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Finally someone did a history on ATi!

I tend to agree that they hit the nail on the head with that one, accept 3dfx didn't buy S3, they bought STB. S3 merged with diamond.
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- Post #8
- Jan 7, 2004
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Matrox Parhelia questions (any game with this card)?

clearly you've never used a matrox video card. The 2d quality of matrox cards is far superior to nvidia's 2d quality. If matrox ever got their 3d act together, I would pick one up in a heartbeat, unfortunately, they seem to be constantly way behind the curve.
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- Post #21
- Jan 7, 2004
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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WD SATA 10k Raptor on sale @ newegg $140 free shipping

10,000 rpm drives significantly outperform 7200 rpm drives. SATA is just like ATA w/ a smaller cable, a higher theoretical bandwidth that is unrealistic since it would be bottlenecked by the PCI bus, and a restriction of a single device per channel.
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- Post #12
- Jun 10, 2003
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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HOT DEAL! PERFECT PASTA POTS - $8.95!

The shipping price seems awfully high.
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- Post #10
- May 30, 2003
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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"Operator..." "I NEED AN EXTRACTION!!!"

The nokia 8890 is somewhat similar, but it's far from the phone used in the first movie. That one was the nokia 8110 which was never released in the US.
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- Post #36
- May 18, 2003
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Supporting the war vs. Supporting our troops

Yes, our military is voluntary, however once you join the military you can't exactly just leave at any time. You're committed to serve for a certain amount of time. Even if they weren't committed though, it's their job. It's not easy to become unemployed just because you're job requires you to...
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- Post #11
- Mar 31, 2003
- Forum: Politics and News
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Free half chicken sandwich at Boston Market. Feb 6th

I got 2 of 'em, the trick is (for future reference) to go in and get one, then go through the drive-through (if there is one, if not you're out of luck), and ask for the free sandwiches. Worked for me and my 3 friends.
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- Post #44
- Feb 7, 2003
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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X-ecuter2 Lites 41 shipped HOT

If you set up your mod with boot from drive F, you keep all your non-original files on drive F, and you lock your upgraded harddrive, then when you turn off the mod, you'll be safe, because the default bios is incapable of reading drive F, and the system will appear to be a stock system.
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- Post #25
- Jan 23, 2003
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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HOT! New Hyundai Accent (2002 model) $5995

I think what they're saying, is that their 66 acre lot is the world's largest, but they have a trademark symbol after "world's largest", so it probably doesn't necessarily need to be true if they're using it as a brand name.
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- Post #21
- Jan 8, 2003
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Maxtor Hard Drives-- Great Prices!!.... Even BETTER Price on the 73.4GB SCSI!

IDE is not even remotely comparable to SCSI. It's pricing is better, but it's performance is far inferior. When maxtor bought quantum, they took over their scsi division as well. They did rebadge a lot of quantum drives, as well as continuing to improve them. I agree completely about the 80...
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- Post #33
- Dec 20, 2002
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Maxtor Hard Drives-- Great Prices!!.... Even BETTER Price on the 73.4GB SCSI!

I haven't heard of anyone complaining about an IBM SCSI drive failing. All of the problems I've read about have been with IBM's IDE drives. Both of my IBM 10k drives have been running fine for over 2 years. On the other hand, I've had both a Quantum Atlas 10k and a Seagate Cheetah 9LP fail in...
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- Post #26
- Dec 17, 2002
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Maxtor Hard Drives-- Great Prices!!.... Even BETTER Price on the 73.4GB SCSI!

The maxtor is still there: Quantum 73GB 10,000RPM 1.6" height 80pin $200 Quantum is owned by maxtor. The 80 pin connector is far from non-standard, but you will need an adapter, unless you have an SCA backplane like me. It does have a 1.6" height tho, which means it's quite a bit taller then...
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- Post #23
- Dec 16, 2002
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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For Sony DRU-500A owners, free firmware upgrade is available, 4x DVD+R

I know that this info was posted earlier, but it's actually available for download now, and I didn't see it posted recently, so here it is. http://sony.storagesupport.com/dvdrw/dru500adwn.htm Firmware Upgrade 1.0f This new firmware will allow your Dual RW drive to record at 4X on 4X compatible...
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- Dec 6, 2002
- Replies: 12
- Forum: Computer Building
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Memorex DVD+RW/+R Drive for $149.99 AR & coupons at Staples

That site belongs to the DVD+RW alliance. I wouldn't trust any info there that says +R/RW is better than -R/RW. They're just trying to sell their own format. So far, everything I've read suggests that the -R format beats the -RW in compatibility. It clearly beats it in price (not at B&M stores...
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- Post #34
- Dec 2, 2002
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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*Update* for DMCA Black Friday : Walmart officially sue FW, F@tWallet Strikes Back Using DMCA..

