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I bought this desktop from Dell about a year ago, and bought a new PSU and GPU to replace the ones that came with it. Since then, it's been working fine this past year, up until about two weeks ago, when it wouldn't power on completely. After a few days, it started working perfectly again, only...

I'm looking for a decent monitor, around 19", that can function as a TV as well, with both the standard VGA and HD input (I don't know what the HD input is called, it connects from my desktop's GPU to the monitor) as well as RCA inputs (for DVD players, game consoles, etc). Does anyone have any...

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A friend was giving away a broken TV (Sharp 26" LC 26SH12U) and naturally, I took it off his hands. It was fully functioning, but the screen was cracked, I took it apart, almost removed the screen, when I decided to look online to see if I'd even be able to purchase a replacement screen for it...

Dell Vostro 260 Mini tower i5 2400 3.1ghz XFX Radeon HD 6870 I recently bought this desktop and upgraded the PSU and GPU. For a few games that I play, however, the audio doesn't completely play. A common issue is background music just disappearing. All other sound effects play, but the...

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I just bought this desktop, and was looking to upgrade both the PSU and GPU. The specs say that it only contains one PCIe x16 slot for graphics. GPU's I've been looking at: HD 6870, 7750, 7770, GTX 560 I randomly saw on a thread that the GTX690 wasn't a single card. How did that person know...