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Recent content by F3rrum

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    Premium email service

    Hey, I'm looking for a good email service that I can use for job searching. Working in business and don't see gmail/yahoo emails as being professional. I know apple has their me.com service but its $99/year. Anyone have any experience with that? F3rrum
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    ~$1000 gaming rig

    So I am RMA'ing the drive and meanwhile popped in an old one. Runs fine except for two problems: 1. Crysis crashes every so often. 2. Can't run Fedora or Ubuntu livecds because of "PCI: BIOS BUG #0[49435000]" error. Hopefully future driver and bios updates takes care of this. FYI 3dmark...
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    ~$1000 gaming rig

    So I built the system based on your input. System boots fine but when installing vista it stalls and the drive continues to click and also makes sounds like short bursts of static and shrieking. Is the drive definitely dead or could there be a prob with the mobo (sata controller?) that could...
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    Anyone own a WD6400AAKS 640GB drive?

    Problems with mobo (like maybe the SATA controller) can't make the hard drive scream (new sound that is happening when trying to format with a boot disk) then? It has to be the drive?
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    Anyone own a WD6400AAKS 640GB drive?

    I just got one of these and put it in my first build. When installing vista it stalls and the drive continues to click and also makes sounds like short bursts of static. Is it dead?
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    ~$1000 gaming rig

    So after my comcast tech saw the extreme power 600W in my house and told me how two of them died on him (one frying his mobo in the process) I have decided to go with Corsair 650TX ($97 from amazon - $20 MIR) It's a step down from the 750tx for $20 difference I don't really need that much...
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    ~$1000 gaming rig

    I guess you are right since the power consumption difference doesn't seem to be extreme. I guess I will go with the Q6600. So total is now $776. Will pull the trigger tonight.
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    ~$1000 gaming rig

    Based on the inputs here I decided to stretch my budget for the extra ram and go with: Burner:SAMSUNG 22X DVD Burner Black SATA Model SH-S223F ($27) (shipping not free for pioneers) Memory:G.Skill 4GB (2x2GB) DDR2-800 F2-6400CL5D-4GBPQ ($84) Everything else is as below. Hopefully the PSU...
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    ~$1000 gaming rig

    So I did some configuring and found that replacing the ASUS card with HIS 4850 keeps the same price (+/- $5) but then I can buy everything from Newegg and not have to use Fry's since the memory deal is dead. Otherwise to keep the ASUS I would have to switch to Crucial DDR2-800 CT25664AA800 which...
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    ~$1000 gaming rig

    Thanks for the tip on the burner. Was looking at SAMSUNG 22X DVD Burner Black SATA Model SH-S223F. Only problem is that it is OEM. I guess that shouldn't be a problem considering all the open source software that is available. It is tempting to wait but I am moving to NY on July 20th from NJ...
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    ~$1000 gaming rig

    Hey, I'm looking to build a gaming rig to last 2 years costing ~$1000. This will be a huge step up from my current rig. Only special restriction is that I definitely want an Intel quad core processor. Specs so far (all prices from Newegg unless otherwise indicated): Case: Coolermaster...
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    2GB flash drive, 95 cents after GCO (again)

    I ordered this one : http://www.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=202743330&loc= . So came out to be $1.95 shipped. Apart from the ugly color its still a sweet deal.
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    2GB flash drive, 95 cents after GCO (again)

    So I sign up for the GCO thing and on the last screen before placing order I still don't get the $10 off. Is this cuz the drive costs $9.95 and so is <$10 before tax so GCO doesnt work.
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    ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2 Drawing

    in for 1?
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    HP 1GB DDR II - 667 MHz $7 AR

    I ordered 4 but don't even have a DDR2 compatible mobo to put it in. Planning on a new gaming build this summer but was planning on going DDR3. Is DDR2<<DDR3? Can't imagine availability will be an issue in 1-2 years but will performance be? /Read that DDR3 mobos are compatible with DDR2 so not...
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