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HOT! MSI Twin Frozer GTX 650Ti Boost 2GB....$139.99 ar!!

Hm. Not a bad deal, though the PNY model has been $20 less a couple of times in the last three weeks.
- Eyeless Blond
- Post #4
- Jun 13, 2013
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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HOT! MSI Nvidia GTX 650Ti Boost 2GB for $139.49 after rebate!!

Hm... can you run this and a 3570K off of an Earthwatts 380?
- Eyeless Blond
- Post #14
- May 5, 2013
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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EVGA Nvidia GTX 650 1GB GDDR5 $71.99 ar!!

Anyone know how silent these are? Looks like a double-slot cooler with a fairly open grill, which isn't bad, anyone know more about how loud this thing can get?
- Eyeless Blond
- Post #7
- Apr 24, 2013
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Silicon Dust HDHomeRunPrime $130 shipped

I've got a problem I've been wrestling with for awhile now. My house has five TVs--three standard def, two HDTVs. Is there any relatively affordable way to get all five set up with these, or should I just concentrate on the HDTVs?
- Eyeless Blond
- Post #6
- Sep 2, 2012
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Chemical principals of resurrecting a phone dropped in water or salt water.

The alcohol isn't as important as the deionized/distilled water. First priority is getting any trace salts off of your phone, which can draw moisture from the air and cause a short. This is what the distilled water is for; you can get a bottle of it at most grocery stores (and you can keep the...
- Eyeless Blond
- Post #11
- Sep 1, 2012
- Forum: Mobile Devices
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Buckyballs 45% off, free shipping

Heh, I'll just wait for Zen Magnets to dump *their* inventory. :) Although I would rather like to get a "chemistry set": -125 black -32 * 2-4 bars -plus 10 of every other color All the stuff, in other words, that Zen doesn't have. Wonder how much they'd charge for that...
- Eyeless Blond
- Post #19
- Jul 29, 2012
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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*DEAD* Sapphire HD 6950 OC w/Battlefield 3 and Dirt 3, $200 shipped or $190 AR *DEAD*

Limit one rebate per household, so unless you have a vacation home (or a good friend/family member etc etc) it's 190+200 = 390.
- Eyeless Blond
- Post #4
- Jun 30, 2012
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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4/29 @ Tigerdirect: Intel i5-3570K $209.99, (189.99 after MIR)

Back in stock, but it's showing 209.99 after rebate now.
- Eyeless Blond
- Post #6
- Apr 30, 2012
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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4/29 @ Tigerdirect: Intel i5-3570K $209.99, (189.99 after MIR)

What's a good motherboard for this CPU? I'm starting to think I need an upgrade, but I haven't been keeping up with the Intel side of MBs for awhile.
- Eyeless Blond
- Post #3
- Apr 29, 2012
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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For TMOUS: Galaxy Nexus vs. HTC One S (Update: Bought the Nexus)

Amazon doesn't charge tax in CA so it was a no-brainer for me. You can also buy an extended warranty on Amazon (through Squaretrade).
- Eyeless Blond
- Post #42
- Apr 19, 2012
- Forum: Mobile Devices
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For TMOUS: Galaxy Nexus vs. HTC One S (Update: Bought the Nexus)

That last bit sealed the deal for me, or rather for my sister since she's the one getting a new phone. You can find the Nexus for $150 less, it has a higher res screen, and, most importantly, there's not going to be any carrier nonsense about delaying Jelly Bean for 5+ months. Right now I've...
- Eyeless Blond
- Post #19
- Apr 19, 2012
- Forum: Mobile Devices
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SanDisk Extreme 120GB $110 @ Buy.com - OOS

You sure about the SATA II? Everywhere I look seems to say SATA III, including other websites. I'm still going to wait until I can find a similar deal on Tiger or Amazon (CA tax basically kills all these deals until they get even cheaper), but I've so far been hearing good things about this SSD.
- Eyeless Blond
- Post #3
- Apr 18, 2012
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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(dead) hp to sell touchpads on ebay

Wait, wasn't the accessory bundle supposed to be on sale too?
- Eyeless Blond
- Post #84
- Dec 11, 2011
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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MSI E-350 ITX mobo $60 AR FS

Anyone know if there's a way to replace the small, whiny fan on one of these with a larger passive heatsink, or is that something you usually have to buy a special board for? I've been considering something like this for a small HTPC frontend, but the tiny fans on most of these boards is a bit...
- Eyeless Blond
- Post #7
- Nov 29, 2011
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Ceton InfiniTV 4 Quad-tuner Card $220 newegg

