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ASUS M5A97, AM3+ 970 mobo, $69.99 AR, CompUSA

At CompUSA: ASUS M5A97 econo shipping would be $4.89 for me You can put the 16 gig of that GSkill DDR3 in the 4 memory slots (32G max.) Can use Phenom II, Athlon II, FX Bulldozer CPUs. SATA III, USB 3. CrossfireX. no onboard video.
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- Nov 25, 2011
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Antec Basiq 350W PS refurb 16.99 shipped

VirtualLarry, I see from your prodigious posts that you have an encyclopedic knowledge of these kind of things. Please let me tap into some of that. I have never bought a high performance PCI-e video card, just the bargain < $40 kind, although I may someday if insanity strikes, as it has a...
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- Post #7
- Jul 4, 2009
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Linux CDs $0.99, DVDs $1.99; $1.99 shipping/order, shipped free over $20

There's Fedora 11 now. PClinuxOS 2009, but still only 32 bit versions available. OpenSuse 11.1 Ubuntu 9.04 Mint 7 is a spiffier looking version of Ubuntu And for Windows there is a free software DVD (OpenDisc) that has Open Office, the MS Office replacement on it, among many other things...
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- Post #3
- Jul 4, 2009
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Antec Basiq 350W PS refurb 16.99 shipped

The power supply at Frys 350 watts is good enough. 90 day warranty
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- Jul 3, 2009
- Replies: 17
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Bios not detecting Hard Drive

If your computer now does not freeze with the new SATA drive disconnected but does with it connected, sorry to say probably your drive died a sudden and early death. The BIOS is probably set to auto detect the drives, and hangs up when the drive only gives back junk in response. This is...
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- Jun 28, 2009
- Forum: Motherboards
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DFI Lanparty nf4 ultra-d won't start up after switching cases

A pretty common problem is an extra or misplaced stand-off shorting something on the back of the motherboard. They recommend setting the mobo on a box (or something) beside the computer case to eliminate this possibility. Don't laugh. Everybody screws up sometimes. Myself, I just had a...
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- Post #5
- Jun 28, 2009
- Forum: Motherboards
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Linux CDs $0.99, DVDs $1.99; $1.99 shipping/order, shipped free over $20

Frozentech This is a bump for an old thread that is archived now and apparently can't be bumped. There is good info (and some funny stuff... well it's supposed to be) in the thread, but the prices, some links and distro numbers are out of date. archive link Frozentech, although not as...
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- May 14, 2007
- Replies: 2
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Gigabyte GA-965P-S3 (Open box) $81.99 at newegg

Actually they didn't verify the mobo was bad. I was assuming too much when the status showed "Your RMA is now in repair, testing or replacement." They returned the original mobo in its original condition. That is: dead. It doesn't beep and there is no video. The CPU fan spins and that's it. The...
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- Post #12
- Dec 28, 2006
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Gigabyte GA-965P-S3 (Open box) $81.99 at newegg

I have gotten a total of 5 refurbs from newegg over the last 3 years, two of which were flakey when booting to begin with and then died within a day or two by never booting again. A video board I got was good, but I think some one returned it because it didn't hardly OC, which was why it was OK...
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- Post #6
- Dec 28, 2006
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Hanns-g 19" Analog \Digital LCD Monitor 99$AR

Yesterday, the first day after the holiday, after finally getting my check last Friday, I got a second $90 check for the rebate, dated 1 day after the first. I have no idea why. What goes on at onrebate? Today I got an email from onrebate, after getting no reply in response to my emails, and...
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- Post #35
- Dec 27, 2006
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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frys.com cheap Antec cases with power supply free shipping

Did you have a bad experience?
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- Post #6
- Dec 24, 2006
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Hanns-g 19" Analog \Digital LCD Monitor 99$AR

Well, I emailed onrebate again on November 28 at a different email address I found on their help page, and received no response at all, as expected, but a few days afterward the info on their page about my rebate changed to "check sent" with a black X next to it and no date. I still hadn't...
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- Post #29
- Dec 23, 2006
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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500 Gig Maxtor SATA300 now $130, no rebate, limit 2

500 gig maxtor at Frys.com. People seemed to think 500 G for $150 was good, so maybe they'll like this.
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- Dec 22, 2006
- Replies: 82
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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MSI K8N Neo4 nForce4 Ultra Socket 939

