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<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 10:33:04 EDT</pubDate>
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<title>$1,500.00  to build a machine</title>
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<description><![CDATA[i am wanting to have a machine built and i have between 1500 and 1700 to spend. and i am wanting to build a gaming rig with a 20" wide screen monitor at least. and ddr3 ram.   also, has anyone ever used the "Big Foot Killer Network Gaming Card"...  http://www.killernic.com  are they worth it to get. or is a reg 10/100/1000 network card just as good. and i want to get a vid card that will run high end games also.]]></description>
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<pubDate>2009-05-07 13:35:39</pubDate>
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<title>BF 2 Problem</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22656044</link>
<description><![CDATA[Ok, so I decided to re-install Battlefield 2 on my girldfreinds laptop and it should run rather well on it, so after I installed it and went to run it, it will sit on the BF2 screen and not move then just disappears. I went into the event viewer and came out with these.
any ideas?
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<pubDate>2009-07-05 03:19:14</pubDate>
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<title>Need Monitor advice</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22651274</link>
<description><![CDATA[hi,
I suddenly have a hankering for a 24" monitor, I was with a friend that has one and it was nice.

I have been looking at the Samsungs. 

Anyone have any advice as to a good one and where is the best place to pick it up at?
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<pubDate>2009-07-03 18:57:35</pubDate>
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<title>steam stopped working</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22647123</link>
<description><![CDATA[I can't see any text on any steam loading screen. I un-installed it and re-installed it, and it's still not working.

Anyone have any ideas? 

I've turned off ALL security programs to try and see if that was the cause.
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What else would you do?
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<pubDate>2009-07-02 20:17:40</pubDate>
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<title>[Equipment] Modem suddenly married to PC ?</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22650925</link>
<description><![CDATA[RCN scientific Atlantic modem  , connected to Linksys wrt54g router. PC running Windows 7 beta.

All ethernet connections.

Left in afternoon all was working well.
Arrived late in evening the CABLE and POWER lights on modem were steady. All others off.

After several rounds of trouble shooting/resetting/cable swapping/etc  I basically realized the ONLY device that my modem was detecting was my pc connected directly.

My router , My xbox 360 both had ethernet connections go undetected.

Went through trouble shooting on the phone and  rep had me configure my 360's IP/DNS etc.
The modem finally detected the ethernet connection but did not result in an IP address or connection.

The router failed to be detected regardless of changes.

My last effort was to clone the MAC address of the PC on my router. That failed as well.

So Im now left with a modem which only connects directly to the PC and tech support saying nothing is wrong it must be my setup.

Any insight on this at all ??]]></description>
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<pubDate>2009-07-03 17:43:13</pubDate>
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<title>How much longer do you think a system like this play good?</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22644234</link>
<description><![CDATA[Sorry for dumb subject line, ran out of room for words.  How long do you think my bedroom pc will let me play pc games good?  My pc downstairs is far better, but I do want a bedroom pc to keep up...

My bedroom pc is this:

Pentium D 805 @ 3.2 ghz
4 gigs ddr 2 667 ram
x1900xt 512

The pc is this:

***Please use the upload image feature***

It's on a 1920x1080 monitor and a 1600x1200 monitor (Other one isn't used yet while I get a pci 2400 pro to run it).  I just installed Windows 7, and I'm still waiting for my g15 rev 1 keyboard to arrive and my g9 for the device.  But these are just upgrades because I want a better m/kb, and I want triple screens.  The thing runs well still, but new games are pretty damn taxing.]]></description>
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<pubDate>2009-07-02 10:31:20</pubDate>
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<title>9600xt died on my casual machine...  Bought a new video card</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22530689</link>
<description><![CDATA[Okay, so I have this 2500+.  I've been aware that the video card is dying for awhile, but I haven't really cared since all I use it for is business, casual crap (like bejeweled), etc.

And I have machines that are actual gaming.  Hell I have 3 machines, one with a gtx 260, one with a x1900xt 512, and one laptop with a x1800.

So today I booted it up to find a ton of lines and dots, so obviously the video card has finally fried.  So I went and got this off of newegg:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102814

Now, I don't play any new 3d games on this machine, and I use a 1920x1200 dell.  But I have had a few games I wanted to lan.  The games are TF2, CSS, and DODS.

Will these games play on this new video card at 1920x1200?

The specs of the pc in question are:

Athlon Xp 3200+
1.5 gigs of 3200 ddr1 ram (sadly clocked at 3 ms)]]></description>
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<pubDate>2009-06-10 20:30:40</pubDate>
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<title>Good headset?</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22476198</link>
<description><![CDATA[I've been told by my guildies that my $20 head/mic-set sucks ass and I've been told to buy a new pair that has a decent mic that does not fade out.