It doesn't seem to be cheap either, at least as far as I can tell. I'm looking into setting up a five-TV household with a Myth-TV setup, and I can't get it done for under $1500-2000, as far as I can tell, maybe more. It's expensive enough that I may as well just pay for the set top boxes from...
- Eyeless Blond
- Post #20
- Nov 27, 2011
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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costco has 3TB WD usb 3.0 for $109.99

I'd have a problem with the morality issue if these companies weren't busily price-gouging everyone. It's clear that, for a corporation, "morality" means "do whatever won't get you arrested," and in that light lying to get a warranty fulfilled isn't a moral hazard, so much as it is giving them...
- Eyeless Blond
- Post #20
- Nov 16, 2011
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Seagate 1TB SATA 2 7200 RPM drive - $66.49 at Best Buy.

Ugh, it has been a frustrating day. Went to Office Depot; manager refused to pricematch, "because there are shortages everywhere due to the flooding." Well, yeah, why would I be trying to pay $59 after taxes for a 1tb hard drive if there wasn't a shortage? BB SAID they had it in stock, but...
- Eyeless Blond
- Post #15
- Nov 15, 2011
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Consumer Alert - Buy Hard Drives Now. Prices To Rise.

This is starting to get a bit afield of the topic, but in reality we've already seen what happens with option 1: the Gilded Age. The way it works is that a large monopoly (or small group of monopolies coordinating between themselves) consolidate their power across the entire country, then when a...
- Eyeless Blond
- Post #141
- Nov 8, 2011
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Win7 h-prem 3-pac $99 @ frys

Well, they're also trying to push Windows 8 out the door next year, so maybe people are just waiting for the next version (and after that Windows 9 will be out in 2014, so may as well wait for that, and...)
- Eyeless Blond
- Post #10
- Apr 29, 2011
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Avoiding nuclear meltdown

Why not? It doesn't seem to hurt many other animals. Really, people love to get all heated up over radiation (a leftover from some nasty Cold War coverups), but honestly after the crisis itself the long term effects of radioactive contamination probably won't be nearly as bad as most people think.
- Eyeless Blond
- Post #23
- Mar 17, 2011
- Forum: Ask a Technical Professional
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The Atrix and the Future of Docking Phone - Netbooks

The Atrix seems to use a customized Ubuntu distribution when docked, so it has a trackpad. It seems like that would be the obvious place to put the phone, rather than having it dangle off the back.
- Eyeless Blond
- Post #7
- Mar 15, 2011
- Forum: Ask a Technical Professional
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Which form of personal computer will be most common in the future?

Smartphone with a roll-out screen, that can thus become a tablet when necessary. Then, when you get to your home/job workstation, the RGB laser projector on the back powers up and gives you an effective 30-inch screen to do your work on, while docking wirelessly with your keyboard and mouse (and...
- Eyeless Blond
- Post #4
- Mar 14, 2011
- Forum: Ask a Technical Professional
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The Atrix and the Future of Docking Phone - Netbooks

The way the Atrix lapdock looks seems to be an enormous missed opportunity to me. Would it not be better to slide the phone in front of the dock, and let the phone take the place of the trackpad? Heck, while it's there it can be the trackpad, and a smaller second screen at the same time, all the...
- Eyeless Blond
- Thread
- Mar 14, 2011
- Replies: 7
- Forum: Ask a Technical Professional
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10 inch netbook with amd e-350

Well the HP is $100 cheaper than that $550 Vaio (in my opinion Sony hasn't made a single product worth buying in nearly ten years), but as far as I know nobody has a Brazos laptop with USB 3 yet. It's kinda funny: the highest-speed interconnect I can get out of my dm1z is the gigabit...
- Eyeless Blond
- Post #5
- Mar 10, 2011
- Forum: Laptops
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Zacate 11.6" laptop now available from HP

I do rather wish Anand had compared the dm1z to other netbook screens. I did notice that the other screens it was being compared with were from much more expensive notebooks with IPS screens, which was especially noticeable considering the processor itself was being compared with Atom. Then...
- Eyeless Blond
- Post #134
- Mar 2, 2011
- Forum: Laptops
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Zacate 11.6" laptop now available from HP

Follow the link: the program basically backs up your registration key so you can restore it after you wipe out the HD. No need to type in the Product Key during the reinstall, no need to call MS for their Mother-May-I, nada. BTW, it is a good idea to reinstall some of the HP software. Most...
- Eyeless Blond
- Post #127
- Feb 23, 2011
- Forum: Laptops
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Zacate 11.6" laptop now available from HP

