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  1. Going way back, Counter-strike 1.6 (built on GoldSRC, a heavily modded quake engine) also was benifited by this. I can't speak for movement speed, but the high FPS did indeed effect your recoil in this game, which was substantial. A higher FPS meant your crosshairs "reset" more quickly and thus gave you the ability to shoot more quickly / accurately... even if only by a few MS, in a game like that it made all the difference. And as for the refreshrate being capped at 60 or 85 on your monitor, the point is moot, because when your monitor DOES refresh, it is getting the most 'recent' data from your GPU. Even if its not processing half the frames being spit out, when it does, it's give you the freshest version if that makes sense. On fast paced games, that can also make a quite a difference if your in the competitive section of gaming.
  2. I ran BF2 on a 5700 (an AGP card like yours) with 512 MB of RAM and it stuttered quite a bit. After running it on the same card with 4 gigs of RAM I had no troubles... I obviously couldn't play on the highest settings but not only did my FPS greatly improve, so did my lat. in multiplayer games. The easiest and cheapest way to upgrade pretty much any PC is generally tossing in a stick or two of RAM.
  3. Refresh my memory... isn't there a .txt file in the windows or sys32 folder in which you can specify a "list" of IP's and domain names to refuse connections to? Heres my reasoning - I'm setting up a computer for a friend of mine and he has two younger children and he is worried about them getting into sites they shouldn't be on. I know there are various other ways to do this, but I don't want to use any program that is going to filter out sites, I would rather block particular sites from being accesable. Also, while we are on the topic, is there any kind of internet "black list" that is going to contain the most common pornographic sites and whatnot to be blocked so I don't have to manually put them in and such? Also keep in mind I already stated I don't want to install additional software or edit any existing settings. Lastly, will doing this effect just the IE browser, or all connections in general (including ping commands for example) Thanks
  4. Not true, but okay... If your going to say something, at least provide actual information to back up your statements - or at least make it sound like you know what your talking about if nothing else.
  5. No, you used an exclaimation point rather than a question mark.
  6. As far as printers go... I pretty much sell printers all day, which gets kind of sickening but I can tell you that no one can really match HP's price and quality. If your looking specifically for photoprints look into getting Canon, however if you want something that can print good photos and won't waste of ton of ink, get HP... Any of their models with the individual ink catridges (SP?) would be your best bet. While the printer itself will cost more, it will be must more in effecitient and economical. Long story short, you save alot of ink. Tricolor catridges contain cyan magenta and yellow in 1 cartridge... yellow gets used the most to create the other colors, leaving you with plenty of cyan and magenta and very little yellow... in other words, you have to waste 50% of your ink and get a new catridge. The new catridges not only conserve alot more ink, but they also have the light cyan and the light magenta, meaning the ammount of yellow being used is decreased. As far as features go... things like the slots for your SD and XD cards are standard nowadays, so don't let someone go telling you that its a fancy deal, thats like a cupholder in a car. The MAIN difference you will see that effect price is: If it has copy/scan/fax ability If it is pre-networked / wireless Ink efficientcy The last one I mentioned is the biggest difference - In fact there are a few printers where I work that look identical accept one has a larger LCD screen and is $50 more so people just assume that your paying for a 2cm larger screen... not true at all. The cartridge for the more expesive one costs $2 more... but in the long run you get about 200 more prints from it. My biggest suggestion is DO NOT go with a brother printer - the printers are cheap but it wastes a crapload of ink and ink is very expensive. And as for price... with the newer HP printers you can print photo's for 22 to 24 cents per page. At walmart or walgreens they can print them for 18 or 19 cents per page so yes, they are cheaper... mainly you are just paying for convenience. Hope I helped.
  7. Which is why people use lists of proxies obtained either via sites (which usually offer free ones that are extremely slow or overused) or scanning for them using programs called proxy hunters... basically they scan whatever range you want and will ping for different proxies on a specified port. Then it will record if it times out or if it responds, how long it took. When I was younger I'll admit I did my fair share of "iffy" stuff. And there are plenty of hackers who would beable to "hack" an account... but those hackers generally have better things to do with their time. Some interesting reads with plenty of links to read along the way if your looking to kill some time. (the first two being the most relevant) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEF_CON http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_of_the_Dead_Cow This goes to show not all hackers are "bad" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacktivism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_hat_hacker Interesting stuff, gets into the origin of hacking - phone phreaking and whatnot http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_o ... er_history
  8. While I agree we do get some repetativly questions or easilly answered questions this IS the tech and computer board in which he had some questions about tech and computers. To the OP though, a better way to ask would have been "are there any sites you recommend for downloading videos - the ones I googled have alot of popups" and "what program do you suggest using to convery video formats? all the ones I found on google are 30 day trials or cost a fortune"
  9. I prefere winamp still for just about anything, but thats not the point. I think he means videos he was once able to play he no longer can - the only thing he has changed is his videocard driver (which shouldnt effect anything) If it were the codec, usually it would first try to download the codec from microsoft and if said codec was unavaliable (like divx) it would give him an error message, not simple continue to play the sound but not the video. I've had this same issue once before, and that was after downloading a video via torrent (if you must know, it was legal; Michael Moore released "Sicko" on the internet a few days before it hit theaters for free) In that case however the file itself was corrupt and went into the recycle bin, what a waste of bandwidth
  10. Whenever I see the word "random" and "restarts" the first thing that comes to my mind is overheating. It could be very possible that the malware he had is not related to the computer restarting... actually, very possible considering he got rid of whatever it was - if he already ran a virus scanner and adware / spybot then telling him to do so again isn't going to help. This has been happening for 8 months, I doubt it would be any malware on the computer. First thing I would do is - next time your computer shuts down, go into your BIOS and go down to the PC Health Status - check what temperature your CPU and system are at. There are also some nice programs that do this for you (pc wizard I think has a feature that monitors CPU temperature, as does motherboard monitor) If it seems hot, take off the side case and put a fan near your computer. IF it stops restarting, you know that its a simple overheatting issue and that youll just have to toss in an extra case fan for $10. Or it could be as simple as clearing out all the dust inside your case / moving around a few IDE cables and some wireing. If it continues to restart chances are it is some conflicting drivers - I know that my mouse drivers (razer copperhead) will cause my computer to crash "randomly" if certain scenarios are presented... but first things first, check your CPU's temp, its just a process of elimination.
  11. Depends on what firewire you have - some are faster than USB (which is why some external hard drives can be hooked up via firewire rather than USB)
  12. Your probably looking at different models - theres a "Dell Inspiron" but about 30 different combinations you can get of it...
  13. Make sure your "wave" and "sw synth" are turned on. I beleive wave controls the loading sounds in RS and sw synth will control the actual ingame sounds... or vice versa. Other than that - if your saying other sounds work, you've tried other clients, and your in game sound is turned up I wouldn't have any idea.
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