I agree that that's what the companies are claiming, however under the DMCA 17 USC 107 Fair use clause, it seems that it would only be considered infringement if it had an effect on the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work. Since the market, and the value of a sales circular is...
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- Post #47
- Nov 20, 2002
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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*OT* Lightning Fast Computer For $8499

That's not such a hot deal, read the fine print: Monitor and mouse not included
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- Post #4
- May 14, 2002
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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HOT! PS2 U.S. LINUX KIT PREORDER FOR $200! CANT PREORDER ANYWHERE ELSE!

<< Why would anyone want to stare at a low res TV instead of computer monitor?? >> They wouldn't, that's why it comes with a PS2 -> VGA cable, and requires it's use. I believe the reason behind it is to be able to develop games to work on the PS2. However, until sony gives us some way to...
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- Post #3
- Apr 12, 2002
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Hot deal on Cobra ESD 9100 Radar detector @ target

got my 9100 at the local target (Rochester, NY). It was marked $69.90, rang up as $24.94. I think it was the last one in stock, as I didn't see any others. I just decided I needed one last night, and saw the post today. Thanks a lot guys! (edit): RagingBITCH: I found mine in a display case...
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- Post #36
- Apr 1, 2002
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Free Sam's Club Membership is Back

worked great for me in Rochester, NY They even knew it was from Seattle, and had instructions on how to honor it.
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- Post #85
- Jan 27, 2002
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Pioneer DVR-A03 DVD-R/CD-RW

I would recommend highly against buying anything at Harmony computers. I have several friends who have ordered from them, and had bad experiences, and my dad once went to their B&M store, and says that they frequently practice bait and switch.
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- Post #10
- Oct 22, 2001
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Pioneer DVD-RAM $497.00

<< you can write dvd movies using a dvd-r, you can't on a dvd-ram This is not true, most DVD-RAM drives can write single sided cartless DVD-RAM media that will play in most consumer set top DVD players as well as DVD drives found in desktops and laptops. We have 6 DVD-RAM drives in our office...
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- Post #10
- Oct 18, 2001
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Cheap ass kickin'

<< LOL! To bad its not a real egay auction. Pretty good reproduction of thier pages though. >> It was originally. But ebay cancelled it ages ago, someone probably saved the page and put it online.
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- Post #10
- Oct 18, 2001
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Stop the cycle of violence: free anti-war stickers

any war stickers available?
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- Post #15
- Sep 19, 2001
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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10/100/1000 Dlink NIC for under $50!

the fastest hard drives today can sustain about 50MB/sec which is 400mbps, well over the speed of 100base-TX (100mbps) If you have RAID, you can get much higher transfer rates, and can take full advantage of the gigabit ethernet bandwidth. I would love to get one of these, because my 100base-TX...
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- Post #23
- Jul 19, 2001
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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1 Gb stick PC100 ECC CL2 Kingston ValueRam for ~$21 shipped @ Dell

polotek147: the P6DBE does not support 1GB DIMMs. It supports a maximum of 256MB in each slot. It may recognize these as 256s, it may not recognize them at all, it may recognize them as 256s, but give memory errors. It will not recognize them as 1GB. The successor to your board, the P6DGE (440GX...
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- Post #224
- Jul 18, 2001
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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1 Gb stick PC100 ECC CL2 Kingston ValueRam for ~$21 shipped @ Dell

I believe that site is saying that the intel 440BX chipset supports 1GB total, not per slot. I know my board'll take these tho, so I'm really happy, I really hope they ship.
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- Post #157
- Jul 18, 2001
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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1 Gb stick PC100 ECC CL2 Kingston ValueRam for ~$21 shipped @ Dell

I hope they do ship, my motherboard (Supermicro 370DE6) supports 1GB Registered ECC RAM sticks. I ordered 4 to max out my system at 4GB.
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- Post #66
- Jul 18, 2001
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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yet another Vid card choice question radeon or GF2 or Matrox

