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I've been successfully talked out of getting a 17.3'' by this thread and family members. Definitely don't need to replace my desktop. Leaning towards an acer aspire ( http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?item=N82E16834315712 ) as of now. I guess integrated would work fine for me, but I'd like ...

So not long after I post this a friend of mine finds this:
http://acerrecertified.com/NX.G6UAA.003.HU#
It looks so good, but...refurbished?

So I'm going to need a laptop that runs some engineering programs (CAD stuff, not sure on the specifics). I know almost nothing about laptops, so what exactly should I be looking for? I figure I probably want a quad core, some decent amount of ram, and a discreet gpu that can be fairly low-end. I'd ...

uninstall the video driver and restart in safe mode, then try installing the latest driver for the gfx card, that would be my first step and if it installs then it's a software issue. will try that first, should it fail ill probably tell him to take it back, difficulty is, Im not sure he will, sinc...

bump, anyone able to help?

Hey all, my friend's family got a new dell about 7 months back, and i think about 3 months ago it stopped playing certain games, notably shogun 2 total war. Rome tw and battle for middle earth 2 wont run either. From what I can tell Shogun starts but gets stuck on the loading screen and never leaves...

World of Tanks, half the time I get mad at myself for being impatient and doing something stupid, and half the time at the game for pitting me up against something that no skill in the world could beat

Game_boy wrote:

The only official thing said by Nvidia is that the 28nm process is having yield issues. Not sure if AMD or TSMC have confirmed that.

I believe AMD said its 28nm yields were fairly good

Hvae been watching the yogcast videos(yea, they are not the best reviewers) and this game looks sweet
most certainly going to give it a try if i can

its a little step up in price, but the Asus p8z68 V-LE has my recommendation

A week ago i built a similar system to the one your proposing, and the asus board has been a dream, as well as the seasonic 520w recommended in the system guide

Random side post I suppose, as I stated earlier I plan on getting a new Graphics card as well (as any good tech guy knows the 8800 is a pretty old model from Nvidia), and I plan on updating that. Any good suggestions to go to to step up my performance? I was looking at the GeForce GTX 560, but woul...

wow, that's sort of a fail by Asus

thegleek wrote:

Aloeus wrote:

Aubrey/Marturin series by Patrick O'brian

All 20+ books in that series? Insane!

lol not yet, but as soon as i can get my hands on them im reading them, went through 4 in 5 days of vacation

Aubrey/Marturin series by Patrick O'brian

I don't know the difference between the 6670 and quick sync, but there is little difference between the 3000 and 2000 igp

sipilboy wrote:

Radeon HD 7950 and HD 7970 will launch in January and should cost around $350 and $450. too expensive

but will it send 6900 prices down?

Thanks for the replies as for gpu, i had thought about holding off with the igp...and if the 7850 comes out sooonish I think I will as for an ssd, I dont have any spare drives, my current comp is going to my dad, also any 120gb ssd is $50 more than the hitachi...and unless I drop the vid card(hmm, I...

Hey Guys, first time build, with a budget of 900 ish including windows I want it to play shogun 2 tw and the total war after it with all the bells and whistles-and this machine should get me through college...so 6 years out I hope it will still be viable cpu i5 2500k- $229.99 http://www.newegg.com/P...

not to bad, would a tower heat-sink be less than ideal for a case that will be moved a few times in its lifetime?