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So for those in the Chicago area, you would know alot of homes got floods. Our basement had nothing important but we still had about 4-5ft of water come in for a few hours and besides some parts from my Car project (Rear seats and T5 transmission :confused:) nothing was harmed. Although today...

So, I haven't been paying much attention to this hobby in a while, my automotive has been keeping me busy and taking all the cash away. Which caused me to sell my 9800GTX which served me very well even with my monitor upgrade to 1920x1200. Right now this 8600gt is doing its job fine with TF2 but...

Hopefully some info can be given but worth a shot. So basically my uncle being the dumbnut he is, He ''accidentally'' dropped the faceplate of his headunit and the screen cracked and is unusable. Everything works fine and I can even navigate through CD's fine from memory where things where...

I for one love the murdermod sleeving look and I saw these today when finding a 24 pin extension for a friend. They look pretty good and I might pull the trigger to try them out. Well just the 6 pin, 8 pin and 24 pin. Clicky

1) What will you be doing with this PC? Gaming? Photoshop? Web browsing? etc Gaming, Child quality PS. 2) What's your budget? Are tax and shipping included? He says $350, depending on what his mom thinks at the time. 3) Where do you live? NY 4) What exact parts do you need for that...

So how does it? The CM 212 is looking very good for the price or upgrading to the new 120. Right now it's lapped and gives me temps of 31~ idle with cores @ 44-46. Load is right under 70 for each core and cpu is around 65C. How would a cooler upgrade do?

So I am looking to buy one of the following chips. Feel free to pm me with price and info on the chip if you have one available. Payment will be CC Confirmed Paypal. I have rep under Carlospartbuyer on ebay. I also have made a few deals from members here locally which I can have them confirm :p

So I am about to make the switch back to AMD from my 775 setup. I was wondering if there is any reason to go and pay a bit more for a AM3/DDR3 board over keeping my current ram and getting a AM3/AM2+/AM2 board. As far as I can see all the current chips are supported by the boards, Are future...

So I got an offer my Q9550 that I could not resist (Trade for automotive parts) and I am back on my E5200 which has really been bugging me lately. Just normal multitasking it feels very sluggish and lately with my new game purchases I cant even touch it when installing games without going into...

So I bought the game from a friend and the game seems like it runs perfectly but after about an average of 6-8 minutes of gametime, I crash to the desktop with a EXE has stopped working. I remember this game being on sale during the past Steam/DD sale, Is anyone having a problem with it on...

So anyone purchase this game yet? One of my friends told me about it and seemed very interesting. I downloaded the demo and it felt fine on keyboard/mouse. Of course this game is not gonna appeal to everyone but here is the demo for those interested. The Lan/Multiplayer part of the game seems...

So recently my 9800GTX seems to be overheating. Which it has never done before, With the clocks in sig the card usually never goes over 65C and plays fine for countless hours. Recently it has been causing alot of crashing problems and spiking up to the 72C range and the card does not handle it...

Posting this from a friend. His current psu is a Antec EarthWatts 430W. Would it be fine to power his changing rig? His specs are: AMD Phenom x3 720 @ 3.2Mhz 4GB (4x1GB) @ DDR2 667 Gigabyte MA-785G-UD3H XFX 5770 Seagate 320GB Sata 2 Opticals Will it be fine or recommended to...

Well I am about to replace my TT Thunderblades for something more quite and more stylish. Anyone have these fans or the orange versions. How are they? Quite rating? Air Flow? I have seen some pictures of some pc's with the orange version and they seem alright but orange is not my color. Any...

Antec TP-550 ''Truepower New'' Mushkin Enhanced 550250 BFG Tech BFGE550WPSU How are these power supplies? Good to power the rig in sig perfectly?

So what would be a decent monitor to upgrade from a 17' crt and not sacrifice quality from the upgrade? I really do not mind the resolution but it would be nice to have to save some space from that the crt takes up. So what would be the logical buy for the following budgets? $100-$150...

Well I haven't really looked that well into Ati's 5000 series but I am wondering what you guys would think a worthwhile upgrade would be from my 9800GTX (65nm). I run the card 825/2026/1225 24/7 (Temperatures never go above 65C with fan speed @ 100%). What would be a worthy upgrade? I am on...

So I have some extra money and besides getting maybe some AS5 and a Wheel, I was wondering if it would be wise to upgrade my psu now but I am wondering what you guys think. As for my current psu its a OCZ 600W StealthXStream that I got on 10/03/2008. I have heard mix things about this power...

So its been a while since i have purchased a recent console, my last purchase was a used PS2 for around $65 5+ years ago. I figured with the extra cash it would be nice to keep the hobby alive by adding a console to my gaming arsenal. I spent a good week deciding over PS3 or either a 360 (I...

So right now i have a T-Mobile pre-paid plan and i pretty much use my phone to talk to friends/family and the casual texting. As much as i like the freedom of the pre-paid thing its just not doing it for me. I put $35-40 on average monthly and i eat through the minutes like a fat chick eating...