I love my G450, and you couldn't pay me to give it up. The only problem is that it doesn't have good 3d, so I'm currently looking to switch my G450 AGP for a G450 PCI, and throw a more powerful 3d accelerator in. If I can't do it, I'd sooner keep my G450 and give up on new games, then give up on...
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- Post #4
- Jun 29, 2001
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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18 Gig 10k SCSI for 80 bucks

<< HELP: I am not very up-to-date with SCSI standards. Can someone tell me if I can use these with an UW controller? Not getting the same speed of course. >> Yes, but all 4 of the drives combined would be limited to 40 MB/sec transer rate. You could get nearly full speed by putting them all...
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- Post #36
- Jun 22, 2001
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Cheap External SCSI HD For Your Gateway 6400 Server $39.99

that drive is huge (5.25", full height), and slow (5400 RPM), but the $40 is worth it just for the SCSI enclosure.
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- Post #2
- Jun 19, 2001
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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18 Gig 10k SCSI for 80 bucks

if I could afford it, I'd pick up 4 of 'em, 1 to go into my SCA backplane, and 3 to use up the extra adapters I have. Good deal, if you can afford it, jump on it.
- kombatmud
- Post #21
- Jun 19, 2001
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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SCSI RAID Controller - AMI Megaraid Enterprise 1200 AKA 428 for $135 w/battery option

The adaptec card on that site isn't RAID, however the AAA 131U2 that sitka mentioned, is RAID. This seems like a good deal to me, so long as you don't need LVD.
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- Post #6
- Jun 19, 2001
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Regular RAM, ECC RAM, ECC Register RAM - What's the difference? Please help.

I always thought it was Error Correction and Control. Anyways, don't get ECC unless you're running a server, or have a motherboard that requires it like mine (Supermicro 370DE6)
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- Post #8
- Jun 14, 2001
- Forum: Computer Building
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boycott sb live!

<< i don't think any sound card seems to like SMP >> I've got a vortex 2 on a serverworks III HEsl chipset (SMP) w/ no problems, and previously had the same vortex 2 on an i840 SMP setup as well as an i440LX SMP setup, w/ no problems. I have however heard of several issues w/ via chipsets...
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- Post #97
- Jun 14, 2001
- Forum: Computer Building
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boycott sb live!

<< to say it's junk is saying that we've ALL been using a junk component in our systems for years >> How many components that aren't junk last in any system for years? The only component in my system that I've owned for over a year is my floppy drive, and it is junk. I like having a floppy...
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- Post #80
- Jun 12, 2001
- Forum: Computer Building
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boycott sb live!

I've never owned a sound blaster live, so I've never had problems with any. However, I do boycott creative, and would not recommend a creative product to anyone, even if it is the best product available. My opinion of this is mostly because of what Creative did with Aureal, and Aureal's...
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- Post #65
- Jun 12, 2001
- Forum: Computer Building
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Moderator - Please LOCK

It's not even a good gag, it's not funny. The only cool thing is the picture of the controllers that they call Dual shock 3, but no jokes or anything to make it funny.
- kombatmud
- Post #10
- May 24, 2001
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Sony Playstation 2 Sbox ModChip

ivanov: can you give me some info on that mod chip? I've been researching it for a while, and have not heard of any solution for any type of console that doesn't require a swap. BTW, the Sbox (also known as the NeoKey) requires a wire to be soldered, as virtuamike said, and also does not...
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- Post #7
- May 24, 2001
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Fujitsu 4.5GB 10000RPM SCSI Drive for $39

SCA adapters are dirt cheap. Especially because these drives are not LVD, and don't require LVD compatible SCA adapters. You can get them here for $12.95 http://www.computergate.com/cgi-bin/utsearch?sn=216566509513303&cd=02 and I'm sure you can find them cheaper elsewhere.
- kombatmud
- Post #7
- May 13, 2001
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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Upgrade processor or video card ?

your whole system will see a performance increase w/ a new CPU only games will see a performance increase w/ a new video card. You might want to consider the kyro II that will be out in a month though, it seems like it will perform much better than the MX for a reasonably similar price. You...
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- Post #5
- Apr 24, 2001
- Forum: Computer Building

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