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Hey folks, sorry for the really dumb question, but I haven't quite been able to figure this one out. I have a 2011 MBP and I'd like to know if it's at all possible for me to connect an external monitor such as this one to it and have it operate as intended. It's my understanding that these...

Hello folks, wanted to run this one by you, see if you can perhaps explain it to me. My new HD7850 claims that with DP1.2 compatible monitors it can support up to 6 different monitors. How does that work? It has 1x DVI, 1x HDMI and 2x MiniDP ports. Are the DPs splittable? Thanks!

Folks, what are your best recommendations for playing through Skyrim on master difficulty? I've been having quite a bit of trouble with my melee orc dual-wielder due to monsters such as dragons and ice wraiths basically two-shotting me. I could boost my smithing, pickpocketing and enchanting...

Hello folks, I'm looking for a small form factor case that's very good at keeping the internals cool. As someone who used Shuttle cases for years, I've never been very impressed with their performance. The CPU runs hot and the GPU even hotter. I'm looking for a case that's smaller than...

I realize that portable, sleek, cheap is something that can never be said in one sentence when talking about laptops, but I'm hoping you guys might have actually run into one before and would love to share that knowledge with me. I basically need a light and portable notebook with pleasant...

I'm looking for an extremely portable / ultra thin sleek looking laptop that I could use for generic web 2.0 development on the go. It doesn't seem like they exist for 15" (or larger) screens though, and I can't see myself coding on anything smaller. What are my options? Not particularly...

I've been out of the gaming laptop purchasing business for a long time and don't really have a good understanding of what models are out there these days, but I've been looking for a laptop that could be used to play at SC2 LAN parties. It should have strong performance of course, as low FPS...

I know we have quite a few serious mouse experts on this board and I was hoping they could share some of their experience for my search for the ultimate mouse. I'm a very low sensitivity palm gripper (from back in the CS days where it was THE way to play), and since m G9's side buttons...

Hello folks, I had a quick question for you regarding this issue I've been having with my network. I recently turned on Remote Desktop on one of my home machines in order to be able to remove into it from a laptop wirelessly connected (100% connection quality) to the same network. The target...

I finally decided to overclock my 2.6ghz i5 to a more interesting clock. I'm completely new at the whole overclocking business so I was hoping you seasoned tweakers might give me a few pointers. My harware is: - 2x G.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Dual Channel -...

So, I'm planning to get a i7-920 and OC it pretty hard if I can, and so I need a decent motherboard to stick it onto. The options are either the ASUS P6T Deluxe V2 which is basically $300 and the ASRock X58 which is half the price, and supposedly gets the job done just as well. Why would...

Hi. I was thinking of upgrading my currently 2yo PC in light of Bad Company 2 coming out soon. It works fine right now, but I like to have my games run at max settings at constant 60fps, and with a 1920x1200 that's not always easy. One thing to keep in mind is that currently the game uses...

Question for the IT minded among you. I have several machines at home, all of them with some particular use to me. I want to be able to have my own domain at home so that I can exactly set up accounts and permissions for everybody. Basically I want to be able to share confidential...

Hi, I received my brand new 80GB Intel X25-M yesterday and I plugged it into my box today for the first time. As expected there were no special install steps required: I plugged it in, turned on the pc, was warned by the bios that a new hd was added, then windows turned on and from Computer...

I wasn't one of the folks who pre-ordered the phone last week, and I'm not planning to be camping in front of a mac store anytime soon. How do I get hold of a 3GS this weekend/next week then? I read that they might be out of stock for at least a couple of weeks.

Hi, one of my disks was reported as about to die by Windows (Vista 64) a couple of times yesterday when I was trying to copy things onto it. The error hasn't showed up again, so I'm trying to determine if Vista glitched and thought there was something wrong with the drive due to the volume of...

I'm looking into a 4850 to maybe replace my apparently dying/dead 4870. It has to fit into a shuttle sp35p2 and it has to have a very very very good cooler, because there's basically no airflow in there and very little space, so it has to have the best cooling solution in town. I know I could...

So here's the context: my 4870 has apparently died because of overheating in my SP35P2. I'm not sure why that would have happened, since I've always been pretty good about keeping the temps below 80C (by cranking up the fans and leaving the case always open). I need a replacement, I was...

Question: I have a Sapphire 4870 that I purchased last summer that currently seems to cause artifacts in a few games. The artifacting is of the 90% of the screen covered with random polygons and weird shaped textures. The games that do cause artifacts are games such as: Empire Total War, Sacred...

I'm getting artifact issues in certain games, such as Supreme Commander, Empire: Total War and a couple of others apparently, while others such as CoD4 and Company of Heroes work great with no signs of issues. I've been using the unlocked advanced settings of the ATI software suite to crank...

