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When was the last time you reinstalled Windows? Now sounds like a good time to do it. Get to it.

You can download it if you have a Wii, run you 8 bucks. http://www.nintendo.com/wii/virtualconsole/games/detail/5oMtHuB3aOHoawfC6brZ6myQYnE4flQ_

Found a coupon that brings it down to $42 at the lenovo site, more tempting now. Hmmm, decisions decisions.

Yeah that's the one I'm looking at, buy.com has it for $57 shipped. Worth the money tomatoes? Also ordered this mouse when woot had it for only $15 last week, the egg wants 40. Hope it doesnt suck. Flitter, that handheld thing looks cool but I prefer a regular KB, for gaming and such.

Installed the Radeon 4550, works well and I likey the audio over HDMI. I need a wireless keyboard now, what are you people using? I was looking at maybe this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16823166094

Gone already?

Plasmas rock, my 50" Panasonic plasma still looks as good as the day I bought it over 3 years ago. When did Samsung start making audio products?

Lucas working at Blizzard now?

Playing a game on all low settings with low frame rates = not pretty = minimum system requirements. Don't believe all the pretty pictures you see on the internet.

If your a gamer put your money in video, $100 on a CPU and $200 on a video card will get you started. If your a little hardcore get a $250 and a $500 video card. So many options right now and hardware is packing a punches for current prices. AMD has a nice quad core for under $100.

The X1650 that I have is PCI-E with hdmi, everything works great but the scratchy dried up fan.

Seems the 4550 only consumes about 20w under full load. On another note, my old rig was running a Geforce FX 5200 with s-video. What a difference HDMI makes! My 50" Panny is only 720p, native res is 1360x768 but looks incredibly sharp for such a big old screen, I'm impressed. Think my wife might ditch her laptop on the couch.

HA! Fun site.

Picked up a used Radeon X1650 Pro for my HTPC, but the fan is way too loud. I can either spend $21 on a new fan or I can get a Radeon HD 4550 for $45 shipped. Would the 4550 be any faster for gaming? Casual gaming of course. My HTPC is only running a dual core Celeron @ 1.8ghz.

Oh man me too.

It's for your PCI-Express video card. Some cards use 6 pin and some use 8 pin connectors. Some even use both if its a big honker of a video card. If your video card is 6 pin then break the extra 2 off.

Yeah it wont hurt anything, but sounds like he applied waaaaay too much. Read the instructions Your just trying to fill the microscopic crevices between your CPU and heatsink.

Build a retro rig, relive your childhood. Here is mine, complete with a IBM 4.3gig HDD. Abit AB-TX5 [intel 430TX chipset] Pentium 200 MMX [intel Socket 7] 64MB PC66 SDRAM IBM Deskstar DCAA-34330 4.3gig 5400rpm Hard drive Hitachi CDR-8130 16x CD-ROM Mitsumi 1.44 floppy Diamond Stealth 3D 2000 Pro 4MB PCI [s3 ViRGE DX] Orchid Righteous 3D 4MB PCI [3Dfx Voodoo] VideoLogic Apocolypse 3Dx 4MB PCI [NEC PowerVR PCX2] Sound Blaster AWE64 Gold ISA KTI 10Mbps PCI NIC Enlight 4 bay tower case Enlight 250w AT power supply OS: Win95/DOS Pictures have changed slightly, the top HDD now holds a spare IBM 4.3 but not hooked up and there's a AWE64 Gold instead the pictured Value card.

My kitty died today, had to put him down due to heart problems. He was 10 1/2 yr. Here is the last pics I will be posting of him with things on his head.

What, no Christmas upgrades people?

Just finished my first week of work programming CNC operations for extrusion dies. Not really what I planned for a new job but after only working 3 maybe 4 months out of the 12 last year, I took it. Taking a pay cut sucks but so does to living on unemployment funds. I was at my last job 17 years, being the new guy TOTALLY BITES, lol. For those of you laid off, I wish you the best of luck.

Put them on a T-shirt. You might look like a nurd wearing random text on your chest though.

Will this keep crap out of my mouse wheel?

Well looks like I'm selling all the guns and ammo in my attic and replacing them with low cost cast iron frying pans.

Watch out for those loons on the road. Merry Christmas y'all.