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    Antec Case & PSU Combo Lucky Draw!!!!!

    I have used Antec quite a bit over the years for both case and PSU needs and they have always taken care of me. Good quality product with a variety of options to suite most any need and budget. Thanks to Kyle and team for partnering Antec.
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    Best practice to partition 750gb HD for Windows 7

    mwroobel thank you for the input on short stroking the drive. In all honesty I did not think what I was suggesting was even considered short stroking. My research had me believing that if a drive was setup in that fashion you had to give up access to the remainder of the disk surface that was...
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    Best practice to partition 750gb HD for Windows 7

    I have a WD Caviar Black 750gb disk with 64mb of cache spinning at 7200 rpm of course. After quite a few forum and Google searches of the web I see some suggestions about setting up a partition for Windows 7 and apps that is one third (1/3) of the overall disk size. The remaining two thirds...
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    TechNet Professional Upgrade: 15% Off Promo Code

    With the current Technet Standard subscription for Windows XP, Windows 7, Office 2007, and Office 2010, you receive 2 keys. You can activate each key 10 times so you get 20 installs of Windows 7 Ultimate, 20 installs of Windows 7 Professional, 20 installs of Windows 7 Home Premium, and so on...
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    SSD to round out i5 2500k build

    Right now I am leaning towards Option 3 and stretching the budget to get a 120GB or 128GB unit as I play a game once in a while. Forceman indicated that SATA II is probably not big limiting factor all the same I wonder if I should be focused on a SATA III drive. I am not Folding, rendering...
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    SSD to round out i5 2500k build

    Thanks for the confirmation on that. Glad I noticed before I ran out and picked one up. It is probably a good little drive if you want to put it into a laptop but that is not what I am looking for Looks like no Intel 310 80GB for me from Best Buy.
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    SSD to round out i5 2500k build

    Looking closely at the specs for the Intel 310 80GB drive shows a couple of things I find interesting. First under the specifications it shows the application as 'laptop' and makes no mention of desktop and I also see reference to SATA Rev 2.6 which appears to be geared towards smaller form...
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    SSD to round out i5 2500k build

    Good catch on the price Forceman but for some unknown reason the BB website is showing the normal list price but on the shelf at the store it shows $119.99 and I believe the price is good through 12/31/2011. I found out about it over the weekend on the Hotdeals forum. The in-store selection of...
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    SSD to round out i5 2500k build

    I have everything I need for a new build including a Gigabyte GA-Z68X-UD3H-B3 board and 750GB WD7502AAEX Caviar Black 7200rpm SATA 6Gb/s with 64MB Cache for a spinner. I had originally convinced myself to pass on an SSD with this build but now that I am ready to assemble I am wavering. What...
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    Corsair "Barebones" Christmas Giveaway!

    I love the quality of Corsair's products. In all the years I have purchased from them I have never had a problem or an RMA. Solid and dependable.
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    Four Weeks of Galaxy Give-Aways!

    I could give my 6870 to my Wife and watch this 580 melt my 22 in Samsung display. It would also give my PSU something to do.
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    Four Weeks of Galaxy Give-Aways!

    This would make a great replacement for the HD6870 in my system.
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    Four Weeks of Galaxy Give-Aways!

    Tossing my hat into the ring to put extra monitors to work.
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    Corsair Giveaway - Force Series™ GT 180GB Solid-State Hard Drive

    I need a Corsair SSD because it will complete my new i5 2500k build that is currently in progress. With a 180GB SSD I will be able to take the new spinner and make it nothing more than a data drive. Rock on Corsair and thank you for supporting HardOCP!
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    Antec SX835-II worth reusing

    Thanks for the link to MNPC. They were trying their level best to get 15 fans into that Lanboy Air and struggled to get there. As you say though the case does seem to have some faults that make the regular price never mind the current special price a bit tough to justify. I'll probably go...
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