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    Buying a 500$ 'Gaming' Laptop

    That HP looks like a great deal but I'm cautious about the end total cost if the warranty expires right before something breaks or anything unforeseen happens. I'm expecting to play low to med quality on most of my games, so I have no illusions there. I've been waiting over 2 months for gigabyte...
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    Buying a 500$ 'Gaming' Laptop

    Well I'm looking for an inexpensive laptop for games and work, and the a8-3500m seems to be a clear choice. Does anyone know of a better deal than this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834246304 It's a Lenovo with a 3500m and the memory clocked at 1333 (as opposed to...
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    New Computer 1500$-2000$ Opinions Please.

    1) What will you be doing with this PC? Gaming? Photoshop? Web browsing? etc Gaming 2) What's your budget? Are tax and shipping included? 1.5-2k tax and shipping included 3) Which country do you live in? If the U.S, please tell us the state and city if possible. USA, CA 4) What exact parts do...
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    New Computer 1500$-2000$ Opinions Please.

    Can anyone recommend a 1900x1200 monitor?
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    New Computer 1500$-2000$ Opinions Please.

    OK thanks for the input, sorry I didn't add all the pertinent info. This is including taxes and shipping and he lives in Cali. I'll change the X-25 to the 120GB Intel 510, the 2600k to the 2500k, and change to the 4GB dimms. When the new cards come out he will be using SLI. I also forgot to add...
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    New Computer 1500$-2000$ Opinions Please.

    Hi, so I'm putting this gaming computer together for my friend who wants to buy it tonight. I talked him into getting a cheaper video card (6850) until the new ones come out. I figured with such a large budget he should gaming at 1900x1200 but I'm a little worried about the reviews on that...
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    Phenom II X4 questions

    Not without a videocard.
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    Best $2k Gaming Laptop

    Hey wait a second so is the 5870 in the g73 comparable in speeds to an underclocked 5770 in a desktop?
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    Best emulators?

    OK I just found Mame32 with kaillera, but I hear JNES is the best and you can use an SDK with it to play online...but I have no idea what im doing I've spent 3 hours reading the help and FAQS scouring their forums. They are all a bunch of smug bastards and won't explain or help anyone on how to...
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    Best emulators?

    Does anyone know of an emulator to play NES games through the internet?
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    Top Of The Line Hard Drive

    Sorry I was so vague, what I meant to say was if there are any normal hard drives under 2TB that may cost more than average but are built to a higher standard, ie noise, reliability, etc. Sounds so far that good hds are more of an art then a science lol. Is there any quasi new technology to...
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    Top Of The Line Hard Drive

    So in your opinion which company produces the highest quality hard drive and why?
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    Diablo 3: "In The Next Few Years"

    The way I think of it is that with WoW as such a cash cow blizzard can take even longer polishing their games with extra content that would normally have to be cut for budget constraints.
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    This Is Why EVGA Is Great

    Here is why paragraphs and spacing is great. It makes things much easier to read.
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    Best 30" Monitor?

    I'll copy and paste somthing I found really usefull that KCComp said on a different forum: "The dirty secret of many of the 30" displays is the digital delay. This is additional time to process the incoming data stream prior to displaying the picture. It's NOT the same as LCD pixel response...
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    Warfare!

    Mass riflemen on the flanks, you win. A little too simple but would make a great concept for a 20 dollar game. Edit sorta like Plants V Zombies LoL yea I said it.
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    9600gt upgrades?

    I don't know why you linked a 5870 cf but the psu is Mushkin Enhanced 550200 550W ATX12V http://www.newegg.com/product/product.aspx?Item=N82E16817812002
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    9600gt upgrades?

    My friend is running an Athlon 64X2@5200, 4gigs ram, 550psu and wants to upgrade his 9600gt card. I was thinking a 4870, but how about the new 5 series or is there somthing else you guys can recommend?
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    What's the big difference between L4D2 and L4D?

    I was really looking for to L4D but when it came it it looked like a real meh, so I never bothered buying it. Maybe ill pick up L4D2 if its 20-30 bucks and be like neo 'woah'.
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    How many fps in Everquest (original)?

    I miss EQ, how is it doing these days?
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    Anyone still use GameFly?

    23 a month is a ton of money for such a slow turn around and general unavailibilty. If they had that rate for 3 instead of 2 games or had a faster turn around then I would consider it.
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    Building a New Sub 700$ System Value Style

    Yea I was originally going to get that PSU/Case combo that you guys are talking about but I didn't know if it was worth it compared to the massive savings on that corsair PSU. What is Bing cashback?
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    Building a New Sub 700$ System Value Style

    OK, I'm going to go a little over budget but I would personally spend another 20-30% more on a similiar speed but better build quality parts, this is where I am at: Asus p55/ ripjaw / i5 http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboDealDetails.aspx?ItemList=Combo.263460 SAMSUNG Black 22X DVD Burner...
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    Building a New Sub 700$ System Value Style

    Thank you all for such great suggestions! It looks like I am going to go the i5 route with a 3rd party heastsink for an oc and wait a few days for the 5750 :D
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    Building a New Sub 700$ System Value Style

    1) What will you be doing with this PC? Gaming? Photoshop? Web browsing? Gaming exclusivly on a 1280x1024 lcd monitor 2) What's your budget? Are tax and shipping included? A little more or less 700$ USD Total 3) Where do you live? Maine, USA 4) What exact parts do you need for...
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    NVIDIA Fermi White Paper

    Ironically BLACK PAPER would be a lot easier to look at.
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    Sound Cards, Where Did They Go?

    Hey! What happened to sound cards guys?
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    Evil Genius worth 4.99?

    It's only worth 3.99.
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    tip my hat to capcom for an awesome portof Street Fighter 4

    Does anyone know of any third part 360 controllers built specifically with a great d-pad?
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    What is General Purpose Computing on a GPU

    I discovered google because of this post guys. Why bother using a forum now?
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    What is General Purpose Computing on a GPU

    I read this really interesting quote, and how fast things move im curious if this is full of hot air or what may possibly occur in the future. While feuding with Intel over a Nehalem licensing agreement, Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang said the "the CPU has run its course and the soul of the PC is...
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    Ladder Slasher - D2jsp

    I hate games that want real money to buy items.
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    It's called polishing a turd

    So much debate about a 400$ walmart computer. If you really want to use a value computer for games (considering you want to upgrade the gpu) and If it's not too late, return it and put together anything else from anywhere else, most likely newegg. You'll get somthing faster, a higher quality...
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    Games you've bought multiple times.

    I think blizzard has half their sales from people rebuying after they lost their cds/keys.
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    Online multiplayer flash games?

    Does anyone remember that name of that online flash game with ships? You like produce sea ships at different docks and they go across the map on a path.
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    Best Card for 30" at 450$

    Thanks for the tip! Hey will a 750 watt corsair be sufficient for an i7 920 running at 3.4 w/ 2 4890s?
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    Best Card for 30" at 450$

    Oh sorry and another question! Can you just run 2 ati videocards for crossfire or do you still need like a 'crossfire' master card like ye olden days?
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    Best Card for 30" at 450$

    Ah and another question! Whats the difference between these two XFX 4890's http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150360 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150359
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