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Bored of your current gaming computer? Think it is not up to par for those quick, fragging, high speed action moments in game? Well you can build yourself a fast, low cost gaming computer for $700. It can handle new games today, especially Call of Duty 5, Crysis, Far Cry 2 on medium to high settings with incredible framerates.

Last year, I posted a $400 low budget gaming computer but that has been long outdated (another $400-500 one is coming soon) Here are my recommendations. This is a full build, so if you have some spare parts, they may or may not work with this build, although the hard drive, dvd drive, etc… are user replaceable. If you have any recommendations to change this build or want to discuss, post in our forums or comment section!

Grand Total: $736 without tax (and some Mail in Rebates I did not include).

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The tutorial shown below is for users who is annoyed by iTunes DRM and wants to strip it off because they want to play it in other devices, use it as background music in a home video, or anything else that DRM limits it to do.  Many people know you strip off the DRM of iTunes music by simply burning the song to a CD, and ripping it back over, losing very little quality (if settings are correct).  This method does the same exact thing but you will not need a CD-RW disc, a CD ROM drive, or even need to burn anything!  It’s that simple.  Let’s show you how to perform this.

We are going to be using a program called TuneClone.  TuneClone is basically a program that acts as a virtual CD drive that allows you “burn” MP3 from iTunes and “rip” it.  TuneClone “lies” to your computer saying that you have a CD-RW drive that it will burn to (like Alchohol 120%).

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Perfect DIY-able project you can do with your laptop!

This is a video time lapse of how a guy swapped the hard drive disk of his current Macbook Pro with a 320 GB beast.  It’s gonna cost you around 40 minutes for the first timers.  Hopefully it will be easier when the new Macbook Pros come out with easy access HDD slots.

Macbook Pro HDD switch in HD from max milion on Vimeo.

Part 3 of this series shows how you can bypass this without using any software on your computer or on your end.

The past two parts focused on using software to bypass that you needed to install on your computer.  This part, however is renting a cheap server from a place that allows a BitTorrent client to be installed and used.  There are many web interface BitTorrent clients that are available and are highly scalable.

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This is a guide on how to setup a Counter-Strike Source server or most Source powered game for the PC on Windows XP / Vista.

You have that spare computer that is laying around and want to turn it into a server? Well it is easy to do. Follow these simple steps to have your server up and running for the whole world to play with you! You only need a Pentium 4 computer or faster, fast DSL / cable (upload speeds) and that’s about it!

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You will need:

-One medium-large sized squarish or rectangular box.

-Poster Board Paper

-White Printer Paper (Super bright recommended)

-Scissors or Sharp Knife

-Invisible Tape

I just cut the sides of the box leaving rectangular holes, large enough for my white printer paper to fit over it.  The two sides of the box will be your light source.  Also cut the top part if you wish to take pictures from the above view or if you want to add more lighting options.  Tape down all sides of inside the box with white printer paper so it looks all nice and white.  Then get a few lamps (desk lamps work great) and position them to your desire.  Add your subject to shoot and shoot away!

This is my result:

Even adding a small riser or stand to your subject will make it look like you are not even taking the picture in this cheap DIY project.