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    Shoprunner gone from Newegg?

    The Customer reps must have been told later today, I chatted with one around 10:30EST, and she gave me some line about only valid on eligible items, didn't really answer my question about why I couldn't FIND ANY eligible items. What sucks is the Newegg Premier is 3-day shipping instead of 2-day...
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    Shoprunner gone from Newegg?

    I can't seem to get Shoprunner or the login to come up as a shipping option for any items on Newegg today. Did they finally quit Shoprunner, as they're pushing "Newegg Premier"? Can anyone else get Shoprunner to come up as a shipping option on anything? This really sucks!
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    Glossy HP zr2740w How-To (AG Removal)

    You think this was hard to take apart, try one of those Dell All-In-One touchscreen PCs with a dead touchscreen. Good grief are those things a terrible design! :-)
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    Glossy HP zr2740w How-To (AG Removal)

    ¿¿¿I didn't have to do any unclipping on the sides of my inner bezel???? Just a few screws and off it came. Just an update, I still have my screen "unprotected" as it is, and being that I don't have kids or pets poking at it, it has been fine. I have been thinking of getting a piece of glass...
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    Returning my buggy 7850, wait for GTX 660?

    I did, this is my 2nd Sapphire. I think the whole AMD ULPS scheme is fubar, as a lot of people just seem to disable it in the registry or with a tool. Even the Sapphire TRIXX tool has a check box to disable ULPS. I have a feeling going Asus won't solve those issues. Performance-wise, the the...
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    Returning my buggy 7850, wait for GTX 660?

    My Sapphire 7850 has given me one too many issues, coming out of ULPS "ZeroCore" and spooling the fans during sleep (annoying), artifacts in a couple games, now one of the Sapphire fans makes a grinding noise occasionally when spooling up. It's going back. I'm thinking of picking up an Asus...
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    7850 not stay or going into Zero power mode

    Yes, easily disabled. As I noted in my previous post, having any type of screen saver active will stop it from going into ultra low power state. Even the "none" selected as the screen saver, will stop it. I have set the time to 9999 minutes so it doesn't activate the screen saver, or the fans...
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    7850 not stay or going into Zero power mode

    When my 7850 shuts the display off after 5 minutes, and the card goes into low power and shuts the fans off, he fans randomly spool up for a few seconds, about every 30 - 90 seconds thereafter. This is really annoying in an otherwise quiet room. It's a Sapphire twin fan 7850. Disabling...
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    AMD 7850 help for a friend

    I know this is a sore spot, but the drivers for the 7850 are iffy right now. I know, I own one. Is he running the current 12.4 drivers? Maybe straighten some things out. Also, his BIOS settings may affect it, such as video ram cacheable, etc. Maybe reset his BIOS to performance defaults of...
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    Radeon 7850 Artifacting

    I played around with my new Sapphire 7850, dual-fan model, this weekend. After playing for a while in Operation Flashpoint Red River I get tearing/artifacting, sometimes the game will start locking up. Never did this until the new card, previous card was an HD5670. I'm running the latest...
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    More affordable Keplers: GTX 660, 670, etc

    While there is a lot of well deserved excitement surrounding the GTX 680's release, has there been any speculation on the performance or comparison to AMD of the GTX 660s and 670s? I'm wondering if the 660 might even be power efficient enough for a large passive cooler....
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    ati/amd 7800

    I'm surprised we don't know when the NDA expires.... Being the the 7700s and 7900s were "hard launched" with cards available that day, I'm hoping to have a 7800 next week. We have also seen a couple of "pre-orders" show up on Google Shopping the day or two before release, but there is no...
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    Best bang-for-buck in the $100-150 pricerange?

    It's amazing how cheap the Radeon 6000 cards are on eBay right now. Prices in the $180s shipped for a 6950 unlocked to a 6970!
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    Radeon HD7770 coming very soon. 1Ghz clocks

    Well, they're up on google shopping now for preorder at $179. Specs at 1150MHz GDDR5 and a 1020MHz GPU clock. Hope some vendors are a little cheaper, that's more than I can buy a new 6870 for!
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    Radeon HD7770 coming very soon. 1Ghz clocks

    Yeah, I think the retail price will tell if this card will be a success or not. Since 6850s can be had in the $129 price range, if they start asking $179+ for the GDDR5 versions of these, it just won't be worth it. They did a similar overpricing move when the 66xx and 67xxs came out. You could...
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