll soon be in the market for a new PSU. I was looking at the newegg wattage calculator and it looks like my ring will be at around 560w, I was planning on getting a 650w seasonic gold series but I thought why not go bigger. So I found this guy that looks like a good choice but I...

Hey guys well i'm in the market for a new PSU. With my current setup I was looking at the corsair HX 650 psu which is 80 plus bronce certified. I have seen these fancy gold certified PSU's and I went to the official website. I can't really seem to find what makes these PSU's that expensive. I...

Hey guys Well I had this problem for a while now, but today I just can't get skype to work at all. The problem started after I disabled it from automatically starting by going to msconfig. After that it would start automatically and then crash. But when I started it again by myself it...

Hey guys well today something weird happen to one of the many USB drives I have. It's a little 2gb patriot, i probably have 20 more like this one floating around. When I popped it in I was expecting the "auto play prompt" and nothing happens, I look in the my computer and it shows no external...

Hey guys well today I was asked to update our systems to MSE(microsoft security essentials)+threat fire. Because the network we are on isn't actually ours we had to limit internet use by changing DNS to something unusable and adding sites we need to the host file. Well I already had Avira +...

Hi guys, I already tried googling this issue but I can't seem to find much. Well I just installed a tiny XP iso on it. I'm helping a cousin with it because the previous install was just totally messed up, can't even get into windows anymore. So the tiny xp i installed said it was for the...

Hey guys I have a cousins netbook that has something nasty, while trying to install malwarbytes it kept trying to close it. I was able to install it but now I cant run it, it also keeps the task manager from running. It's weird because I tried booting into safe mode and it BSODS when I do that...

Hey guys I guess this sort of fits in this category. Well I have an old p4 system 2.8 p4 with 1.25gb of ddr 333 ram and a 320gb HDD.It's got onboard video, i'm not even sure what graphics it has. My plan is to turn it into a file server. But my main question is, just for mkv, avi, divx...

Hi guys, Hopefully next week i'll complete my I7 build(just waiting for the heatsink to arrive). I'm planning on buying another 2x 1.5TB hdd's. But I also wanted a GTX 460, because of budget limits I might not be able to buy these. So i'm left with the desicion of getting just 1hdd, i might...

Hey guys well I have a project which is basically to get a 2k block from the following values. This would be value number one F04DA2D4FB6F and 2000 values later this would be 2000 F04DA2D5033F. I just gotta fill everything in between... Basically I have to some how find a way to get excel to...

Well I just spent my entire morning troubleshooting a network problem, everything was hosed intra+internet. This just happened out of nowhere and made no freaking sense, so I just started resetting stuff, replaced some switches. Nothing made sense because the day before everything had worked...

Well I have an old system that I just installed untangle on, since I wanted to start playing around with it I figured I would install it with the current hardware I had on hand. This is an old system and I haven't even taken a look at what controller the onboard nic has, it's an old p4...

Hey guy well i'm about to pull the trigger on the GIGABYTE GA-P55A-UD3 1156, I currently own a Tuniq Tower 120 heatsink. It's a great cooler and I would love to be able to re-use it and save some money on have to buy a new one. I have been searching on what I need to get it to work. I found a...

Hey guys so i'm about ready to pull the trigger on a new mobo to start muy i7 build. Now i'm going to be re-using parts one of them is my Heatsink which is the Tuniq Tower 120. If i buy this backplate. Is that the only thing I need to make my current heatsink compatible with my new...

Hey guys well I'm finally pulling the trigger on a mobo for an i7 build, but I can't really find any reliable reviews on any of the three I have chosen. My budget is somewhat limited so that's why I choose these 3. ASUS P7P55D-E LX MSI P55A-G55 GIGABYTE GA-P55A-UD3 Also the main reason why...

Hey guys well i'm running a standard account and I have an application from asus called PC probe, shows all my fan speeds and voltages. It's set to start up with windows, I know that if I turn off the UAC this will probably solve my problem. I have heard some good things about UAC actually...

Hi guys well i'm a total n00b when it comes to raid array's. I finally got the courage to get one running today but i can't get win7 64bit to install on the volume. I tried reading as much as I could about creating the volume and all. I have a P5Q PRO and two samsung ssd's. I went...

Hey guys well I want to start off by sharing my setup which is just a linksys WRT56G which I have my desktop and a laptop hooked up to, the laptop is wireless. I'm currently running comodo on each and an AV, I use logmein for some repair/troubleshooting stuff on either machine. But I want to be...

Hey there, i was wondering if any of you had ever heard of this security suite? My local ISP(in mexico) is offering it free and I already googled it. Trying to find reviews about the damn thing, it's supposed to be an all in one suite av+firewall+malware+parental controls.The only thing I have...

Hey guys so would I see any real world performance improvement going from a p8700 to a p9700. It's just about 250mhz faster and has 3mb more of cache but would it really be worth it?