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Hello all, been a while since I have been posting! Starting school (again) and on a super tight budget but I need a new box to keep me occupied with some games maybe and for a fair bit of work. Aside from games it will be used for solidworks, autocad, programming, assorted other engineering...

Topic says it all, What are the best headphones I can get under $100. They will be used for gaming, ipod commuting, and just music at home.

I am in bad need of a second notebook. I need something light and hopefully widescreen. I would totally buy up a MBP but the price tag is heafty and it is quite a meaty beast. I am thinking of waiting for the new ibook but is there any indication of an ETA?

Alright, so I am a first time linux user. By this I mean I have never even seen a linux machine before. I figured I would give it a whirl to expand my technical knowledge yada yada and to try something new. I have a clean install of ubuntu 5.10 (gnome) up and working great, as a matter of...

I am looking to buy a PDA for christmas. I am mainly interested in using it for basic surfing, mp3's, and video. I have a budget of about $500 CDN roughly total for everything I need to purchase. Where do I start? Do you recommend a Palm based machine or a PPC? I recently have seen this Palm...

Hey guys I searched and looked through the FAQ but didn't see it mentioned so if it is just point it out, im blind. Anyway, I have mostly been using my laptop in class and on the go and charged it when the battery was almost gone but lately I have been using it more and more as my main...

Hey, my new lattitude d610 is working out great and it is pretty much my ideal laptop. However, I notice that at the top of the screen the colours are noticeably darker then at the bottom of the screen. Is this some kind of a problem or am I just being too critical? (edit- this is not...

So I have narrowed down what I want to these two notebooks. What do you think I should get??? LG LU20 VS New Apple Ibook The LG comes to about $1150CDN while with the student discount from university the ibook comes to about $1300. The only thing bringing me down with the ibook is the...

New ibooks at apple online retailer! Im seriously digging it but can someone give me some info on what the mobile Radeon 9550 32meg is like! Canadian ibooks!

My last notebook, to be honest was a p166 noname that my old man had for work and lost the battery. After much research I am finally buying notebook this friday hopefully and I was wondering, what is an acceptable amount of time before running your battery out? Seems like 3 hours is a defacto...

So, I am buying a new laptop and I still live in the dark ages. (all my displays are still crt). I was happily configuring my new laptop at dell when I noticed that I can choose between different types of display panels. Could someone explain to me the difference between: WXGA WSXGA WUXGA...

Alrighty, I am home from university for the summer and the first thing that happens is the old Athalon TB my parents and sister use goes the way of the dodo. System: Athalon TB 1.3 512 mb SDram Riva TNT2 m64 :cool: unknown via chipset motherboard sparkle 250? powersupply Ok, this...

Someone is offering me one of the original ipod minis for ~$140 canadian. I read the sticky saying around $99 for a replacement ipod battery from apple. Is this the same for the for the original minis??? The guy sellin it claims it only costs about $50 canadian. Please respond soon as if...

I was playing Red Orchestra about 15 min ago and all of a sudden I got the first hardlock since I made this system in September. So I figure its no big deal and I restart the old computer with the case button and it screams at me VGA TEST VAILED and did so a few times then all of a sudden it...

This may be a stupid question but I am putting together a linux box on the super cheap till I can get some more cash and am wondering how compatible it is with the various integrated video? I guess the options are : Intel Extreme Graphics 2 nforce Geforce 4 mx S3 UniChrome Pro If any...

ok, so I just built my server and happened into another sum of money. So I figure the only course of action is to add to my collection. This time im going mATX with an Antec Minuet just because I like the looks. Im going to be building this on a budget of about $500-$600 CDN~~~~!. I don't...

I have an antec minuet and I will soon be putting some guts in it. I am looking for the best low profile card that I can get. So far all the best I have seen are powercolor 9600se and jaton fx5700le type cards. Also, anyone know how overclockable these cards are?

I have decided recently that I am going to slap together another pc to use mostly as an irc server, file server, and maybe a game server. A friend of mine works at a local puter store and got me an ok deal (I think hehe...) on a Celeron D 330 for $70 CDN. I also have 512 pc3200 lying...

I am making an SS51G for my girlfirend and I am wondering if a Celeron D processor would fit in it? Its not on the shuttle list of supported processors for this older model but the socket and fsb are right. The SS51G would work with an 800 FSB p4 even though it doesnt support it? (I have...

I want to make a lite gaming rig to carry around to friends' house for lan gaming as well as the occasionbaly lan party. Ideally I want the absolute cheapest SFF I can get and still be able to play newer games (i have an x800pro that i can slap in there but thats ALL that i have). I have seen...

Recently I have come into some extra cash and am thinking of making a possible game server, home fileserver-firewall-router, workstations, etc , etc (This will be in no way for actually playing games at all). Im not positive yet and have just began looking around at different processors and...

I just recently tried out multiple monitors and instantly fell in love with it but I only really have one problem, When I play a game the #1 monitor displays the game fine and the other monitor displays the desktop but when I click on somehting the program minimizes on the #1 display. I do...

Ok, Today I tried to simply set up a cable modem on my new comp. The board has an onboard nic (Asus A8V wifi edition) but it refuses to work, here is where the weirdness comes into play. The modems connection lights are all on indicateing an active connection, the nic detects the...

Ok, I needed a laptop to accompany my A64 3500+ and I have always been interested in apple products and have heard nothing but good things about their notebooks decided to get one. I am on a smaller budget for this so I decided to go with a 12inch combo drive G4 1ghz ibook. Do you...

Ok guys first I would like to thank all of you who responded to my threads and everyone who posts in in this forum for the massive amount of information here. You have all, indirectly, told my from scratch how to put this together and get it working, thank you not only for helping me get this...

Ok, I was just on the phone with a local computer store and they gave me these prices, (CDN$) AMD Athlon 64 3500+ s939 clawhammer for $549 as apposed to the non oem which is supposed to cost ~$700+. I also got the price for an ATi x800pro at $449 while the non oem costs $625. These are...

Ok I think I have pretty much made up my mind on either one of these systems but cannot decide which one. Please give me your opinion on what system you think I should go with and please point out any problems that you see or suggestions. 1- - AMD Athlon64 3000+ - ASUS K8V DELUXE K8T800 S754...

I am not 100% positive if this is the right place for this post, but here I go, ok, a bit of a story first, last semester in university I was recruited by a professor for her research program. She is a member of both the faculty of chemistry as well as physics and her research(that I would...

As I have started threads in the past I would like to start out saying that I am not at all familiar with new video hardware but here is my question, What exactly is the diference in the 6800 series and the x800 series? I have been aiming to buy an x800 card for a while now but all the talk...

I would like to start this post by saying that I know nothing (0) about hard drives. ok I have a choice between buying either 1) WESTERN DIGITAL 36.7GB SATA RAPTOR HARD DRIVE or 2) WESTERN DIGITAL 80GB 7200RPM 8MB CACHE HARD DRIVE Is the Raptor so signifigantly better/faster as to...

Ok I have been out of the loop in pc hardware since before the advent of 3d acceleration and am wondering if their is a large difference in gpu manufacturers providing the same card. I plan on buying an x800 pro and the place where I intend on buying it carries only POWERCOLOR flavours of...

I know you probably get a million of these type of threads a day but im a serious hardware newbie and really would appreciate some imput before I sink all my money into this. So far, I think these are the specs of come up with, ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe Motherboard Athalon XP 2800+ 333FSB...