Add-ons - August 2007

this question is just to have my tools and procedures juged by
all of you nice Y!A qna 'ers to find it's misadvantages and learn
more from you,then please do not hesitate to declare any of your valuable suggestions .thanks

to test a graphics card:
1-i install the last version of directx and run it
2-then,run 3D Mark version 6 as my benchmark software
3-install and play 1 or 2 games like
America's Army, Call of Duty, Doom 3, Half-Life, Neverwinter Nights, Quake series, Unreal series and World of Warcraft.
-far cry

please tell what are advantages and dis advantages of such test.
what more tools or specifications should i consider from now on?

2007-08-31 23:59:33 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

Looked up a few GPUs in the net and have shortlisted the below:
a) Geforce 7600 GT
b) Geforce 8600 GT and GTS

But my concern is, whether the 8600 GT and GTS will run in 350 watts PSU???

2007-08-31 22:04:09 · 3 answers · asked by Vinith Pillai 2

I have an nvidia geforce 7600 GTS overclocked 256mb ram.
(I know, I know... kinda old)

Anyways, If I SLI it with another card, will it produce fantastic results, or should I just get a different graphics card?

2007-08-31 19:46:25 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

im thinkin of getting 7 series but dont know which 1 does anyone have any advice or performance details from their graphics cards, ty for help :)

2007-08-31 19:45:17 · 4 answers · asked by sunnyd 3

PSSSH HELP

2007-08-31 18:02:23 · 3 answers · asked by The Resistance 2

I bought a 320 GB hard drive. Of course it never gives you that much so I have 298GB total... For some reason it says I have 244GB of space left...tI dont have anything but Windows Vista installed and Halo and some other stuff all rounding to about 20GB of space i used that i added up. then I should have 278GB laeft. What is going on, I want all my memory

2007-08-31 17:41:53 · 5 answers · asked by Purtee56 3

Whenever i play a computer game over time the edges on parts of the gae seem to get pixilated and the look of the game gets less detailed. It doesnt effect my performance but it keeps happening

2007-08-31 14:17:51 · 4 answers · asked by Swift 2

I heard this is a standard business card. Just how crappy is it and will Vista still look nice?

2007-08-31 13:19:16 · 3 answers · asked by DroopD 2

i'm considering buying a bluetooth USB dongle for my cell phone, which already has bluetooth. [the dongle is to plug into your computer so you can make a bluetooth connection with your phone]. it looks similar to a flash drive. here's a picture of the dongle alone.
http://www.executivetools.co.uk/images_products/Wireless/BluetoothDongle04.jpg

i know the price range for an adapter is $20 to $30, so i don't want to make a mistake. if you buy one of these USB adapters at.. let's say walmart for example, would it REQUIRE you to install a driver when you plug it in your computer? if it comes with a CD to do so.

also, with this bluetooth USB adapter in my computer, is it capable of sending both pictures AND music files to my phone?

thanks in advance.

2007-08-31 12:44:21 · 1 answers · asked by De 2

I just bought the wi-fi ubs connector, and when i was installing it my pc said that it cant be done cause the pc didnt find the necessary software to work with this hardware, or sumthing like that... Any suggestions?

2007-08-31 12:14:01 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

Graphics card of right now: Radeon Xpress 200( yeah, its horrible)

2007-08-31 12:03:33 · 1 answers · asked by naz112488 1

I'd like to know whether it's worth the upgrade, because I still have to change my motherboard to do that right? I currently have an AsusTek P5PE-VM

2007-08-31 10:28:01 · 4 answers · asked by Jay 3

My machine has a PCIE x16 slot, but a lot of the cards I'm seeing online are just PCIE, which I assume means probably just x1. Will a PCIE card work in a PCIE x16 slot? Thanks

2007-08-31 10:25:44 · 3 answers · asked by JR 1

My daughter tried to download songs onto her MP3 player through our USB. I wasnt there so not exactly sure what went down, but she said all of the songs she originally had on her MP3 were gone. I tried to upload pics from my digital, plugged it into the USB and it wouldnt do anything. I unplugged it, and then realized all the pics were gone from my camera. What is going on here? I have an old pc. My friend said my USB might be outdated. Is this even possible?

