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    Who's making moves to get ready for the new release of cards?

    Will the 3070 really be as fast as the 2080TI - or is just that in specific use cases utilize raytracing?
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    Uber now worth 73 billion.

    If full self driving vehicle materialize before Uber goes under - it won't do them a lick of good. Any company with access to capital will be able to buy a bunch of them and put them on the road, the only way to compete will be to charge less than the other providers. If Uber doesn't charge...
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    Asus Trade Up Program for Video Cards

    ...in the UK
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    AMD’s Navi GPU coming July Radeon RX 5700 OFFICIAL

    I'm kind of thinking I will end up getting the cheapest AMD option that exceeds the performance of whatever they decide will go in the PS5. If I'm going to upgrade from my aging GTX970 I want to be at least getting next gen console level graphics performacne.
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    MSI H97 Guard-Pro - Anything Essential Missing?

    I'm looking at picking up a 4970K (i'm coming from a X4 955 BE, so expecting a huge jump in performance. I've been looking at various Z97 motherboards, and just realized there are a bunch of cheaper H97 motherboards available. What are the downsides of buying a middling H97 rather than a...
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    use old memory but new MB + CPU?

    How about a cheap used Laptop? If your tech is that old its not going to rock great performance.
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    Fundraiser to Support ‘NSA-Proof’ Email Gets Off to a Roaring Start

    Anyone know how this service compares to Countermail?
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    Even Yahoo Employees Hate Yahoo Mail

    What kind of foofoo company 'asks' its employees to switch their corporate email? Those kinds of things are usually decrees from management. Marissa Myers needs to grow a pair:)
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    Intel Retail Edge "The Summer Deal": i7 3770k starting $60+shipping, i7 3930k $150+sh

    Man, I wish Shareholders were eligible for this!
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    Foxconn Is Looking To Set Up Factories In The US

    Read the article... "DigiTimes says its unlikely the U.S. plants would be making iPhones because they are too labor intensive. Instead, they could be making LCD TVs which are more automated." Probably a few decent paying jobs to be had keeping the robots running, but not a lot of low skill...
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    Best Buy Employees Feel Threatened By Amazon

    Amazon started charging tax here lately..and I thought that would make me buy more stuff from physical stores. But I've gotten used to shopping from the computer - I don't want to waste time and gas going to a store anymore. Unless Bestbuy starts selling Milk and Bread I can't imagine I will...
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    Poor teacher needs help with buying computer

    "random web surfing to sometimes questionable websites(don't judge- I'm inquisitive)" Have you had someone computer savvy look at your computer? Maybe you have installed some bloatware from these sites...I'm not sure if that is a problem with MACs or not. Perhaps simply purging the junk from...
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