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I've purchased EVGA video cards since the 7800 GT came out in 2006. I just bought my 27th video card from them a few months ago. To say I will miss them is an understatement.

I got in on this a few days ago via Slickdeals: they had the 240 GB listed for 59.99. I ordered it for local pickup, but when I went to get it a 120 GB was waiting for me instead. I showed them my email for the 240 GB order and they swapped it out for the correct size. They said that their...

This is the same exact thing I am doing...I finally have a reason to upgrade from my GTX 680 SLI setup. Should be worth it for heat reasons alone.

In for two, I cannot resist. Already have four of these, as I always have some mad tinkering project that will benefit from these. Great for a media center where everything is stored on 4 TB mechanical drives, or for breathing new life into an old laptop.

So the TIM will be enough by itself once set? That's good to know. Thanks! schizrade: I feel that. I remember having to invest in those 462 copper shim covers to protect my old Barton chip under a very heavy Thermalright SP-97 heatsink. Those were the days. But since I'm not going bare core on...

I'm going to delid my 3770k, and I have been researching the process. My only question is if I should bother re-securing the lid afterwards? I see some people use silicone sealant to keep it back on, where others don't bother and just say to be careful when locking it back into the socket. Would...

I've been seeing this pop up at my repair shop in one form or another since early last year...a truly devious thing. I've seen fake encrypting viruses for a while (not really encrypted, just hidden behind an impassable logon screen), but this is the first variant I've seen that actually does it...

Aw man. Sudden memories of my Abit NF7-S v2.0 with a huge Thermalright copper cooler on an Athlon XP-M 2500+ Barton (@ 2.5 ghz, no less). My first true fire-breathing rig...good times. I think my friend was still using it as a file server until the caps blew two years ago. It could still serve...

Installed it is 14.7 GB, no other game needed.

I've been waiting for this to drop for yearrrrrs...and now I'm playing it. I'll be seeding the Gameupdates.org torrent for a loooong time. Tips for people installing this game: Do 'XP Compatibility mode' and 'Run as Administrator' for the shortcut: this avoids certain crashes and bugginess...

Ho-lee-crap. I was just about to throw some of my old Core 2 Quad Extremes on eBay...and then I see this. Nnnnnope. I'll go to Craigslist now before eBay. They have become way too anti-seller.

Just to clarify, I would get a 750 gb 840 Pro...if they made one. 500 gb just doesn't do it for me anymore.

It's about as good as it get's right now. http://camelcamelcamel.com/Samsung-Electronics-EVO-Series-2-5-Inch-MZ-7TE750BW/product/B00E3W1ALE

Evo is cheaper mostly due to manufacturing methods. The Pro uses a different type of NAND: it uses MLC, which is older but faster. The regular 840 and the Evo use TLC, which is newer and cheaper to produce. Also, the Pro's MLC NAND is supposed to last much longer. However, this would only matter...

I missed out a few weeks ago when this was on sale and the price skyrocketed to nearly 400 bucks when I tried to snag one. It seems to have finally settled down back to that sale price from before, so there it is. :D...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague Fascinating reading: "A major cause of the plague of faulty capacitors was industrial espionage in connection with the theft of an electrolyte formula. A researcher is suspected of having taken, when moving from Japan to Taiwan, the secret...

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This stuff is good for certain applications. Worked wonderfully on my wife's umbrella, but basically ruined my black leather loafers. I can't see this stuff working on any leather or suede, as it turns them a frosted bluish white, like they were left outside in Siberia during the winter or...

I jumped on the GA-Z77X-UD5H and i5 3570K, it's so nice to be getting over 500 mbps speeds on my Crucial M4 finally (boo for cruddy Marvell chips under performing on my X58 board)! This chip at stock nearly performs at the same level as my i7-950 at 4 Ghz overclock...once I get better ram, I'll...

Sorry, meant 990FX, my bad. I had started MemTest yesterday, and came in to find the system had shut off sometime in the night. Looks like an RMA will have to happen if it can't even run MemTest! Thank you all for your help.

It has the latest 0901 BIOS. The system is 100% stock, except for the bumped VDDA and NB voltages. It has a fresh Windows 7 64bit install. It's fine when idling, but stressing it will lower that VDDA until system shutoff. In fact, when I first checked out the system, the Windows Experience Index...

One of my colleagues has recently upgraded his gaming rig (990X with latest BIOS, FX-8150, 16 GB GSkill Sniper memory, EVGA 550 Ti, Antec Earthwatts 850 watt psu), and it has a very peculiar problem: the VDDA voltage slowly drops over time until the system shuts down. It starts off at 2.5 volts...

You know, I'd get antsy if I were to mess around inside a power supply like that...those capacitors aren't something I'd go near. :eek: I'll mod anything else, but I just can't see myself desoldering wires inside one. I'd either put more effort into cable management or get a modular power supply.

I've recently been dealing with the same exact issues. I thought my card was borked, but I followed this guide and for now my issues have not yet returned to plague me. Nvidia drivers can be a bitch to completely remove, but it can be done. I especially condone disabling Windows Update and...

I could definitely use it, my current card croaked :(.

I remember it being a huge thing for me to upgrade to a Geforce MX440 so I could completely dominate Age of Empires 2. I even painstakingly epoxied heatsinks to the memory chips for max performance! Then an MSI 5700GT came packed with Morrowind...good times were had...replacements for better...

Oh man...I bit. I hope my save games still work...as well as the many mods I installed. It's like 2006 all over again, with an Opteron 165 and a 7800 GT. :D

Seasonic: Synonymous with quiet, stable power.

So how will I know if they ever supply more keys? I've repeatedly tried to create a Relic account, and it spits out 'your product key is incorrect' and refuses to let me do anything. Am I supposed to fill out all this information several times a day, praying for a valid key? In fact, the 'Tales...

I am guilty of the same exact thing. I have the 512 GB version and it's pretty amazing. I guess my media center's getting an upgrade...

Lovely deal. In for one!:D

Is it my imagination, or does this thing look almost exactly like a rebranded Corsair H-50? This would be a good thing, because I have two of the Corsair units and am looking for a third.

http://www.runtime.org/raid-recovery-windows.htm I know someone already posted with this company's software, but I have had a great deal of success with this particular program: it will recreate any known RAID array via the software (i.e. you don't need a board with Nvidia RAID for example to...

Just snagged it on Newegg for $789.99. I can't wait, it will be my first time getting away from RAID 0 in over three years. Also, thankfully I have no issues when using Acronis to clone SSD drives. The Crucial drive benchmarks noticeably higher than the Intel one, so this should prove interesting.

Ha, obviously I have no idea how to do quotes properly. Oh well.

Looks like I'll be getting this soon (sorry Intel, but if I can't find your product, I can't purchase your product!), thanks for the replies. On a related note, how do you find the firmware updates for Crucial SSD products? I can't find anything on their website at all for this.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148444 This is the drive I am currently considering for my yearly-ish upgrade on my main desktop (in my bio). I am a bit leery of...well, just about any SSD manufacturer other than Intel. However, the drive I really want (Intel 600 GB...

As far as businesses are concerned, they are slaves to their software...sometimes ancient ones as the case may be. I remember one company that wanted to upgrade, but they were using some stupid revision of some program (old version of ACT or something, can't remember) that required the use of XP...

I grabbed a few this weekend and installed one into my wife's quad core 775 system. Dead silent, and it handles OCCT, Prime95 and Orthos tests rather well: I could only get it to 62 degrees maximum after all my various stress tests. I'll be putting the other into my media center.