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I'm looking to switch to a mechanical keyboard, but I like having media controls for while I'm in game. I've seen the Vengeance keyboards have them, but what other options are out there? thanks!

1) What will you be doing with this PC? Gaming? Photoshop? Web browsing? etc Gaming (DOTA 2, various FPS games), Web browsing, Media and streaming. 2) What's your budget? Are tax and shipping included? $500 - tax and shipping included. 3) Which country do you live in? If the U.S, please...

So I'm looking to buy a new router for our Home/Home office setup. My girlfriend has her own photography business and hired her first employee a few months ago and we would like to set up a nice VPN system (plus our current router kinda sucks). We talked to a friend of our who recommended this...

Ok, so today I got my brand fuckin' new 5850 in the mail today and was super excited. So I pulled out my old and tired 8800GT and try to put in the 5850. Well, the back hits my SATA ports so I unplug my dvdr and switch a couple sata cables and slide the card in. Ok so now the problems start: The...

So my girlfriend has a mac mini that she did something to, and now when you boot it, it will get to the blue background screen and stop. I can see the mouse and move it around, but no interface loads. It has the backup CD in it, and I have gotten into the boot loader, but it won't allow me to...

I'm looking to get an external backup system, but I don't have much experience with external hard drives or RAID. I'm looking for something that will protect my data well (eg. RAID 1), and I want at least 1TB of total space. Is my best bet to get an external enclosure with 2+ drives? What...

Well, about a week ago, I spilled some beer on my first gen G15 (it wasn't even that much!) and now there's a slew of keys not working. I want to take it apart and clean it out, but I can't figure out how to do it. I removed every screw in sight, and the thing won't budge. Anyone manage this...

I'm looking for a good internal card reader, preferably in black. It must be able to read SD and CF, and I'd really like to to be able to read microsd as well. Price is not too much of a concern, but I also don't want to spend $100 on a frickin card reader. :p Any suggestions? edit: for vista x64

I know there are tons of people on this board who will rave about how great this game is, but I have to admit... I never finished it. I've tried playing through it about 3 times over the years, but I can never find the interest to finish it. I love the concept, and almost every aspect of the...

My GF has an 80GB WD Passport drive that's been acting weird lately. It takes an insanely long time to show up and be usable. On her mac it take over 10 minutes to show up on the desktop. I'm trying to connect it to my PC now and nothing has happened for about 10 minutes. Any advice on what...

I've recently got something that's nearly got core 3 pegged at 100% all the time and I can't figure out what the hell it is. Advice on tracking the culprit down? Running Vista x64 home premium

So after putting together my new system I was in the BIOS and noticed that my HDDs are set to run in IDE mode instead of AHCI. I've switched it back and forth between the two a couple times now, without any real noticable effect, but I haven't made an effort to test it either. I don't really...

Tried posting in memory forums with no luck... I recently built a new rig for myself and have been playing around with OCing. I've been getting BSODs, and thought it might be memory related, so I ran memtes86+ and got 1 error in "test 7 pass 1", and it gave the memory address the error occured...

I was going to buy a set of M10s (I bought a set for my girlfriend for xmas and like them a lot), but I'm starting to lean more toward a set of entry-level bookshelves. What kind of improvement can I get from spending 200-300 vs. the Swans. Right now I'm using a 10+ year old set of altec-lansing...

I recently built a new rig for myself and have been playing around with OCing. I've had some errors, and though it might be memory related, so I ran memtes86+ and got 1 error in "test 7 pass 1", and it gave the memory address the error occured at. It was after about 4-5 hours of testing that I...

I'd like to monitor my network traffic and keep some kind of record of it/graph it, to review etc. Just basic information like up/down rates of everything mostly. What the best way to do this? (preferably free) I'm running Vista x64 btw.

Ok, so I know that BIOS set Vcore and what you're going to see in CPU-Z, Speedfan, etc. won't match up. However, I feel that I'm getting some pretty massive differences and I don't know if this is normal or not. This is my first time overclocking. Currently running: Q6600 @ 3.2Ghz (356x9)...

So my girlfriend is going to be buying a new mac for her photography business soon. She currently has an iMac G5 17". She is looking to spend ~2500-3000. What are her best options? This price includes everything (peripherals, monitor, etc.). She doesn't want a laptop. It seemed to me that it was...

Ok, so ever since I upgraded to my new rig, I've been having problems with choppy vidoe playback. I don't know what it is... all the files are ones I've transferred over from my old rig (see sig for both), and they all played smooth as butter on that ancient thing. So, wtf is the deal? Where...

Well, my new rig is finally up and running! Just wanted to say thanks for providing so much help and information! You can see all the specs in my sig. I just need to order my thermalright ultra 120 extreme and start overclocking. :cool:

What do I need to do to connect my x-fi fatal1ty to my front panel audio ports? (Antec P182) It has connectors for AC 97 and HD Audio, but it doesn't look like there's anywhere to connect them to the sound card. :mad: Would it be possible to use motherboard sound connectors to enable this...

I haven't spent too much time with this, but I thought I would throw out a quick question while I'm still at work. During the installation process I get to the third screen as seen on this webpage here. The "working" hourglass dissapears after a few moment and my computer just seems to sit idle...

I have had a few issue with my computer lately and I though it might be the video card, so I went in, pulled inspected and returned it to its blazing fast AGP slot (see sig for specs). I haven't had any video issues since then, but every time I retart, my motherboard loses all it's brains (CMOS...

So I've been reading up and trying to get as much info as possible before I barrage you all with questions. Anyway, I don't have any specific price cap but I plan on spending approx. $1000-1500. I've put up links to newegg for everything, since it's easier, and I haven't really comparison...