Can anyone suggest something under $50?]]></description>
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<pubDate>2009-06-01 09:43:40</pubDate>
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<title>Looking to upgrade memory and possibly video card</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22596122</link>
<description><![CDATA[I have been discussing in the WoW forums about some FPS issues I am having ingame, and ended up with the conclusion that I need both more memory and a better video card.  My only issue is I am not very tech savvy and I could use some help choosing which of both would be best for my computer.  

I am going to try to post all the info requested, however some of it I have no idea where to find.  If someone could tell me where I can find any information I have left out, I would appreciate it :)

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Motherboard Manufacturer and Model: don't know where to find this
BIOS Revision Number (if known): don't know where to find this
CPU/Speed: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 @2.40GHz 2.40GHz
RAM Manufacturer/Type/Module Size: don't know where to find this
CDRW/CDROM/DVD Manufacturer and Spec: don't know where to find this
Disk Drive(s): Manufacturer and Spec: don't know where to find this
Video Card: Manufacturer and Type: ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO
Sound Card: Manufacturer and Model: All I know is it is a Realteck
NIC Manufacturer/Model: If this is the Network thing, it is an Intel 82562V
Power Supply Brand and Wattage: The wattage is 350w
Operating System:  Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bit
Anything else you think is relevant: I have a Dell Inspiron 530 and right now it has 2gig memory, 4 slots, 2 empty.  I am looking to add another 1gig, since from what I read I would need to upgrade to Vista 64-bit if I wanted to get 4gig.  I also need to know if I need to get 3 brand new sticks, or if I can just add another 1gig.  I have between around $100-$200 to spend on a video card, and maybe $100 or less on memory.]]></description>
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<pubDate>2009-06-23 10:56:27</pubDate>
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<title>Doom 3</title>
<link>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22563668</link>
<description><![CDATA[The game starts wierd in some sort of a frame , and it seems to be in 640 480 res., 

and then it gives an error
DOOM 1.3.1302 win-x86 May 12 2005 10:40:52
2261 MHz Intel CPU with MMX & SSE & SSE2 & SSE3 & HTT
1526730752 MB System Memory
1024 MB Video Memory
Winsock Initialized
Found interface: {80331EE3-3FB8-4E88-B5BF-AED7BE3E481A} Realtek RTL8168C(P)/8111C(P) Family PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC (NDIS 6.0) - 0.0.0.0 NULL netmask - skipped
Found interface: {15F73074-9882-47B7-B441-1BCE5ECDA01F} Intel(R) WiFi Link 5100 AGN - 192.168.2.11/255.255.255.0
192.168.2.20/255.255.255.0
Sys_InitNetworking: adding loopback interface
doom using MMX & SSE & SSE2 & SSE3 for SIMD processing
enabled Flush-To-Zero mode
enabled Denormals-Are-Zero mode
------ Initializing File System ------
Loaded pk4 C:\Program Files (x86)\Doom 3\base\game00.pk4 with checksum 0x29cdb978
Loaded pk4 C:\Program Files (x86)\Doom 3\base\game01.pk4 with checksum 0xe9d5adcf
Loaded pk4 C:\Program Files (x86)\Doom 3\base\game02.pk4 with checksum 0x80401dd2
Loaded pk4 C:\Program Files (x86)\Doom 3\base\game03.pk4 with checksum 0x351c23e8
Loaded pk4 C:\Program Files (x86)\Doom 3\base\pak000.pk4 with checksum 0x28d208f1
Loaded pk4 C:\Program Files (x86)\Doom 3\base\pak001.pk4 with checksum 0x40244be0
Loaded pk4 C:\Program Files (x86)\Doom 3\base\pak002.pk4 with checksum 0xc51ecdcd
Loaded pk4 C:\Program Files (x86)\Doom 3\base\pak003.pk4 with checksum 0xcd79d028
Loaded pk4 C:\Program Files (x86)\Doom 3\base\pak004.pk4 with checksum 0x765e4f8b
Loaded pk4 C:\Program Files (x86)\Doom 3\base\pak005.pk4 with checksum 0x8ffc3621
Loaded pk4 C:\Program Files (x86)\Doom 3\base\pak006.pk4 with checksum 0x95b65ab
Loaded pk4 C:\Program Files (x86)\Doom 3\base\pak007.pk4 with checksum 0x666bdb3c
Current search path:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Doom 3/base
C:\Program Files (x86)\Doom 3\base\pak007.pk4 (38 files)
C:\Program Files (x86)\Doom 3\base\pak006.pk4 (48 files)
C:\Program Files (x86)\Doom 3\base\pak005.pk4 (63 files)
C:\Program Files (x86)\Doom 3\base\pak004.pk4 (5137 files)
C:\Program Files (x86)\Doom 3\base\pak003.pk4 (4676 files)
C:\Program Files (x86)\Doom 3\base\pak002.pk4 (6120 files)
C:\Program Files (x86)\Doom 3\base\pak001.pk4 (8972 files)
C:\Program Files (x86)\Doom 3\base\pak000.pk4 (2698 files)
C:\Program Files (x86)\Doom 3\base\game03.pk4 (2 files)
C:\Program Files (x86)\Doom 3\base\game02.pk4 (2 files)
C:\Program Files (x86)\Doom 3\base\game01.pk4 (2 files)
C:\Program Files (x86)\Doom 3\base\game00.pk4 (2 files)
game DLL: 0x0 in pak: 0x0
Addon pk4s:
file system initialized.
--------------------------------------
----- Initializing Decls -----
------------------------------
------- Initializing renderSystem --------
using ARB renderSystem
renderSystem initialized.
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5206 strings read from strings/english.lang
Couldn't open journal files
execing editor.cfg
execing default.cfg
couldn't exec DoomConfig.cfg
couldn't exec autoexec.cfg
5206 strings read from strings/english.lang
----- Initializing Sound System ------
sound system initialized.
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----- R_InitOpenGL -----
Initializing OpenGL subsystem
...registered window class
...registered fake window class
...initializing QGL
...calling LoadLibrary( 'opengl32' ): succeeded
Couldn't find proc address for: wglGetExtensionsStringARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglSwapIntervalEXT
Couldn't find proc address for: wglGetPixelFormatAttribivARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglGetPixelFormatAttribfvARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglChoosePixelFormatARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglCreatePbufferARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglGetPbufferDCARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglReleasePbufferDCARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglDestroyPbufferARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglQueryPbufferARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglBindTexImageARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglReleaseTexImageARB
Couldn't find proc address for: wglSetPbufferAttribARB
...calling CDS: ok
...created window @ 0,0 (640x480)
Initializing OpenGL driver
...getting DC: succeeded
...PIXELFORMAT 10 selected
...creating GL context: succeeded
...making context current: succeeded