>I see people talking all the time about having a dual core, and playing an intensive game, > running a virus scan, burning a DVD all at the same time with no lag. I'm thinking, how? As you mention, there are plenty of tasks that can and will use 100% of the CPU time available. If they...
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- Post #459
- Dec 21, 2006
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Linux CDs $0.99, DVDs $1.99, $0.49 shipping/order, shipped free over $10

Bump time again. It seems to get a few hundred looks each time. A lot of updated distos at Frozentech Opensuse 10.2 is available. (I only have Opensuse 10.1) Although Suse has not been as comprehensible as Ubuntu, it is gorgeously classy (perfect fonts and font sizes, customized program...
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- Post #52
- Dec 18, 2006
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Lowes Compact Fluorescent Bulbs Free AR

Groan. Like Albert had anything sensible to say on the subject, or practically anything else. These won't do anything worth the effort to reverse environmental trends, if the environment may be in danger, but you can save money. When you work it out, it is the cost of the power that lights...
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- Post #13
- Dec 9, 2006
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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MSI K8N Neo4 nForce4 Ultra Socket 939

>Isn't setting memory speed at 133 low enough? When memory is run at lower speed, it can use tighter timings. So if you set it to 133, the timings are set as if it were run at 133. When you overclock the HTT, the memory speed goes higher than 133; up to 200 with luck. At that speed, the 133...
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- Post #395
- Dec 8, 2006
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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MSI K8N Neo4 nForce4 Ultra Socket 939

$54.11 new shipped including google checkout bonus at buy.com, in case your search didn't come up with it. As soon as one of these buy.com bargains is posted they seem to go OOS, so don't snooze if you want it. Sure, if you need the extras, these surplus deals are less than if you do not...
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- Post #386
- Dec 8, 2006
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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FREE Science DVDs

Mine came in today, 12/04, 23 days. What these turn out to be are DVDs of the yearly Holiday Science Lectures at HHMI. There are 4 lectures per series. 2002 forward have 2 DVDs. So what I got is 1995 and 1998-2005 inclusive (without knowing that.) That means I'm missing 1996 and 1997...
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- Post #113
- Dec 5, 2006
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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XFX GeForce 7600GS 256MB PCI Express 49.99AR

7 years? OK, I get it. I am not a linux guru, I don't want to become a linux guru, and I don't have the talents required to be a linux guru. However, in the last year or so, after screwing around part time with linux almost as long as Windows has been around, I decided to convert to linux...
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- Post #28
- Dec 3, 2006
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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XFX GeForce 7600GS 256MB PCI Express 49.99AR

>I'm building a Linux (Ubuntu) box. Somehow I got the impression that I should go with > an NVIDIA card (and not ATI). Am I totally on crack? Someone please tell me b/c this 7600 is tempting. What have they been telling you? Linux was NOT DESIGNED to run Windows games, although it can do...
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- Post #20
- Dec 2, 2006
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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FX-55 *San Diego* OEM now down to $130 at the Egg

That depends on what you consider "much." If you aren't hyper -you've slacked off on the Jolt Cola and you've come down from your last cup of java- then the difference between a 2300 MHz (OCed) Athlon 64 and a 550 MHz K6-2 is hardly noticeable after you've aclimated for a few hours. It does...
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- Post #28
- Dec 2, 2006
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Staples: 200GB PATA $19.95 AR (~$70 OTD) ** DEAD, COUPON EXPIRED PAST 11/24 **

Yeah, this turned out to be a rather more intesting buy then I thought. One wonders why, if they are going to the expense of changing the package and the drives, they didn't just drop the Maxtor name, and have them all be named Seagates. There have been a couple of other HD brand names that...
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- Post #47
- Dec 2, 2006
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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FREE Science DVDs

19 days and counting as of today (12/1) for me. No one could enjoy science more. I'm hoping these are the real thing and not "the love life Albert Einstein's wife" malarky that passes for science nowadays. That's why I passed on the "ethics in science" and "safety and AIDS" horse manure. You...
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- Post #111
- Dec 2, 2006
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Turning on SATA support on already running system

FWIW: A 3 year old socket A mobo is probably not going to get much response. I couldn't get any pages to come up on that link. Maybe now is a bad time in Taiwan. Google turned up some cached pages though. So this mobo has : 2 ATA133 Channels, up to 4 ATA 133 IDE Devices 2 Serial...
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- Nov 29, 2006
- Forum: Motherboards
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what are some COMMON use of ultraviolet light?