I was wondering if people here had experience with keeping their remote desktop connections safe. I know that on a vista machine (vista 64 in my case) you can easily enable remote desktop so that pretty much anybody remotely can login as the specified user. How safe is that, though? Say I have a...

I was thinking about putting a little more effort into securing my home network and the relative PCs from the nasties of the outside net, but the problem is that I really have no idea what people can throw at me. Without knowing what kind of exploits and common attack patterns there are out...

Hi, I was wondering if anybody experienced similar HD symptops before. It's a 500gb 7200rpm Seagate Barracuda, currently running my OS on it. What happens is that once in a while, usually when no software in particular is actively and aggressively using the HD (so mostly Firefox and a few IM...

I was wondering if anybody else had encountered a similar problem before. I just recently installed Vista 64 ultimate on my machine, which was running 32bit XP pro SP3 flawlessly for quite a while. My Sapphire 4870 drivers are the 8.501.0.0 which windows upgrade fetches for you. Now what...

I was thinking of dropping by the store tomorrow and getting a nice vista 64 ultimate disc. I had a few questions for those of you who tried it and can give me some feedback. I'm upgrading from xp sp2 pro mostly because my OS needs a nice reinstall and there's little point of using xp again...

Hi, I was wondering if there was a good smartphone alternative to the iPhone out there, with most of its neat features, but running Windows Mobile instead. Thanks.

So let's make a little social experiment here (not really). Newegg is usually a place I visit on regular basis and over the years I developed the habit of trusting the average user rating on that site. I put up the top 5 monitors on newegg based on rating, and you guys get a chance to tell me if...

So, I want to purchase the ultimate 24" monitor. I'd like it to have both great picture quality and good game performance. I'd be using it mostly for browsing, gaming and occasional movie. I heard the 2408WFP is pretty good and I remember seeign old versions of this monitor at work in the...

Hi, I was wondering if there were any good remedies for the following problem. My 8800gt (link http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150254 ) does 75C idle and about 110C when under load.. back a few months ago when I just bought it, it used to run at much lower...

Hi, quick question. I need a way to power up my 7900gt with a supply that has no 6-pins and no IDE power cables, but only the slim SATA power cables. Is there a way to make this work? Thanks!

Hi, I had a quick question concerning the 7900GT and its need for a 6 pin cable in order to run. I've always had mine running with the cable plugged in and I thought connecting it was not an option, but I recently gave my card away to a friend and he says he's been able to run it without any...

Selling new and unopened copies of MS Windows Vista Ultimate (32 and 64 bit) and MS Office 2007 Ultimate (the real non-academic full version), both together in a 350$ package.

Hey guys, for those of you who already own this machine, I was wondering what you thought about its ease of use. I was thinking of getting it for my mom this Christmas, and I was looking for something that'd basically be really hard to destroy (in terms of clicking random buttons on the...

This is windows XP.The problem has affected my laptop since the first day I got it. Basically every single time I plug in a new Plug and Play device into it, it asks for drivers. I mean, everything. Things such as a USB keyboard, a USB mouce, a VGA monitor.. all of this crap which on any of my...

Hey guys, I'm planning to get a 360 sometime tomorrow, more specifically this version: http://www.ebgames.com/product.asp?product%5fid=020079 I was wondering if you could point out what kind of gear this specific model was missing, because at least for the early models of 360 I heard...

Fellas, I just recently discovered that (I believe) the reason why some games start to run very slow after a few minutes of play is because my 7900GT in the SN25P overheats. I alt-tabbed very quick one time when Crysis went to about 1fps and discovered that the temperature of the GPU was...

Hey guys, I was wondering if you could look at this list real quick and see if there's anything that could be improved about it or that you think is missing or going to conflict. Thank you! Shuttle SP35P2-Pro Intel Socket T(LGA775) Intel Core 2 Quad / Core 2 Duo Intel P35 Barebone - Retail...

I'm guessing this is indeed a problem with the video-card although I'm not 100% sure. I was hoping to see if anybody else ever experienced a similar problem so that I can pin-point it and possibly find a solution. So, I run Crysis on everything medium on my AMD X2 4800+, 2 gigs of ram and a...

Guys, what's a good program for safely formatting everything I have on my laptop so that there's no chance of that data being restored? I want to sell it on ebay and I want to avoid someone haxoring my stuff back even if I format it normally through dos. Thanks!

Hey guys. I recently got a Compal HEL80 laptop for myself and it's a pretty impressive machine except for applications randomly crash for no reason (Firefox, IE, MSN messenger) and other ones such as Visual Studio 2005 will often have their components such as the C++ Optimizer crash in the...