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    Need advice on computer purchase.

    Your best option short of building a PC on your own, would be to buy a prebuilt one with Vista on it, buy the XP separate, then install XP over the top of Vista. It would delete Vista during the install process. You would still need to download the drivers for each piece of hardware in the...
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    Setting up 2 monitors on 2 independant graphpics cards

    Problem solved. Was actually rather easy and I feel dumb once I realized what it was. My monitors are supposed to be PLug N PLay so I tried to hot connect them to my cards while my rig weas running but it wouldn't turn them on. Simply rebooted and they both came right on, one on each card...
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    Setting up 2 monitors on 2 independant graphpics cards

    Got a question or two. Actually trying to troubleshoot and could use some input. I have 2 identical EVGA 8600 GT Nvidia cards in my rig. I was using them in SLI mode for all my PC gaming. I have an Acer 22 LCD monitor, and my old generic CRT monitor that the LCD replaced. Still works. I was...
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    The end is near for Windows XP

    Had an old eMachines computer, about, oh, 3-4 years old that went belly up. Had XP on it. While we were between computer my mother-in-law bought us a ULCPC just for email and web-browsing. It had Vista on it. Finally I myself built a new rig from the ground up, AMD 64-bit Dual Core based...
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    memory timing

    Got kinda of a dumb question. I'm moderately versed in system building, am by no means a rocket scientist however, but I can read specs and assemble a PC from scratch fairly well.... But I don't have a very good idea what "timing" is when it comes to memory. If someone could briefly explain this...