Used in photo-etch of printed circuitsl Used in photo-lithography (making computer chips.) Used to erase certain types of PROMs (programmable ROMs) Sun tan lamps.
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- Nov 29, 2006
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Hanns-g 19" Analog \Digital LCD Monitor 99$AR

There's a long thread from when this deal at PC connection was new. Here's the link with some suggestions, but they only had to make up $10 when it cost more. link
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- Nov 28, 2006
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Hanns-g 19" Analog \Digital LCD Monitor 99$AR

I received "confirmation of issuance of check" from onrebate in an email of June 27. (This present deal is on RebateHQ, not onrebate.) That was about 10 days after I sent in the rebate material, and of course I did not expect to actually get a check before 2 months after the confirmation. Three...
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- Post #8
- Nov 27, 2006
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Staples: 200GB PATA $19.95 AR (~$70 OTD) ** DEAD, COUPON EXPIRED PAST 11/24 **

What? How could it be anything but an 80gig and they sent you the wrong HD?
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- Post #22
- Nov 24, 2006
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Modware Heat Guzzler Socket A Heatpipe HSF $4.99 + S&H

>What is the basis for pretending otherwise? That's it? Thanks for the clarification. You have no knowledge of this heatsink whatever? Is that right? >Thermalright 'sinks are not that thin. "Kinda" similar thickness is not the same thickness. So then what is the gauge of the...
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- Post #43
- Nov 22, 2006
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Modware Heat Guzzler Socket A Heatpipe HSF $4.99 + S&H

What is the basis for repeating what was unsubstantiated in the negative article linked to? The negative article was by someone misinformed, if not deluded, so what he had to say has nothing to recommend it. Let's take the claims one by one. The fins need to be thicker: Do they? They...
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- Post #39
- Nov 21, 2006
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Best deal of the Century.

Couldn't find another thread to crap on, huh?
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- Post #18
- Nov 20, 2006
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Modware Heat Guzzler Socket A Heatpipe HSF $4.99 + S&H

Well, if it works it works. But what would happen is the V bend of the reversed clip that presses on the heatsink would be off to the side, past the core, and the heatsink would tilt slightly off the core, and the temperature would soar. It is only making good contact on one edge. Usually the...
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- Post #27
- Nov 17, 2006
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Modware Heat Guzzler Socket A Heatpipe HSF $4.99 + S&H

Interesting idea. I still have an extra heat pipe heatsink loose from a retail Opteron I recently got. It has four copper tubes. I shook it, and no audible sloshing, and it doesn't feel like it has anything sloshing in the slightest. As expected. Like I said before, you would not expect any...
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- Post #23
- Nov 16, 2006
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Biostar 6100-M9 Sock 939 MicroATX MOBO with Sempron 1.8GHz & 512MB DDR PC3200

But you can find the M9 in stock and not the T-force. Is the M9 that bad? And the M9 is not that much lower all by itself than this deal. (Hey, if there is a deal on the T-force, in stock, please correct me, because I have an orphan Athons 64 that wants a home.)
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- Post #9
- Nov 15, 2006
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Modware Heat Guzzler Socket A Heatpipe HSF $4.99 + S&H

Thanks. Actually I already did chip an Athlon with some crazy, high-tension clip heatsink years ago. It seems like a working heatsink so far, but maybe nothing to get enthused about. It does have an appealing look though. In the last couple of years they have done a lot to get the...
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- Post #18
- Nov 15, 2006
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Modware Heat Guzzler Socket A Heatpipe HSF $4.99 + S&H

The guy that did the positive review cited in the OP must have got a good one. It measures up with a very good one in that article. Or is this a case of outright fraud where they sent the reviewer a working one, knowing the normal production were fakes? Judging by the filing of the base, it...
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- Post #10
- Nov 12, 2006
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Sapphire X850XT 256mb AGP on newegg for $140!

You take that auto-notify crap seriously? Come on. Maybe if they get in a large enough new shipment within in a few weeks, you might get a notify a few days after it comes in. You might. The few times I got this kind of notice, they were out before I got there. If you want it and it is hot, you...
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- Post #24
- Nov 12, 2006
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Ultra Black MicroFly Aluminum Micro ATX Tower Case with Clear Sides

Specifies BLUE at the link. None on the black?
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- Post #8
- Nov 8, 2006
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Opteron 146 - $45.59Canadian @ Buy.com

Your Price: CDN $292.99 I have yet to actually get delivery on any price mistake myself, and I don't expect to ever. This one, I have yet to even see. Look, if there actually were any serious price advantage AMD was giving out in Canada, Canandian internet sellers would be delivering...
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- Post #15
- Nov 8, 2006
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways

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