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I just installed a Gigabyte GTX 760. Before that I was using a Nvidia 560. Never had any problems with the old card. After installing the new card I get a weird screen flicker. It doesn't happen all the time and strangely doesn't seem to happen when the video card is in active use. Rather when I...

What do people think is the cheapest mid range gaming PC, one I buy in one piece like an open box model from new egg or one I build myself? I have built my last 4 PCs and its fun , but I did it in the past because it was cheaper. I am on a two year upgrade cycle and with Wildstar coming out soon...

I am building a new computer, but before I pull the trigger on the components I wanted to run it by the collective consciousness and find out if 1) I should be buying slightly different components for better performance/cheaper price or 2) My selected components are not compatible. Intel Core...

Hello, Yesterday I received an email from a friend of mine telling me that my mother's email account had spammed him with a penis enlargement ad. Since my mother as a rule does not send out such ads I felt it was pretty safe to say that her computer was infected. The problem was figuring out...

Hello, I am in the market for a netbook. For the most part I want it for simply tasks like web, and word processing. However an absolute essential requirement will be smooth full screen video playback. This could be something as basic as hulu and youtube or something more intensive like a...

Hello, I want to link my windows 7 games folder directly to the desktop. However as strange as it sounds I can't seem to find it anywhere. I've made text files with unique names and stuck them into the games folder and then run searches on those files and still can't find the games folder. At...

Hello, I just purchased a Samsung 46" LCD along with a Sony Blue-Ray player. When I run movies (even dvd's but especially bluerays) the result is that the movie ends up looking very very cheesy. I mean we are talking B-grade porno here. I can't decide if its the sharp edges, or the...

Hello, For a while now I've been having serious problems with my new computer. At random times (anywhere from once every 6 hours to once every 30 seconds the computer will bluescreen and restart). I am currently running windows vista but in the past I've run windows 7 and there have been...

So I installed windows 7 beta (64 bit version) on my system a few days after it came available. I've been running it without almost any problems till about a week ago. Now it crashes every few minutes thus rendering the computer unusable. Any advice on how to rescue this install would be greatly...

Hello, I just put together a new computer and decided to install windows 7 on it. Along with the new OS comes IE 8. In most respects its a nice improvement over IE 7. I don't use IE much at all but not every site runs well (or at all) with firefox, so I do use IE on occasion. One feature...

Hiya, Some very good friends of mine have a brand spanking new laptop. I made sure said laptop had a wireless n card built in when they bought it. Now they want to use the laptop in their house away from their router. The router in question is in their office which is detached from their...

Hello, As the resident geek in my family/circle of friends I get asked what to buy when people upgrade their computers. The latest is a slightly different twist on the norm. I have friends that heavily use a drawing program (similar to CAD but not quite) to make blueprints. They need a laptop...

Hello, I'm looking to pickup a cheap HDTV as my first entry into the market. I'm looking for something in the sub $400 range (preferably around $350). This will be my first HDTV and I'm getting it mostly so I don't have to haul my 27" tube tv around. I'm also only going to be a max of 7' away...

Hello I recently bought a Samsung P2 mp3 player. I love this little thing and I'm having a great time figuring out what I can do with bluetooth since the player supports it. What I want to do is figure out how I can turn my PC into a set of bluetooth speakers for the mp3 player. Meaning I...

Hello, I have a friend with a home business and he needs a sturdy business laptop. At the absolute limit the price is set at 1000$ with much preference to things being cheaper. The real emphasis here though is on it being sturdy. A metal case would be a huge plus since he is not as delicate...

Hello, A very good friend of mine (who knows nothing about computers) needs a new one and he needs it pretty fast. He runs his business on his computer and his old one just kicked the bucket. Before you ask, fixing it is not an option right now, and there is no way he can build one, now...

About 3 weeks back I spilled water on my Logitech MX1000 charging/receiving station. Right away the mouse stopped working. I figured if I unplugged everything and let it dry out I would be ok. Three weeks later I must admit thats not the case. Now I need a replacement for my MX1000. I have...

Hello, A few hours ago I bought a soundblaster X-fi Gamer card. I installed it and noticed some popping and cracking from my speakers. I read online this is most likely caused by out of date bios. So I went to gigabytes website and downloaded the latest bios. (My board is a Gigabyte 965P-DS3) I...

Hello, I am trying to build a new office computer. Its nothing too fancy since all it needs to do is word processing, email, and quickbooks. I have a build ready but I want to make sure its going to work alright. This computer will be using XP to start with and may upgrade to Vista sometime...

Hello, My current pair of crapy 6.1 creative speakers are finally giving up the ghost. I've been having problems with them for a while but today when I turned the music up I got this horribly gargly effect. Don't know what else to call it except "unacceptable." My friend the audiophile...

