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I just picked up an HP 2311xi from Best Buy, where it's on sale for 169.99, which seemed like a pretty good deal to me. I brought it home and hooked it up (via a MiniDP-HDMI dongle, since I had a spare HDMI cable) to my 2012 13" MacBook Air. My problem right now is that if I, for example...

I currently use a 5 year-old MBP as my only computer. It more or less stays in the same spot, as the battery is pretty useless these days. It does most things reasonably well, but obviously the performance increasingly leaves something to be desired. I've been waffling between building a desktop...

1) What will you be doing with this PC? Gaming? Photoshop? Web browsing? etc Lightroom/Photoshop, gaming. 2) What's your budget? Are tax and shipping included? $1500 shipped would be great, $1700 is a hard cap. 3) Which country do you live in? If the U.S, please tell us the state and city if...

I want to simulcast a live video stream from an auditorium into computers in multiple rooms (mainly for overflow) and potentially a lobby area on a projector. Since it is on a university campus, all of the network connections will be over the university network. My question is, what is the...

The relevant specs (same as sig): MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum SLI AMD Athlon64 3500+ 1GB OCZ EL PC3200 Platinum XFX GeForce 6600GT 320GB Seagate 7200.10 (or .9?) SATA HDD An old Audigy card, I think the 1st-gen Gamer one Some DVD burner; can you tell I hardly use this anymore? I'd need a new case...

I'm considering simply upgrading the computer I have currently, rather than building something entirely new. But it's getting a little aged for newer games, and I'm not sure whether it's "salvageable," so to speak. As it says in my signature, and more: MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum SLI (<3) AMD...

So my roommate is looking to build a desktop, for primarily non-gaming purposes. It wouldn't hurt to be able to do some graphics processing, but it is certainly not the objective. The key requirements are that it be stable, inexpensive, and fast for data processing (he works, among other...

So my dad wants to edit his copies of our digital camera photos. The only really important things that he needs to be able to do are: 1. Add text to the picture; he sends them to (tech un-savvy) friends and such and wants an easy way to retain the information with the photo for people who...

I have a fairly fresh installation of Firefox 2.0.0.4 (no Extensions, simple preference changes like download folder and whatnot - no changes to font preferences) on a new MacBook Pro running OS X 10.4.10. The OS has not been modified significantly, and particularly, no changes have been made...

I have a Zalman CNPS7000B-AlCu LED (because the LED model was cheaper) connected to its supplied FanMate unit. The reoccuring problem I have is that the "high" setting on the FanMate will seemingly randomly and without any apparent reason suddenly become very deprived of power, and the LED in...

Well, my pair of 80GB hard drives is not nearly enough for all the storage I need these days. And my current installation of Windows leaves much to be desired, having been ill-maintained for much of its existence (over a year now). I know, my fault. But, now that I am considering buying a...

Yes, iPod, not iTunes. I'm just wondering how the iPod treats the Comments and Composer fields of the ID3 tag, because those are pretty central to the way my classical music is organized. Since I have a lot of classical music, I'm not sure if I'd want a portable music device on which it is a...

I need a notebook computer for school. Simple as that. And after looking at literally countless Windows laptops, I kind of decided on the ASUS Z70Va. But then there was always the option of the Powerbook, which really has the best design I've ever seen in a laptop, and of course comes with...

I'm putting this in General because I really have no idea what is causing it. Whenever I'm playing a game and there is continuous animation that makes FPS noticeable (such as a scrolling message, a moving car, running forward, etc.) I can see clearly that there is a significant drop in...

I've noticed that 99% pure isopropyl alcohol is recommended for cleaning and prepping heatsinks/thermal contacts for AS5. I've also noticed that a lot of people follow the instructions. But where can 99% pure isopropyl alcohol be found, anyway? Is it readily available outside of hospitals?

Somehow I've managed never to have actually assembled an entire computer myself, excluding of course re-assembly. Now that I'm planning to do just that, I was wondering about a few things that I've rarely seen talked about much. 1.) At what point during the assembly should the machine be...

I currently have two overloaded 80GB HDs (PATA) that need to be cleaned out and could use a reformat. Problem is, I have a considerable amount of data that I have to back up (images, video, music, documents, etc). I don't have a DVD burner, only a CD burner, and I have no external drives or...

First of all, some background. Every night, I lock my computer via the CTRL ALT DEL menu (Win2K style, enabled via a Registry edit as I recall). Then I just leave it on overnight. I reboot every once in awhile. I have consistently done this for at least the last six to eight months. My...