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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...

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!

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! :-)

¿¿¿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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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!

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!

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...

While I may be the only person on here, I am looking forward to buying one of these. I have an HTPC that could use a boost, and I'm going to attach a passive cooler to it. I'll report back the temps I get, provided it's not $199!

Well, to answer my own question, there were 6770 and even a 6850 factory made passive cards, though from the review, the 6850 didn't work very well, so I assume the 7750 should be in a similar design spec for heat.

I have an HTPC that I occasionally like to play a game or two on, but must also be near-silent. Currently I have a 9600GT, rated at 95w by NVidia, with a large passive cooler (Accelero S2) I attached that's been working great for 4 years now. Thoughts on if the 7750s might fit within a similar...

Lapping is a without a doubt the best procedure for a performance build or your own machine, but will take more time than the whole rest of a build for a customer's PC, by about 3 or more times probably. I wouldn't expect Intel to expect or even condone the consumer to do that, let alone the...

I successfully returned my bad one, and purchased a good one. Interesting to note other received chips that "ran hot". Downside of having chips with IHSs I guess is we don't get to put our heatsinks right on the dies, adding one more variable to the equation of heat dissipation, and one we can't...

No question the C2D kicks the cr@@p out of the P4. faster and more power efficient in every way.

A lot of places have "special" return policies on CPUs, that suck. Some will give you a hard time about what is really a defect, etc. Once you've opened the box, CPUs can be hard to return. Been there, done that.

Out of the 100+ PCs I have built, this was a new one to me. Wondered if anyone else has received a new CPU with a warped IHS? I'm super glad I bought my CPU from @m@z0n, who lets you return CPUs! Built a new 2500k rig, at first using the stock heatsink and arctic silver 5 smoothed with a...

I have personal experience with the dell, samsung SA850, and HP zr2740w, and I have to say if your are going with gaming, get the HP (matte) or Apple Cinema Display (glossy). Both use the same LG LM270WQ1 panel, they are direct drive and have very smooth video with little lag. The dell and...

Actually, a google search says the the LG LM270WQ1-SDDA panel IS the same model # used in the U2711. As you stated though, backlighting is different. The AG coatings look the same to me, and I've had both.

Considering buying a Z68 mobo and just throwing a cheap $56 dual core Sandy Bridge on it until Ivy Bridge comes out. If I do this, can I still run 1866 or 2133 memory and set the memory multiplier manually, or will it lock me to 1333? I know the CPU multiplier is locked, but is the memory?

The fact that they are running 125w TDP shows this was supposed to be a high-perf chip, where folks wouldn't mind the wattage, and they just blew it. I could understand that they were targeting the midrange price/performance point, if to fight the 2500k they traded performance for low...

Drags, I never took the panel out of the assembly, you don't have to for AG sheet removal. Maybe this will help answer your question? http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/globalcitizenship/environment/productdata/Countries/_MultiCountry/disassembly_monito_201197235232.pdf Says the monitor is a Tatung...

I'm not so sure a "spray" is really a good idea, because you are still looking through the AG and now this coating. I've been doing some reading and I think a replacement film of some sort is the **right** way to go about this mod. The two I've come up with are Photodon MXA and HEA2000K...

Duly noted......

People keep bringing up the disparity in operating income and R&D spending, but somehow, with that disadvantage, AMD was the performance leader from about 2001-2007. When they did it before, did they have equal income or R&D at that time? I think not.

Sure would be nice if Hazro sold those in the USA, look like nice units. I am considering something to put over the polarizer. There has to be a market for selling non-agressive AG sheets or glossy protective sheets. What about ClearBra that is used on cars? I'm considering getting that done to...

I'm not really a gamer, but I do watch a lot of hi-def video and have a TV tuner card, and I have to say there is a significant difference in motion (for the better) with the HP vs my old 19" Dell IPS monitor. That was one of the deciding factors in me keeping this monitor and just removing the...

I do still have the sheet. It is a plastic film almost like seran wrap you would put over food, I have a feeling the blurriness is through the plastic, and not just due to a rough surface you could hit with polishing and rubbing compound. I have some rubbing compound out in the garage though...

You could. This how-to is for folks who already have THIS monitor.

As for risking polarizer damage, I fly single engine aircraft, skydive, and ride a 1000cc motorcycle. This was easy ;-) Haha. Yeah, I agree glossy isn't perfect, I'd prefer a samsungesque AG coating myself. There's a drawback either way with glossy or keeping LG's AG, and glossy has superior...

Unfortunately, I don't have any "before" shots, but here is what it looks like now. Blacks are much "blacker" than they used to be and text is clearer. I took a picture during the middle of the day when it is brightest so you can see the reflections in the glossy screen. Doesn't really bother me...

Yeah John2000, you caught me. I took the pictures after I was already done. Though the instructional value should be the same. I don't think there is anything stopping you from putting on your own superior AG sheet, just be careful not to get any air bubbles in it, etc.

I didn't like the colors or the AG on the u2711, it's older tech, not LED and has serious input lag. it was out fast. I tried a couple of Samsung SA850s, and if the QC on it were good, eg no backlight bleed and unifomity problems, I'd still have it. The AG on the samsung was perfect too, not...

I've found watching video on the zr2740w to be very fluid looking, almost like a 120hz TV. It's got really good uniformity for a LED widescreen monitor too. I tried the samsung SA850 and it had terrible uniformity and backlight bleed. Why buy IPS if the uniformity is gonna suck? My only issue...