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Oh, a little note to that. It doesn't mean their guides aren't good or anything. It's just their forums that.. well, all I can think of when I view them is "Meh".
But now and then they do have good articles.
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Beh, the hell with Toms Hardware... I hate every single person there.
Ok, maybe not. But I just don't like them.. they really have about the most dumbed down tech-people ever on a tech-site. But then that's my opinion...
Anyway, these smaller sites are better IMO. Anandtech might be of greater help, but I rarely visit their site though...
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Didn't you use some old components for a few things?
I'm not sure, but I believe even a DVD-drive can cause an IRQ conflict.
And the Vertex might be effing around too.
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9/10
Very, very happy with it. Really, forget XP. Vista works great.
SP2 didn't make a difference at all though.. at least, nothing that I can see.
Runs stable as hell btw. Never have gotten it down until now.
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Slayer - Seasons in the Abyss
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I wear thongs and strings like g-strings, v-strings, t-back
No love for hipsters
Personally, I think they're pretty sexy now and then.
Other then that, I've been told that all those strings are actually pretty comfortable.
Anyway, I mainly wear boxers and boxer-briefs. Prefer boxers though. Very, very comfortable.
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What huckleberrypie said is untrue. The VRAM information of DXDIAG rarely has it right these days. Like I've got a 512MB card and it says 2800MB.
Anyway, aren't you using outdated hardware? Sounds like a driver conflict to me. Or an IRQ conflict, but that'd be hard to imagine.. I'd settle for the driver conflict.
Try looking for new chipset drivers (are those technically even called drivers? I've got no idea, but I'm sure you know what I mean).
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When I say get it custom built, I do mean what Spaz said. Any self-respecting shop gives you the option of having them build it FOR you. Will set you back something like 20 USD, big deal.
My main concern with these prebuilt computers is their crappy motherboards and shitty PSU's. They place a PSU that barely meets the power needs. Upgrading is usually going to be a pain in the ass.
Like, imagine you've bought a computer with a GTX285 and you decide that you want to upgrade to a GTX295. Well, you can't. It just won't run usually.
Go to some online shop and visit their support forum. I'm pretty sure they'd be more then happy to help you.
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That's called socialism.
Which one might see as corruption, I guess..
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Very true. Alienware's cases aren't even made out of aluminium if I'm not mistaken, so really nothing interesting there.
Point being though, some just feel comfortable with the support. My parents for instance, they just want a computer from a well known brand of which they know that the supoort is good.
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Corrupt? Not really.
They just think that fools who don't do a thing should get a money of the rich.. and the smokers.
Our government just spends too much. They don't seem to realize that some things just shouldn't be paid by them. Like soccer. Why the hell is the government giving buckets of money to our shitty teams?
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Howcome Vista sucks? It's one of the most simplest OS's, IMO. And it's faster than XP for me. Much faster.
thats a goddamn lie.
Some peopel HAVE to go wirelesswireless took all of 2 minutes to set up for me on XP lol. i was just making a point.
A lie? Well, no. Check benchmarks. And even out of personal experience I can say that Vista is faster then XP, provided you do have 4GiB of RAM though.. At 2GiB XP is indeed faster.
Other then that, yeah, well XP had some problem with our router's heavy security. Vista seemed to just do it very smooth though.
P.S., Vista's "simplicity" and extreme idiot-proofing are the two main reasons I hate it. The only things I've been pleased about so far is the great 32-bit compatibility and that they saved the Classic theme.With exeptions I love Vista's simplicity. Just easier to reach a few things, while not dumbing them down (they messed up the defrag tool though..)
And extreme idio-proofing? More like mallware proofing. I don't care really. Just takes two extra clicks, big deal. I'm happy with it.
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It's pretty simple.. Alienware supplies Rockstar of computers at discount, provided Rockstar puts the badge on their site. Without that, nobody would buy the overpriced systems of Alienware.
Other than being a total dumbass buying a shitty Dell for $6,000 and calling it a gaming PC.The irony being that Alienware is owned by Dell. Really, get your facts straight, Dell used to make very good systems (their XPS Renegade was a beast of a computer for an OEM PC). They messed up their XPS brand over time though...
Personally, I hate Alienware. I find them to be dirt ugly computers.
Just go to a local computer shop and get one custom built. Cheaper, better. Just do it.
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Never ever have I seen such an overpriced system. You can get that for about a third the price.
And no way for external HDD's
Anyway, give me your budget and I'll come up wtih a very nice setup for you.
I do need to know though, do you need any new speakers, keyboard, mouse or anything else with it?
