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    Recommendations for light gaming laptop with $1500 budget?

    Alienware m14x only has a 256GB SSD and that's way too expensive. I've been looking at Clevo models and I've been able to find some nice configurations that are around $1500. But I'm still not satisfied with the overall battery life and weight. Also don't like the 10-key numpad and the...
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    Recommendations for light gaming laptop with $1500 budget?

    Thanks for the replies. I was hoping to find something that is barebones power with little extras, i.e. no DVD or 2nd HD, no webcam, and so forth. That in combination with 13-15" size screen, I hoped to find something light-weight. The reason I was hoping for 3+hr battery life is because...
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    Recommendations for light gaming laptop with $1500 budget?

    Hey all, I've been researching various gaming laptop offerings for a while, but I just can't find what I'm looking for. Hopefully, I'm just missing something among the staggering array of options available. * Processor: Sandy Bridge high end i5 or low end i7 * Graphics: Geforce 560M+ or...
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    Amazon Considers Giving Prime Subscribers Free Kindle

    Other than DRM issues and a somewhat bloated website, Amazon really does try to focus on customer experience and satisfaction as their longterm growth plan. But I can't see this happening for new Amazon Prime users. If everyone bought an Amazon Prime account for $80 just to get the Kindle...
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    Sugo Sg03 - Aluminum support bracket

    What do you mean by bracket? Do you mean the plastic bracket which you attach the 120mm fans onto, or the aluminum mesh grille over it (which has nothing to do with support)? My only issue with that grille was that it was an absolute PITA to remove, and I ended up bending it a bit (though I...
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    Overclocking memory oddities on Gigabyte P55M-UD4

    I have a Gigabyte P55M-UD4 board with an i7 860 and 4GB G.SKILL Ripjaws DDR3 1600 9-9-9-24 memory. I've overclocked it to 3.6GHz with BCLK of 200MHz, CPU mult of 18x, and around 1.21V. I've enabled all the various power saving features of the i7: C1E, Cx state, EIST, and left turbo boost and...
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    Need advice on a SFF gaming build

    I can't figure out how to force enable Turbo mode. 3.6GHz with all cores enabled and all power saving features enabled (with default Windows 7 balanced power mode) seems incompatible with Turbo mode somehow. The core multipliers do fluctuate, but they always have nearly the same multiplier, even...
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    SFF Gaming HTPC

    As a fellow builder that's new to the SFF scene, my recommendation is not to go with such a small case until you have experience with something a bit larger. I just built my gaming PC with the SG03, which is larger than the SG05/06, but it was still really difficult (though maybe my particular...
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    Need advice on a SFF gaming build

    Forgot to reply to that part - an aftermarket cooler might not be that effective in the cramped SG03 case because those coolers dissipate heat into the case, not outside like AMD's shrouded cooler. I figure I'd have to add a PCI slot fan or the FX-121 cross-flow fan to try exhausting all that...
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    Need advice on a SFF gaming build

    Skott, it's at 33% fan speed that it's noticeable (checking GPU-Z while running Furmark). But the temps at the noise level, given the size of the small fan, is still quite impressive. I also noticed that in GPU-Z, there's only VDDC phase 1-3 - no VDDC phase 4 as shown for some of the GPU-Z...
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    Need advice on a SFF gaming build

    The good news: it worked! Got it up and running, installed Win7 on it. Overclocked it to 3.6GHz (200 BLCK, 1.8 CPU mult) at 1.20V and never reached 80C CPU core temps under the OCCT Linpack burn test. Gigabyte's overclocking utils in Windows are all flaky, so I had to resort to BIOS...
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    Need advice on a SFF gaming build

    Holy crap...this is much harder than I thought it would be. Cable management hell. The Corsair H50 is making it much harder because I have keep the front fan bracket installed for the radiator before putting the PSU in. So I couldn't simply follow the instructions, or rather the installation...
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    Need advice on a SFF gaming build

    Ordered 10/26 from Amazon.com for $260 with free 2-day shipping (I have a Prime account), got it shipped 11/02, and received on 11/04. So glad I ordered it before AMD bumped up the MSRP (and Amazon.com bumped up the Sapphire's price to $330, although the XFX one still remains around $265) :D
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    Need advice on a SFF gaming build

    I ordered the Radeon 5850 a while ago and it just got delivered this week, so I've ordered the rest of my components and they should all be arriving by Friday, leaving me with a weekend of tinkering :) Core components: SilverStone SG03-S Intel Core i7-860 Lynnfield 2.8GHz GIGABYTE...
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    Need advice on a SFF gaming build

    Steeeeve, the SG03/04 don't seem to have rear exhaust ports large enough for any fan. I take it you mean that side mesh grille? NichoTL, that would be the FX121, which was just discussed a couple posts back. I would think that a normal axial fan on an exhaust port would be better, or even a...
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