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Best gaming laptop?

Graphics card for Windows Vista Home Premium 64 PVR?
Thanks for looking. I can’t find any cards that say they will work… I would like a dual tuner card that will record HDTV. Has anyone done this yet?

Graphics cards that support four monitors?
I use 4 monitors for my job and right now I use 3 graphics card(it was built that way before i got the job). anyway, I am getting a new PC and I am wondering if there is any graphics card that support 3 or 4 monitors. If so, which ones are good?

Silent case fan suggestion?
I want to add a case fan to my Antec P160. The case takes a 120mm fan in the front to cool the hard drives. I don’t really NEED it, but I’d like to blow a small amount of air across the 3 drives in the system. And since I don’t need a lot of air, I want to install a SILENT fan – one that I will not hear over the ambient noise in my home office. Right now the noisiest component in my system is the Zalman CNPS7700-AlCu running in “silent mode”. Can I get some suggestions from those who have experience with silent fans? Will something like the Zalman ZM-F3 work for me? Thanks!

The Golden Oldie

Am I damaging my video card with my power supply?

Tech Support: Cries for Help!

Need confirmation on my new system
I need some confirmation on a PC I put together (not really put together, but selected the components). Because I’ll spend about $1350 on it, and that’s a lot of money for a student like me, I’d just like to be sure that I’m doing it right here. I’ve already done a lót of research, and I’m pretty sure about the system, but I just need some confirmation of you hardware guru’s that I chose the right stuff.

Mounting USB Devices to the same mount point, Red Hat
I have a client running RedHat Enterprise 3.0. They want to use USB sticks for backing up their data files. We have tried writing a few script files to run through the cron process for this. The problem we are experiencing is that each time the user pulls the memory stick out of the machine, after using the umount command, and places a new stick in the machine for the next day, the system will not mount the stick back at the same mount point.

Vista Home Basic updates slows Internet response

Turning a computer monitor into a tv, without the computer!
One of my computers runs Vista Home Basic. For convenience, I had it set to automatically run Windows Update.

A few weeks ago, I started to get VERY SLOW response time on the web. I use both Firefox and IE. I’d click on a link to a website, and wait 30seconds to 1 minute or more for the site to come up. All the non-internet applications I use seemed to work properly.

Help with missing CLEANMGR in Windows Xp uE
I’m having a weird problem with my new WinXp Ue ver 5.1 service pack 2….It doesn’t have the clean up or free disk space icon or the file in the WINDOWS folder..I mean the CLEANMGR is not in my WINDOWS at all….I already tried typing CLEANMGR.EXE in the RUN and nothing……no icon no option not in programmed task not anywhere, not even in my original CD, where can I download and add this missing file in a proper way to my Windows Xp Ue7 ??? any help please or I wont be able to clean up my drive in centuries……or if you can suggest me a substitute…

That’s it for this week, see you in the forum!