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(masturbating 4-5 times a day).
lolwut
Happy birthday man. Get drunk or something, always makes a day fun.
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Some peopel HAVE to go wireless
I'm going to cabled this month though, finally. But most other devices in the home will stay over the WiFi network.
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So these days I'm finding myself to have at least 1 bottle of Port a week. Usually in one day.
Just meet up with friends at some deserted place in town. All bring a bottle of port with them. Smoke and drink. Get drunk. Roll on the ground.
Really.. that's what's happening. And frankly, it's awesome.
Last wednesday being the most awesome day in a long time. We had some beachparty. We drunk. Being in my nature, I overdid it. Ah well, enough girls willing to help me out, so I was feeling sort of special. Anyway, that's done. Nearly everyone leaves and goes back home. Some friend and I stay on the beach (we were all drunk). But on some Bob Marley and hello cannabis, sure to have a great night.
Police came by though, but they didn't really care. Just laughed, thought it to be a funny sight (no surprise they came actually, seems we were lying down under a police building). We left at about 5:45 AM, we were hungry as hell. Ate at some local petrol station. Most overpriced meal ever, but meh, I was willing to pay anything for some food.
Then came the long bike ride back to our school. There's a park next to it. Slept on a bench there. Sort of convenient, as we had to return some books at school at 1 PM.
Overall a quite nice experience.
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Nearly 7 USD a pack here. That's what's really bothering me. Loads of taxes on it and smokers will pay. The government loves us, I'm sure.
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Well, they can't stick in the past... They build a new Game-Engine, and that just has it's requirements.
I'm not sure, but I think even old PC (like, from 2003) supported pixel shader 2.0, so really.. you can't blame those devs.
If anything, I think they're moving too slow. Like, trying to keep it compatible with old systems. It sucks for hardware-enthusiasts.
I understand your problem, but one must be reasonable. I'm sure you aren't making a fuss about new consoles and there being no (game) support for the old ones anymore. It's just normal.
Other then that.. Spore was designed to also run on very old systems. Games like GTA IV aren't though..
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The GTX 275 isn't taking 2,8 Gib. I'm sure of that.
Anyway, since you've just had the installation for 5 days, why not reformat? Does wonders now and then..
That aside, I love Vista's connectivity center. It's easy as hell. Took me like 2 minutes to get internet working, while XP was a total bitch in back in the days.
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That's going to take some getting used to..
Looks sexy though. Just that one thing.. the width. Like, even on 1024 x 768, wouldn't it look a little.. well, narrow?
On the other hand, clicking away that new topics thing (very nice feature btw, and smooth animation, but with a professional look to it.) makes it look just right.
Perhaps a little darker shade. Just a tiny bit darker..
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Oh, wow. Kokane is back.
You seem to have changed a lot though. Haven't followed anything, since this is the first time I've posted in quite some time, but nice to see you again anyway.
Too few females at this place... Boring experience in the long run, haha.
By the way, awesome suit Draftermatt
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I used to think Destiny's Child was pretty good.
Then she went solo. It was ok. Now she's just pumping out singles after singles and it's all just mainstream pop shit. Beh.
She should have sticked to her thing instead of trying to cash in from like 80% of all music lovers.
And she isn't even hot anymore
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:'( I thought it was some awful joke at first... But it's true.
Sad.. very sad.
I really feel like the world has lost something. Like, ok, he wouldn't really do anything special anymore, but really, now we're the ones who have to carry on the lagacy. All coming generation will not have witnessed his presence.
I've been to one of his concerts by the way, 12 years back. Long time ago... good times.
Got pretty at all those 'child-molester' jokes I heard today.. people should really shut the fuck up about that.
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Love Vista even more.
So for the first time ever, I had fucked my PC.
I was messing around a lot, but didn't realize I really was fucking it. Turned off the system by simply cuting the power. Something must have gone wrong...
Point is, it started up. Took a long time.. Went is some weird half safe-mode. Well, it booted into a temp account and notified me of the fact that something had gone wrong (I had about my first ever BSOD with this system. Don't think it was OC related) and assured me that all will probably be fine after a restart.
I restart, it takes some time and then everything is back to normal, HURRAY! Now it's running like a breeze again.
Now one could argue that Vista should have prevented it from going wrong it the first place and yes, I guess you'd be right. But every single time I've fucked my PC up, Vista automatically fixes it for me. It amazes me. I didn't see XP help me that much when I had a problem. In fact, XP wouldn't do a single thing. Vista actually gives some information and will, at least in my cases, simply fix it for me.