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So lets say I wanna get a few new computers to work at home. Is the i5 a good upgrade from a Pentium D? Working with autocad and lots of adobe pdf generations etc etc. Is the difference from the tripple channel of i7 to i5 so noticeable? Any suggestions would be great. I'm in the USA, so if you...

Okay guys hello, I just bought a 32 inch lcd tv its a phillips model 32PFL6704D and it is supposed to be a 120hz one, that was why i spent the extra dough on it !! However I cannot figure out how to set it to 120 hz from the nvidia control panel. Any Tips? I have windows 7 64bit and the April...

Hiya! I've got a pc with C2D 6850 evga mobo 780i, 2x2gb g.skill 1066 ram , freezer 7 pro cooler, 800w generic PSU from tigerdirect i think haha, and an 8800gtx..for now. I'm going to be buying a new vid card or two and I'm going to need to push my cpu to ease the bottleneck a bit. Anyone have...

I'm looking to get my cousin something to cool down his Dell XPS laptop because it goes nuts when we play call of duty. Up into the high 70's sometimes low 80's Whats the best cooler out there? Thanks.

Well I know this is probably the last thing you want to be reading but I have indeed been struggling in my intro to linux class. And I have an assignment due 10/30 that is kicking my bum. I will post details. Write a bash shell script that presents work information of employees of a department...

So I recently got Age of Conan for my pc and after a few hours of play, my room gets ridiculously hot as does my pc. So I'm looking to switch to watercooling which i hope will solve my problem..Ive read some of the guides and stuff but I would be a lot more comfortable if someone in the south...

Hi everyone Im kinda new here and my name is Richard. I'm a college student at FIU in miami and I'm looking to learn more about...EVERYTHING TECH RELATED, I love this forum. It'd be nice to meet with any of you guys that live down here since I'd really like to learn more about modding and stuff...

I dunno guys. I upgraded to a 780i, and a 7800GTX on vista 32 and I still get frame lag sometimes. I just play cod4 on 1024 x 768 with like 2AA and the rest of the settings default. using the cg_drawfps ingame i see that most of the time im running at 90fps. but every few mins I dip down to...

I was just noticing that my memory clock in rivaturner says 900mhz, is that normal? I thought it was like 1800mhz..

Hey guys, I wasn't sure where to put this, so I went ahead and put it here. So I bought a DVI to HDMI cable so I could connect my video card to my tv and it worked GREAT. I also bought an SPDIF cable, it has SPDIF on both sides. I have an EVGA 780i motherboard and it looks like on the back in...

So I went out and got a 26" LCD TV. I connected my computer using an 8600 gt to the tv, through S-Video.. I do NOT like the quality at all it is hard to read the icons on the desktop unless I set the display to just 800 x 600. The tv says the max resolution on it is like 1360 x something or so...

Hi guys my 8800gtx is running at 64 idle according to HWMonitor, is that normal..?

Hey guys I overclocked my cpu E6700 to 3.0ghz at 1.275v and have been running the Prime95 torture test for a while, the tempts of the cores are about 66/65 respectively. What is the max temp I should stop it at?

Alright, I bought 2 8600gt's a few months ago and I'm running them on SLI. I've got a CPU, Intel Core2Duo E6700 2.67Ghz 4M 1066FSB Socket 775, and my ram is Crucial Ballistix 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channe. My board is EVGA nForce 680i SLI Socket 775...