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The quickest way I've found: Login at the xbox live website. Hover over Xbox live, click Join Xbox live. Click Upgrade to Gold on the top right. Where it says "You Currently Have", autorenew should be highlighted. Click on that, and go through that to turn it off. There is like 4 pages...

They are pretty much the same aside from exclusives, and blu-ray. Just go with whatever the majority of your friends have. I have a 360, but PS3 exclusives makes me wish I had chosen differently. Demon's Souls is still calling me after almost a year.

It breaks the rules to have mentioned that, but I'm almost certain it's a resolution issue with the television. I'm not going to speak of that which may not be spoken, but even with a retail disk he'd still be having this issue. If it cut to black then went back to desktop then I'd agree. But...

If you are running the games on a TV you need to force the resolution of the game to one that the tv supports. Many games default to resolutions other than your desktop resolution, especially the first time you play before you've had a chance to change it. I haven't had to play around with...

To those complaining about not including GTA4, SupCom, etc, they mentioned that they didn't use games that were already commonly known for having an advantage with 4 cores, games that obviously did better with quad/6 cores. They wanted to use games that they had deemed as being commonly played...

If you have the drive set to spin down when it hasn't been used for a while then it's going to take time before you can access it regardless of spindle speed.

Yes, it is an Antec P180 mini, and an Asus 8400GS. Sometimes I swap the 8400 out for an 8800GTS if I feel like gaming on the HTPC, but the 8400 can do hardware accel for videos, so I tend to use that. I wouldn't use spray paint on the cables. It will flake off eventually, and would make them...

You could dye all your cables black, as an alternative to sleeving them. Costs $2 in RIT dye at Walmart or similar stores / fabric stores, doesn't rub off, and permanently bonds to them at a molecular level. Just takes some of your time to do it. My file server / HTPC Before: After...

Bump for looking. I've got someone looking for a system, but would make more sense to just send them over to gamestop at the same price and not have to worry about shipping. But the 5$ off a game might get their attention. Then again I'd prefer them get the first party wired controller over the...

I had that issue yesterday. Fixed it by restarting steam, which the game proceeded to install an update. I also had deleted the clientregistry.blob at the same time, so one of those things fixed it.

If no one bites you can head back to walmart, take the store credit, then use it to buy the AMEX/VISA debit cards. You lose like $5 on the activation, but you get most of the moneys worth and can use them anywhere that takes credit/debit cards. I got a bunch of walmart gift cards last...

The 226BW I fixed (bad caps) did that and wouldn't run at the proper resolution until I installed the driver for it. Most monitors you don't have to worry about the driver, but some I have come across need it. Try searching for that models driver and seeing if that helps the centering issue.

Even if it is an OEM board, he should still be able to bsel mod the cpu to pump it up to 1066 FSB, yielding a 2.4Ghz clock, but that may not be beginner friendly.

If you get the same model drive you can just swap the boards and not have to worry about flashing. This is assuming that the issue with the drive was purely mechanical, and the board itself was not the culprit.

The original drive posted is very fast and a very good drive. As for reliability as you're putting non-replaceable stuff on it, you need to be more concerned with a backup(s) than relying on a single drive to keep your data safe. We don't really need a thread down the line w/ "You guys told...

The TJ08 is pretty much identical (chassis) to the CM Elite 340/341, except it cost a whole lot more. Then again it has the outside looks that you were going for, at least the front panel does. Hope it works out for you. The steel chassis would be a let down for me though, if I were...

Wow, interesting to see people still stuck in the deathstar days. Hitachi drives are fine. Every brand has had its ups and downs, but essentially all even out to about the same quality/longevity/reliability. I generally go by whatever has the better warranty period, except for my server...

I doubt a new GTX285 is going to get too much cheaper, and if they do they still won't be competitive price/performance, unless you are looking used as it has been EOL and out of production for a while. But once the new cards come out the used market might supply some with decently cheap...

I'm not going to go into the power supply as unless you are folding the gains just aren't there with 4 gpu's (quad-sli in this case).

I wouldn't worry about it. Even if it did, most networks have 1-2ms to the router anyway. You shouldn't even notice the latency difference.