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Forum: General Hardware Discussion Topic: HTPC Bandwagon |
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Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2010 10:51 am
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| The only issue I've ran into with HDMI is when I moved into my new apartment. At random times, the sound starts becoming "fuzzy". I just have to switch to a different input on my TV then switch back to fix it. When I had this PC back at my parents, it never was an issue, so I'm convinced i... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Movies |
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Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2010 10:46 am
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Replies: 28
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| Some more food for thought is figuring out how many hard drives you'll want in your HTPC. I already have mine maxed out, so now I'm looking at building a NAS. |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Movies |
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Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2010 10:31 am
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| sure but a true blu ray disk is 50Gigs. How long do you think it would take to torrent that without having a usenet acct. lol The disk can handle 50gb however most movies (excluding the extras) end up being around 25gb. Even still, you can get re-encoded files that drop that file size down to 12gb.... |
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Forum: General Hardware Discussion Topic: HTPC Bandwagon |
| tweakstur |
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Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2010 10:23 am
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Replies: 6
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| I have my HD4350 outputting video and sound through HDMI. 1 cable, simple & clean. |
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Forum: General Hardware Discussion Topic: How do people use 720p TV's as monitors.. |
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Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2010 5:44 pm
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Replies: 9
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My laptop is 1280x800 and my 32" Sharp Aquos is 1366x768. Both are fine for every day use and watching movies.
For my programming and graphic work, I can see how 720p is not enough. Hell, I'm not happy with my 22" LG @ 1680x1050. Need some Dell UltraSharp 24" @ 1900x1200  |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Windows 7 |
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Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2009 2:55 pm
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Replies: 17
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| I boycotted Windows XP for a good 2 years after it was released. Windows 98 SE was pretty damn good for its time. XP to Vista was a big jump but once I got Vista 64bit SP2 "beta" and tweaked it out, I actually liked Vista a lot more than XP. Even despite the few glitches and negative feedb... |
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Forum: General Hardware Discussion Topic: A decade of PC's |
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Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2009 2:38 pm
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| My first pc was an AMD K6 II 333Mhz with a whopping 5.2G HDD and 128MB of ram. Then I upgraded to 256 as 128mb cost ~70 bucks. That simple pc was close to top of the line back then and cost a retarded ~1700+ bucks. Think of what 1700 can get you today for a pc. Also later I upgraded the video to a ... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Woo hoo! Demonoid is back!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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Posted: Thu Dec 17, 2009 4:49 pm
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Forum: General Troubleshooting Topic: What should i upgrade for better WoW(ing) |
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Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 2:41 pm
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Replies: 16
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Topsecret66 wrote: I been sober for quite a while now. Since the start of Ulduar.
Probably one of the best times to quit... I started playing again right before ToC, which actually kept me hooked for a bit longer since you could clear the place in 45min-1hour.
I've been WoW-free for about 3 months now... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Dexter |
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Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 2:35 pm
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Replies: 6
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| I watched seasons 1 to 3 last week while I was sick with the flu. Just started up on the 4th season last night... One of the few TV shows I actually watch, most of mainstream stuff is garbage. |
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Forum: Software and Networking Topic: WMP11 /rantage |
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Posted: Mon Dec 07, 2009 2:28 pm
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Replies: 35
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| Shark007 win7 codec pack + WMP12 64bit = win |
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Forum: Benchmarks Topic: SSD, back once again with the renegade master. |
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Posted: Fri Dec 04, 2009 4:11 pm
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Replies: 7
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| that didn't take too long lol |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: mini nova |
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Posted: Thu Dec 03, 2009 11:18 am
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Replies: 25
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| You guys seriously need to invest some time into getting into a good tracker.. :P I max my connection in seconds, on every torrent. Movies take minutes to download, not hours. Usenet is good, but torrents are much easier to manage. Though, I guess if you're not into seeding then Usenet's where it's... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: mini nova |
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Posted: Wed Dec 02, 2009 6:10 pm
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Replies: 25
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| I remember from a few years ago that the bandwidth cap was something like 40gb/month... I've downloaded almost double that in a matter of 2 days or so... [insert shady eyes emoticon] |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: mini nova |
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Posted: Wed Dec 02, 2009 4:01 pm
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Replies: 25
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torrents take anywhere from 8 hours to 2 days for a good sized file.
usenet takes an hour.
that plus you don't have to worry about upload ratio's justifies the $15/month for me. |
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