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    First time SFF gaming build

    Thanks for your replies so far! I'm somewhat limited on options for the case, and of the ones I've seen I do like the Antec ISK600 the best (brushed aluminium, given the choice), so as long as there's not any reason to avoid that case I think I'm going to go with it. I guess I'm aiming for...
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    First time SFF gaming build

    1. What will you be doing with this PC? Relatively casual gaming (mostly WoW and Starcraft) and streaming. For the size, I might want to move it occasionally (maybe once a few months) but don't need carrying handles or anything. It doesn't need to be silent, though obviously less noise is...
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    30 Minutes of The Elder Scrolls Online Gameplay

    I think we are. This is what I'm thinking of: Have to admit, planes of Oblivion look pretty crappy in all TES games if you ignore the fire effects.
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    30 Minutes of The Elder Scrolls Online Gameplay

    To be fair, both of those screenshots look on par with unmodded Oblivion, and that game is 7 years old now. I can understand why they cut down on character model poly counts for an engine that might have to display hundreds of characters instead of a handful, but would have still liked them...
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    Amazon Suspends The Sale Of SimCity

    I've never had problems with Steam's offline mode - it's pretty up front that it wants you to connect once a month to verify that you're not just giving your account out to all your mates, and I've never hit that limit anyway. GOG isn't actually competing with modern DRM systems in any way as...
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    i7-3720QM, will it work on VAIO 13.3" S Series?

    I'd double check that before going ahead with anything - the Vaio S in the OP is the refresh of the SA, whereas the one you linked to is the older S series. To be honest I'd be surprised if it's socketed as it's quite a thin 13" laptop. To the OP - even if it's a socketed CPU, I'd be very...
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    NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Reviewer's Guide @ [H]

    Thanks for posting this! I feel like I'm the only one who thinks this, but this guide really didn't seem as biased as I was expecting. No bullying, no veiled threats. It's not impartial by any stretch of the imagination, but that's the reviewer's job, not nVidia's. It goes as far as "this...
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    Whats the big deal with retina display on iPad?

    Well I've seen an iPad 3 and the screen does look absolutely amazing. But from my (very limited) use of friends' iPad 2s, I've never really seen a need for it - the iPad 2 was fine for reading lecture notes (even with diagrams), and I would imagine that any word small enough that the iPad 2...
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    Sub 15'' gaming laptop

    The Dell Vostro 3550 is on the upper end of your size limit but comes with a choice of i3-i7 and HD6630M (think it's switchable). Only 1366x768 though. The Vaio SA has a similar loadout (i5-i7 with switchable HD6630M) but worth reading some reviews of first to see if you can cope with the...
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    Any 16:10 laptops left?

    Not really an answer to your question I'm afraid, but I eventually bought into the 16:9 aspect ratio by moving my taskbar to the left instead of the bottom. Gives similar screen estate to 16:10.
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    What is the best laptop you've ever seen?

    Really happy with mine, though I knew what the downsides were to begin with and they were not a big deal for me. They might be for other people I guess. First, be prepared to spend a bit of time and money on it, because as many reviews have pointed out, the out-of-the-box experience is...
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    Did I break my Crucial M4?

    I tried to update my M4 firmware to 0309 a couple of weeks ago. However, my laptop BIOS clearly didn't like IDE mode, and although the firmware update started, it hung almost immediately. About 3 hours later, I gave up and had no choice but to hard reset. Back in Windows, I did a full disk...
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    What is the best laptop you've ever seen?

    I like the angular design of the Vaio SA/SB series - not a fan of curves on laptops. And as someone else says, it seems to be the last of a dying breed of actually powerful subnotebooks. The engineer in me is amazed that they manage to dissipate the heat in a 13" chassis, but the price you...
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    Need a laptop for university with 6+ hours battery life

    Backing this up as an option - I got a Vaio SA for the same kind of usage (without a sheet battery, but on a clean install), and I get ~7 hours out of it when word processing and ~5-6 hours web surfing. I expect a sheet battery would nearly double that. Other options are marginally thinner...
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    Optimising graphics on a Vaio SB

    Sounds like just the thing I need - thanks!
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