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    Gaming PC - 1500 Budget

    Hmm interesting, wasn't aware of that bios limitation. What is the word on those bios in terms of stability and overclocking ability? What would be reasonable alternatives if I chose to go a different route and probably still picking up the cpu from microcenter? Or would it no longer make...
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    Gaming PC - 1500 Budget

    Updating build based on recommendations for PSU, case, and going from amazon: CPU: 3570k http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0388577 189.99 HSF: Coolermaster Hyper 212+...
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    Gaming PC - 1500 Budget

    1) What will you be doing with this PC? Gaming? Photoshop? Web browsing? etc Mostly gaming, currently diablo 3, but includes/will include various FPS gaming and some MMOs from time to time. 2) What's your budget? Are tax and shipping included? $1500ish including tax and shipping. 3)...
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    New build won't POST, diagnosis complicated by no system speaker

    Few other things to try/consider: Try a different pci-e x16 slot. X58 boards should have another. There is an unlikely but non zero chance it could be the slot in the motherboard. I'm not that familiar with that antec psu, is there other pci-e connectors you can use besides the one you are...
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    tj09 question

    I think the fifth fan is for the hard drive section. Given the compartment nature of the case it won't benefit the rest of the system much, but would keep your hard drives cooler and hopefully less prone to failure I guess.
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    Asking for build critique, please.

    When I go to microcenter's site and add in a 950 and a UD3R manually I get a price of 434.58 after tax, and there is an additional 15 dollar rebate available. So that's potentially 420 vs 490. Worth considering, I would imagine the round trip cost in gas would be about 20 bucks so it is still...
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    Asking for build critique, please.

    May or may not be worth going to a microcenter (St Davids PA) for this bundle: http://www.microcenter.com/specials/email/CPlanding1029.html?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=E0935%20eNews%20Friday%20BYOPC%2020101029&utm_source=ACT_BYO& Motherboards are pretty comparable, although with tax, gas...
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    ASUS G73JH vs HP Envy 17: a photo shootout

    @laserbeam: I'm pretty sure lowteckh *is* the OP.
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    New computer this xmas?

    Hi, If you are planning to make your own, you could get a pretty significant performance upgrade (SLI/Crossfire is very possible with a 1.5k-2k budget). Of course those might also be overkill depending on your monitor set up/resolution. Is that a gtx285 you are using? Not sure what an xps...
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    Custom Built Laptops and thier bad cases

    Yes, anything with integrated graphics and discrete on current platforms allow switching. Basically anything with an i5 will switch. Nvidia's optimus is better than ati's whatever they named it because it is nearly seamless though. You switch and that's it. With ATI's I think you have to...
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    Custom Built Laptops and thier bad cases

    Well the Envy 14 doesn't quite fit his 15-16" description, and only has the 1366x768 right now (the 1600x900 "radiance" screen seems to not be available and is said to not be coming back anytime soon if at all). Anything with an i5 and a discrete graphics card should be able to do switching though.
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    Custom Built Laptops and thier bad cases

    Does that MSI 663 come with an option for i5? Pretty sure i7-700 series and up cpu's don't come with integrated graphics so you can't use switching anyway: http://ark.intel.com/ProductCollection.aspx?familyId=43402 According to this msi press release it only comes with an i7...
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    Custom Built Laptops and thier bad cases

    What would you consider a 'good looking' laptop chassis? I personally actually like Sager's for the fairly minimal styling with the only issue being they are slightly bulky. Given you don't like the asus g53 either can you give an example of what you do like? Are you looking for like a...
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    Building new machine, critique.

    You will probably find more build advice on General Hardware than Computers and Gadgets forum (computers and gadgets is more for pre-built machines, general hardware is where you usually go to list out builds you will make yourself). I'd have to look it up but my gut reaction is cpu wise a x2...
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    New Build - Running well, but failing recent memtest?

    It can give some peace of mind to know that your system is stable, hardware wise at least. It's strange that it failed in one version of memtest and not another though. Have you re-tried 3.5 since then? Generally people want to run them at the beginning when they can still return things so...
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