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    Why People Hate The Google Bus

    Sorry, this is completely false. You're just coming up with numbers out of your ass that do not reflect reality. In a period of strong increase of real estate value, you'll make money owning a house. In a period of weak/no increase of real estate value (like the last few years), you'd be better...
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    Waiting for Haswell?

    Ugh. I'm on a 920 and convinced myself last year that after the disappointing Ivy Bridge launch to wait for Haswell to upgrade. I really want to upgrade, but at this point it seems to be like throwing good money after the bathwater.
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    DRAM Shortages To Impact PC Players in 2Q13

    He does care somewhat, or he wouldn't have posted.
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    Waiting for Haswell?

    It isn't uncommon to see people these days playing less gpu intensive games like Starcraft 2 while also streaming in 1080p with good audio quality. A decent internet connection and an i7 (possibly socket 2011) is more important than GPU in that use case.
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    Haswell leaking pricing and model info.

    Let S, B, and H be the performance 'values', clock for clock, for Sandy Bridge, Ivy Bridge, and Haswell respectively. Let X and Y be arbitrary constants. An increase in performance of X% from S to B would be written as B = S + .01 * X * S An increase in performance of Y% from B to H would be...
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    i7 920 to Ivy Bridge or wait for next gen?

    I'm in a similar boat to the OP. I'm running an i7 920 and was considering pulling the trigger and upgrading when ivy bridge came out. I do a moderate amount of virtualization (routers and PCs) and for gaming I play starcraft 2 while encoding video (streaming) and hope to push up the encoding...
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    RAGE Gameplay Performance and Image Quality @ [H]

    I've known that there was a fair bit of anti-fanboyism against id at the top here, I hadn't realized the extent to which this was true until Rage launch day when there was what felt like 8 posts about how much Kyle hates rage. Now I realize many of these games you people play have plenty of...
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    QuakeCon Forums Hacked

    Don't worry, Quakecon is still free.
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    Expanding from Routing & Switching to security

    Hello everyone, I got my CCNP last year and while I enjoy my job, the more I read about security the more interested I become. Now, I've been exposed to enough geek culture over the years to know that you can't just go out and get a couple certs and pretend to competent. I've been reading all...
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    Das Keyboard

    I've been using a DAS keyboard 2 for something like 5 years now and I love it to death. I've never tried one of these newfanged ultimate or professional, but I'd assume they're just as good. I absolutely hate typing on a squishy or flush keyboard (like now :X) and it is always a useful...
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    Quieter PSUs

    Got it thanks, I think I'll buy this psu in an hour or two, thanks everyone.
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    Quieter PSUs

    I've been doing research on the AX750 and it looks great, considering newegg has a 10% off coupon and a rebate for it, also 12 sata connectors is awesome. The one question I have, and it's so basic and likely dumb that the reviews don't bother answering it, is how do I tell if these PSUs...
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    Quieter PSUs

    Good catch. Factoring out the 190w for the rest of the system, doubling it and adding it back in shows 718 so I can see how that's doable. Adding in a few extra HDDs would still leave it under 750W, but is that a big enough margin to be safe?
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    Quieter PSUs

    Were that it not a 2 hour sale when I was unable to buy. :( Raptors are great hard drives but I don't regret the performance of the SSD. I have considered moving my rosewill to the top of my case (as there are two PSU mounts, and using it to power my HDDs with a separate switch to turn off at...
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    Quieter PSUs

    Yeah, RMA'd my enermax 720 3 times before giving up, and my BFG 800 twice. The rosewill has kept chugging along for 2 years. My current specs are: i7 920 GTX570 120gb 2nd gen Intel SSD And about 6-8 Sata hdds that I'd like to power up. As for a noise suppressing case, that's probably a...
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