Even easier: backup your activation and restore it on the new install. I did it when reinstalling the OS onto an SSD; it works like a dream.
- Eyeless Blond
- Post #123
- Feb 23, 2011
- Forum: Laptops
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Brazos Testing Requests

Drat! For the sake of completeness, could you at least update the review to mention that there is integrated fan controller software? I'd have never ordered the laptop if I had heard it was noisy (a bit of a quiet freak myself).
- Eyeless Blond
- Post #50
- Feb 23, 2011
- Forum: Laptops
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Brazos Testing Requests

Heh, right. I should have kept that in mind, too. Is it the Support Assistant that keeps popping up, or the Software Update? Honestly, there's so much crapware installed on HP laptops I just nuked it all and just installed the pieces that were recommended by the enthusiasts on HP's forums...
- Eyeless Blond
- Post #47
- Feb 22, 2011
- Forum: Laptops
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Brazos Testing Requests

BTW, do we know if that readout from CPUID is actually accurate? I mean, after installing software and the like I can feel the air blowing out of the exhaust, and it doesn't feel anything like 150-degrees; maybe the CPU temp is being reported incorrectly?
- Eyeless Blond
- Post #37
- Feb 22, 2011
- Forum: Laptops
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Brazos Testing Requests

Re. the recent review: Did you know that the dm1z has fan control software? Software that actually works? It's tucked away amongst all the crapware you probably threw out when you reinstalled Win7. It's called the HP Thermal Assistant, installed, unfortunately, as part of a package with...
- Eyeless Blond
- Post #36
- Feb 22, 2011
- Forum: Laptops
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Windows 7 Family Pack $99

Not like it really matters; I've lost more OEM XP licenses than I have computers today. I'm sure most of us are the same way.
- Eyeless Blond
- Post #12
- Feb 21, 2011
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Intel Building new fab

Well, when you're spending $5 billion on infrastructure, then the $250 million a year you spend on personnel (5,000 employees @ $50,000 per year, as opposed to $5,000 per year for China) is insignificant compared to the chance that the Chinese government will "borrow" all your equipment, and a...
- Eyeless Blond
- Post #37
- Feb 21, 2011
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Brazos Testing Requests

Are you running the newest graphics drivers/codecs? Zacate is so new that a lot of the video drivers are getting leaps and bounds better with every release; I've heard others say that the 11.1 Catalyst drivers that came with the dm1z laptop would sometimes choke on 720P Flash, and others saying...
- Eyeless Blond
- Post #15
- Feb 20, 2011
- Forum: Laptops
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Kingston 128GB SSD - $135 AR @ Buy.com

Dude, I must have gotten like the last one; I ordered less than three hours ago! I've been waffling over this all weekend; I'm glad I managed to get it.
- Eyeless Blond
- Post #70
- Feb 14, 2011
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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New naming scheme for AMD CPUs

Agreed. I hope AMD keeps everything else the same when they change from "Phenom II" to "A"; I liked knowing at a glance what was in my CPU, rather than having to look up the name in Wikipedia or something. Though it doesn't look like they are: the E-series and C-series only have a single...
- Eyeless Blond
- Post #23
- Feb 12, 2011
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Kingston 128GB SSD - $135 AR @ Buy.com

Well, looks like Anand actually reviewed this drive... sort of. That's the newer version, with updated firmware; performance should be improved, but power consumption probably won't. Excerpts (Emphasis mine): "We reported drive only power consumption in three scenarios: idle, during...
- Eyeless Blond
- Post #65
- Feb 12, 2011
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Kingston 128GB SSD - $135 AR @ Buy.com

Well, it was from an old article; things seem to have changed since then. Still looking for power consumption results for this specific drive, though; I have heard rumours that it is more than others.
- Eyeless Blond
- Post #64
- Feb 12, 2011
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Kingston 128GB SSD - $135 AR @ Buy.com

What's the power consumption on this drive? I kinda want to put this in my netbook, to make it less dangerous for use while on the road (jarring movement + spinning HD = madness), but I've read elsewhere that these drives used to suck up more power than hard drives. Is that still true?
- Eyeless Blond
- Post #60
- Feb 11, 2011
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Zacate 11.6" laptop now available from HP

Yeah, seriously, 55C? Yikes. I am a little annoyed by the audible fan noise coming from mine, but then I've always been a silent PC enthusiast, so any fans annoy me, but I'm not having any problem with the temperatures; the whole computer is cool the the touch almost all the time, even when...
- Eyeless Blond
- Post #108
- Feb 9, 2011
- Forum: Laptops

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