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Technology and Programming Need a new video card

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December 07, 2008, 08:27:18 pm

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Hi. I need a new video card. I have $50 - $70 to spend. Right now I have a 64MB NVidia GeForce 4 craptastic video card.

I'm looking for something that can play SOME next generation games, such as Portal (Portal is the only next gen game I can currently think of that I actually want to play that my current video card can not play).

I would also like to be able to run a PS2 emulator (LEGALLY, I own the games and the conosle) at a decent frame rate.

Also, I don't know if my motherboard has a PCI-Express slot.
EDIT:
I just checked, I only have PCI ports on my motherboard (the white ones).
If I need to buy a new motherboard in order to get the results I want, please post those here as well.

Any help would be great

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Thanks.

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General Talk Really Awesome Infomercial Products!!!

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November 05, 2008, 09:14:38 pm

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Quote from: Eric on November 03, 2008, 08:37:39 am

But shit, that Magic Bullet sounds awesome!

I saw that infomercial one time and made my mom promise to give it to me as a college gift. Make anything in 6 seconds or less!

1
2
3
4
5...
*PAUSE CAMERA*
*BLEND THE CRAP OUT OF THE FOOD*
*RESUME CAMERA*
6!
Done.

Simple.

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Technology and Programming Capture card recording program!

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October 25, 2008, 05:12:14 pm

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So I have a capture card. I've had it for a long time. I basically use it to record movies that I have on VHS onto my computer. The capture card I have is the WinTV-PVR-150. This capture card does not have an audio input on it. So what I did was I bought an audio composite to stereo male cable which lets me plug my tv into my line-in or microphone port and record it. That all works perfectly.

Here's the problem. The WinTV software that came with my capture card isn't that great. It, for some reason, will not allow me to record the audio from my microphone port. I have configured it numerous times and there is still no audio. What I have been doing is using audacity to record the audio separately and then manually syncing it with my video. HOWEVER, that is extremely annoying and time consuming. I can never get it to match up perfectly! If I sync the first part of the video correctly, the end of it is messed up!

So...Basically what I want is a program that will let me record video from my capture card and audio from my microphone port and then put them into one .mpg, .avi, .wmv or any other commonly used video format.

Thanks

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General Talk A Medical Study by Dr. Ase ph.D - bonus: answer to forum slowdown?

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October 12, 2008, 04:17:12 am

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That's..Interesting.

Thanks for sharing your awesome results.

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Technology and Programming Domain registar

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October 02, 2008, 09:19:47 pm

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Yea but I signed up for an Australian paypal to lift the sending limit

. I guess that doesn't work with this?

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Technology and Programming Domain registar

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October 02, 2008, 07:03:12 pm

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Would it be because my paypal isn't verified?

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Technology and Programming Domain registar

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October 01, 2008, 10:52:59 pm

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I'm looking for a domain registar that will allow me to pay for the domain by sending the money from my paypal account to theirs.
For example, I have $20 USD in my paypal account. I want to use that to pay for the domain. I do not have a credit card or bank account linked to this paypal account.

So anyone know any :S?

The reason I'm asking about this is because GoDaddy states that they accept paypal. However, once I click on "Pay by [PayPal]" it takes me to a screen where I must provide credit card information. Is this how all registars are?

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General Talk Whats something you always wanted but didn't have a job/money for...?

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September 28, 2008, 01:14:10 am

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Quote from: DietCoke on September 26, 2008, 02:20:44 am

you can turn your desktop PC into a server by installing software.

Shhh

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It's just not the same thing

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General Talk Whats something you always wanted but didn't have a job/money for...?

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September 26, 2008, 02:02:27 am

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A server. I don't know why, but I've always wanted to own a server. And I don't mean some server in a random foreign country, I mean a server that I physically possess. That would be cool. Now I'm sure someone would wonder "Why would you ever want to have a server?" That's a good question. I don't know. I've just always wanted one.

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Technology and Programming Full hard drive backup program?

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September 01, 2008, 11:49:34 pm

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Alight, I'll give Norton Ghost a shot; it's kinda expensive, but whatever.

Thanks guys

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Technology and Programming Full hard drive backup program?

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August 31, 2008, 04:13:57 am

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What I want to do is be able to take the state of my C:\ drive (all of the settings, programs, dictionaries, etc) and put it onto another hard drive. I basically want to clone my PC. I want all of my programs to behave the same way as the do now, like I want to be able to go to Start > Program Files and have everything the way it is now. I want startup to be the same etc.
Is it possible to do this?

I ask because I want to install a bigger hard drive (100 gb), partition that into 40 gb partitions and then restore the backup file onto one of those partitions.

I really hope this is possible because I have my computer running exactly how I want it right now.

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Technology and Programming Microsoft keeps trying to install

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May 22, 2008, 02:19:45 am

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Quote from: 2Beers on May 22, 2008, 01:04:49 am

tl;dr

All I read was vundo and no link to vundofix, so here you go: http://www.softpedia.com/get/Antivirus/VundoFix.shtml

I've had Vundo before (and probably still do), but that program got rid of a lot of the annoyances that occurred.

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General Talk Farewell PirateBay :(

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February 01, 2008, 02:34:57 am

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Mininova > PirateBay.

Anyways I don't think it's over..
Not by a long shot.

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Entertainment and Media Garou: Mark of the Wolves & Melty Blood: Act Cadenza Ranbats!

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October 05, 2007, 01:53:42 am

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I will tomorrow, today I was way too busy with all sorts of crap.

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Entertainment and Media Garou: Mark of the Wolves & Melty Blood: Act Cadenza Ranbats!

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October 05, 2007, 12:11:45 am

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I'd be willing to play as soon as I get mame to freaking work >_<.

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Entertainment and Media The Legend Of Zelda: The Phantom Hourglass

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October 04, 2007, 07:33:09 pm

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Today my friend was yelling about how he doesn't know how to blow out the flames, so then we all started laughing and finally told him he had to blow into the mic and he nearly shit himself.

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Entertainment and Media The Legend Of Zelda: The Phantom Hourglass

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October 04, 2007, 10:48:38 am

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Ahaaa wow, that's realllly smart of Nintendo...

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Entertainment and Media "Finding Lost Videogames" Topic

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March 07, 2007, 12:17:11 am

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HECK YES! At first I thought it was called marble chase =P.
Thanks

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Entertainment and Media "Finding Lost Videogames" Topic

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March 07, 2007, 12:07:43 am

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Ok, im looking for a game (duh?). It is for the genesis, and I'm almost 100% sure it was posted in another topic, but I can't find it. It is where you play as a marble, or a ball I think it is a marble though, and you go through isometric mazes and try to roll to the exit. I have a craving to play it but the last time I played it was when I was like 5 so I can' tell you much about it

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November 28, 2006, 12:51:37 am

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Quote from: Grunthor on August 25, 2006, 08:08:34 pm

The only games on Genesis with a blue knight that I remember are Rocket Knight and Sparkster.

I loved that game. When you got all of the swords in the stones you became pimp sparkster (in the first one). *sigh* Then there was that robot battle *clash* *swhoop* *crumble* good times..Good times.

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