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Well considering Texas doesn't have a metro, or any underground anything just about because of the unstable soil. Although when I was in DC the metro was pretty damn convenient.

Yeah if it weren't for that deal at Fry's I probably would have gone with the triple core, but I'm loving my Quad Core with unlocked multiplier.

Its a typo. It is a Phenom

I actually ended up getting this deal from Frys (http://newspaperads.dfw.com/ROP/ads.aspx?advid=15646&adid=8570315&subid=27366653&type=) and got a Phenom x2 550 and a MSI 785 board. I am happy to report I was able to unlock all four cores and bump it up to 3.4Ghz using the mulitplier. All with...

Just picked up this deal from the Frys in Irving. I was able to unlock the other two cores and clock in to 3.4 Ghz without adjusting the voltage using the MSI mobo in the combo. Worked out pretty nicely for me. Good luck...

Media Extenders are the way to go for what your suggesting. Xbox 360 arcade would be a good start.

If you right-click on the shortcuts for the programs and select properties there is an option under the compatibility tab that will make sure the program always runs using administrator rights.

Its definitely windows update or MSE. If they are really bugging you you can change the securities on them so you are the owner of the folder to get rid of them. Here's a guide for how to do it here...

First thing I would do is run it through Ultimate Boot CD and check the hard disk and memory for issues. Try and rule out any hardware problem first. If everything passes there it could be its using SATA raid instead of just SATA and you might need to load the driver using the F6 method.

Sure why not, it'd be great for my HTPC

I ran win7 on my netbook with 1 gb of memory without any issues. The only trouble you might have is drivers (and most people are having pretty good luck). As long as you can get at least 1GB (prefferably 2GB) and its got compatible drivers you shouldn't have any worries.

As a good rule of thumb you usually don't want to delete anything with "system" in the name.

Just an FYI there are some weird things that happen sometimes now that I've been using it. It works consistenly but sometimes when you take it full screen the XP machine's desktop will overtake your desktop. You can still get to Win7 by hitting the Windows key. By no means a deal breaker, and...

I found L4D to be one of those games that I can always go back to and enjoy. I might not play it for a couple of months and then fire it up and get on a kick of it again. The whole military angle in L4D2 looks like it might be getting a bigger storyline, I agree that there could be a little...

Right now I have a x2 5600 (Original version) that is giving me stability problems. Right now its primarily a gaming machine but I find myself doing more and more video editing and development. The Athlon x4 scares me because I really don't want to end up with a slower processor than I have, at...

I'm getting a new motherboard from newegg (GA-MA770T-UD3P) soon but I'm torn on which processor to get. I'd like to have a quad-core processor with speed around 3 Ghz. I know the obvious thing would be to get a Phenom X4 but I'm only gonna have about $100 to spend on the processor. So what do...

Tripod you are so right. Nobody complains about a Madden every year or the now annual Call of Duty series. That being said the PC demo doesn't do a good job of selling me on the new game, its too short. The new infected are great and the sequence to turn off the alarm was very cool. Can't wait...

I have a current setup with a Windows 7 Media Center with an HDTV tuner and a Windows Home Server with Power pack 3 installed. We also have 2 notebooks with 7 and a desktop. It's really convenient to be able to watch the shows from any PC. I have an ATI HD 650 PCI Express card but I would...

My socket 754 Sempron 3100 is currently doing a great job running my Windows Home Server. That thing is a tank.

That worked perfectly!! Thanks I've been trying to figure that out for forever.

I have a machine with 7 Ultimate x64 and have my Cisco VPN client installed in my XP VM. I can launch the VPN client as a XP mode application from the 7 start menu, and it works correctly. The only issue is I'd like to have the XP mode version of Remote Desktop be able on the 7 Start menu. All...

You would of thought with the upgrade they would add high def streaming, but hey its better than the nothing that was there before this a week ago.

Personally this whole ATI vs Havok vs Nivida vs Ageia physics thing is not going to be good for anyone. It reminds me of Glide vs Open GL before Direct X really came into its own. I hope that Microsoft incorporates physics in Direct X 10a so we don't have to worry about which game runs what type...

Ummh if the system isn't stable enough to go into Windows, flashing the bios might not be the wisest thing. The LAST thing you want is it to crash while trying to update the bios. Might want to download UltimateBootCD first and run Memtest86 and or prime and make sure you don't have a hardware...

just bought my 2nd evga 7800gt for $180 from ebay. Can't wait to get it. SLI here I come.

Thanks guys, you convinced me now. Gonna try my luck on ebay for a matching 7800GT. Thanks for the input.

Ok so I'm debating getting another 7800GT So I can run in SLI. Which is an old topic know in this forum. However I was hoping to hear from people who have also made the move from single to SLI (not the people who bought 2 vid cards when they built their system), and see what they thought of it...

I have Gameex and love it to death. Great frontend for all my ROMs

I work over at the Fry's in Irving and will be putting an order through in a couple of days, anyone local want me to buy one for them send me a PM.

I can't say anything about the single player, but that was a great multiplayer game. I have to say Panty Raider was the worst game I'd ever gotten as a gift. I'd like to throw my vote in for SimCity 2000 (for the Gameboy) it came free with the gameboy i got, and my gawd it's just about...

I think its dead, I get a message saying the 40% of coupon is invalid

Check to make sure you've installed the chipset drivers, sometimes power management has issues if the chipset software isn't installed. Also turn your BIOS settings to default just in case.

TigerDirect and rebates... sigh... All I'll say is that I've learned my lesson, I think TigerDirect is just waiting to send my rebate checks after Infinium Labs releases the Phantom console.

yes but Frys is selling it for $59 and a $20 rebate = $39. Besides not everyone has a Sam's club membership

The paper says it's on sale for $79 with a $20 MIR, but the store price is $59. Just bought mine today. The rebate expires 07/01 and the price expires 06/30. I bought mine at the Irving Frys. I don't know if this is nationwide, but if you're in the DFW area you should be able to pricematch the...

Ordered mine supposed to get here the 21st, incidently they did the same doubling of the order thing with mine. Greatly looking forward to my next SFF. Great find guys.

No thanks, Im still trying to get my $100 rebate back from last year's same deal with the AMD64 3200 and that mobo, by the way i used onrebate for that too and never saw it. Just understand there's a very good chance you'll never see that 100 bucks back, don't believe me, read the forums on...

The 2 new houston Fry's (Webster & Southlake?) will not be opening till way after christmas (They just got their Department Managers down there this week, and are still hiring) look for a big grand opening simultaneously for both stores around Feb-March (unoffical).

I'm really curious to see how the dual-core P4s handle since Intel is having to void the entire principle of their current architecture and mend it into something else. The P4 architecture was designed around raising the Mhz to get higher performance. It'll be interesting to see them try to...

Duron 1.6 for these reasons Duron has the 266 FSB and PC2100 (at the least) memory bandwith vs.133FSB and 133 SD-RAM (I know there were DDR P3 boards but they showed no real performance gain) The Athlon Processors and the Pentium 3 processors performed very closely at stock speeds a...