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  1. Samus

    The cheap SSDs thread

    Can second I had a lot of trouble with a PNY video card. Finally they provided a vbios update that mostly fixed the issue on the GTX970 with their borked DisplayPort output after first having me mail it in to say “there was no problem.” A month later the update they provided me was made public...
  2. Samus

    2019 Toy Sienna

    I rented a 2018 Sienna last summer for a trip with the kids and my first impression was "this thing has no business being this fast" After looking it up, it has the same 300+ HP V6 from the Highlander (which weighs 800lbs more) so empty, the Sienna is kind of ridiculous, reminding you how much...
  3. Samus

    Makita XT275PT 18V LXT 2-Pc. Combo Kit (5.0Ah) - HD B&M

    I wanted to chime in I picked one up in Chicago, IL (Roosevelt location) for $225 after tax. The batteries are absolutely massive at 5Ah. I don't even think I needed two as the non-production work I'll be using them for will likely never exhaust one in a day. That said I am considering selling...
  4. Samus

    Outlook.com Premium $20 per year until June 30

    Yes, you can use an existing domain. The real benefit of this deal is Microsoft registers one for free for you in the $20/year price, integrating the MX and record management. I don't think any of that is going to roll into a domain you already own, but what does it cost you $10/year to keep it...
  5. Samus

    Tax-Dodging Nazi Sovereign Citizen Furries Forced To Cancel Denver Furry Convention. Yes, Really.

    The real story: http://dogpatch.press/2017/04/10/rocky-mountain-fur-con-threat/
  6. Samus

    Snes classic incoming.

    Although kind of off topic, but this is an 8-bit themes thread now, anyone who lives near Chicago really must visit Headquarters. It's an 8-bit Barcade and everything is on free play. And there is no cover. Reasonably priced booze and underwhelming food. But that's not the point. I mean they...
  7. Samus

    Snes classic incoming.

    Wow, blinking light win, nice! I'm already used to not pushing carts down, game genie being the excuse. Yeah, gotta cheat sometimes, that Konami code only gets you so far... If you guys haven't tried it, I couldn't recommend Caig deoxit more. It's for circuit and electrical connector...
  8. Samus

    Outlook.com Premium $20 per year until June 30

    That's a complicated answer. Microsoft has one of the best spam filtering engines, thanks to their purchase of Frontbridge over a decade ago and their associated algorithms, which I think are more robust at adapting to spam threats than Postini's (who google purchased to create gmail's spam...
  9. Samus

    Snes classic incoming.

    You can mail it out to modders for modification or just buy a front loader with composite out and snip the CEC chip ground pin to make the front loader reliable. Lots of options. The best thing about the top loader is the controller for sure. I was turned off by the NES Classic mostly because I...
  10. Samus

    Outlook.com Premium $20 per year until June 30

    I wanted to chime in on a issue I've had with outlook premium. Two issues, in fact, but one quite severe. In essence, this is a consumer version of hosted exchange via Exchange Online P1 ($4/mo) which is slowly being superceeded by Office 365 Small Business Essentials ($6/mo) to include 1TB of...
  11. Samus

    Class Action Lawsuit Targets Subaru Oil Consumption

    Not to aid in a revived dead thread, but it's probably worth mentioning Toyota is abandoning their joint-partnership with Subaru and investing a controlling stake in Mazda. This is significant because it shows how let down\one sided the partnership with Subaru was. Arguably the CVT technology...
  12. Samus

    Announcing a Q&A and Giveaway with OCZ

    What, if anything, has Toshiba done with the Indilinx IP/engineers? Is there a Barefoot successor (i.e. a high performance controller) in the works?
  13. Samus

    GB-BXBT-1900 barebones mini-PC (add HDD/SSD, RAM, and OS) $84.99 AR @ Newegg

    Got mine, installed Windows 7, upgraded to 10 and wouldn't finish booting final setup stage until I went into bios change changed from win 7 to with 8.x Runs great, faster than I thought it'd be.
  14. Samus

    The cheap SSDs thread

    OCZ Trion 150 480GB $99 First time I've ever seen a 500GB SSD for $100 I installed a Trion 100 240GB and it works fine for my parents PC. OCZ has a great advanced replacement warranty, too...not that I've used it but they can't be worse to deal with than Samsung. The Trion 150 is supposedly...
  15. Samus

    Mushkin 16GB kit DDR3-1600 CAS11 1.35V $49.99 FS @ Newegg

    Back at $47.99 bump. Great deal, got mine back in April and works great in my i5-4690k mixed with a pair of 8GB same CAS Crucial PC3L-1600!
  16. Samus

    Alternator sized meats from Omaha Steaks for $49.99

    The funny thing about alternators is more usually costs less ;)
  17. Samus

    Alternator sized meats from Omaha Steaks for $49.99

    Are we talking an oversized police interceptor alternator or a Ford Fiesta alternator?
  18. Samus

