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    Power Supply for 6850/70

    I currently have a 2500K, MSI P67-C43, 8 gigs of gskill DDR3, and an 8800GT on a Corsair 550VX PSU. It's also powering two 120mm fans, three SATA drives, and an audio card. I want to upgrade my GPU to an HD6850 or 6870 but I want to make sure that my current PSU will be able to handle it. Can...
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    Best Performance/Price for Skyrim?

    It looks like the free BF3 is only for a purchase of two cards for crossfire so it wouldn't end up being as good as I thought.
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    Best Performance/Price for Skyrim?

    I'm currently using an old 8800GT with my new 2500K, 8gigs DDR3, and MSI P67A-C43. I held off on buying a new video card when I updated (2 months ago) because I only really care about playing Skyrim and Diablo 3. I was just looking at video cards and found this HD6850 on Amazon. I have Prime and...
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    Budget LCD Recommendations

    I'm looking for a new monitor to use with my current 21.5" LCD display. It most likely will not be my main monitor so I'm hoping to spend only about $130 on it. What are the best monitors in the 21-23" (or even 19" I guess) range for around this price? Thanks!
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    Deciding between two monitors

    Going to order this tonight unless anyone has any other suggestions!
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    Deciding between two monitors

    I think I'm going to go with this Acer monitor from Amazon. It's the cheapest well-reviewed 22" screen I could find and I think it meets all my criteria.
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    Deciding between two monitors

    The Newegg monitor is the best-reviewed monitor on Newegg and the 20$ discount made it seem like a really good deal. I found the other one in the Hot Deals section today, but now it's sold out... I need this monitor to last at least three years so I'm somewhat skeptical of buying used, but what...
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    Deciding between two monitors

    I'm currently trying to decide between two monitors to pair with a 21.5" display. This monitor on Newegg seems really nice and comes to 171.59 (plus an additional 20$ rebate) shipped. This refurbished ViewSonic monitor comes to 139.09 shipped. I use my monitors for watching movies...
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    Monitor Can't Display Blue?

    Opened up the monitor and didn't seen any obvious signs of damage. I traced the signal from the VGA connector to the connector on the monitor board for all color wires. The two blue wires had connectivity so the cable is not the problem. I got a bit fed up with it and cut the main blue wire and...
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    MSI P67A-C43 Heat Issue

    As of right now it registers 127C without doing anything too strenuous (just watching large video files). I touched the heatsink and it's quite hot and it's uncomfortable to touch the heatsink for ~5s. I'm guessing (and hoping) that it's just a software glitch...
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    Monitor Can't Display Blue?

    Already did this and the blue functions perfectly in the self-test mode. I've tried switching around the adapters and ports and none of the pins on the cable are bent. I tried moving around the hardwired end of the cable but that didn't help at all. I have a soldering iron and quite a bit of EE...
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    MSI P67A-C43 Heat Issue

    With Speedfan registering 85C I touched the southbridge heatsink and it was quite hot. I can keep my fingers on the heatsink for quite a while but after 5-10s it definitely starts to burn a bit. This particular temp reading does not show up in open hardware monitor.
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    Monitor Can't Display Blue?

    Any ideas? I really don't want to buy a new monitor...
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    Monitor Can't Display Blue?

    I just got one of my monitors (a 6 year old 17" LCD) out of storage, where it has been for about 3 months, and now it cannot display any blue. The screen appears yellow-green and when I try to do color correction changing the blue amount has no effect. When I try to view something blue on the...
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    MSI P67A-C43 Heat Issue

    About a month ago I built a new 2500K system with a MSI P67A-C43. In Speedfan there's a reading called "Temp2" that reaches very, very high temperatures. Playing CS:Source it apparently hit 127C and now it's idling around 90C... Ambient is about 75F and airflow isn't bad at all. Does anyone know...
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