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I bought a new laptop for home, an ASUS G551JW with an I7-4720HQ, 8GB RAM, and upgraded it to a Mushkin 240GB SSD drive with a clean install of Windows 10. After doing so the performance is great but oddly when in day to day applications it is not as fast as my work laptop. Opening and...

Sorry, it was $24.99 with free shipping at Newegg. Must have been a one day sale or something because it is back to $48.99 now.

I picked up one of the recommended Buffalo routers for $28 on sale with free shipping so I should be in business. Thanks all!

Good to know, guess I will pick up the TP Link then.

So I was looking at the TP-LINK TL-WR841N or the Asus WL-520GU. Thoughts?

I'm not a huge bandwidth user so that isn't so much of the concern. I like DD-WRT because it is so stable and allows me to dial the wireless strength to the right level (down) to keep people off my wireless. It also allows for multiple wireless networks. The TP-Link are cheap, I just worry...

Looking for a cheap router (new) that can run DD-WRT. Any good recommendations?

I would use Chrome but I use the Yahoo toolbar in Firefox, like the bookmarks feature. Although Google has bookmarks in their toolbar as well, the arrogant people there don't listen to users that want folders instead of just tags.

I had called the local store and they didn't have the bracket so I went down to see if they had a fan that would work. Funny, no fans for AM2 but stock ones, but low and behold there are the brackets hanging there. I never trust those pimple heads on the phone. Thanks for the help, up...

I'm curious, what would be a decent fan that doesn't use the bracket? I ask because I may be able to pick one up locally and save time for about the same cost. It can't be too huge in size though.

About $18.00 with shipping which I think is cheap enough. Thanks for your help.

That is my motherboard. It is the little black nub that the clip attaches to that broke so you are right, no glue would hold for long. I think I found what I need but not 100% certain yet. http://www.frozencpu.com/products/6553/bra-18/CPU_Fan_Retainer_Bracket_w_Backplate_-_AMD_AM2.html

I am sitting playing a game and I hear a noise inside my computer, like something fell. Five seconds later it shuts down. Open it up and the CPU heat sink and fan are lying loose. Turns out one of the lugs on the black plastic socket that the heatsink and fan clamp on to broke off. Has...

So I should actually see a bit of a boost in overall performance based on the almost equal GPU and faster CPU then. Makes it appealing. Wish they made a gaming all-in-one with upgradable GPU.

Thanks for your opinion, but I'm looking for someone with knowledge or experience related to the performance as it compares to what I have now.