2007-08-31 10:23:10 · 3 answers · asked by starryeyed75 4

ok so when I put my memory card into my computer nothing shows up and it used to say the things like import pictures onto computer and stuff like that... I wanna know how to make that come up because it won't do it anymore... wow, I confused myself :]

2007-08-31 10:15:14 · 6 answers · asked by ? 1

Recently purchased 1gb memory. I currently have 192 mb of ram. I have tons of music and data files on my computer. Do i have to save these files in order to upgrade? Or will they work with each other...can they coinside? or do i have to remove the 192mb in order to compensate for the other???

2007-08-31 08:00:58 · 10 answers · asked by sportykat66 4

I have a CD that I swear worked before but now when I put it on it appears as if its blank. I wanna know if its because its too scratched or can CD's go blank?

2007-08-31 07:56:06 · 6 answers · asked by oscarjr1990 2

I have Asus 9550ge without fan. It is possible to add one?
(i'm looking for something from Zalman)

2007-08-30 23:50:54 · 3 answers · asked by alwaysnewbie 2

Hi guys.
I had my pc for about a year-working fine till now. (its an Asus motherboaRD,AMD 64 3200+,2x512 ram ddr). I was watchign a film on it last nite,was working fine. This morning switched it on as normal to check e-mail etc.
It bootted up fine, but then before it went to the windows logging screen it powered off. Clicking on the power button didnt work. to switch it back on again, i had to remove it from the mains and connect it again. Switched it back on and again it powered off at the same point.
I havent had the time yet to do any troubleshooting as i had to go to work, but i tried to log-in via safe mode, i log in normally and as soon as it tries to load window's it powers of again (no blue screen no nothing,just switches off and cant' switch it on until i remove it from the mains and reconnect it). i checked the CPU fan seems to be working fine.
I've heard some stuff on dodgy MOBO capacitors, but havent checked... any ideas anyone had something similar happen?

2007-08-30 21:47:07 · 3 answers · asked by blabla 1

2007-08-30 21:33:17 · 9 answers · asked by mohammad d 1

does tv tuner card reduces d performance of cpu?
if yes why?

2007-08-30 19:37:32 · 3 answers · asked by vill'B 1

Like if it's a 256mb graphics card, is that the number I look at to compare them?

2007-08-30 19:31:56 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

Ive been having problems with GeForce 8800 Graphics card. i thought it would run with a 550 watt power supply, it didnt. it kept dying, so i thought the comp was overheating cause of no proper ventilation. now im back to the conclusion that its the power supply which it too weak to handle the video card. the computer only dies when i play a game. it dies about 5-10 mins into the game.

what do i do? what do i get? do i need a better power supply? is it really the ventilation? i really need help...

2007-08-30 18:25:15 · 5 answers · asked by djfighter2 2

I need so I can play WoW

2007-08-30 18:08:06 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

the realtek hd audio manager says the speakers are on but the speaker icon says no audio output device is installed. how do i get the speakers to work.

2007-08-30 15:56:30 · 4 answers · asked by KaTosha J 1

I have a ATI Radeon 7200 32MB and i was wondering can i put my ati analog input controller in the S-VIDEO -jack so the Video Card can recive secondary signals (DVD,VCR,Game Sytem)???

2007-08-30 15:20:32 · 5 answers · asked by Lil Nicky 1

I got the 8600GTS and want to run another card in SLI soon. I want to get the 8800GT, but I am skeptical about if that can be done. Please help me out.

2007-08-30 14:59:38 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

why when i try to burn a cd in windows media player, the program tells me "CONNECT A BURNER AND RESTART THE PLAYER..."....i have a dell and a CD-RW

2007-08-30 14:00:51 · 4 answers · asked by rokeroker 1

i want to install Sims 2 on my PC, i'm about to get a new VGA card an AGP nVidia GeForce 7300GT, then somebody told me that nVidia cards create red-coloured walls (which shouldn't be red) he told me just get any Radeon. is this true?

when will these warring companies stop??

2007-08-30 13:18:33 · 4 answers · asked by Jay 3

i already have 2 internal hdd's in my computer but when i try to install a third it doesnt work an i cannot figure out why, can anyone help me solve this problem? thanks in advance x

2007-08-30 13:03:31 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous