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APC has Many variants here in india out of which 550 and 650 VA are readily available( 550 ..2K, 650..3K)

 

IF you just want to connect the cpu and the Monitor ( considering its less than 24" LCD/ 19" CRT) ...you are well to go with 650 VA one

...but if you are connecting the speackers as well( ....i donno why ?...) you will need more.

 

above 650 APC offers 750 VA ups but these are very costly....around 6.5K...!

 

Hope it helps!

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Microtek customer care sucks though.. i bought the same model and it was a dud.. PS3 always used to turn off.. and it took me around 150 calls and mails to even their country sales manager and around 2 months to get it fixed finally..

They can't even provide proper support until you show them some money.

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Come on guys Microtek is good with costomer service!!( atleast...in delhi/NCR)

I have a double battery 800VA UPS....that i baught an year ago( <year) recently its motherboard went kaput and one of its battery died....i caled MT and all they asked was the serial no. then next day their guy came in...replaced the board and the battery......and all good!!

 

I have a MT UPS-cum-Inverter to 850 VA....... when that gave problem ...the service guy came next day too!!

 

In support i'll give them 9/10!!....Cause thy dont ask many questions ....just the serial no. and then they send in their guy......even if you forgot to switch on and thought UPS is not working properly!!!

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I have a quary....

My laptop( Ferrari 4002 WLMi) came with 80 GB 5.4K rpm HDD ( IDE) ...Now i dont need much HDD space cause i dont game on it ....but the HDD is now giving me problems..... the startup is slow .....explorer is slow.....File transfer is slow.

I have 1 GB Ram On XP so i guess HDD is they only cause.

Now i want to change my HDD ...the max i can get is 160 GB ( and that too 5.4K rpm......can some one get me 7.2k ONE pm ME!!) .

 

BUT the problem is i dont want to loose the recovery partition that the current HDD has ......

My HDD came with the following Partitions:

.......35.5GB

........35.9GB

........2.9GB( that is Hidden away) and stores the recovery data

I really like the 15 minute windows reinstall ....i could really format and reinstall in 15 minutes!!.....and yeah they game me CDs but cant keep the CDs with me all the time.

 

so is there a way to make a partition of GB and hide it away and use it to the restore it to factory default using this partition!

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factory settings will always restore it back to original settings, why don't you backup data on an external HDD and then do a clean format, your issue is not due to your hard drive but due to the junk installed in windows..

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My data on the windows partition is not important ........

the laptop is 3 years old.....first 2 years i had to restore it only once ....and it was fine after that ....

but now whenever i restore its slow from the start......i asked the dealer at nehru place ....he said it may be cause of the HDD ( he said reformatting HDD many times can mke it slow!!)

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^^ have you looked at perfmon? Start perfmon and then do any of the activities you mentioned (like file transfer etc), you will come to know what is the real bottleneck..

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Guys, can you suggest me a good AGP card, preferably in series 7 or 8(not sure if they did AGP in 8) and with a price tag of <6000?

 

My ancient 6600GT is conked and I am really not in mood of upgrading the whole system just for that, given the facts that I already have a laptop and a macbook and I really don't use PC for gaming much.

 

Thanks.

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I dont think you are going to find a decent AGP card in the market locally nowadays. At least not one that would be a decent improvement on the 6600. I couldnt find one in Nehru place when i was looking for a friend. If you are lucky you can get your hands on a 7600GT but thats hardly worth the money you will spend. My advice is to save up some money and change the mobo and GPU in one go. You could get a decent combo in about 6-7k.

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I know what you mean Afty :panic:

But if I don't find that Sapphire card, I gotta buy:

 

1. Mobo

2. CPU (I have socket 754)

3. GPU

4. RAM (I have DDR1, which may or may not run on new Mobos but surely will be a bottleneck)

5. Power Supply (I have Antec 400W, I may have to switch for something like 500-550 I guess)

 

So it will be as good as buying a new comp.

 

It's scary :lol:

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I used to have an XFX 6800 GT AGP top-of-the-f**kin-line graphics card. I got it just when they released it.

 

 

Damages, back then: 31k :P

 

 

Though, I can suggest you a new, decently powerful config for 15k, its your choice all the way :(

 

Motherboard - Intel DG31PR = 3k

Processor - Intel E7200 C2D - 6k

GFX Card - Palit 9500GT 512MB - 3.5k

RAM - 4GB Transcend - 3k

PSU - You don't really need a new one, 400 W is just hell lotta sh*t :D And that too Antec !

 

TOTAL - 15.5k

 

You can reduce on the RAM and the processor if you want to. This setup can even run a copy of Leopard smoothly :D

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Can somebody suggest a decent monitor for use with my 360..

 

Should be 19"-22" wide

With HDMI

Budget 12k

Preferably <5ms response time

 

p.s - will be buying this monitor in Singapore, if its gonna make any difference.

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