------- Input Initialization -------
Initializing DirectInput...
mouse: DirectInput initialized.
keyboard: DirectInput initialized.
------------------------------------
sound: STEREO
...using GL_ARB_multitexture
...using GL_ARB_texture_env_combine
...using GL_ARB_texture_cube_map
...using GL_ARB_texture_env_dot3
...using GL_ARB_texture_env_add
...using GL_ARB_texture_non_power_of_two
...using GL_ARB_texture_compression
...using GL_EXT_texture_compression_s3tc
...using GL_EXT_texture_filter_anisotropic
   maxTextureAnisotropy: 16.000000
...using GL_1.4_texture_lod_bias
X..GL_EXT_shared_texture_palette not found
...using GL_EXT_texture3D
...using GL_EXT_stencil_wrap
...using GL_NV_register_combiners
...using GL_EXT_stencil_two_side
X..GL_ATI_fragment_shader not found
X..GL_ATI_text_fragment_shader not found
...using GL_ARB_vertex_buffer_object
...using GL_ARB_vertex_program
...using GL_ARB_fragment_program
...using EXT_depth_bounds_test
---------- R_NV20_Init ----------
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----------- R200_Init -----------
Not available.
---------- R_ARB2_Init ----------
Available.
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----- R_ReloadARBPrograms -----
glprogs/test.vfp
glprogs/test.vfp
glprogs/interaction.vfp
glprogs/interaction.vfp
glprogs/bumpyEnvironment.vfp
glprogs/bumpyEnvironment.vfp
glprogs/ambientLight.vfp
glprogs/ambientLight.vfp
glprogs/shadow.vp
glprogs/R200_interaction.vp
glprogs/nv20_bumpAndLight.vp
glprogs/nv20_diffuseColor.vp
glprogs/nv20_specularColor.vp
glprogs/nv20_diffuseAndSpecularColor.vp
glprogs/environment.vfp
glprogs/environment.vfp
glprogs/arbVP_glasswarp.txt: File not found
glprogs/arbFP_glasswarp.txt: File not found
-------------------------------
using ARB_vertex_buffer_object memory
using ARB2 renderSystem
found DLL in pak file: C:\Program Files (x86)\Doom 3\base\game03.pk4/gamex86.dll
copy gamex86.dll to C:\Program Files (x86)\Doom 3\base\gamex86.dll
could not create destination file
********************
ERROR: DLL extraction to fs_savepath failed

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Error during initialization
Shutting down OpenGL subsystem
...wglMakeCurrent( NULL, NULL ): success
...deleting GL context: success
...releasing DC: success
...destroying window
...resetting display
...shutting down QGL
...unloading OpenGL DLL]]></description>
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<pubDate>2009-06-16 23:29:22</pubDate>
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