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    Home media server solutions

    Alright, the only other thread I found dealing with this sort of thing is almost two years old so I felt perhaps a fresh start would be in order. I'm looking to set up a small media/data storage server in my house. Something that I can store DVD/Blu-ray rips on for easy access across my home...
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    Azurephoenix AMA

    So I'm late to the party on this but I figured I'd give it a shot. Who knows? I might even have some interesting answers to dole out!
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    [PC Game] X-Com: Enemy Unknown (remake)

    I know there are a few people playing the game here and I just wanted to see what other people thought of the game. Overall I thought it was a pretty good remake but there were a lot of things that bugged me about it too. Pros: - Graphics were nice. Soldiers, aliens and effects were all...
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    [Question] Video card questions

    So I'm in the hunt for a new video card. I recently bought an ATI Radeon HD 6870 which was a great card while it worked but it has failed after half a year and I'm kind of leaning towards going back to the NVidia line. What NVidia Geforce card is roughly equivalent to a Radeon HD 6870? Also...
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    Upgrading motherboard and CPU

    So like the title says, I am interested in upgrading my motherboard and CPU to take advantage of the speed of the new Sandy Bridge Intel chips. I'm thinking of the Core i5 2500k with a Gigabyte motherboard of somesort. Maybe something like this? I have a few questions for those who have done...
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    Changing where Steam installs games (and moving existing ones)

    Hey guys, I recently added a few new hard drives to my computer and am busy copying and reinstalling things all over the place to make things run more efficiently. My question is this... is there a way to move all my currently installed games from Steam to another drive without having to...
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    Mass Effect Props

    With Mass Effect 3 coming out late this year I have decided to finally try my hand at making props of a few of the weapons from the Mass Effect universe. I figured setting up a progress blog might be useful as both an effort to keep me motivated and also to share the fruits of my labour...
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    Building Mass Effect Props

    I'm not sure if this should be in the artists corner but it is games related and I felt that more people would see it here. If it needs to be moved I will of course understand. As most of you know, Mass Effect 3 is coming out later this year... and as a huge fan of the series I want to build a...
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    Laptop died, need to read the hard drive to recover files

    So, my wife's laptop finally died (motherboard/gpu failure) and now I need to recover all our data from the laptop hard drive. Is this possible? I imagine there are adapters for this sort of thing but I'm totally clueless as to what to do. Any help would be awesome.
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    Running Nvidia SLI and setting up a RAID

    Hey tech guru's... I've got two things to ask some advice on. The first, does anyone here have any experience setting up an Nvidia SLI configuration? I have two Geforce 8800GT cards (different manufacturers, but I read that it doesn't matter as long as the chipsets are the same) and I'm not...
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    Solutions for recording original music at home on your computer?

    I'm not sure if this should go in the artists corner or not so if it needs be, mods feel free to move it into the appropriate section. As I know there's quite a few musically inclined people here on Halforums and a few of them who likely have direct experience in these matters I have a few...
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    Parents suing their kids for parental support

    Thankfully I live in Alberta where these laws have been repealed... but seriously... parents suing their kids for monthly support? Especially when some of the parents in question basically abandoned their kids? Awesomesauce! Payback time for parents - *Lifestyle - MSN CA
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