I am building a up to date computer for my birthday that is coming in a few days and this computer is not needed anymore! I need it gone to buy something for my car project. Once again this gaming rig is only for sale locally in Chicago (I am located around 60632). Here is the rig. Lian Li...

So i have been using regular phones for over 5 years, all from motorola i835 to almost every style of the razr and im tired of em. Im looking into getting a decent phone that will last me for a while, and so far im looking at the Sidekick LX and Blackjack 2. Im leaning towards the Blackjack 2...

So I'm in a pickle. Paycheck is coming by the end of the week and i have some extra money coming in as well from other parts i have been selling lately. After thats all said and done i am gonna have some money to upgrade my rig a bit more. Probably a budget of $200 for now until i get Christmas...

Like the tittle says, Im looking for a power supply/board for one of my monitors. The board i need is a DAC-19M001/A I am also looking to see if anyone has a Blackjack 1 or 2 available for sale before i pull the trigger from one on ebay. Last and not least, I'm in the market for a new LCD...

Hello, I'm looking to sell a old 939 rig i have had laying around and have no plans to finish up and get running. As the tittle says, For now the rig is strictly pick up in the Chicago area (Located @ 60632). If interests are great i might consider parting out the major parts and shipping them...

So im in the market for a new monitor and then i realized i had a decent monitor that just needs to be fixed. I was thinking if i can get some help from here before i go out and see how much it would cost me to get it fixed. Anyways the Lcd is a Westinghouse 19 inch lcd (ill get the model if...

So i got my new hard drive installed and im in kinda of a pickle. First off its not being fully detected by windows, meaning in the device manager its just registered as Disk Drive, and its not showing up on my computer. Windows did install its own drivers for it, but im wondering if i have to...

So im in the market for a new case, and i was looking into this game to replace my Aerocool masstige. Anyone own this case or worked with it? Im looking at or trying to find reviews for it as i type this, but i would love to see it in action from those who own it and lurk these forums :cool:

So i got my hands on a new hard drive and im wondering what good programs are there to move things over to the new hard drive. So far i found 2 which are Nortons Ghost and HDClone. I recall vista having a built in feature but from the looks of it, Windows 7 does not :( So what programs...

So i recently sold my backup computer to a friend for $150 (helluva deal when you see the specs). He was asking me that he has some extra cash since i sold it cheap to him and wonders what he should upgrade next. I have been out of the tech scene for a while and only know about video cards at...

So i know mods for Cod4 exist that make the game look better, so im sure their are a few around for WaW. Where can i find them or if anyone is kind enough to point me in the right direction :cool:

Everytime i start up the game i get a Buffer overrun C++ error. Anyone else know how to fix this? I am currently reinstalling the game and if i cant find a fix im going back to Windows vista :mad: So i looked it up and most complaints about this error was concerning malware/adware and i am 100%...

So i was messing around with my backup computer cause im thinking of selling it and i noticed that things ran very slow, meaning when either installing a game or something similar, it will make the computer freeze up when doing other simple things like browsing on firefox or just plainly...

1) Mostly gaming, Web browsing. 2) $600-800 3) PA 4) Everything 5) None 6) No 7) 1280x1024, At most an upgrade to a 1680. 8) Now 9) Just need one for gaming 10) Yup Here is what the build i put together looks like for him looks like, The computer will be mostly be used to play...

So after much thinking, i have to tone things down and sell my computer to help my car project a bit. So my loss is your gain. I have my Computer up for sale for a Local Area pickup, Which is in the Chicago 60632 Area. The Specs: Cpu - E5200 (Batch# 3833A365) /Tuniq 120 W/ TT Thunderblade...

So i picked this baby up a few days ago to replace my aging Speedstream 4100. Everything was fine until yesterday. The problem is that sometimes (Random intervals) the internet icon would go out and would reconnect a few secs later (20-30). Is this my side or isp side? Im wondering if anyone...

Gonna post this before i head out, Anyways, Gonna upgrade my 775 plat to DDR3 due to a trade and its just gonna cost me the ram and a good amount of waiting time til the 790i comes from step up. I was looking at the following 2 kits: G.Skill Pi Blacks & OCZ Reaper I have been...

So im trading my V10 for a 780i board soon, and im wondering since the board is evga and according to my buddy he has not had it for long, if evga has the same Gpu Step up program for their motherboards? Thinking of going for a 790i and upgrading to DDR3. Also, If so, He has to do this since...

I have another sale! With the Sucess of my last local thread, here is whats left over, which seems to be just video games. Once again this is just local for now, but if some are just interested in just the keys, Give me a pm we can work something out very cheap for it. Games for sale...

So heres my story, I started playing according to payment history on 1/28/07 to 11/28/08, I stopped playing fulltime due to Pvp servers being opened for pve transfers and everyone i used to pvp with transferring over to the nubfest at Tich (BG9) and then quiting after failing. I stopped playing...