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Monitor recommendations? The last monitor I bought is my MAG CRT monitor. It still works great but getting another computer. Obviously things have changed in the last few years. Everything is widescreen LCD now. What are some considerations when looking for a monitor? What shortcomings am I going to find with an $99 boxmart 20" unit over ... 29 Dec 2009 19:42
Windows XP CD will not recognize existing installation My brother has a home built PC. It has an AMD Athlon (tm) 64 3700+ CPU with HyperTransport (tm). The motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-K8NSC-939. He has two, one-gig Crucial DDR ram modules. He does not know if his memory is ecc or not. He does not remember how old his system is but he says that the motherboard wa... 28 Dec 2009 20:40
VGA to S-Video/3-RCA Adapter for Matrox Video Cards http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000Y7T5UU/ref=ord_cart_shr?_encoding=UTF8&m=A3ACUPJ4C2HX16&v=glance I have a laptop that I can't get to use the S Video. It will work with an HDMI cable. I am going to buy one of these and try to get it to work with the composite inputs of an old TV. If it doesn'... 27 Dec 2009 18:28
Intel DP35DP, Windows 7 PCI Simple Communications Controller? For the life of me I can't get this PCI Simple Communications controller to be recognized under Windows 7. What driver am I supposed to use? I tried a bunch from Intel's site - no luck. http://img260.imageshack.us/img260/6558/windows7controlpanel.jpg ... 1 Jan 2010 18:28
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Need replacement heatsink for HP a6400f that uses same screw holes as coolermaster that came with it. I've got an HP a6400f where I've replaced the Pentium dual core with a C2Q Q6600 and I want to put a better CPU heatsink/cooler in it. Does anyone know of one that will be a direct replacement for the coolermaster heatsink/fan that is used by HP on this machine? I've upgraded the PSU in the a6400f to an ANTEC Earth... 26 Dec 2009 08:54
mouse enlarged ati 5770 Hi, Is there anyone that can help me? My mouse pointer enlarges after some time under Windows 7 and only a reboot helps. When looking on the internet I saw that there was an hotfix (http:// support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/ATICatalyst912Hotfix.aspx) which should fix this. Currently I'am using ati cataly... 6 Jan 2010 08:21
No Audio Input Device - Win 7 - Realtek Driver I have an Asus P6T motherboard with Realtek ALC1200 on board audio and Windows 7 64 bit OS, DirectX 10, Audio Driver version 6.0.1.5859. The sound works normally for all audio functions. I installed Nero and went to use the Wave Editor application to record a song from the web and got the message "Unable to ope... 23 Dec 2009 18:30
What should I look for in Core 2 Duo for significant speed jumpover 2.4 gig P4? On a side note, the days of the CPU are numbered. GPUs are getting so powerful, they will soon take over all the CPU functions This really isn't true. GPUs are very good at performing a very small number of tasks, and for those specific tasks, no modern general purpose CPU can compete. ... 23 Dec 2009 23:58
What should I look for in Core 2 Duo for significant speed jump over 2.4 gig P4? On Sun, 20 Dec 2009 18:44:01 -0800 (PST), muzician21 <muzician21(a)yahoo.com> wrote: I've got a P4 2.4 gig machine now running XP, largely want to improve rendering speed for video editing, how much processor do I need in the Core 2 Duo realm to realize a healthy jump in speed? Not too proud to go used, can't ... 21 Dec 2009 19:08 |