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    Monitor goes black once per day

    Update: At this point I am quite certain the problem is with the monitor, not connection or video card since my other monitor has zero issues. Also a problem with video input won't explain why the the OSD menu would not show up. I took apart the monitor (quite an effort trying to get the...
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    Monitor goes black once per day

    I ruled out the connector part because even the OSD wasn't showing up. There is no light from the backlight at all, its just completely dark. Starting to think I might have to take it apart...
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    Monitor goes black once per day

    I've been having this problem for the last couple days and I suspect its a monitor issue, but I can't pinpoint the cause of it. Its a Dell U3011 that I got 2nd hand 2 years ago and has been performing splendidly until this. Here's what happens: 1. Every night about 10min after monitor turns on...
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    Workstation Card for ~$500

    Thing is for that money I could get a gtx 770. For those specific applications, is a Quadro > Geforce?
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    Workstation Card for ~$500

    I'm putting together a rig for a friend who is studying architecture. Looking at an Nvidia card for <$500 (can maybe stretch to $600). Here's the list of programs he uses, I believe some of them- CS5 and Autodesk - have CUDA support. Adobe CS5 (Acrobat, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign)...
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    Upgrade option for 1600p

    Picked up 2 of these : http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...K?tag=at055-20 Am excited to see the upgrade from my singel 6950 :P
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    Upgrade option for 1600p

    Its a rebadge for my purposes since the R9 R290 cards fall outside my budget. Not a big stickler on "maxing" games out, but for me its looking at price / perf, of the $180ish 7950s, and weighing it against potential CF/framepacing. As some one who had never tried multi-GPU, I'm looking for...
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    Upgrade option for 1600p

    I'm looking to upgrade from my current rig of 2600k+6950 for ~$400. Originally I was waiting for AMD's next gen but it seems to be mostly a rebadge, and the low prices of 7950s have me wondering. I'm deciding between waiting, going for 7950 xfire, or just a 7970GE. Not opposed to Nvidia by...
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    **OFFICIAL** Star Wars: The Old Republic Thread

    Yea, we're still there. Nightmare is actually hard now, we haven't been able to down 2nd boss of Terror from Beyond for months, and new tier of ops is coming out. There' definitely more endgame now.
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    **OFFICIAL** Star Wars: The Old Republic Thread

    Join the guild Chust and I are in!. We are currently doing HM/Nightmare progression.
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    The **Official** SW: TOR Anandtech Guild (Roll Call, Allegiance, Class Etc)

    You guys gonna raid at all? Is Keija back?
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    The **Official** SW: TOR Anandtech Guild (Roll Call, Allegiance, Class Etc)

    Anyone still around? I know Aris joined republic gentlemen, and I'm on shadow lands now. I think I saw Chust back?
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    **OFFICIAL** Star Wars: The Old Republic Thread

    What servers are you guys playing on?
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    **OFFICIAL** Star Wars: The Old Republic Thread

    Funny that this thread picks up just as I am contemplating quitting. I'm getting burnt out on competitive pvp and probably wouldn't come back unless its for some fun group progression. Would be nice to have the old Sodalitatem guild back.
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    Black Friday FreeNAS build

    Yikes, I just took a look at the budget and realized that I forgot the cost of the hard drives. I guess I can exclude those for now from the cost of the system - new budget is $500, sans drives - much more reasonable :) I'm thinking yorur build but with double the ram and maybe a pentium. Of...