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Well my main problem is I dont know what to adjust because I dont have the settings some of these guides talk about. What do I adjust for gamma? Do I have to just do every color individually?

I just bought an ASUS VH238H 23" monitor on a nice Newegg Black Friday deal. Prior to this monitor I was using an old Acer 20" display with a max resolution of 1680x1050 which was not LED backlight. As soon as I plugged this in I noticed a very "washed" looking background with visible lighter...

This is driving me absolutely insane. I just made a completely new build and decided to get a new mouse as well. I was using a Razer Diamondback that I've had for like 10 years and its worked fine. However sometimes it jumps around for no reason and its all worn down in places and the right...

Thanks for the Windows combo, didnt see that. Cases are a pain in the ass for me to pick out, which is why I settled on the one I did. I cant have the top air ducts because I'm in a tiny room and drinks regularly get placed/spilled on the top of my case. I actually dont need a DVD drive, I...

I dont know if you mean motherboard or GPU but neither are 250. The GPU is about $200 after rebates. -edit- if 200-250 is a large sum for a GPU and doesnt need to be spent unless I'm going SLi, what single GPU would you recommend in its place then?

Nevermind, just went through the entire first page of the forum and noticed every post you make is just recommending people upgrade their PSU to run SLI/Xfire even though none of them said they wanted to and only listed one card.

SLI or Crossfire: No

Ok so I posted awhile ago and got some good ideas, here's what I've come up with. Any last minute changes? Approximate Purchase Date: Probably this weekend Budget Range: $1100ish before rebates/shipping/tax System Usage from Most to Least Important: Gaming, watching movies, web surfing...

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Thanks for the help. One last question. Looking at the 1155 boards it seems like the main ones are either Z68 or P67. Looking around I cant find anything different between the two bridges other than the Z68 has some sort of souped up caching process for SSD's which I dont have. Is there any sort...

10-4. In that case, my main decision comes down to, are the lower model Sandys ie the 2300 and 2400 series that much of a dropoff vs price or should I just wait for the newer AMD's to come out and the 2500k's to age a month or two and hope the price drops more to my budget

Ok so I'm looking at this: http://paulisageek.com/compare/cpu/ and it looks like AMD is killing it in the price to performance ratio, but I also dont see the i5 2500 on there. I really dont want to drop $260, so assuming I want to spend less, is there any point in going the i3 route or one of...

Im not saying people dont use future tech, I'm just saying that personally I have never had a use for it. When I'm in a situation where I'm running an X1950XT and a C2D 5000 series, I probably cant buy a brand new CPU to put in an older board :P Anyway, I'll take a look at the intel side as...