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J and R has pricematched for me before. If somebody else has it for lower (even with rebates) they will sometimes lower the price to match or beat it. This very much depends on the product but it's certainly worth a try. Do your homework, call and talk to a rep, and be polite. Good luck.

Kingofl337, I followed your instructions and it worked perfectly. You are so damn subtle! I can't believe it took me this long to figure out that you solved the problem! Thank you, and thank you for following up with more specifics when people asked. I have been fighting with eMachines...

I believe most airplane power sources are limited to 70W which is not enough to run your laptop at it's highest speeds while simultaneously charging your battery. You might want to take the battery out if you are running on airplane power, and turn your laptop off if you are just trying to...

With Powerplay enabled in the ATI advanced settings menu the core and memory automatically clock down to 104/104 when running off the battery. I took it down a little further to 99/99 (there is no need to do this since I later found it saves no power). I lowered the CPU down further to 452...

Thanks Eric. Can you think of any risks to having PCI and AGP running ultra-slow?

Hey Necessary Evil, thanks for assembling this FAQ. I am sure it has been helpful to many people. Is there any chance you would modify your first entry to add this: kraftm's (maniac) advice on reprogramming hardkeys: (From Page 4) Use TweakUI from microsoft. It's able to change the...

After overclocking video (ATITool) and processor (Clockgen) I have been able to get similar results to others on the board with my Emachines M6805. I haven't pushed things to the upper limit yet but I was able to easily get 11936 3DMark 2K1 at 450/240 core/memory video and 1853 CPU. I was...