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    Corsair "Barebones" Christmas Giveaway!

    I like Corsair because: Never have a had a DOA or bad hardware from them. Customer service is awesome! Their products always perform as advertised.
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    AMD Bulldozer / FX-8150 Desktop Performance Review @ [H]ardOCP

    They should have skipped this release cycle and invested more money into something better. This makes me think their vid card division is going to fall as well.
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    Anatomy of a Computer Virus

    Good stuff, both videos. I liked that he thought it was fortunate that the USA was the global cyberspace power in the linked video by hescominsoon.
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    Call of Duty: Black Ops Escalation Pack Coming To PSN

    I thought the soldier was a conjoined twin at first...:)
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    British MI6 Sweetly Hacks Al Qaeda Website

    Hearts and Minds...
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    New processor or ssd?

    SSD all the way. Dramatic improvement in speed.
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    Anonymous Leaks 10,000 ‘Top Secret’ Iranian Gov’t Emails

    Me too. I think 10k PRC emails would have a much greatly likelihood of revealing something useful. I don't understand why someone would say those files are 'Top Secret'. The passport and visa stuff would be labeled 'Confidential' by American standards.
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    Guys--Help me out.

    Don't get a plasma or those bose whatever they do. Denon makes fantastic receivers, that one looks nice. I like Infinity, Boston Acoustics, and Cerwin-Vega for home audio.
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    Motherboard Manufacturer Links

    lol, Good ole FX, HX, TX, and VX chipsets... If I remember correctly HX was the beast of that bunch of 486DX2, 486DX4, 5x86 lovin!
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    Right on the edge? HX620 for 6950 CF setup?

    It will work, but I would not do that. I'd allow for at least a 20% overhead on the power, its safe and allows room for future add ons. If something goes wrong or the parts you order do not perform exactly as expected something will go wrong.
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    MW3 trailer

    lol, the trailer sucked and I thought it was going to be mech warrior. Double let down! hahaha
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    How Do You Calculate Your Needed Wattage?

    A quality power supply is pretty even despite a low or high load. If I put a 1500w power supply on a budget system that pulls 300w max it would be just fine. Its a waste of money, but it would work.
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    How Do You Calculate Your Needed Wattage?

    Good advice, I just round up what the manufacturer says for TDP. If the proc is 130w TDP calculate 150w..etc
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    Run 2nd GTX 480 on separate psu?

    Yeah I am, and you are correct. Im just an old school analog guy! lol But hey, it could go wrong... lol And as far as kind of wiring does not matter I do disagree on that point. A paper clip can lead to problems.
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    Run 2nd GTX 480 on separate psu?

    Flux = circuits or crappy PSU without rectifier smoothing circuit built in. That reservoir cap can make a difference on initial startup "in this situation", even with common ground shared. You are right, and like my last statement, just use decent wiring and parallel it and it should be fine.
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    Run 2nd GTX 480 on separate psu?

    Power supplies convert AC to DC. AC amplifiers are rated RMS and modern DC power supplies are rated with an 80+ standard. When converting AC to DC a drop in current happens, other components such as transformers and filters work the voltage down to what is needed, 12v, 5v etc... When two PSUs...
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    PSU wattage question

    No such thing as perfect transducers. You will always have a drop when converting energy.
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    850 Watt good for possible build?

    Id guestimate about 700w peak power for that rig.
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    400W enough for a short time?

    For that kind of computer I would use any cheap 400+ watt ps. 450 would be good for that and a 80$ 650w would allow room to upgrade.
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    Run 2nd GTX 480 on separate psu?

    It would work fine if turned on/phased directly at power on. Make sure you use the same dogleg for external power as well. I do not recommend it, you are doubling failure factor along with possible user error.
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    Navy Laser Sets Ship on Fire

    100kW lasers are not what we want. As mentioned above I would say this test was to test accuracy and targeting systems. A military grade FEL laser will be in the Megawatt range. THESE LASERS ARE PULSED, So lets say its a 5MW laser. A very long pulse length would be 1/1000 of a second. Thats 5MW...
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    Navy Laser Sets Ship on Fire

    Indeed they are. The power of the laser is a so what. High power lasers are pulsed and I imagine that some sort of sensory feedback that receives the light or other reflected energy is keeping it on track. GPS would not be accurate enough to keep it focused at one spot on the motor. Think about...
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    Unlocking X2 555

    Quote: Originally Posted by Brilhasti View Post I purchased 2x 555's. One was on a M4A88T-EVO and another on a M4A88TD-M. Both of them unlocked to 4 cores. They both hit 4ghz with Cooler Master TX3. After about 4 hours of prime the EVO was 50c and my TD-M was 48c. Good luck, everything worked...
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    Unlocking X2 555

    I purchased 2x 555's. One was on a M4A88T-EVO and another on a M4A88TD-M. Both of them unlocked to 4 cores. They both hit 4ghz with Cooler Master TX3. After about 4 hours of prime the EVO was 50c and my TD-M was 48c. Good luck, everything worked out great for me.
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    HardOCP Question on SSD

    Intel, Crucial, Micron
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    2010 GOTY Awards

    PC-Fallout New Vegas PS3-GoW3 XBOX-Mass Effect 2
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    3DMark11 Score

    P1402
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    570, 6970, or 580 for my new build

    6970!
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