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    relatively small and powerful laptop for +-$1000

    Thanks guys for the advice. Just thought I would let you know I went for the gigabyte p34g at $1400 ( my missus said I could spend more cause its christmas). I'll have it in 4 days and cant wait!
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    tablet/keyboard/stylus combo around $300 - $400

    Hello everyone, So I am looking for a secondary "in case of emergency" device ( we are travelling in central america soon but have one last chance to get a device from the US, online or otherwise) which could also have other uses. I am in 2 minds as to what to get but the reasons are thus: A...
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    wacom tablet/pen versus iPad + Stylus?

    Man there are some douchy unrequested answers here. I don't recall the question being "what do you guys thinm the best way to create art is?" I believe it was more along the lines of with what. My own personal opinion is that if she enjoys doing it digitally, then you should encourage that...
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    relatively small and powerful laptop for +-$1000

    Hi all, I am looking to get a laptop in the next couple days (from the US), my last lappy fried after playing bioshock but until that point did alright with 2 year old medium specs. I will use it a lot for games and digital work, but I don't need to run games at crazy settings or high...
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    which one, U36sd, Vaio SA3, toshiba r835?

    Missed your posts as was in Sydney for a week, no one had stock of the laptops I mentioned here (i mean other than the overpriced jbhifi etc) so ended up going for the u31sd for $780, i5 2nd gen, 500gb (can update to ssd when 250gb is cheaper), nvidia 520 gpu, added an extra 4gb ram for 8 total...
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    which one, U36sd, Vaio SA3, toshiba r835?

    Hi all, Have had a look through the threads and couldnt quite find what I was after so... I have kind of narrowed it down to these 3 because I can get them cheaply from the states with no import tax. I am going travelling for a long time and need a light, compact laptop that will let me...
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    Memory goes from 16gb to 8gb

    I don't see why oci'ing the CPU is resulting in memory not being read, does anyone know if memory settings automatically change with the new asus bios? I have my CPU at 4.5'but will try a drop to 4.2 and see what happens.
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    Memory goes from 16gb to 8gb

    Hi wangstang, 850w gigabyte. I have tried reseating memory chips with no change. Can't believe I didn't think to reset all settings to stock, I will give that a go today! If that fails I guess I will just have to take it all out, thanks for the tip on seperating cooler and CPU. Thanks all
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    Memory goes from 16gb to 8gb

    No one got any ideas as to what might be going on?
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    Memory goes from 16gb to 8gb

    Hi all, I have 16gb memory in my pc, for some reason it keeps defaulting back to 8gb (system and bios say so, but cpuz says 16gb). I think it has something to do with overclocking my CPU because if i go to my bios and set the memory to a lower frequency or voltage higher it goes back to 16gb...
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    Advice on new rig for 3D software

    Thanks guys, disabled hibernation freed up an extra 10gb space, I hadn't touched the page file as a few things I read said it could affect the drive. Everything running smooth now, got a 8.75 for CPU in cinebench and am maintaining system stability wit a 4.6ghz overclock. I was worried it...
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    Advice on new rig for 3D software

    Fixed them both and now running smoothly, next thing to do is learn how to stable overclock. Windows install has taken 40gb of my ssd space, any idea what to delete to make more space. Cheers
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    Advice on new rig for 3D software

    also memory is showing as 8gb in bios and windows
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    Advice on new rig for 3D software

    Hi Guys, Finished my last job and finally got to put my PC together today: asus P67 pro I7 2600k Palit GTX 560 2GB 16gb Kingston 1333mhz ram 120gb vertex ocz 2 ssd 2tb WD H50 CPU cooler 800w gigabyte PSU I put the thing together and installed win 7 ultimate 64bit I'm currently not seeing...
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    Advice on new rig for 3D software

    Yep, tried being real nice and asking of they could let this one go through, straight NO! Was the answer. Looks like the 2gb 560 is gonna have to keep me going for awhile. For viewport performance and not rendering I think the memory is more important than cuda rendering or gpu core speed ,which...