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#1 bigcr47
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I just bought
Max Payne
Max Payne 2
Manhunt
GTA
GTA2
GTA3
GTA Vice City
GTA San Andreas
GTA 4
GTA 4 Episodes form Liberty City
Bully
Dirt
Dirt 2
Grid
Fuel
and ToCa Race driver 3

Total Price $61.00

Steam Deals are face melting, Console gaming is destroying the PC community and I'm Reaping the benefits, Yesssss!!!!

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great info, thanks again guys for the quick responses

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ok, sounds good guys, I'll get some new thermal paste, any suggestions, or is it all the same?

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#4 bigcr47
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yea, its a zalman 9700 nt, i wouldn't say that it sucks, every review i read before i bought it was positive, but I need to figure out why these temps are so high, i feel like they should be down to the 30's and 40's, it is sitting nicely on the cpu, do you think the thermal paste could definately be the problem? Or am I looking at a CPU chip problem, I guess i wanna know if this is a quick fix or if my CPU is showing signs of burning out.

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hey guys, I've got a q6600, it is not overclocked, and the speedstep is enabled to keep it at low speeds when idle, howerver CoreTemp is showing reading like htis.

Core 0 62 C 30% load
Core 1 57 C 0% load
Core 2 50 C 15% load
core 3 50 C 51% load

The temps to me dont match up, seems like it should be down in the 30's to 50's/ I am using an Asus p5ND (750i sli) and i have a Zalman Nvidia themed CNP something (forgot the name) but it's a massive fan with copper heatsynchs and is beyond overkill even when overclocking to 3.4 ghz

Running Windows 7 64 bit, the fan is running at like 2200 rpm's and it is a tiny bit noisy, but i still feel these temps are high and theat they did not run this high before. Could it be the thermal paste or heatsynch or something, This is the first PC i've built by myself so is there anything i need to know about thermal paste wearing out? or fans not working right? I've had it for 2 years now and it has held up well, I used to OC it to 3.6 Ghz but now i keep it nice and cool and slower.

Any help would be much appreciated, even any knowlege about good temps.

Oh, my case is the Antec 900, it has 3 smaller and 1 huge fan on top, (as well as the Zalman cooler, fsb fan and PSU fan) so 7 in total

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andWait for Nvidia's new Fermi based GPU to come out, or you will kick yourself. It is going to blow everything out of the water, although the 5700 series is a good value, but nvidia will probably have their cards out around the middle of 2010

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#7 bigcr47
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i agree wholeheartedly, the lack of "Co-op" explanatins on game cases infuriates me, it should say (1-4 players offline)(1-2 co-op offline) (1-4 co-op online) (1-32 online) or something like that maybe just an icon with a number to show us if it supports co-op offline and how many or co-op online and how many, when i got vegas it said 1-4 multiplayer, which is ambiguous and untrue, it only supports 2 players or 1 online

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#8 bigcr47
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Hi guys, i have been having horrible luck with LCD's, i most recently aquired a Dell Ultrasharp 2408WFP, however im seeing a common problem in lcd monitors with color banding. The oter panels were all TN, but the dell is supposed to be a true 8 bit, i made sure of that. The colors look brilliant, but i am having a lot of trouble with the dark end of the spectrum. Anything, ANYTHING that fades to black shows up as a crazy mix of rainbow colors in the gradient, i've been playing games like cod and turok, and even the hd videos i watch seem to have this problem.

The best example i can give is with World of Warcraft, if you look at the sky while standing outside in shattrath i can basically see rings starting from the center and expanding out instead of a smooth gradient, is this because my resolution is so high that it can't blend it in? or is this WFP2408 not a true 8 bit like it claims? if anyone that has WOW can please recreate this test and tell me your thoughts or post a screenie i would love to see it, especially if you have a CRT or a true color lcd panel, i am curious as to if this is just inherent to LCD tech or if it inherent to the tech in the games.

Remember, look STRAIGHT UP in Shattrath city, you will notice a circle of bands expanding outwards.

Also, I'm wondering if this is simply a calibration issue, in which i would love to know of a great calibration tool for fixeing this problem as i've become OBSESSED with perfection for a 700$ monitor
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#9 bigcr47
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thanks for the help guys, its nice to see some 8 bit panels, but i dont think i can bring myself to spend 750 bucks on a 24 inch monitor, is there nothing around the 500 or 400 dollar mark?
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#10 bigcr47
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I have already returned an LG and Gateway monitor to Bestbuy for having terrible color banding and color issues. I was wondering if anyone has a link to a 24 inch monitor that actually has a true 8 bit panel and doesn't use dithering that is around the 500$ range. I am a video freak and i notice banding to the point where i can't watch movies and stuff with the 6 bit "dithering" panel and im starting to get pissed at these LCD companies because every one of them claims "16.7 million" colors on their website and i have proven that they aren't. So any help would be appreciated, like a newegg link, cause the manufacturers like to keep how many bits their panels are from the public so they can sell crappy monitors for big money, the jerks....