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I caved in to the Samsung/xbox combo deal this afternoon. I'm visiting in FL though, so it'll wait until after thanksgiving for them to deliver it to me in MD, but I've got the 360 in the meantime ;-) Of course, I also had to add in a TV stand to that deal . . . and am still debating the...

First of all, while I want to get an HDTV, I don't plan on actually getting one until at least after the summer (but I can drool over the idea in the meantime). I'm kind of going about things a little backwards, getting the HTPC setup (watching TV on the monitor) before the television. I...

I'm looking for a new tuner card, possibly an HD card. First a little background (feel free to skip or skim - I tend to write to much): I recently moved into a new (basement /w shared main floor with a reg. tv) apartment and am trying to decide how I want to setup my computer downstairs. I...

I've got limited space on my desk, so I'd rather not have something bigger than I need (besides the fact that I like the idea of having the two screens of matching size). I'll have to measure my desk space more carefully and think about that though . . . The Samsung one looks like it has...

I've been saying for a while that I want to get a dual-screen setup, and I've finally convinced myself to actually buy one. I haven't looked at monitors since I bought my current one almost two years ago now though, so I could use some updated advise. I currently have a 17" Samsung...

It's extremely inconvenient to connect them both on the same machine. I'd have to disconnect one of the other (boot) drives first, and then try to squeeze the extra source drive in the machine through a bundle of uncooperative and inflexible cables in the system, and around the video card that...

I bought a new 120GB HD on black friday. I have 2 computers, an older computer with WinXP installed on a 40GB FAT32 drive, and a newer computer with a single 120 GB HD. What I want to do, is place the new 120GB drive in the old computer (for usage with video-capture), replacing the...

Thanks for the quick suggestions, but I think I'd prefer to stick with speakers for now. Headphones are simply to annoying to wear for any prolonged period (esp. in the case of watching DVDs)., regardless of the quality.

I just finished painting/re-organizing my room, so I decided to upgrade my computer speakers . . . My old speakers were the cheap Harmon/Kardon speakers that came with an old Dell Computer. I just bought from compUSA the Altec Lansing VS2220 speakers for $20-- but while they look good, the...

I bought a new Dell Latitude D505 Notebook computer in January for usage on campus. Other than a loose keyboard (seems to be a design flaw of some kind), the computer has been working fine. Last night however, the computer started acting slowly, then completely crashed when I tried...

800 with only 30 dollars in MIR with these specifications seems like a great deal. This is an in-store only special @ Staples for New Year's. Is the laptop itself any good though? I know that it has some relatively poor onboard video, but that's not necessarily important given that this...

I was just about to ask a similar question - I'm probably going to order it within the next few days. Is there much of a difference between the various brands of the 6600GT AGP out there? I'm probably going to get the LeadTek one here at 216 as well - it's the cheapest one and has a nice...

I posted on here around Thanksgiving asking for advise on what video card to get. From the responses here and other reviews that I found, I pretty much decided on getting the Nvidia Geforce6600GT over the Radeon9800Pro, and moving my old AIW 9000 back into my old comp for usage essentially as a...

As you can see from my signature, I put together a pretty good computer over the summer (spending a lot more than I had intended), with the exception of the video card which I "borrowed" from my old computer with the idea that I'll upgrade it by the end of the year. It is almost the end of...

I didn't know that there was a command to flush the DNS cache. Anyway, that didn't change anything. I just tried disabling my firewall (Norton IS 2003) though, and now the URL is working with the www in it. Seems to be kind of an odd thing for Norton to be doing though. Thxs neway...

Just a small, annoying problem that somebody should probably try and fix on here. The links provided in the auto-notification emails when a reply is made to a topic you have subscribed to do not seem to work. The link in the email starts with "http://www.hardforum.com" but this site only...

That one should work fine off of the television signal from your cable box and give a decent picture. That one will only give you "Standard Definition" video however. In order to receive a High Definition Broadcast though, you will need the HDTV Wonder which is about 200 dollars. I'd love to...

Thxs, that looks like a good starting point, although it seems to focus more on capture than watching it live. I've actually got 2 installations of XP on my new computer (Pro and 64-bit Beta) as well as Linux. Given the low cost of a firewire connection, I'm suprised there's so little...

I'm currently using an ATI AIW Radeon 9000 Pro video card to watch television on my computer screen (upgraded from a USB TV Wonder before that which I keep forgetting to put up for sale on ebay).I'm getting a new 17 inch LCD monitor this week (Samsung 710T from Dell) to replace my 10-year old...

Their return policy is excellent. I ordered the Dell 1703FP LCD monitor from them earlier in the summer (before I started reading these forums, when I thought that the 1703 was just as good as the 2001, and before I realized that the older 1701FP that I have was vastly superior to the newer...

I built myself a nice new system a few weeks ago, but I'm still having some problems with it. That includes some unexplained crashes of IE and windows. I've got no idea what the cause of it is, but a few people on other boards have said that I should upgrade my PSU. I also have some issues...

I'm not sure if I'll have enough money left over to get a second stick of RAM now. I am definetly going to upgrade that video card by the end of the year though. Is it really that important to get the matching sticks? I would've thought that it would be enough just to get 2 sticks with the...

I'm planning on building myself a new computer (I've been saying that since last summer, but this time I've actually got some money to spend on it). I have a basic idea on what I want to get, but I'd appreciate any suggestions. It's primarily for gaming, watching TV (AIW card) and whatever...

I got a Dell 17 inch LCD 1703FP monitor a week and a half ago (was in Florida for the past week). The monitor looks great, and the features are great, but it's got a fairly bad ghosting effect in games, specifically certain levels in UT2k4 (levels it seems where there's a big difference between...