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I see Frys has PNY 9500GT 1GB PCI Express on sle, need something for my wife's computer she has AMD AM2 CPU dual channel and plays Farm Town. She needs a fasted response time. Best Buy offers PNY GT220 also 1GB. Any recommendations. Thanks in advance for all replies.

I have been trying to get a friends computer running reliably off and on for over a month. The issue is an incompatability between vista, the mother board and video card. I did find a work around but it left the machine hamstrung. I had hopes a clean install of windows 7 would resolve the issue...

Ok, you have Windows 7, either the 32 or 64 bit version and looked over the new features and either burned the image to disk or set it up on a 4 gig memory stick and are ready to jump in the deep end and install Windows 7. My advice is to do a CLEAN install on a NEW hard drive. 500 gb drive...

By Scott M. Fulton, III, Betanews Windows 7 OEM prices compared to Windows Vista Windows 7 SKU Full retail MSRP 3 OEM full install MSRP Comparable Vista SKU Full retail MSRP OEM full install MSRP Home Premium $199.99 $99.99 1 Home Premium $224.99 $89.99 2 Professional $299.99 $134.99 1...

So I'm looking to get a 5870 when the prices go down, but I have a very unknown brand power supply thats only 550W. PowerUp GEN-2004 - power supply - 550 Watt Power Supplies reviews - CNET Reviews That's the one. I was wondering if it could handle a 5870 and the rest of my comp, or if I...

It seems to me that the biggest group of people having problems are trying to use an old computer. Then another group thinks that changing a thing or two like motherboard memory graphics card on an old computer is all that is needed. It seems to me that if the computer was not built for Vista...

Update on Windows 7 RTM * Posted by: Brandon LeBlanc * 07:09 PM Monday Jul 13, 2009 * 298 Comments I’d like to offer up a little insight into the “Release to Manufacturingâ€Â￾ (RTM) for Windows 7. Over the past week, there have been many...

Last night I was happily building pyramids is the game Immortal Cities:Children of the Nile when the screen suddenly started to distort. It gradually grew wider and wider until both sides of the screen were well past where they were supposed to be. 'Weird' I thought and started checking to see...

Hello together, 1 hour ago I installed the RC Version of Windows 7 with no problems. It runs with no problems too. But when I want to play a game, the game says, that I have to update my DirectX and the Video Driver. Problem is, that I have an old Graphic Card (ATI Radeon 9000 256 MB) and didnt...

Hi, I have installed Windows 7 build 7077 on my LG R400 with the following specs: 1.86GHz Core 2 Duo/Dual Core processor, 2.5 GB DD2 667MHz RAM, ATI x2300 (128 MB VRAM). However it has lagged massively, I couldnt possibly downgrade to a previous build so I upgraded to build 7100 but the lag did...

Been reading a lot about windows 7 and the new hardware. Wondering how windows 7 runs on slow machines like pentium 1,2,3,4, ect.

I've just upgraded my vista media center to windows 7 7077 build and the new Media Center doesnt seem to support H.264 video play back. I did have the CCCP Community Codec Pack installed (for vista play back) but as Win 7 is supposed to support h.264 as standard I uninstalled it. In Windows...

Now that RAM is as cheap as chips it's not uncommon to see those with far too much money to be sporting large amounts of RAM.. Is all this RAM actually needed though and does it get used? Toms Hardware decided to find out... Link Removed

Can people post wireless speeds and wired(no router* unless you're getting at least 23Mbits) speeds for their connections. Along with the router and adapter's model numbers and distance adapter is from router? I'm looking for a good adapter/router wireless-N combo *I used to check my wired...

Right-click on 'Computer' and select 'Properties' or select System from the Control Panel, it reports I have 16G of Memory. Don't I wish. I only have 2G. Task Manager as well as the CPU usage Gadget both report that correctly. Just noticed the device manager reported it incorrectly. Other than...

I am not sure where to post this but will try here. As an XP user who is now trying the Win 7 Beta, I have found most things work well and software installation and configuration has worked for most applications. I set up Win 7 as a clean install on a second hard drive, thus creating a dual...

i know on xp it was better to run one gb sticks but how about win7?

I have installed a video card awhile back and have a few hypothetical questions. If I had a problem that should pop up that I couldn't fix and need to reformat can I leave my video card and a proceed as normal. Would I have to remove card because it is not part of original system configuration...

My setup Gigabyte p35-ds3l q6600 2gb of ram xfx 9800 gt Win vista 32 bit (Legit copy of vista ultimate) - 1440x900 Some settings at high, most at high/medium, a couple at low (shadow detail, view distance) Would usually stay at 60fps in naxx 10, heroics, most outdoor area's, choked in...

I'm planning on a few upgrades.. Going with a 24" Acer, gonna put my 22" on Frank-n-Stine. An ASUS 3870x2 V/C Taking 1of the X1950XTX in Frank-n-Stine the other in the wifes. 8Gb of RAM and adding a 500Gb Seagate HD.