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I've been looking into getting a 120/128GB SSD, but it seems like SSD's have so many reliability issues, was wondering what ones are out right now with the last amount of issues?

I was looking at this SSD drive at fry's and was wondering if anyone has it or if its good or not? Or does anyone know of a site or post that has a list of SSD drives that are decent? I've seen lots of threads of people have issues with various drives and whatnot I dont want to buy one and...

I did a seach in the HTPC section on "Green" didnt really find an answer to what I was looking for but in anycase here is my question. Will a green drive Western Digital, Seagate, or Hitatchi work fine for my movie collection where 1 possibly 2 different PC's might be trying to stream a a...

I got a Gateway FX 6800 desktop with a i7 920 im guessing it one of the first 920's. In anycase, im thinking about upgrading the mobo so I can have more options when it comes to ram due to speed compatibility with the stock board, and the possibility of crossfire. Just wondering what a...

Last couple day's when playing Battlefield Bad Company 2 online, my tag shows up as invalid infront of my name, also when looking at the scoreboard other players have this aswell (not all players just some). Anyone else having this issue and know what might be causing it?

I havent gotten too much into changing the looks of OSX but I see from time to time (especially in the "show your desktop" thread, people will have custom looking dock etc. Just wondering what apps they are using for those to save time on downloading crap that doesnt work right. Kinda...

Target is having a sale on 2TB Western Digital External Drives. 85.00 in store only though...

I aquired one of these from a friend and was wondering what its purpose is? Also looking at the spec's its got som VIA CPU. Could this thing be turned into some little box to run an OS...

For anyone that currently plays WoW I've currently been having FPS issues. The computer will straight drop to 5fps alot of the time doenst matter where I iam at in the game or what i'am doing, I'll have the built in FPS meter up, and the FPS drops and my hard drive is reading like crazy. My...

Stopped in Office Depot today and they had a big cart full of Imation DVD+R and DVD-R's, 50 pack spindles, and 100 Pack CDR's. each spindle was on clearance for 3.00

Im having an issue with my 780i board from XFX, I'm just going to post my support ticket logs to save time, but basically I paid 30 bucks to overnight my board to them and got a new one and have the same problem. This issue is this, [ 1/29/2009 5:55:22 AM] I`m having an issue where my...

Okay I'll try and make this as short and sweet as possible. Original Configuration XFX 780i Motherbard w/ Q6700 CPU 4GB DDR2 Corsair Gamer Ram Samsung DVD Drive 2x SATA Seagate 300GB drives 1x SATA Maxtor 250GB drive Basically it got to the point where the computer would not boot...

So I have a AMD CPU now on a ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe board, just got my Quad Core Q6700 and need to get a board. Anyone suggest anything equivelents or better than the A8N? need SLI but not looking to break the bank on a board. I was looking at the eVGA boards but still not sure they are pricey...

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Apple support is currently closed but i was just wondering if anyone knew if apple care covered the a/c adapter? mine is broke and i usually dont have enough time to stop at the local apple store for repair, so i was hoping they would just send me one.

Well my RMA started over a month ago and after 2 wrong cards and delays due to getting a different video card when i was running sli, but finally I'am up and running with 2 7950 GT's. Now my question is, its been a while since i had ran a 3dmark score but i ran it and scored basically a 5400...

due to the issues with my RMA with eVGA that I posted in the general video card forum. I've been told by eVGA to decide weather or not i want a 8600GTS or 7950GT Im running SLI so should i go for the 2 8600GTS's or the 2 7950s?

okay so i posted a few days ago about how i had a SLI 7900GT KO setup and I RMA'ed 1 card and they sent me back a 7950. I then contacted eVGA support and they authorized to replace my functional 7900GT KO with another 7950. well guess what i got in the mail yestarday..... a friggin 8600...

