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5.6 LCD tft monitor for 49.99

Yes, it has built in speakers and also a headphone jack. I do not know if it has a volume knob or not (it should).
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- Post #34
- May 23, 2002
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Need help for Abit vp6 MB - No video

I don't own that board, so I'm only going to give generic advice - most (all?) you will already have tried. 1. Keep it simple. Only one CPU, memory and video plugged in. No drives, floppy, sound, NIC, etc. This includes power cords. Your power supply may not be able to drive everything. 2...
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- Post #2
- May 1, 2001
- Forum: Motherboards
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Support for High Density memory

512 MB SDRAM sticks have REALLY fallen in price. I was thinking about building a new computer and want to use three of these memory sticks (at $103 each why not?), but the memory is listed as "high density" and I want to get a motherboard compatible with it. I want to build a system...
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- Thread
- May 1, 2001
- Replies: 1
- Forum: Motherboards
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FREE: AMD Athlon, Duron, and K6-2 case stickers

I just called. The lady said they were out of Duron stickers, but would send the others. I did not press any buttons beyond the initial #1 - it simply fell through to a voice operator. Please wait - you will get through. David Stidolph
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- Post #80
- Feb 19, 2001
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Power supply recomendation?

Thank you for the review site! They liked the 330 unit, so I think I'm going to be buying 2 of them (one for my friend and one for myself). I just got an email from another friend of mine who's computer just started making noise. If it is the power supply I guess I'll be looking for a...
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- Post #7
- Feb 13, 2001
- Forum: Computer Building
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Power supply recomendation?

I remember reading a review of one of their units (530W I believe), and the reviewer was positively golden on it, but I don't remember the site. I did a quick check of Anandtech, Sharkey Extreme, and Tech Extreme - and didn't find any. Don't want to spend money I don't need to, but I want a...
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- Post #3
- Feb 13, 2001
- Forum: Computer Building
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Poll: Thermal pad: Stay or Stray?

I got a TaiSol fan and it came with some tape. I removed the tape and use the copper paste I had and got great results. At one point I talked with one of their tech people and he suggested that the tape was better. I would think that copper paste would be better, but I am certainly open to...
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- Post #3
- Feb 13, 2001
- Forum: Computer Building
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Assembly language...HELP ME PLEASE!!!

The best tutorial I ever had on Intel assembly code was a book that came with Borland's Turbo Assembler. They would ship with two books - one was a small reference guide, and the other was an actual book that taught assembly code and had great examples. Check out used book stores and look for...
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- Post #16
- Feb 13, 2001
- Forum: Computer Building
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Power supply recomendation?

I need to replace a friends power supply (starting to make noise). It is an asus AV7 with 900 MHz Thunderbird and a ASUS GeForce DDR video card. I believe Enermax is one of the best names, but I want some reviews and recomendations. I know I don't want to go below a 300W, but I don't want to...
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- Thread
- Feb 13, 2001
- Replies: 12
- Forum: Computer Building
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Time frame on Dual Athlon's and NV20?

I've got some friends that are planning out systems to build. Anybody have a good opinion on the release of the first chipset that supports dual Athlon's? They are also considering a GeForce 2 Ultra, but could wait a month for the NV20 - or will that have the heat problems that the original...
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- Thread
- Jan 9, 2001
- Replies: 1
- Forum: Computer Building
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HOT: Intel 1GHz, Intel Motherboard, 128mb PC800 RDRAM $485

I know that genuine Intel parts are important to some people, but I would like to call attention to the fact that you can beat this deal by about $100 if you go with an Athlon 1 GHz. It uses cheaper memory (get 1 GB, it is so cheap!) as well. The only reason I have for going Intel is building...
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- Post #6
- Dec 22, 2000
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Barbie learn with me laptop - don't laugh too hard. $12.50

Actually, I was given several of those NEC V100 computers. Windows 98 has all the drivers built in. Windows 95 needs the drivers from NEC's web site. If you have problems, please drop me an email and I will send them to you. David Stidolph dstidolph@mshow.com PS, not obvious, but you can...
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- Post #8
- Dec 15, 2000
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Why do you guys like Win2k better than Win98SE?

I worked at Origin and was involved in a specific test. We were doing a demo of Ultima Online 2 (Win95 game using DX7). We were doing the demo with two identical machines: P3 600 (this was a year and six months ago) 512MB Mem 30 GB 10K RPM SCSI drive GeForce DDR (Creative Labs Annilator I...
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- Post #30
- Nov 20, 2000
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Need help with why my frame rate slows down

Quite possibly the game has a memory leak. Please give the speed of the processor, amount of memory, OS being used and your video card. By shutting down programs that are not in use you will free up some memory. Possibly you have found a limit with the texture memory of your card (runs out...
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- Post #3
- Nov 17, 2000
- Forum: Computer Building
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Older legacy sound card problem for all you legacy gurus...

Honestly, I would suggest putting Windows 98se on the system. The system restore takes too much power and disk activity to be worth it. Invest in a backup solution. Windows 95 was optimized for the 486 and 98 for the Pentium. Windows ME took out too many tools and what it added takes too...
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- Post #3
- Nov 17, 2000
- Forum: Computer Building

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