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    Upgrade path

    I have been reviewing the charts. And it seems like benchmark wise, an upgrade from my GTX 260 starts at the 560 in the 500 series cards. But only just barely. Am I better off just getting a second 260?
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    Been out of the building game for a while

    Haven't built a current gen PC in about 3 years, and am looking to upgrade my personal one soon. I'm looking to use an AMD-FX-4100, but it seems all the AM3+ mobos require a flashing of the bios to support it. Seeing as I am sitting on a AMD Phenom II X4 940, which is an AM2+ chipset, I...
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    potential motherboard issue?

    Every now and then ( like once a month or even less) my win7 64bit will freeze up and I hold down the power button and reboot. I will get 1 of 3 error messages. -Windows failed to boot, insert disc and repair, blah blah -A disk error was detected, hit ctrl+alt+del -something OS boot sector...
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    View connected webcam in fullscreen

    Hey guys, I am looking for a program (freeware) that would view a webcam connected to a computer in fullscreen. The end goal here is to provide my high school math teacher wife with a document camera on the cheap. Anyone done anything similiar or found a good application? -Sesh
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    Wmp12 won't stay maximized

    Every 5-15m while watching a video file maximized, wmp12 leaves fullscreen and returns to windowed. I have shut off all non-essential processes and the problem still occurs. Any ideas?
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    HTC Desire MIA?

    I have been trying to follow the HTC Desire, as far as America is concerned, but all I can find is up until a couple weeks ago. And even that is all rumor and speculation. Is it coming to America or not?
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    Mbr and Sata Controller Question

    So I have two questions. First, some background info to provide details. I run a two hard drive system. A 320GB hard drive for OS's and programs and a 1TB hard drive for all Data. Somehow, Windows 7 has installed a boot loader to each drive. I know this from Grub2 auto searching for...
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    [RAID] New to this.

    I have been using computers for a long time. Fact. I have intimate knowledge of how RAID would help me. False. So that being said, here is my current setup. ::Insert decent to high end components here:: 80 GB Seagate drive that my OS runs on (Vista) 320 GB Seagate drive that is used for data...
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    sound reactive led mod help

    so I saw a fun mod for computer speakers today and decided to do it. basically you take the power led and move the leads to the speaker. effectively it becomes a sound reactive led. but my problem is, the led wont turn "on" except when the volume is way more than comfortably loud. if the...
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    creative vista situation

    Ok. So appearantly the people over at creative are really lazy and are having a hard time getting their cards to work with vista. Vista audio with on board sound is pretty decent, but I have one of those motherboards that rana couple too many power circuits near the sound ports. So i get...
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    need a router that can handle a decent work load

    my two roomates and I are getting fed up with our router bogging down and slowing the internet and file transfer to hell in a hand bag. we have the linksys router that everyone and their momma has. recently got a wireless router to use as an access point for our wii's and laptops and what not...
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    interesting missing files problem

    so i got a new storage drive the other day and going through and moving all my storage files to it. somehow in the middle of transfering my music, something went wrong. now I cannot see 9/10 of my music in windows explorer, but winamp still plays all my music. so i tried exporting my playlist...
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    good fan controller to get?

    i have been looking around on newegg and frozencpu for a good fan controller. I have two 120mm and two 90mm fans, so 4 total. I have seen a few decent ones, but from past expieriances with general things, i don't impulse buy any more....just wanted to get some ppls opinions on fan controllers...
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    music library sync'ing

    I am looking for a program that will automaticall watch specific folders accross a network and exchange file with however many of them to keep them all the same. This way i can know that at any given time my music libraries accross multiple machines will be the same....but the only thing i have...
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    I just can't decide

    I really like both of these cases but of course i can only get one...but which one The Sunbeamtech Transformer http://www.xoxide.com/sunbeam-transformer-case-black.html or The Thermaltake Armor Case http://www.xoxide.com/thermaltake-armor-case-black.html
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    difference between ddr3 and gddr3??

    is there a big difference in quality? b/c my friend said to go with the asus chipset b/c it uses ddr3 instead of the gddr3.
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