    ASUS M32CD Desktop (Core i5, 8GB, 1TB, Windows 10) for $409.99 + FS @Amazon

    My parents have the i3 version of this system with the same ACbel PSU, and it only pulls 80w at the wall running OCCT. That leaves 200w of headroom before you hit the PSU's realistic limit of 283 watts. Long story short: You could run a GTX970 in this with that PSU. The GPU has a 148w TDP and...
  19. Samus

    ECS NM70-I2(1.0) Intel Celeron 1037U CPU/VGA/mobo $54.99+$1.99 ship-$25 MIR @Newegg

    Love ITX. This is a great board for $50. More than capable of daily computing and that PCIe slot is gravy, most of the Atom J1900/J2900 boards don't have PCIe and if they do it's 1x.
  20. Samus

    ASRock B85-ITX mobo $44.99 + ship @ Newegg

    I have the H87 version of this board. Been solid for 2 years.
  21. Samus

    Office Depot: 60x30 BBF Sector Desk $122.33 (tax and shipping included)

    9 out of 10 women prefer deep desks?
  22. Samus

    Sparkle 400W Platinum PSU = $24.99

    Sparkle makes some of the best PSU's, hands down. Antec is very good, but Sparkle is one of the gold standards. SPI is OEM in a LOT of servers...
  23. Samus

    Mushkin Enhanced ECO2 SSD 480GB/512GB $124.99/$129.99 FS @ Newegg

    I've had pretty good luck with all the ECO2 drives...they're just typical Sandforce SF2200 drives. Fine unless you have a lot of compressed data being written. SF2200 has been around for so long that the provided LSI firmware Mushkin and most OEM's are using is pretty reliable.
  24. Samus

    90 sec oil change

    I been using the "pump oil through dipstick tube" method for a few years. So far so good.
  25. Samus

    How many Tesla accidents will happen in the next week? (auto steering releases 10/15)

    My wife's car has it too. We trade cars all the time depending on what kind of drive we are doing that day. It's actually made our sex-life better. Not joking. If your marriage is in trouble, get a vehicle with radar cruise control.
  26. Samus

    6TB Seagate HDD $200 @ Newegg

    I've had one of these 6TB drives almost a year. It's been solid 24/7 seeding torrents. This is NOT a shingled recording drive. I know how some people feel about Seagate drives, but it does have a 2 year warranty. Keep in mind this is a 6 platter (1TB/disk) drive and is missing center mounting...
  27. Samus

    5.25" IDE CD-RW & DVD-ROM Combo Drive, free after rebate with free shipping

    Except for herpes, and perhaps Diet Rite.
  28. Samus

    Denon AVR-X4100 - New - $799

    I have a 14 year old Denon receiver that cost $3000 new. Only issue I ever had was after moving, the center channel stopped working. Turned out to be a ribbon cable clip on the right vertical routing board was half-dislodged. It took reading through the 180 page technical manual to figure it out...
  29. Samus

    The AnandTech Introduction Thread: Get To Know Your Peers

    Yeah, without those I'd never have understood the physics behind NAND. No other place reviewed SSD to that level of detail. He really nailed it with those X25-M reviews.
  30. Samus

    DEAD: 295x2 under $500 AC / AR

    This is potentially a good deal if people actually get their TD rebate back and it actually costs them $500 in the end.
  31. Samus

    Newegg: Mushkin ECO2 SSD 240GB $78

    I installed 3 of the 120GB models in a few Lenovo desktops awhile back. They cloned the old drives fine and have been running great since. SF2200 controller (pretty old but that's not such a bad thing) There are a lot of $80 240GB SSD deals but this is probably one of the best based on...
  32. Samus

    Samsung 850 EVO 500Gb vs Crucial M550 512 Gb

    Really? Man, I'd rank the 840 Pro up there with the X25-M. Legendary drive. Still haven't seen one fail and I have one in a SQL server with 145TB of writes going nearly 3 years... I personally had two 256GB 840 Pro's in RAID0 (1000MB/read, 900MB/write, 610MB random read) for over a year...
  33. Samus

    PNY gtx 970 $319 shipped NO rebate

    Down to $296.99 at amazon! Once again, no rebate!
  34. Samus

    AKG K553 Pro Studio Headphones - $120 FS (Tax in CA)

    Mine were just delivered today. They are REALLY well built and sound amazing. Not as much bass as I was expecting, which is a good thing and could be partially attributed to my Xonar's opamp (LME49720 - reproduction is known to be soft). They're thirsty too, my preout on my on-board ALC892...
  35. Samus

    ASRock H81M-ITX $49.99 plus $1.99 shipping

    solid board. i had one for over a year before upgrading to the Z97 ITX, and I still rock an Asrock H87M-ITX (nearly identical board) in my Xeon workstation (these boards take Xeon E3-series CPU's just fine)
  36. Samus

    PNY gtx 970 $319 shipped NO rebate

    Let's look at some facts here instead of this attitude problem you have: PNY is a NVidia OEM partner and is the largest distributor of NVIDIA cards world-wide by a huge margin simply because of the OEM channel they supply. Long story short: they don't make "junk" like your highly discountable...