I posted on the eVGA forums and didnt really get a response, but i had 2 7900GT KO's and 1 was causing artificating so i sent it out for RMA, well they sent me a new card but its a 7950 GT. I take it SLI will not work now since one is a 7900 and the other a 7950? Has anyone ever had this...

i got the recent intel deal that includes a E6300 Core 2 Duo CPU . I have another machine thats a P4 3.4 Ghz w/ Hyperthread im wondering which would be the better CPU? the machine im thinking about upgrading is used for games such as farcry, bf2, crysis (when it comes out), photoshop and Cinema 4d.

ok i hooked up my macbook to my vga input on my 21" gateway lcd, when i go to display settings i set it to 1680x1050 which is the resolution of my lcd, but it does not fill the screen automatically. Im still new to macs so im wondering if im changing the right settings.

okay so i bought the macbook mini-dvi to dvi cable. My main desktop is a PC that I play games on and im using the DVI Cable from my 7900s to my 21" gateway lcd. I thought i could just plug an adapter into the DVI Cable and convert it to VGA but it appears my adapters are DVI-I and the macbooks...

it seem to me im not getting the performance i should out of my SLI machine. when i first set it up I ran 3mark 03 and it scored close to 30K and also during the last sound tests the screen would flicker/tear at the top of the screen, I was having some issues with games aswell. now all my...

I posted this in the eVGA forums but this is the issue im having, when I load say Farcry when it loads a map in multiplayer the screen will either be all corrupt like grey with lines through it, or it will flicker off and on, when its all grey though if i alt+tab out and go back it fixes it...

I got this network i was working on, only 1 pc wireless with a PCI wireless netgear adapter. The problem is when I connected to teh network it will work sometimes after it connects 5-10sec later it will drop the connection saying "limited or no connection" yet the status says "connected" and...

Anyone know which VGA Coolers work for the 7900 GT KO? I had a NV Silencer 5 Rev. 3 on my 7800GT but cannot find anything about it being compatible or not.

I was wondering how you go about setting up a mac to print over a network when the printer is connected to the PC?

can anyone give me some idieas one what to do about constantly loosing signal and not being able to connect to the router? I tried another router (same kind) and another laptop but it seems that after a week or so i just cant connect to it. The computer is approx 20 feet or so away from the router.

anyone have a problem with the Logitech G7 where it just randomly stops responding? The G7 does not have a connect button to resync it to the base, but i have tried the connect utillity that installs when you install setpoint. I have also tried another usb port but it still happens.

A friend of mine has SBC DSL and they sent him the 2 Wire modem that has built in wireless w/ a 4 port switch. He also purchased a Linksys SRX 400 router so he could get the added range that the SRX gets. The problem is how do you connect the DSL modem to the router and all the SRX to do the...

has anyone installed a aftermarket fan on a A8N32 that it running a dual core cpu? I installed my old gigabyte one that i ahd on my AMD64 754 and it would make asus probe set off an alarm for motherboard temps.

okay so i decided to ditch xp 64 and go back to 32bit due to software compatibility..so i format my hdd and reinstall my copy winxp. it goes normal gets into windows and I install farcry then install bf2. I then install sp2 and reboot seems to work then i reboot again and it wont boot at all it...

Is there any sites that show benchmarks of intel cpu's against each other? Im trying to decide if the 820 dual core is gonna be as good as a 3ghz p4 w/ HT.

Im curious as to what your temps are? Stock fan or aftermarket. Right now with the asus probe mine shows 45C. I just wanna gauge where everyone else is. I know case setups and fan setups can effect it but just want an overall avg./

I just upgraded from a AMD 64 3200+ to a AMD X2 3800+ before i had a gigabyte cpu cooler on it which has a pretty huge copper heatsink on it It says on newegg "Up to Intel Pentium 4 478 3.4GHz and higher, AMD Athlon XP up 3200+ and higher, AMD Athlon 64 up to 3400+ and higher" can...

Picked up my board last night from fry's 229.99. My cousin works there and called me and told me they had just gotten them in so i told him to hold one for me. Went down picked that up + x2 3800 cpu + 7800GT. Slapped it all together and had no problems. Just made a slip stream xp install on my...

Just wondering how much a used never overclocked 6800GT OC 256MB AGP card is worth these days w/ zalman cooler on it.??

im new to the sli stuff, but heard that SLI boards normally with 2 cards run at 8x instead of 16x but there are now boards out or are comming out that allow it to run at 16x. What are some of the manufactors of these boards? Oh and for a AMD x2 cpu Thanx.

Just seemed to happen lately, but if my headphones are plugged in, if i unplug them and plug my speakers in, it locks up the PC...anyone else ever see this?