Hello, I'm looking for either a hardware or software solution that would let me keep backed-up copies of work done on my computer on an internet accessible storage device. The idea is that I could be working on a document on my computer, save that document, have a copy of said document...

Hello I'm trying to find a very specific board. It needs to have the following: 1) Pentium D support 2) AGP support 3) Support at least 3gigs of DD2 ram 4) Have at least two PCI slots 5) SATA 2 at least and preferably 3.0 6) ATX I've been looking around but I'm having trouble...

Hello My cousin recently gave me a Dell Dimension 9100. He told me it has a geforce 6800 256mb, 2.8 ghz intel pentium D, and 3 gigs of ram. So for a free computer its pretty darn beefy. Only problem is that it doesn't work, not even a bit. When you hit the power switch nothing happens at...

Hello, I have been fooling around with Windows Vista for the last few weeks. Specifically I have been playing with the voice recognition software built into the OS. I thought it would be nifty to have a bluetooth headset so I ordered up a dongle and a headset. When I tried them out I...

Hello, With Windows Vista coming out soon and it having some very nifty voice recognition features built right in (such as being able to control the Windows environment through voice commands), I'm looking to get into the wireless headset market. Now what I know thus far is that any...

Hello I just got my new computer up and running. I bought off of ebay what was advertised as a Sapphire x1900xt 512mb card. When I recieved the card I found that it was almost certainly the Asus model. Since they both appear to be identical (minus a sticker) I was not concerned over this...

Hello, I'm not sure if this is the right forum but I think its not too far off topic. Ok, so here's an odd one for you. When I originally created my Windows Partition on my new computer I somehow managed to make the computer install on only 130gigs of my 250gig hard drive. This leaves...

Hello I just got all my parts in, asembled them, plugged the thing in and found... nothing.. not even a boot screen. Here are the specs: MSI 965 Neo F Motherboard Intel core 2 duo E6400 G.Skill 2 Gig 800 MHZ (on 1 gig chips) Coolermaster 600w PSU ATI x1900xt 512mb a couple of optical...

Hello I just won a x1900xt off of ebay. The card arrived today and when I opened the box I found a card that was slightly different then the one pictured. The ebay auction was advertised as a Sapphire x1900xt 512MB pictured here. But the card that arrived has the picture on the cooling...

Hello I'm in the process of making a new computer, at this point I have most of the parts but I still need a motherboard. The board needs to be able to support: Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 2GB of G.Skill 800MHZ RAM (in 1 gig chips) SATA 3.0 1 16x PCI-E (I do not want crossfire, I have a...

Hello I'm in the process of designing a new gaming rig. I plan on running either a 7900gs or an x1900xt, at least two SATA HD's with the strong possibility of adding a third some time in the future and setting up a raid. There will be two optical drives and a floppy, plus a sound card of...

Hello I'm a few weeks away from building a new gaming machine. My total cost for the box is set at $1000. Out of that I'm allowing $200 to be spent on the video card. So now the question is, what to get? The card will need to be pci-e 16x and I have no plans of running SLI/crossfire. This...

Hello, I'm pretty sure that I'm having some harddisk problems. I recently installed a SATA 250gb Western Digital SE16 harddrive and transferred over a bunch of my data and games. Specifically I put World of Warcraft on it. When I'm playing that game and I move into a new area often times the...

Hello I did a search but couldn't find anything about non-dvi. So I'm posting this. Can anyone recomend a good but cheap KVM. I don't need DVI which should reduce the price a bit. I need to switch a monitor between two PCs and need to switch my USB mouse and keyboard between those same two...

Hello Does anyone know if the MSI K8T Neo-V has much in the way of support under linux. Specifically are the onboard network and sound supported? If not can anyone suggest a cheap socket 754 or 939 mobo that does have onboard network and sound supported under linux? Thanks in advance for...

Hello I've played around with linux a bit before and learned enough to install mythtv on a box and leave it dedicated. Problem is I now want to play some more with linux but I don't have a box to do it on. So I now plan to build a new computer simply for the purpose of putting linux on it so...

Hello I'll be heading off to law school next year and that means I'll need to buy a laptop. My goal here is to spend as little money as possible on the thing (somewhere around 500$ would be good). I think I can get away with this since I only need the thing for notes and maybe some very...

Hello I looked a few pages back but didn't see another thread that matched what I'm looking for (though I'm slightly drunk right now so I could have missed it :o ) At any rate I need a laptop for school. And thats about all I need it for... So really my computing needs are very limited...

Hello For a while now I've been hearing people saying that their (insert name) mouse pad is amazing, and how it really made a difference. Currently I have one of the old style rubber foam mouse pads and really haven't had a complaint about it. I also have the MX500. So my question is, are...

Hello After some long and careful thought I have decided to not even bother upgrading my current comp and instead buy parts for a new one. The thing of it is I need to buy one cheap and I need to be able to play games with it. As in doom 3 and the others that are coming out soon ;-). If...